Sunny D and Bigger Than Me

Okay. It's been a WHILE but let's try to lay this out.


Origin:

The Sunny D open was planned to be a commentary on what we considered to be bullshit on public access but ended up being a slam on TV in general. I don't remember how we came up with all the ideas for all the bits in that skit- but I do remember shooting The Sunny D part when my parents weren't home.

A lot of our skits, in the beginning, were dreamed up at Dave and Rob's house-
It would usually go where one of us had something he was thinking about and then the other two would add to it and make it funny OR beat the hell out of the idea 'til we didn't want to do it.
Eventually, one of us would come up with an extreme idea, another of us would back him up and the third member would be left going- "...Uhhh...Idunno guys..."

That was the case with "Bigger Than Me".
If I remember correctly- I was thinking it would be funny to do a bit where a dude is telling an embarassing story that OBVIOUSLY happened to him as if it had happened to someone else. Rob jumped in and we came up with the whole "being forced to perform oral sex at gunpoint" story. By this point Dave was already throwing in ideas and we were just laughing our asses off at how fucked up the story was getting-
That was about the time the "You can have this in your mouth or THIS in your mouth" line was born- we knew we were pushing it a bit far but that was what was making us laugh.
Dave was the one who came out and said we shouldn't do this- He thought that the viewers would really think the story happened to one of us. We thought that was ridiculous. But then he asked- "So, which one of us is going to play the role of the victim?" and suddenly- no one wanted to really prove Dave wrong.
So- like true acting cowards we pitched the idea to Bryan and we told him the WHOLE story and why we were all scared to do the roll and he just shrugged his shoulders like we should have but it worked out PERFECT.
Bryan fit the bill like a champ- we added the other stories in the beginning to set you up for how fuckin' horrible Bryan's story would be.
I think this is the only DG skit with neither of us on camera, now that I think about it.


Doppel Facts:
The opening shot is of me at the helm of the Master Contol board of KRRT- this is where Dave and I came up with a lot of skits for the Saturday Night Shocker.


The woman who plays the "mother" in the Sunny D bit is the actual mother of the baby in the "Crazy Ahkmed" bit.


My Favorites:
I love that we actually got pretend to "fire blanks" in a baby's face- that is funny (I wonder where that kid is now?). Crazy Ahkmed cracks me up to this day.
And I take a lot of pride in the line "this in your mouth or THIS in your mouth" as you can pretty much just say that line and most people know exactly what you mean.