A few days ago I thought I’d play this prank on my buddy Jim. But it didn’t really pan out like I planned.
I think the prank inadvertently demonstrates that waterboarding doesn’t work.
Also, please digg this video if you have a digg account.
Shot by legendary cinematographer: Jawnee Conroy (A.S.C.)
Jim is Jim Ford.
In case you haven’t seen this yet, I participated in an April Fools Prank with Improv Everywhere called “Best Funeral Ever”. The whole thing was staged, but several people were “fooled” including the CW11 News:
Here are a few outtakes from the event, including me offering my patented “high five” to a family member of the deceased. Probably not a good idea at a funeral…
What else, what else…Tonight I will once again be co-hosting Street Meat with Heather Fink. Details:
Street Meat
Tonight at 8 pm
Cake Shop
152 Ludlow Street (bt. Stanton and Rivington)
-Billy Scafuri and Adam Lustick
-Kelly Hudson and Emily Strachan
-Harry Terjanian
FREE
And finally, right after my show, I’m sprinting to No Idea bar to watch UNC play bball in the national championship. Here’s an inspirational video called Banners to the Dome from my main man Robbie Shaw that should hopefully motivate the Heels to victory:
On Wednesday, I got to play a demon character on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Specifically I played a production assistant named Gary who also happens to be a demon. It was a fun part to play (written by the talented Morgan Murphy). And it was very cool being on set at 30 Rock and meeting everybody. There aren’t individual clips of the sketches I was in, so to view them you’ll have to click on a link to the full episode. I appear at the end of chapter one (8 minutes in) and at the end of chapter two (14 minutes in). Here’s the link:
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Full Episode
My family was excited about my appearance (even if they couldn’t recognize my face). When my sister Caroline told her 7 year old son, Sam (my nephew), that I was going to be on TV, he got really excited and was like, “Like real TV?? No way!! He’s gonna be rich!!! We’re all gonna be rich!!!! Yes!!!” That’s the power of TV at work my friends. Expect several wads of “Benjamins” coming your way courtesy of Gary, the demon PA. Just make sure to hide your babies.
Added: some behind the scenes footage shot by Cory Cavin.
As you can tell from the video, I start off the day looking like a tired and pathetic normal guy. But Late Night did a spectacular job whipping me into shape and turning me into a demon. The make-up guy is Josh Turi, who does the make-up and prosthetics for SNL.
Dr. Lanny kicks off his Get Psyched! Instructional Series with his tried and true method for getting through these tough economic times: Stilts!
Also, Dr. Lanny doesn’t know how to use computers, but he asks you to please digg his Instructional video by clicking here.
Check out Jon Glaser’s show on Adult Swim called “Delocated”. I’m in the pilot very, very briefly as Agent #2. But more importantly, the show is friggin’ hilarious and Jon Glaser is one of my favorite comedy writers and performers. You might recognize a bunch of Conan writers and UCB performers in the show as well.
Delocated airs on Thursdays at 10:30 on Cartoon Network/Adult Swim.
You remember the Phelps Minute, right? Right. Well it got nominated for an ECNY Award as Best Comedic Short. Pretty cool. I owe it all to the good dudes at Bobby Chicago for making it happen.
So feel free to vote for The Phelps Minute if you so choose by going to this link here. (I think you have to enter your email address after that.)
The award ceremony for the ECNYs will be help on Monday, March 9th at 8 pm at Comix. Who should I wear?
YouTube link – recommended: watch in HD
I was lucky enough to be asked by Charlie Todd and Improv Everywhere to participate in their latest mission in which I high five’d 2,000 plus people riding up a subway escalator. The team, headed up by Charlie, also included Matt Adams (who shot and edited it), Cody Linquist, Katie Sokoler (who took photos), Jason Eppink, Jen Small, John Ward, and Mr. Will Hines (who also filmed it.)
You can read all about it HERE. You can also digg it if you have a digg account.
Also, the High Five mission was mentioned on Good Morning America this morning. And it was also covered by the UK Metro.
Oh yeah and I did indeed wash my hands many times before and after high fiv’ing 2,000 plus people…
Michael Phelps makes a public apology for his actions with that marijuana bong.
A friend of mine from high school, Susan White, has written a novel titled Bound South. It’s already getting high praise from several critics and established authors such as Anne Rivers Siddons. Everybody should be very psyched to read it when it comes out on February 10th.
And just for fun, Dr. Lanny Latham gave a one-on-one interview with Susan. Here it is:
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Dr. Lanny Latham: Hi I’m certified life coach Dr. Lanny Latham. I am starting my own book club that will one day surpass Oprah. The first book on my list is Bound South. With me today is the author of Bound South, Susan Rebecca White. So Susan, how did you…Get Psyched…to write your novel?
Susan Rebecca White: Dr. Lanny, it was a long process. I was living in San Francisco, having recently quit my job as a high-tech PR associate, where I lasted for two days. Before that I was living—and teaching—at a Catholic Girls boarding school where I lasted a semester. All I really wanted to do was write, so I started doing that and also started waiting tables. A couple of years later I went to grad school in creative writing. I kept turning in stories my teacher didn’t like. Finally he told me to “go outside my comfort zone” and stop writing about young blasé urbanites, so I wrote a story about a young evangelical girl named Missy who is neither urban nor blasé.
