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Posted August 10, 04:01 PM
Shia LeBeouf/Avril Lavigne
Hello! I should address that I am writing these as the reruns air this summer. Just a few memories of what those weeks were like. I'll have more to say once the season starts in the fall. Thank you for the kind comments!
For the "Sofa King" sketch, we had to be careful with how we said those words. With the way it was sounding during rehearsals I thought for sure we weren't going to get to do it for the live show. Uni-brows are always funny to me btw.
I remember when Amy first started doing the Dakota Fanning impression in our offices, not intending it to be for a sketch. It was really simple, she'd just do this huge smile and throw her arms straight up over her head and then pat her hair down. Perfect. Now that I think about it, she's done a few other ones at work that are amazing. Karen O. and Katherine Moennig who plays Shane on "The L Word".
Jason, Kenan and I had to show Jim Signorelli, the director of the "Moustache Rides" commercial, all these different moustache options. The walk down the hall from the makeup room to Jim and back again was like a facial hair freak parade. Fu-manchus, handlebars, those long biker ones. I loved Kenan with that impossible amount of dreadlocks.
We shot the "Dear Sister" digital short really really late on a Friday night. Me and Jason did our part at like two in the morning. It was at this hotel a few blocks down from the studio. We walked down the street dressed as cops and pretty much looked like two comedians dressed up as cops. Our dressing room was one of the rooms at the hotel. As soon as we got there we started joking around but were immediately told "shshsh! People are sleeping!" It's so funny to me that that's still a part of my life. Being told to shush. I remember Jorma trying to explain the video idea to me. He was saying "there's this thing that they did on the finale of the O.C., and they play this song and well...you just have to see it." When I finally saw it, it killed me. That song! And Shia's line.. "You guys I just thought of the funniest thing". Who says that? Also putting on that cop uniform made me realize what a terrible cop I would make. I can't deal with confrontation and I know that if I was questioning a criminal, I would take whatever they said at face value, just to get out of there. "Oh okay. You were visiting your cousin but you don't know his name? Sounds good to me, thank you."
