Ya Fired!
October 7th, 2005Last Tuesday, I played Donald Trump. I was asked through the UCB to the help the Writers Guild of America protest against product placement in reality tv shows. Also on hand were 3 other Trumps (played by fellow UCB performers Brian Huskey, Dave Thunder, and Anthony Atamanuik), as well as one Martha Stewart (played by Jeff Hiller).
The protest was held outside of a big advertising conference. The four of us Trumps and one Martha offered our bodies up for product placement to these ad execs as they entered the conference. I also probably said the words, “Ya fired!” to the execs about 75 times. One jarring experience from the event was when the actual CEO of my company (who does know me) walked into the conference while we all heckled him. I hesitantly told him, “Ya fired!” But luckily he didn’t recognize me in my ridiculous Trump wig. Otherwise he would have turned to me and said, “No Rob, actually YOU are fired!”
Here are some links about the event:
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As you can tell from the pics, I look and act nothing like Donald Trump.
After the event, I took off my fake Trump wig and headed to the subway to go to my crummy job, while the CEO of my company took his limo to his giant office overlooking Madison Avenue. It was then I realized one thing: we totally nailed those guys!