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Posted April 20, 06:46 PM

Another week has passed, and our staff continues to grow!! It seems like every day I see more and more people in the office! This past week segment producers Frank Smiley, Dan Ferguson and Rachel Witlieb started romping around, as well as Graphics gurus Pierre Bernard and Kevin Frank!! Awesome stuff. It's starting to feel like we're actually doing shows... Instead of being stuck in this crazy dream of sun and flowers and new building smells.

The BIGGEST development over this past week was the fact that we are now booking tickets for the first month of Tonight Shows with Conan!! It's a hot ticket - requests have been pouring in! The good news for you folks is that we use a lottery system, so there's always a chance you could snag some dope tickets if you request them relatively soon!! Visit our temporary ticket page for details on how to come see the show we're working so hard to put together!! I wish you all the best of luck!!

Except you. And you.

I had a big day today, as I finally got the designs for our new pre-show website approved by Mr. Conan O'Brien!! Excitement! I also went over to the Universal Prop House with Propmaster John Rau - in a sweet sweet golf cart, no less - and looked for a hammock for this video I'm trying to shoot! It was INCREDIBLE. Holy moses! It was in this gigantic warehouse (think "Raiders of the Lost Ark"), and totally put our little 30 Rock Prop Room to shame!! I took a couple pics with my Blackberry:


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This is one very tiny aisle of this enormous place... It just went on forever! I can't really describe it in words (or pictures, apparently), but it was filled with literally everything you could possibly imagine. Two of everything, actually. ;)


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Check out these sweet Egyptian statues!! I used an old Bley Belgian voodoo family curse to try and reanimate these babies in the hopes that I could finally have my own personal Army of the Undead*, but alas... No luck. On the left there is where they keep the ball lightning.

*One of the things on my bucket list


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Remember up above when I said that the Universal prop house had literally every single thing that you could possibly think of? I wasn't kidding! Check this out: THEY EVEN HAVE RAPTORS ON MOTORCYCLES. What?! Are you serious?!?!?? COULD THIS PLACE POSSIBLY BE MORE AWESOME?!?!? Answer: No. I think I'm going to have to add this baby to my wish list drawing of the new set from last week!!! The only thing I can think of that's cooler than this would be a T-Rex in an F-14 jet fighter - but I'm sure they have those on the4th floor or something. SERIOUSLY. THIS PLACE IS CRAZYTOWN. I can't believe that I work here. Insanity.

ps - It's now my personal mission to try and get this raptor on a motorcycle on our show!!! Hmm.... Maybe I can hide him behind Max's drumset or something...


Anyway, that's it for this week!! See ya'll in 7!

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I believe that creature's technical name is Choppersaurus (as it says on the tag.) Also does the sign behind it say it is FOR SALE??? BUY BUY BUY

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Aaron Responds: Oh, look at the scientist!! I'm not sure if it's really for sale, or if it's the bike that's for sale... But in person, that thing is SCARY.

Bley, you forgot to mention that the sign on the motorcycle says (I think) CHOPPERSAURUS!!!!

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Aaron Responds: Why did I have to mention it?! It's plain to see!!!

Man, that place seems awesome! You guys have to work the cigar-smoking, motorcycle-riding raptor into the show! It seems like something he'd have. Like gorilla in a nurse outfit, using an old-fashioned abdominal exerciser.

Because that is just amazing.

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Aaron Responds: I know! I'm going to try to get it on at some point. Maybe I can hide it in the audience or something.

So... how are you liking LA?? How's the apartment? Do you need some couches or a washer and dryer because me and Linz are about to move out of our place and we don't need them anymore. It sounds like things are coming along! That prop room looks awesome.. when I was in LA we went to Warner Bros and we saw their huge warehouse of props and costumes and it was insane.. but no raptor on a motorcycle. I mean that just doesn't happen anywhere. So when do you think the new site will be up and running?

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Aaron Responds: I like it! My apartment is coming along - my parents were in town this past weekend, so I actually just got couches last week in preparation for their arrival!! Thanks for the offer, though! Are you and your sis still gonna live together, or what?

I'm thinking that we'll be launching a pre-site something or other in the next couple weeks!! VERRRRRY EXCITING.

Holy crap, you definitely need to get that motoraptor on the show!


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Aaron Responds: Totally! And I love that you called it a "motoraptor"! Perfect!

Haha! Those are sweet pics! ET in the house! I visited Universal Studios about 20 years ago when I was a kid, did the tour, got to be the kid on the bike, good times!

Seriously, getting a raptor on a motorcycle will be no trouble. When I saw that pic, I actually thought one of the writers must've put it together for one of those jokes you guys do like "We're giving up our pointless arbitrary humour, isn't that right; Cactus Chef on an elyptical exercise machine playing We Didn't Start The Fire on a Pan Flute", with the punchline instead being "Adult Male Velociraptor in a bellhop outfit riding a dirt bike".

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Aaron Responds: Yeah, I did too - and it's really, REALLY weird that I work right near the jaws ride! Who would've thought?!? Amazing. Just amazing.

