As of October 2012, he lives in Los Angeles, California where he performs stand-up comedy. The masked pumpkin dancer was played by comedian Matt Geiler. The next year, the video was also featured on the Huffington Post, GeekNation and the Social Times. In 2011, Mashable included the KXVO Pumpkin Dance on their list of YouTube's spookiest Halloween videos. In October 2009, the original video, as well as some remixes, was featured on social media and entertainment outlets, including Videogum, Entertainment Weekly and Milk and Cookies as well as internet culture site Buzzfeed and the Huffington Post.
In 2009, the video had its first viral breakthrough after a sudden influx of remix videos with many replacing the Ghostbusters theme song with other songs.
In early 2007, KXVO brought the Pumpkin Dancing Man back for its holiday special segments on Christmas (shown below, left) and Valentine's Day (shown below, right).Īs the YouTube community was still in its infancy, the video mostly remained in obscurity for three years. In November 2006, at least one video that may have been a parody of The Pumpkin Dance was uploaded to YouTube.
