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We wanted to do a sketch called Cat Congress, where we'd build a diorama of the House of Congress and then put 100 cats in 100 suits in it and film them for a day and do commentary for them like we were C-SPAN. We pitched it every year for 5 years but it was too expensive.
Trevor I'm not sure if you remember him, but my stepbrother was the boy in the blue shirt in the "Never Song". He is so embarrassed by it for some reason but it is awesome that he got a chance to meet you!
Thanks man! I just started making videos for a public access show I had when I was a kid. I'd just shoot stuff each weekend with my friends from school. Then my show got sort of popular with the UVa students (I grew up in Charlottesville, VA) so a local PAX-TV affiliate bought my show when I was 18. So I did that for a year and when that got cancelled, I moved up to NYC to go to the School of Visual Arts. And Sam and Zach lived in the dorm with me. Timmy I met on 9/11.
Yeah, 9/11 happened and we lived across the river in Brooklyn Heights. We ran up to the top of our dorm and his room was on the top floor, facing the WTC. So we burst into his room and watched everything from there.
ANSWER 1: Sure, but I don't have a show anymore so no one will see it.ANSWER 2: I'm not sure, they change all the time. I was really happy with how Clint Webb and Pledge of Allegiance turned out. And 'Opus' and 'Timmy Poops His Pants' always make me laugh.
Saw you last week at State Theatre in Falls Church... was in the group that drove 6 hours to the show from Ohio, not knowing that there were Ohio shows in the works!You guys were all super laid back and absolutely excellent to meet in person. The show was awesome.
Absolutely! I'll burn down Columbus with you!Reggie is awesome! He's the nicest, most talented dude. It's also so much fun to watch him create those loops and sounds. It's like he's magic.Glad you like the album! I guess it is a 'Folk' album. Media Player never lies.
My parents sent me to therapy for OCD when I was a kid but it was a religious therapist and he told me to pray that it would go away. But when your issue is that you're getting these weird messages from inside your head, praying and trying to listen for some sort of answer doesn't really seem like the best advice.I just slowly through the years tried to set little goals for myself to beat it. And I'm not sure you can ever really beat it but you can definitely make it way more manageable
Have you ever considered seeing an evidence-based therapist-doctor-person? I'm the worst person to give that advice, basically having self-handled anxiety/depression stuff for years, but still, it's the smart thing to do. :P
I did that too. And they gave me some anti-depressants to take. I did it for a month but didn't like how it made me feel. For some reason it made it super difficult to differentiate between reality and dreams I was having when I was asleep - which is a really unsettling side effect to have. So I quit.
Im not sure if you will see this, but I'm 13 and have OCD, and its annoying as balls. And I now exactly what you're talking about with the whole little challenge things. I do them literally every 10 minutes and I can't control it.
Let me start off with you are one of my favorite people ever! Seeing shows like WKUK, Whose Line, etc inspired me to get off my ass and start acting. Do you have any advice for making it in the harsh world of acting (specifically sketch comedy and theatre)? How did you make it? Did you ever think you would? Thank you so much for your time, it's an honor. I wish you the best of luck in everything you do.
Thanks man! That's really nice of you! My advice would just be to constantly be making your own stuff. Just keep filming and writing and acting! You'll get better and better and hopefully won't have to wait around for someone else to put you in something!
Pete Holmes wrote "Insult Restaurant". The idea that had us all laughing the most was "Weird the Stripper" from season 2. We all rented a house in Cape Cod to write that season and we were pitching ideas and for some reason, the idea to try and make Darren a topless female stripper - but to make it look as real as possible - was the funniest thing to us at the time.
I cannot find the episode where you worked at a fast food place and threw up on a guys order and tried to play it off. Do you remember what episode or season that was in? You kept trying to get high fives when someone calle d you out on your lies.
I live in Indianapolis. I am currently sitting in my dorm room, freaking out over this AMA, and the fact that you are in my city right now is mind-blowing to me. I...I do not even know what to say...
We started in school. We literally put up flyers asking if anyone wanted to be in a comedy troupe. Then we got started WKUK as a "school club" so that the college would give us $700 a semester and let us use the theater once a month. Then we just kept doing shows and even though most of our stuff was terrible, eventually we got better and the crowds coming to see us would get bigger and bigger. So just keep with it!
