Walking the Planes Top 8 Sketches Countdown - 12/23/14 Number 2: “Thanksgiving Dinner” On a crisp autumn evening at a dinner party hosted by our house of five merry young professionals, I went on a walk with my childhood friend and former collaborator Gavin Riley. You might recognize him as the LGS player from our Mr. Rogers spoof in Episode 23. I told him Shawn and I needed a sketch idea for an upcoming Magic tournament in Washington DC. “I want it to be related to DC somehow” I told him. Most of our ideas revolved around spoofing Independence Day. The President makes a heroic speech about standing up to the Phyrexian invasion and then the White House explodes, killing us all. We couldn’t really figure out how to achieve this without lifting the famous copyrighted footage from ID4. We arrived back to the front steps of our house and were joined by Amanda. Since we first started dating she’s been a co-writer of my material. She takes my bad jokes and makes them funny. She’s a bigger comedy nerd than me. She binge-listens to Scott Aukerman podcasts, for example. Anyway, the three of us re-formulated the idea to be a family arguing politics at the dinner table. Thanksgiving nearly coincided with the tourney, so all the better. But how to get Magic involved? “Instead of red and blue politics, argue red and blue Magic as though it were politics” says Amanda. I wanted Gavin to be my foil. We’d play two bickering yuppie lobbyists from either side of the aisle. As much as Gavin likes acting, he insisted the better idea was that my family just act like itself, and have me, Nate, argue with my Dad. When I told my family that our audience seemed to really enjoy their performances, they all told me that it didn’t feel like a performance. “We just did what we always do.” Big thanks to John R. Holt, Nancy Gable, and Benjamin Skull-Chalice. Number 1 tomorrow! youtu.be/qHQ6eVaqQc4
Posted on: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 17:31:42 +0000
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