It’s hard enough calling a phone sex line when you know the voice on the other end is probably coming from a chain-smoking, leather-faced former lunch lady, but when the operator is a sexually maladjusted ex-con (and a man) it’s cause to never pick up a phone again. In “Phone Sex”, the latest sketch from THE LIFELONG WEEKEND, yours truly and fellow PoC-er Josh Golden work our way through a seductive chat at $0.99/minute ($14.99 for the first two minutes).
My name is t.j. and I made this video in support of the work-release program.
I told you it’s a week of promotions at Poop or Chocolate and today, being part of the “week,” is no exception. Two years ago my friend Dave Horwitz and a few of his friends were given the truly joyous opportunity to create a web series for TheWB.com called DOWNER’S GROVE. Then, upon completion, they were offered the sarcastically joyous opportunity to wait indefinitely for their show to be released. And once it didn’t seem like any new joyousness could be squeezed from this lemon called opportunity, they were granted the not-even-slightly joyous opportunity to find out their show had been permanently shelved.
“Indefinitely,” “permanently,” “joyous” – these are just Hollywood buzz words. At any moment everything can change. And it did this past Monday when the first five episodes of DOWNER’S GROVE were finally aired at TheWB.com. JOYOUS DAY! I’d show an episode here except I can’t figure out how to embed from TheWB.com, so I’ll just recommend you pop over there when you’re done here and enjoy some laughter that is two years in the making. I promise it hasn’t grown stale.
But since I don’t have the smarts to show you those videos, instead I’ll post the latest video from Dave’s sketch group A KISS FROM DADDY. Dave isn’t in it, but it was written by and co-stars Neil Campbell, who was interviewed by me in a piece to be released next week. Self-promotion!
Tune in tomorrow to see who we promote next. I’ll give you a hint: His name rhymes with Roseph Smalin. No, it’s not Broseph Shaolin. I’d never promote that evil bastard.
My name is Ben and this space is available for rent.
