Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Laugh tracks

WECKAGE-O-RAMA

A friend of ours, Pat, is planning to perform at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh next month, and he wanted me to make a slick magazine advertisement for his show. So, last night we spent an hour in the "studio" trying to get the story straight and make it look funny.

Annabel watched the photo shoot holding Milton's red nose and laughing as Rory got pummeled, but good, by Phillipe, the gay dancer, over the wily charms of the fair Helga.
"You funny, Pat."
Clearly, this is an improvement from the day before at a planning session when she demanded he BE funny. (Never ever, under any circumstances, tell a comedian to be funny ... bad juju.)

Jed helped out with perspective by wearing a white Tyvek suit and taking part in the "fight scene." When I processed the pictures as she slept, using a little Photoshop magic to expel Jed and paste Rory in his place, and showed her the results in the morning she was not convinced I had succeeded:
"That's Phillipe's beating up my daddy," she said pointing to Rory in the shorts.

"No honey, they are all Pat now. I took daddy out.

"No, dis is daddy. Pat's Funny. Daddy's not funny."



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She's practicing intonations, just in case Ringling Bros. calls.

1 comment:

Andrea said...

Too cute. Bad juju. That made me laugh.