Josh Thomas dressed as Gerard Way on the Australian quiz show Talkin Bout Your Generation.
From TV.com: “We all dressed up according to our era,” said resident Baby Boomer Amanda Keller.
“I play a dreadful Marilyn Monroe. You can’t believe how many grates I had to stand over! Kerri-Anne Kennerley is [Dynasty’s] Crystal Carrington.
"Wil Anderson and Charlie Pickering are Doc and Marty from Back to the Future, Josh Lawson is Harry Potter and Josh Thomas is white-faced and strange-jacketed Gerad Way, from the group My Chemical Romance. He just looks like an unusual Goth in a military jacket!” she said.
From Defamer: [Josh Thomas had…] a raging Twitter addiction. He even installed the Twitterrific application on his iPhone so he could tweet on the go. And he did, prolifically – until a recent incident forced him to stop. It began with an innocent comment on Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation, the hit quiz show on which Thomas leads the generation Y team.
”[Host] Shaun Micallef asked me who I was dressed as and I said, ‘Gerard Way from the emo rock band My Chemical Romance’,” Thomas says. ”That was it.”
Problem is, My Chemical Romance fans hate being called emos. Enraged, they flooded Thomas’ Twitter page with abusive comments and threats.
”It was terrifying to see how weirdly devoted people are to this band,” he says. ”They’re like a cult. Their crazy messages were kind of fun for a while but then it got to the point where I thought, ‘One of you might come to my house and kill me’.
”And I’m amazed at how many of them claim that Gerard Way saved their life. Maybe he used to be a paramedic but I’m pretty sure he’s just a douche who writes emo rock songs.”
When asked if Way and Morrison had thought about collaborating on something, Way said they almost made a My Chemical Romance video together, for the song “Mama” off of “The Black Parade.” Morrison was going to play the devil. Some of their ideas for the video had the band being chased by wolves at one point, Liza Minnelli playing the Virgin Mary and Morrison as the devil yelling in Way’s face.
Unfortunately, the video was never made.
We met up a couple weeks later and Sam had this big book of images he pulled for reference. He nailed it right away. Then we all sat in the control room and talked about the videos. I felt the hairs stand up on the back of my neck as he talked. I watched everyone in the band become fired up and excited.
The Black Parade was coming to life. It was magical.
He wanted to shoot the videos back to back, to use the resources we would build and not let anything go to waste because it was going to be the biggest video we ever made. It was going to be epic and he wanted them to connect.
We played Sam the song we would be doing the second video for, and there was an immediate reaction as he stood right up. You could literally hear the pistons firing in his head. We asked ‘What do you think?’ He was silent.
With his back facing us, still staring at the blaring speakers he turned slowly and said, ‘WE’RE GOING TO BURN THE FUCKER DOWN.’
Gerard Way, Black Parade Special Edition
