Throw back to 15 years ago… a little context….
One of the many days jobs I had prior to Quitting My Day Jobs was barking for a “sample sale”
I stood at the corner of Houston & Broadway yelling designer names all day. I would get bored and start singing, rapping and dancing.
Celebrities walked by daily. Lauren Gutton may have been my biggest fan. She always smiled when she passed. Kevin Bacon would try not to be noticed.Mike Myers looked like Beaver Clever Ina baseball cap.
I was discovered by Ken & Caron Keller who gave me one of my first TV jobs. They had a studio upstairs from Pottery Barn. The “Designer Warehouse” was on the 2nd floor. I was introduced to the cast of the Naked Brother’s Band. At first, Nat & Alex Wolff joind is at the Improv. ( THE IMPROV, where we were doing 4-6 sold out shows every week in 2005).
In 2006 I was invited to play myself in an episode where Nat does stand up comedy. THE JOKE, an early internet video, before YouTube was really a thing, starring George Lopez, was a kid friendly send up of The Aristcats. The whole cast told a FART JOKE 😆 💩
We filmed this 15 years ago at the Laugh Factory, which became the Times Square Comedy Club & Arts Center a few days later. But we closed the curtain to make it feel more like a dance club.
#iykyk that location, currently Smash Burger, 669 8th Ave at 42nd Street was the largest adult entertainment complex prior to 2004. NYers might remember Circus, Circus AKA Showworld. It was the last “monument” to the old Times Square of the 1970s & 1980s when 8th Ave and 42nd street was littered with crime, prostitution, 3 card monty tables, drugs, and xxx shops.
Walt Frasier 