We were sort of thinking that 5 seasons was a good run. We didn't want to start repeating premises or become more and more derivative of ourselves. So we pitched doing the Civil War on Drugs as half of the 5th season to keep it interesting for us. Then, if we were going to do a 6th season, we wanted it to be split between two different films and I don't think that's really what IFC wanted
Hi Trevor! I'm a huge fan of your work, probably watched every WKUK sketch multiple times. Your humor is usually pretty edgy and sometimes dark. Is it a weird switch doing stuff for the Jay Leno show, which is usually tamer and more family-friendly? Do you find yourself having to change your style of humor?
No, we weren't annoyed at all. We would never of had a show if kids weren't taking our sketches off our site and spreading them around youtube. I was just happy that people liked our stuff enough to share it
They were pretty hands off. But they would object to certain sketches. There are a bunch of sketches that they would tell us we couldn't do - but then we'd go out and shoot them anyway - thinking we'd be able to convince them after they'd seen the finished product - but that never worked. We still show those 'banned' sketches sometimes when we tour. The biggest fight I had with the network was over the saxophone solo at the end of "Hippo in the City'. I wanted it to go on for a minute and a half. I think we ended up somewhere around 13 seconds though.
Hey Trevor, I like your brand of humor and the wkuk sketches are original, but some of the jokes go on too long, I feel like I'm being pranked by Andy Kaufman (in a bad way). Is there any reasoning behind this other than the comedic value? Do you do it sometimes to stretch the skits to fill a specific time slot, etc?
Also, I'm pretty sure I took a shot with you at Dark Room on the LES about 3 years ago. Always wanted to confirm. It was also 3AM and I was blackout drunk in a near dark bar, so I could be wrong.
I think it's probably just that humor is subjective. So if you're not into a specific sketch or joke, it feels like it takes forever! I certainly feel that way about some sketches that I watch, but then other people will watch those and think there's nothing wrong with it at all. I used to hang out at the Dark Room a lot, so it might have been me!
Do you think that your idea was stolen by Family Guy for their Abe Lincoln cut away? this clip // I know yours came out first and the instant I saw this all I could think of was your sketch. Thanks for the AMA!
I'm hesitant to accuse anyone of stealing anything because a lot of times people just come up with similar ideas. After we did the Grapist, someone pointed out that there was an old Onion article where they mention a character named the Grapist, so I know that it can happen completely accidentally
That was the best. But really difficult. We shot the whole thing in 13 days. And we shot it in Long Island, so we're basically trying to find little strips of land that look like they could be Virginia in the 1800's. The sound was a nightmare on that shoot because half the time we were shooting right beside the interstate. Also, everybody got posoin ivy and our prop guy got bit by a crazy spider and was hospitalized
Hi Trevor! When I was 12 and I discovered WKUK you replaced Jim Carry as my idol. I love your humor and your facial expressions are priceless. Anyways I know you are going to start work on a new movie soon and I live real close to LA and I was wondering how one might go about being an intern or an extra? I am going to school for stage lighting and it would be a dream come true to work on a movie with the people who shaped my sense of humor growing up. Also here is a linkto a drawing I did of you for an assignment in art class. It is made up entirely of words, the suit made up of WKUK quotes. I do believe this is enough qualification to be a coffee slave intern of sorts.
Whoa! That drawing is awesome! haha! We're working on a script now for a Whitest Kids Movie. Hopefully we'll get to shoot it within the next year. When we start announcing production on it, just hit me up through facebook or twitter. We always need interns or PA's when we're doing a big project!
Yeah, we're working on a WKUK MOVIE right now. Hopefully we'll shoot it this year. Coway was the best place we've ever played! We had over 1000 kids show up to the show, then i announced a bar that we'd seen on the way over and half of them showed up afterwards! Then the guy who owned the bar told us that he had to close down because it was 2 am but he also owned a Roller Rink in town. So he opened it up and we went there with all the people who came to the show and we had a roller skating party till 6 am. It was awesome! Except that we all had to drive to New Orleans the next morning and everyone was hungover
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