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Michael Bay appears at a Samsung news conference at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, to speak about the Curved 105-inch UHD TV.
He should have used a stunt double.
"Transformers" mega-director Michael Bay got tripped up by a malfunctioning teleprompter during a Samsung press conference in Las Vegas Monday and fled the stage after he was unable to ad-lib his way out.
Usually associated with on-screen explosions, his latest brush with bombing left Samsung Executive Vice President Joe Stinziano standing alone and stunned on the stage in front of hundreds of reporters at the Consumer Electronics Show in Sin City.
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'The Rock' director joins Joe Stinziano, executive vice president of Samsung Electronics America (right), on stage to talk about the company's TV.
"Wow! I just embarrassed myself at CES," Bay wrote in a follow-up blog post that stopped short of apologizing.
"I was about to speak for Samsung for this awesome Curved 105-inch UHD TV. I rarely lend my name to any products, but this one is just stellar. I got so excited to talk, that I skipped over the Exec VP's intro line and then the teleprompter got lost," he said.
"The the prompter went up and down - then I walked off. I guess live shows aren't my thing," he wrote.
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Bay speaks during the show, which attracts 150,000 attendees.
He closed by promising he's still doing a "special curved screen experience" with Samsung and "Transformers 4" that will be traveling around the world.
His awkward appearance led to a flurry of Twitter posts and jokes.
"Wow, Michael Bay just walked offstage without saying anything. No prompter, no BAY. That's the Michael Bay we keep hearing about," Variety writer David S. Cohen, who was in the audience, wrote on Twitter.
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'The Rock' director leaves the stage after deciding he couldn't ad-lib.
Wow, Michael Bay just walked offstage without saying anything. No prompter, no BAY. That's the Michael Bay we keep hearing about. #CES2014
— David S. Cohen (@Variety_DSCohen) January 6, 2014 "Apparently michael bay thought they could just fix it in post," tweeted Matt Novak, a Los Angeles-based writer with Gizmodo.
apparently michael bay thought they could just fix it in post: http://t.co/tqtmWR3y18
— Matt Novak (@paleofuture) January 6, 2014 ON A MOBILE DEVICE? CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO.
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