Joyner referred to the house as "The house that Barney built". Joyner had a white stucco home in Plano, Texas and paid for the house with residuals from Barney.
Joyner continued as Barney's costume performer until 2005 with a brief return in 2008. All the while, allowing him to continue an acting career in LA as himself. After moving to LA, the Barney Special Events Dept came calling offering him the opportunity to continue traveling around the US making Barney appearances, and training new Barney's in other countries. When Joyner moved to LA, he offered to help out with Barney if it was ever needed though once he joined the Screen Actors Guild, he could no longer portray Barney on Barney & Friends due to it being a non-union job. In April 2001, Joyner left the television show, which is taped in Dallas, Texas, and moved to Los Angeles to continue pursuing his acting career outside the costume. Joyner continued to portray as Barney's costume performer until 2001.
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Barney & FriendsĪfter Barney & the Backyard Gang ended, the video series was spun into a television series titled Barney & Friends. Joyner, excited inside, calmly accepted the role.Ī Barney plush doll on David Joyner's shoulder. She ended up not being able to handle the kids, so Abrams called him and asked if he would still be interested in playing Barney. After five auditions, Joyner was passed over for a woman. Joyner moved the mouth of Barney to what West was saying. During one of the auditions, Bob West, who was the voice of Barney at the time, was there and together they did improv while acting from the script.
Joyner was very athletic and energetic during auditions, which the crew was not used to seeing. While driving to the audition, he noticed a bilboard that said "Breathe Life Into Your Vacation," which made him think about breathing life into Barney and he decided to be as energetic and animated as possible. The night before the audition, Joyner had a dream that Barney passed out and that he (Joyner) gave the purple dinosaur mouth-to-mouth CPR. Abrams sent him the first six videos of the Barney & the Backyard Gang series and Joyner would fall asleep no matter how hard he tried to view them. In a phone call, Abrams said he was perfect, as he worked well with kids and was energetic. Joyner was unsure about being in a costume, having no prior experience in the field. David Voss, Barney's original costume actor, had left to join the military and the company was looking to film two more Barney & the Backyard Gang videos. On September 21, 1990, a fax comes in from Abrams asking for a performer to play Barney. The criminal the character was based on was caught and, despite being picked for the role, the episode was never filmed. Shirley Abrams, a local casting director, had asked him to be in "World's Most Wanted," playing a drug dealer. While working at Texas Instruments, Joyner began teaching in an acting school for children in Dallas.
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