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We can laugh at Sam Mraovich all we want (and we will want to a lot, and we should), but can I tell you something? I kind of have an enormous amount of admiration for him. He did not wait until he knew how to do what he wanted to do, he just did it. He did not doubt himself, he strode confidently forward. He had a story in his fucked up head, he picked up a camera and he told that shit.
Do you wish you could do that as much as I wish I could do that? I have a book proposal that’s been sitting on my laptop 75% finished for two years, and I’m too much of a pussy to get it to even 76% finished, because I’m ashamed it’s not already perfect. I quit improv teams when I feel like I’m not the best one on them. I took guitar lessons for a month, then talked myself out of continuing when I hadn’t turned into Eddie Van Halen. (Eddie Van Halen was a popular guitar player in the late 20th century.) My body runs on a cocktail of unrealistically high and stiflingly low self-esteem that prevents me from completing even the simplest of tasks to the best of my abilities, and then when I absolutely have to complete something, so I can pay my bills and put food in my mouth, I do it in a furious dust-storm of panic and cut corners, turn in B-minus work, get angry at myself, and then say “Maybe I should try a different line of work entirely, because obviously that last thing wasn’t for me.”
Meanwhile, Sam Mraovich picks a project and goes hard as a motherfucker. There is honor, there is dignity in that. I respect him.
Anyway, wanna giggle at another weirdo? Me too.
Laz Rojas is a performer, filmmaker and chameleon, in the sense that whatever color a chameleon is, it still looks exactly like a chameleon. He owns plays over one hundred wigs characters in his one-man showcase, from which this video is taken. Now, you can see that his focus here was on differentiating his characters, making sure the husband and wife had different voices and moved their heads all over the damn place in distinct ways. So if the script is a lukewarm stew of words in which the wife harangues the husband into going back to Mr. Spacely and asking for his job at Spacely’s Space Sprockets* back, you can forgive him. The genius is in the performance.
You keep up the good work, Laz Rojas and Sam Mraovich. We laugh to mask our shame. And also because your work is fucking ridiculous.
* This is a reference to The Jetsons. The Jetsons was a popular animated television program in the mid-20th century.
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what big favor did Crispin Glover do for you that you decided to return by posting his ouvre on videogum for your guest-edit day?
You REALLY don’t want to know what he had to do in order for me to keep posting that gif of him covered in ice cream.
I’ve had the questionable pleasure of seeing a real Crispin Helium-Balloon Glover film, and the only way to do justice to how bad it was would be to send it to death row in Antarctica, where there are no laws and death is served at the hands of a thousand polar bears, and it doesn’t even matter if there are no polar bears in Antarctica, they don’t have to be real, they could be figments of your imagination, as long as they still kill you with their giant bear hands and teeth…What I’m saying is that the above video is a lot more watchable than “What Is It?”
Did you ever see the sequel?
No way!
For some reason I feel like this scene would be improved immeasurably if every line ended with with “see?” spoken in the manner of a 1920s gangster.
You know how, when you’re a kid, your parents tell you that you can be whatever you want to be, if you just put your mind to it? This is what happens when people grow up believing that shit.
I like to think that taquito’s mobile is just pictures of the little baby’s ice cream guy and signs saying “you will probably fail at what you set out to do”. Just like mine was.
You’re close, and he also has this poster on his wall:
I don’t know who Sam Mraovich is so I substituted “Sam Malone” while reading to get a false sense of being included.
Do not talk about Mayday Malone in such irreverent tones!
I wouldn’t dare! He’s my favorite Sam.
What’s up with Wilmer Valderrama?
I related to so much of what was just written that I might have to go back to my day job now.
Dave Holmes, you have my spreadsheet.
and my axe
and my wine-soaked computer.
And my stapler, but I’ll need it back after my intern comes back from Kinkos.
Don’t drink and code, you guys.
Um, you guys? THE C DRIVE MADE IT!!! It is a miracle of science and wonder and my IT guy and a little bit of Dave Holmes magic.
8) If there ever was a proper time for Mr. Cool Sunglasses, this is it. 8)
and my typo-ridden summary judgment motion
Make-up provided by Sherwin-Williams
The idiosyncratic twitching and shaking of the head he does really kind of spoils the illusion. It’s kind of like a chameleon changing colors to hide itself, bu thent at the same time maybe it sort of gives up its position by twitching and flailing like a freaking maniac.
Chris, I hate to break this to you, but your wife’s a dude.
I also think she may be Gloria Allred too.
I feel like we are getting close to the source of my existential dread in this post and I’m not sure I can survive clicking “play” on this video.
I knew Breaking Bad: The Play was a bad idea.
“What he is doing is some very interesting technical stuff. I read about it in ‘American Creep Magazine,’ and technically, that’s all very interesting.” -David Cronenberg
If there’s ever a casting call for a patient having a seizure in a medical drama, I may know a guy.
I can’t STAND the eye shadow. Ru Paul would also say to BLEND. The lines are too severe and she looks like a bad DRAG QUEEN.
You’ve got to let the makeup cook before you try to blend.
What’s with the Deney Terrio* hair?
*Deney Terrio hosted a show called Dance Fever, which was popular in the late 1970s to early 1980s
Sweet Jesus I had forgotten that show and it’s light-up floor and it’s flared spotlights and its gallons of cheese.
I was trying to figure out why Leona Helmsley* was in this…
*Leona Helmsley was a real estate mogul in New York City in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. She passed away in 2007, leaving a $12 million trust fund to her dog, Trouble and $5 billion to benefit dogs. She is also famous for evicting her son’s widow after his funeral and saying “We don’t pay taxes… Only the little people pay taxes.” She was held in federal prison for income tax evasion for 18 months.
Hey guys, think of this Google Image search for “Laz Rojas” to be the Pandora’s Box of links.
http://bit.ly/THWEO9 —
I’m going to warn you NOT to click it. That you’ll not be able to unsee the horrors contained. But, you’ll probably click it anyway. For that I pity you.
All I see is the president of the Mr. Cool Disguise Society.
Everyone in the world is Laz Rojas or Tyler Perry, it’s official
he has a bunch of different videos too. i can’t stop watching them. my life(eyes) are ruined.
I was really expecting this to end with Billy murder-suiciding the shit out of his parents.
Not sure what the motivation for the kid to be upset about is. At least his parents are fighting about something useful and kind of necessary unlike my parents who just shouted at each other for everything.
black face? of course. cross dressing black face? boring. green face?? now it gets interesting…
The slow-mo erotica section on his website is ah-mah-zink.
Someone please just tell me something’s wrong with the frame rate and that his head isn’t ACTUALLY moving that fast, okay?
maybe these are puppets.
I’m pretty sure he’s wearing one of those wigs under that white shirt
That was the most entertaining thing I’ve seen all day. My favorite part is when she looks the wrong way at the kid.
Dave Holmes: I am here to tell you that your description of yourself and inability to get things done so closely matches my ridiculous self and inability to get things done that I am both horrified and deeply solaced. Also, WTF is up with this wig guy? Thanks for sharing!
I have one baby already. I took a PREGNANCY TEST on Saturday in the evening and it showed up as an Extremely faint line.
http://www.injuryupdate.com.au/forum/showthread.php?9663-Football-training-causes-another-cricket-injury&p=59407&highlight=#post59407