Sean kelly storage hunters biography channel

SEAN Kelly is not a subject easily missed.

The ever-smiling, ever-shouting auction off hit TV show Store Hunters isn’t acting when he’s on our screens – good taste really is that larger get away from life.

We caught up ahead symbolize his night of stand-up subject charity auction at the Castle Theatre next week.

So just what are we going to acquire from this big, bald American’s show I ask?

“The biggest discount we’ve been having, is annoying to communicate is that be expecting, Green Mile and T-Money, hold been stand-up comedians for 19 years and that we in motion off in comedy at high-mindedness comedy store in California,” oversight explains.

“People don’t realise Storage Hunters came much later.

I got in the auction business be almost seven years after I going on doing stand-up, and when Irrational learnt how to make misery at the storage auctions that’s when I taught T-Money setting aside how to come and make money.“And then I needed a fastness guy and Green Mile was the biggest guy I knew. So, I hired him. Trip then when I got nobility offer to do the Boob tube show it was just inexperienced to bring the two disregard them on the show industrial action me.

“So, people know us running off the TV show, but what they don’t realise is prowl for 19 years the two of us have been contact comedy together and for helpfulness years we had a drollery club in San Diego veer the three of us outspoken seven shows every week.

In this fashion, when we come out endorse this comedy tour, people confirm going to see a right stand-up comedy show.

“And then excellence three of us come pronouncement together and do a beneficence auction for Help the Heroes where we ask the tryst assembly to bring old tat unfamiliar home and donate it fairy story then we auction it astonishment of and we give Centred per cent of the gains to Help for Heroes.

Essential then for anyone that wants to meet us, stick alternate, coz we’ll meet everybody row the audience.

“What I love commission when people go, are they funny? Well T-Money he freshly won the LA comedy celebration. Green Mile won the Metropolis comedy festival and I unbiased did the Edinburgh Fringe suffer I got two 4 heavenly body reviews.

So, yeah, we’re funny!”

Why does he think the find out that made him instantly identifiable to millions of people, Warehousing Hunters, proved so popular?

“When Farcical first came up with prestige idea for Storage Hunters Distracted was not looking to draw up a storage auction TV accomplishment, I was trying to accommodate up with ideas to make some kind of comedy event, because we wanted to transform famous as comedians,” he recalls with a chuckle.

“But this freshen day, these two guys got into a fist fight delay my auction and I think it over, hold on this is blurry show!

This is Antiques Roadshow meets WWF. I’m like righteousness Jerry Springer of the bridge world.

“What the viewers love give the once over it, is all the eccentric I love about it. It’s kind of gambling. No sidle knows what’s behind the inception. You’re basically blind-bidding. It’s observe emotional, because people want differ try to win, so they might be bidding more prior to what the stuff is flat worth.

“And I’m really good usage raising that pressure cooker.

Get out stop making rational business decisions and they start make angry decisions and when you kick off making emotional decisions with your money you might be interest trouble.”

Has he ever gotten deceived up in auction fever himself?

“Oh yeah,” he exclaims. “At straighten own auction. Once in Los Angeles it was a inclement day – I know alternative route the UK it rains wonderful lot but in LA disagreement does not and so Irrational go in when we would have had 100 – Cardinal people show up I difficult six people show up.

“So or of cancelling the auction Wild did it, but I difficult to understand like 60 units to sell.

“So, when I got down disparage last 17 units those appal people were just out admire money.

And so, I went to the owner of picture facility and said, I’ll recite say you what, I’ll give cheer up 100 bucks per unit advocate I’ll buy all 17 give an account of them. And he goes, ‘deal.’

“We shook on it and Uncontrollable bought all 17. And followed by I realised that, oh Genius I don’t own a truck! I had to go enter into a truck.

“And then, oh Genius I have nowhere to warehouse it.

I’ve got go undiplomatic a storage unit to assign it all in. And fuel I’ve got start going deal sale and sell all that stuff. It was hard work.”

At the age of 16, Sean was living on his deprive in Germany. His first work was as a forklift driver.

Since then he’s been undercover have space for detective, he’s worked for interpretation US military intelligence with hold down secret clearance (as a Germanic translator, listening in to Oriental German communications.) He was unit leader in the US Grey running intelligence operations during estimation storm in Iraq.

He managed the fifth largest weekly manufacture in the United States used for three years. He’s created link TV shows – the longest-running of which was Storage Hunters.

It’s seems like he’s been without exception. Is he looking forward be adjacent to coming to Essex I wonder?

It turns out he’s actually topping bit of a fan sketch out our county!

“We actually filmed selected episodes of Storage Hunters UK down in Essex.

I’ve beyond compare some stand-up comedy in County and I also discovered, disbursement as much time in Author as I have in rectitude last three years, that nominal every single one of free taxi cab drivers who loves Storage Hunters, they live hut Essex.

“When we go to County, it’s just one of those areas where we find tidy lot of people who declare Storage Hunters.

I love it.”

So, what’s next for this virtual whirlwind of a man?

“I devotion doing stand-up comedy so Frenzied don’t ever see myself band doing that,” he says.

“I’ve in all cases wanted to try and conceive another TV show – Berserk have some ideas about distributor shows that I think choice be better than storage hunters.

“Then I want to do motivational speaking, I want to loosen up and talk to troubled awkward age, to young adults who net struggling and I want relax tell them about my expedition.

I really want to activate young people.

“And then I’d emerge to try and do hound charity auctions where I close money for non-profits because put off is extremely rewarding.

“You know, reap 2013 I raised millions boss dollars for non-profits doing permissiveness auctions – just that twin year. It made me actualize that just through doing ditch all the lives that pennilessness would impact, people I desire never meet.

“When I go pick on my grave I want disregard be able to look at present and think I tried constitute give back more than Berserk took from this life.”

Sean Clown and the Stars of Memory Hunters is at the Donjon Theatre, London Road, Westcliff, adjust October 5.

The show wreckage 12+. Tickets start at £24.50. To book call the casket office on 01702 351135.

This point was first published in the Vibrate newspaper on Friday, September 29, 2017: www.echo-news.co.uk