Best "If Only..."

...I knew about this earlier:

Writer's strike. Creativity crippled. No new TV anywhere. It's all drying out and soon everything will be in repeats. Where do the writers go? The actors? What do they do now? What do we do?

One Answer:

New "episodes" of Saturday Night Live are being put on at the Upright Citizen's Brigade. This week's host is Michael Cera.

What do I mean?

What I mean is if I had known to know about this, I (or you) could have paid $20 to see a freshly produced and written new episode put on in a basement beneath a grocery store here in New York. What is usually consumed by the millions each Saturday night is now served up for 150.

I don't mean to totally exalt the show...but come on! This is cool.

I've also heard they'll be staging new "episodes" of 30 Rock at the UCB as well. What do you think of that?

PS Let the desperate Craigslist pleadings begin!

Best I Totally Forgot

Man, this is big news...and I totally forgot to tell you it.

Anyway, remember when I told you about when I nearly froze to death being a Human Giant extra? (It was in this post)


Well, Dave (who, I now realize, I totally forgot to link to when I revised my links and if doing the link list wasn't such a pain I'd link to him right now) brought it to my attention that that sketch aired this past week! (click over to his blog to see a picture he took of my split-second of being on MTV.

Anyway, here's a link to where you can watch the sketch with me in it. I believe I "clearly" appear when there are about 24 seconds left to the video. It's an Illusionators sketch and it's fairly funny.

Ok, that's all.

Best Brief Employment

And by "employment" I do not mean that I was paid. But tonight I was an extra for a sketch on the new Human Giant show that'll be coming to MTV soon. That's right! In a number of months, you might be able to see my head in the background of a brief sketch on basic cable! Keep your eyes peeled for when the Illusionators try their missile catching trick!

This is what it looked like when we were taken out of our vans and told what we'd be doing.


Fact: we were not there that long, but it was so so so freezing cold.

After the shoot we headed back to the Upright Citizens Brigade for the finest Crash Test (that's the name of a weekly show) I've ever witnessed. The Human Giant fellows showed rough cuts of some sketches and told stories and then AD Miles and Eugene Mirman told some excellent jokes. What a fine evening for comedy!

Appendix If you're wondering what "Human Giant" is, I suggest you begin solving this mystery by visiting their website and taking it from there. (the bottom video features the Illusionators, so maybe watch that one?)