The Brig

A message to the 5 people who read this site regularly.

Over the past three months, you may have noticed far fewer posts. This is because the UCB theater formed Beta teams, which are tasked with making weekly videos for their website, and I am a director on the team The Brig.

Believe it or not, one video a week is a lot to accomplish in your free time (even with a team of 6 other talented writers, directors, editors and producers), so I have less time to write here.

Here’s our last video. Mackenzie Condon wrote it and Matt Mayer directed (along with making the song and doing the special effects). Beware, it’s veeeery weird.

Get Hunky
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Also, here’s a hilarious video made by another UCB Beta team, Diamonds, Wow! It was written by my friend Melinda Taub, and features great directing and editing by Ed Mundy and Zach Neumeyer respectively.

Sex Drugs & The Hard Rock Cafe
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Acronyms Can Really Obnoxiously Negate Your Motive

Chris French enters his apartment and is startled to find his friends Albert Dutch, Beth English and David Dijibouti waiting for him.

Albert: Chris, we need to talk.

Beth: This is an intervention.

David: It’s about your store’s name.

Chris: Chris French Cleaners? What’s wrong with that?

Albert: Don’t you see?

Chris
French
Cleaners

CFC!

Beth: That stands for chlorofluorocarbons.

David: Chloroflurocarbons created the hole in our ozone layer.

Albert: You’ve named your dry cleaning store after a dangerous pollutant!

Beth: It’s too ironic! It will ruin your business.

Chris: Relax, it’s been that way since 1959. I’ll be fine.

Albert: That’s what I thought about my failed condom business.

Albert’s
Infectious
Defense
System.

AIDS!

Beth: Yes, and my now-defunct infant furniture store.

Beth’s
Antique
Bassinets.
Yellowing
Merchandise
Unwaveringly
Reliable
Despite
Evident
Repairs.

BABY MURDER!

David: And my out-of-print peaceful New Age philosophy book!

David’s
Altruistic
Theology
Encompassing
Religion
And
Practical
Ethics.
Developed
Reverently
Unto
God’s
Service.

DATE RAPE DRUGS!

Chris: But you guys worked so hard creating ironic acronyms that you were clearly more interested in being clever than being successful.

Anthony: Oh, good point.

Beth: Yeah, I never even cared about babies.

David: Now I regret changing my name from Hank.

Oscars In Memoriam: Movie Extras

Because there are no small roles.

Oscars In Memoriam: Movie Extras
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The latest from my UCB Comedy Beta team, The Brig. If there’s one thing I learned from this, it’s that I enjoy writing cheesy awards intros way too much. Keep that in mind, next year’s Oscars producer.

Matt Mayer and I directed it, Nathan Russell shot it, and I edited it. Matt Fisher plays Rick Moranis.