Dr. Lanny: So you decided to Have Fun?
Susan: Um, sure. It was fun to be writing. But Missy’s story is kind of sad. Her mom has to clean house for a living and her dad abandoned the family years ago.
Dr. Lanny: Oh yeah, sad, right?
Susan: I mean, not that cleaning house is inherently sad. They just don’t have any money, so life is kind of tough.
Dr. Lanny: They need to Pump It Up.
Susan: I guess. Yeah. I mean, she has this bedrock faith in Jesus that does make her optimistic. So I guess you could say she pumps it up. And then there are these other two main characters, Caroline and Louise Parker, who are rich and privileged.
Dr. Lanny: Oh okay, so Caroline and Louise must be people who Go For It.
Susan: Sort of—I guess. But even though they are rich and privileged, they’ve got their problems. Louise really resents her daughter Caroline, who is pretty wild, and Caroline is having an affair with her high school drama teacher.
Dr. Lanny: Uh-oh! It’s gettin’ hot! I can relate to that drama teacher. I used to be a PE teacher myself, before I got fired. No students had an affair with me. But I bet they wanted to.
Susan: I’m thinking maybe we should re-direct. As a therapist, I thought you might be interested in the strained and sometimes hostile relationship between Caroline and Louise.
Dr. Lanny: Oh yeah they probably just need to ENJOY more. That should solve most of their problems.
Susan: They were able to enjoy life a lot more once they got away from each other. The Parkers live in Atlanta, but then after Caroline gets caught, um, in a compromised position with her teacher, she runs away to San Francisco. And I guess you could say that, from a distance, Caroline and Louise do learn to enjoy each other.
Dr. Lanny: Oh yeah sometimes you just need to run away. Both my parents ran away from me when I was young.
Susan: Oh my God. That’s horrible. I’m so sorry!
Dr. Lanny: My father drifted to Pensacola, Florida to work at a golf range. And my mom joined the Symbionese Liberation army. I never saw them again. But now we probably all ENJOY things more. It must be similar to Missy’s Dad right?
Susan: Uh, sure. Though she never reaches a point where she, um, enjoys it.
Dr. Lanny: Missy just needs to Drink Plenty of Fluids.
Suaan: Dehydration was never really a problem for her.
Dr. Lanny: Does she own a Psych-odometer? What are her Psychedness readings?
Susan: She watches a Christian soap opera called Salt of the Earth that gets her pretty psyched, especially because she thinks her missing daddy is the lead actor in it.
Dr. Lanny: I can relate. I used to think I was watching my missing dad when I’d watch Magnum P.I. And this Salt of the Earth sounds like a very psyched program.
Susan: The actors in it are all pretty psyched for Jesus. Except a couple of them are really bad apples.
Dr. Lanny: How are Missy and Louise connected?
Susan: Missy’s mama Faye cleans house for Louise. And Louise’s gay son, Charles, likes to watch Salt of the Earth with Missy when she comes to the Parker house with her mom. Charles thinks the show is hilarious. He loves the kitsch factor.
Dr. Lanny: Does he do Quick Hands when he watches it?
Susan: Actually, he does.
Dr. Lanny: That’s good. Everybody should do Quick Hands. How psyched were you when you were writing your novel?
Susan: When the writing was going well, I was extremely psyched. During the last two months of finishing Bound South I would play the song “Black Flowers” by Yo La Tengo every morning before I started writing. For some reason it really got me in the mood and pumped me up.
Dr. Lanny: That’s great to hear. You know what Pumped Me Up? Your novel. It’s given me a new perspective on why both my parents abandoned me at an early age and drifted to opposite ends of the country. They just needed their space to Enjoy.
Susan: Uh, yeah. That was the point I was trying to make. Dr. Lanny, in your expert opinion, what do you think my daily psyched level is?
Dr. Lanny: I am getting a very high reading on your psyched level. You seemed to follow my 7 steps especially well during the process of writing your novel. Your psychedness should be copied by all writers.
Susan: Thanks! And thank you so, so much for making Bound South the inaugural choice for your book club.
Dr. Lanny: My pleasure. Everybody should be very psyched to read it. Quick hands!
Susan: Yes, quick hands.
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Susan Rebecca White is the author of Bound South, which should be in bookstores very soon. Maybe even today! A graduate of Brown University and the graduate creative writing program at Hollins, she lives with her husband in Atlanta. Visit her at www.susanrebeccawhite.com, and your psych-odometer will fly off the charts.
If you’d like to buy a signed copy of Susan’s book, go here.
If you’d like for Dr. Lanny to sign Susan’s book, please contact him directly.
Stay psyched.
This is a video I did with Will Hines, Birch Harms, Brandon Bassham and Pete Schultz as part of a Video Cram-Off contest. Our team got a one word suggestion and had one week to make a video. The suggestion was BAIT. We threw around a bunch of different ideas before we settled on a fishing show hosted by Jeff Foxworthy and his borthers, Jerry and Harlan. Sadly, our video didn’t even make it into the contest…But here it is anyway…
