Saturday, January 24, 2009

NBC footage that will probably never be seen







Recently we were interviewed for a Caught On Tape show on NBC. The basis of the show was about viral videos and whether or not they are real or fake. They wanted to ask us some questions about the DMV prank. Those shows are pretty cheesy so we decided to help them spice it up a bit, but they didn't seem to to like our help very much.  The people at NBC asked to do the interview at our house which we agreed to happily, and a date and time was set. The night before the shoot we grabbed as many props as we could to make our back drop for the interview. Some of the better  pieces were the severed arm holding the hammer on the wall and the tacked up jock strap. 
It took us about two hours to get ourselves dressed before they arrived. We made our outfits out of black trash bags and duct tape and bought those lame shades from American Apparel. Dave wrapped tin foil over one hand to make a mitt and Will duct taped a shoe to his. 
   They seemed a little amused when they arrived, but that quickly changed. We answered all their questions as art-fashion snobs. Dave was asked to take off his glasses and do the interview again. Sure no problem, because Will had drawn eyeballs on top of Dave's eye lids earlier so he closed his eyes and re-did the interview, she really wasn't feeling it. Will did his interview next and the whole time he was using his shoe hand to make gestures while he talked. Dave couldn't look at him anymore for fear of losing it and ruining the interview so he ran and hid in the kitchen to control his laughter. 
  After the interview they wanted us to walk around our neighborhood and re-answer the questions "Not so much in character", they didn't think what we did would be usable. We told them no, take it or leave it that's just how we do things. I'm judging by the lack of response from our phone calls and emails that they're leaving it. It's a shame because it would have been really funny. Hopefully they will decide to air it at some point, if not I at least hope it surfaces on youtube someday. 

1 comment:

Terra said...

omg... i wish i could have seen it.. :( i guys r soooooo funny. make more vids, sometimes i laugh so hard i cry!! u guys r awesome...
~Terra :D