budget cuts

So here I am plugging another episode of Pretty Darn Funny in which I appear. Since my "behind the scenes" post was such a huge hit two weeks ago I thought I would do it again. Bear in mind that sadly I'm in this episode far less than the last one, so I don't have as much to say about what happened behind the scenes. But the stuff I DO have to say will BLOW YOUR MIND.

:19   We shot this episode months before the movie cheating one, and I had grown a beard for my tantalising role as Paul the Apostle in the Church New Testament series (wait for that behind the scenes, yo!) We had to make up a line later about why I suddenly had a beard. Movie magic!

:43 I think HOOLISTER is the funniest thing in this episode.

1:20   There's that clever line I told you about! See how Hollywood works? It lies to you.

1:52   What's up with the zipper on my jeans? DON'T LOOK!

2:28  That's my little Phoebe in the red glasses. She's so cute and she loved being in this episode. This lunchroom, by the way, was my garage. They literally moved the garbage cans to shoot in there.

3:10  There are 30 people standing behind the camera for this scene. I remember them shooting it. You would never know! Isn't the silver screen fascinating?

3:48   That's not my silhouette. That's Jared Cardon, one of the producers. I had to go to rehearsal.

4:00  I was earnestly trying to do a Napoleon Dynamite impression. Lucky it turned out so bad!

4:44  NIPPLES

6:20  This was an awesome bit of photo shopping. They used a family photo of ours, but photo shopped our actor kids' faces over our real kids' faces. And they added a beard to me. I didn't have one at that time.

6:34  This was filmed in our TV room. They added some fancy hipster metallic siding.

6:35  This, ladies and gentlemen, is PTA's very own Patrick Livingston.

7:22   Patrick and Lisa's timing is perfect here.

7:28  This was filmed at night. That sunlight is fake. Movies - they really take you to another world!

7:33  Is that you, Colonel Sanders?

8:15  My fingers never stop being creepy.

movie cheating

By now I know you have all watched and memorized Episode One of Season Two of my wife's web series Pretty Darn Funny. It downloaded on Monday so it's all you can talk/think about! So now I thought I would give you some "behind the scenes" info! You know, stuff from the stars! Actually just me.

Step One. Watch the episode:

Step Two. Read what happened behind the scenes!

0.09: "Pearly Gates Nursing Home." I thought that was the most awesome name ever for a nursing home! Also note the "Humor She Wrote" banner. These things only pop up very quickly but they're funny and worth noting.

0.11: Why did we decide to shave my beard like that? I had scruff, but no beard. So we decided to make it look like I had a beard, when I clearly didn't. This will bother me (and no one else) through the remainder of the episode.

1.33: We had to do this scene in one take. Lisa is losing her voice. We kept messing up our lines because we had to change her out of her Batman suit, move to the car, and talk super fast. We shot this scene about fourteen times. You would never guess there were about 25 people standing around watching this and eating giant cookies. Also, I got stung by a bee in the rose bushes.

1.45: This is a movie theatre in American Fork. They call it the "Sticky Shoe." It's really gross in there!

1.52: Read that funny sign on the door! It references not one but two jokes later in the episode!

1.54: That's the director, Jeff Parkin.

2.20: That's Jeff Blake, who is kind of a genius. He made us laugh a lot and we had to keep starting over.

2.38: That was really some kind of car spray or something. It smelled disgusting! We had to fumigate between takes. I was still super tempted to eat that popcorn, though.

3.55: The light on our faces was from a TV monitor, showing endless clips of the "Great Pit of Carkoon" scene from Return of the Jedi. I saw Princess Leia in her bikini one hundred times and it never got old!

4.35: Lisa looks really pretty in this scene.

5.00: My kids did this once. Do they need a shot?

5.28: Note Lisa's voice. She hated screaming. Also, what's going on with my "beard?"

6.05: Lisa really does put that much cheese on her nachos. It's so gross. You have to wade your fingers through inches of muck just to find one lonely, sopping chip. It's what the lady likes. So this is drama in real life. Also, I am a total movie cheater.

7:03: I've never watched Duck Dynasty.

7:33: Sometimes I dance when I talk.

8.08: Oh, man. This voice was way funnier on set! I promise! It was totally funny!

8.38: Empire Strikes Back in-joke!

8.50: Weird to kiss your wife on camera.

Thanks for watching - and five more episodes to come!!!