And it really does seem like one of those arbitrary humor bits, doesn't it? We're going to fit right in around these parts...

I could spend all day in that prop room just making Jokes. That would be a writers dream room, oh wow the ideas that I got just from your pictures.

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Aaron Responds: It's hard to really convey how awesome that place was without actually taking you inside there. It's surreal!

A raptor on a motorcycle? I've never seen anything so epic in my life! That's incredible.

I just thought of something for the new website. It's probably too late to add suggestions, but I'm going to tell you anyway. You know how at the top of the blog it says "Meet the Insider" with a picture of you? Well you should add a little bio about you so all the new readers will know what they're getting themselves into. The 'about me' on your Facebook would be ideal, but you'd probably have to tone it down a tad. ;)


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Aaron Responds: Ahhh... Interesting! I don't like to be too self promotey, but thanks for the suggestion!!

It's getting more exciting just hearing about the progress out there! Can't wait to see the pre-show site. If you had anything to do with it (and it sounds like you did), I'm sure it's all kinds of awesome. One question: How are you staying cool in all the record-breaking heat???


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Aaron Responds: You knnnnnnnow iiiiiiiiiiit. ;) Seriously though, I think you guys will like it.

The MAIN way that I'm staying cool is because I'm working such long hours - and my office is FREEZING. I'm fine with it, though!

hahah the photo section at edith head (universal prop building) is pretty surreal. lots of anonymous families who may be famous

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Aaron Responds: I love the fact it's called "Edith Head" as well. :)

RAD! i am sure that you could easily get that Raptor to jump that E.T.! hey, what happened to the Schematics for the new Tonight Show set? Those were badical! see i used Badical, because i am from southern california. get used to it guy.

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Aaron Responds: HA! Maybe if the raptor had opposable thumbs, so that he could drive that thing!

And what do you mean "what happened to the schematics"? Aren't they still up?

Hi Aaron,

Are you sure you wouldn't want an evil army of E.T.'s running around? I wish I had some to do my bidding.

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Aaron Responds: First of all, ET can't run. He sort of "waddles around". Did you see the movie?! Second of all, how am I supposed to have an army made up of soldiers who can't run? FAIL.

I guess you wanted to say raptors on motorcycles WITH CIGAR...

Anyway
I'm pretty shure there's a button on the raptor. By pressing it, it sings White Christmas by Bing Crosby.

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Aaron Responds: HA HA HA HA! Well played, well played.

A raptor on a motorcycle is pretty frightening! It ranks right up there with my personal "favourite" scary thing: bears riding sharks. Think about it. That'd be nuts. Of course, the idea first came up when talking with friends about the perfect wedding ceremony. Yeah, I never said anything about being normal, or hanging out with sane people. :P
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Speaking of weddings, I finished my 3rd wedding video a couple weeks ago. Unfortunately, you probably won't like it, because it's really long. But it pretty much had to be, because it was a completely different concept than the last couple (plus I combined "comedy video" with "wedding slideshow", so there was lots of content to get to). If you DO care to waste 17 minutes of your time, go to www.showbizmonkeys.com/etruehollywoodstory.html -- and if you want to just skip to the good stuff, let it load and then skip to 9:07 when it goes from "mostly fact" to "ridiculous" (although there's a great dramatization bit at the 1:50 mark). Anyway, hope you're loving L.A. I heard it's been crazy hot there lately!


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Aaron Responds: Nice!! I'm really super busy right now, but I'll try to check out a bit of it! You should open up a wedding video business or something!

You have to pitch that for a new Tonight Show character. DO IT!

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Aaron Responds: Ha ha ha. I will!

Hi!
I was just wondering in the other day…
How many seats are there at the Tonight Show studio? There were about 198 seats at the 6A, right? And this one has to be a lot bigger :D
P.s. I'm waiting to see the new underground video!
Peace and chears

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Aaron Responds: Oh, you'll see Emma... You'll see. It's a bit bigger.

And I'm holding off on the new videos until the new site is up! It seems only fitting, after all, that Tonight Show videos should be on the new Tonight Show site!

Oooooooh...Aaron...I think you've just leaked out classified Universal images for its upcoming blockbuster "ReptoCop"


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Aaron Responds: Or the new movie "Jurassic Park IV: DINOS ON BIKES".

hey i saw that summer internship info will be coming soon...i applied after i saw the last lil batch of internship info you posted and hadn't gotten any type of correspondence so i was wondering if it was because they are just waiting to figure out the internships til summer or what?


Thanks!

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Aaron Responds: Yup! It's up now!! I don't really know what's happening with the intern situation as of right now; I know that everyone is pretty busy, so maybe they just haven't gotten back to you? Might as well apply for Summer, too, if you're able!

it's not there, according to my computer. no big deal, i already read it, just curious.


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Aaron Responds: What's not where?

The drawing you did of the Tonight Show stage that you did (the one with the MW7 in a tiger cage) is not on the blog anymore. at least i dont see it anymore.

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Aaron Responds: W.T.F. Maybe it just went down because they've been screwing with a bunch of stuff. I still see it!

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