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<\/p>\nMichael Fry is well known for his sketches as well as doing stand up<\/p>\n
Comedian Michael Fry and Pro Dancer Kylee Vincent during the live show on Sunday evening. (Image: Kyran O’Brien)<\/p>\n
Michael Fry feels like he had a full experience despite being the earliest contestant to be eliminated in Dancing With The Stars history.<\/p>\n
Last night the funnyman became the first person of the series to go home after he and pro partner Kylee Vincent took on a Samba to Ed Sheeran\u2019s 2025 hit Sapphire. Comments from the judges were mixed, but they walked away with a respectable score of 23.<\/p>\n
Nonetheless, it was Michael who ended up being eliminated and despite only having two weeks of live shows under his belt, he feels like he had a great experience.<\/p>\n
“You go into this preparing to go out first, no matter how good you are because there’s a lot of different factors in this,” he told RSVP. “I had imagined the situation happening. It’s come to pass, that’s fine with me. I know I gave everything in both dances and I had a great time doing it, so no regrets whatsoever.<\/p>\n
“I got to do Latin and ballroom, so I got a good spread of different things. I feel like I’ve had a full experience even though it is a week earlier.”<\/p>\n
The comedian is well known for his sketches as well as doing stand up, which can be daunting – but dancing was much scarier for him.<\/p>\n
“That first one, I was so frightened,” Michael admitted. “I’ve never been so terrified in my entire life. It was all the way through my nervous system, my body, everything. Whatever about stand up, I thought stand up was scary – dancing when you’re not a dancer is really scary.”<\/p>\n
Despite the fear, Michael had great fun during his stint on the show.<\/p>\n
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Comedian Michael Fry. (Image: )<\/p>\n
“I think it was important that I go into something and learn something for fun,” he said. “A lesson I’ve learned is to commit to things. Particularly in samba , you have to commit to the steps to make them look good. You have to put your all into stuff or it’s not going to be good. I feel like I’m going to take that energy with me.<\/p>\n
“Also, not to spend energy on things that aren’t important. Week One, I was making my feet very tense when that wasn’t important, I was spending all my energy doing that. It’s just a good life lesson in general, don’t spend energy on things that don’t serve you.”<\/p>\n
Even though he was the first to go, Michael won’t be poring over his performances to see where it went wrong for him.<\/p>\n
“I don’t think it’s helpful to look back and think, ‘oh God, I wish I did that or did that’,” he said. “I’m happy with all of it. I didn’t exercise before this; I probably should have done that. Maybe that was it, maybe I should have been more physically fit before I got in here [laughs]. I think if I could change anything, maybe it’s that.”<\/p>\n
Being a sketch comedian, Michael is used to playing a number of different characters but the one person he hopes he did justice during Dancing With The Stars is himself.<\/p>\n
“It was refreshing to be myself,” he said. “I’m used to being characters or entire bands or someone’s mam or whatever it may be. It was nice to be like, here’s Michael and this is what Michael is like.”<\/p>\n