They now date and are in a comedy troupe called GayCo, which was formed with the help of Andy Eninger, who I met in college in the improv troupe Tower Players completely seperate from Judy & Heather. It boggles the mind. They are all submitting talent reels to Rosie O'Donnell's production company. Apparently she is producing a sketch comedy show with gay & lesbian themes, even though nobody in Bush America approves of that except that most do. The marginalization of the majority, try it, it's fun!
Taking full advantage of that fact that I didn't know how to make a reel we made a hell of a reel for Judy. The best ideas come not from the experts, but the talented who are willing to admit they don't know shit. I hope it turns some heads. I employed the style I developed when making all the episode shorts for the radio run, using a lot blinking images in and out of black and giving image teases and payoffs. Like in the short called "riff" with Zoe from episode whatever.
In the midst of various breaks we started talking about Steve Carrell. I think I was talking about casting one of the movies I'm writing and I said "You don't need a big star like Tom Cruise or Steve Carrell..." Judy stopped me and pointed out how interesting that phrase was. Judy has been working for Second City since she was in High School where she struck up a friendship with the Northwest Cast members at the time, Carrell, Colbert, Sidaris, Dinello, Rouse, etc. In fact they all took the Second City van and went to Judy's High School graduation. I only know Carrell because I am a mega comedy fanboy and slobbered all over him after a show I saw in 1992 and he told me he wished he had already been in a comedy troupe at my age and to keep it up and stop slobbering.
In the last six months Carrell has logged one of the biggest box office hits of 2005 made for a fraction of Wedding Crashers money, one of the top shows based on the best show of all time, won a Golden Globe and had his indy film bought for $10mil at Sundance. 14 years to become an overnight success, hey that's ahead of schedule. And my co-workers are talking about him, as they would any tv star, having no knowledge of Second City or his rise or how he got there or anything. Just watercooler convo that used to be reserved for Friends is now about this famous guy Steve Carrell. Anybody could've gotten him in any movie a year ago. Which begs the question, why isn't Scott Adsit famous?
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Hey! Where's Joel Hogsdon from MST3K???
Scott Adsit isn't famous (yet) because he's taking EVERYTHING that comes his way. He's in like every commecial on TV and just being an actor. Carrell does a lot of writing too, like Colbert, et. all. He'll get a part in a movie or show that finally realizes how smart he is, it'll showcase him some and they'll be off.
I remember back about 6 years ago when whats his face was still anchoring the Daily Show before John Stewart, but he got caught hitting on some producer and was suspended for a show. Enter Stephen Colbert, who ran the show as the anchor. I remember seeing him and thinking "Where have I seen that guy before?"
Dude, he runs an experiment shop creating patents in minnesota. Read an article about it once. Has no interest in showbiz, only in running this lab with his brother.
Uh, dude? Joel and Bro' Hodgson had a production deal w/Disney in the past two years. My buddy works in their CA animation dept. (he's in management, but he started in the mailroom) and he had to have things revamped to give Joel some offices when Joel was last there.
Maybe the Hodgson clan have truly migrated back to MN, but I suspect, like a lot of folks, he's still got one foot in the industry to pitch concepts and show ideas.
But hey, way to go with the Judy F reel. I just saw John Bonny on a commercial tonight for Secret. He played some woman's fashion designer boss. Gay men and fashion...who knew?
Steve
And we all saw you in a commercial at the last writing retreat. Youl looked genuinely excited over saving money, or getting a lower rate, or something. congratulations!
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