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Wrap: The Bisutti Sisters

It was 3x the merriment with the cute, fun and all-around entertaining Bisutti Sisters. We even got a genuine runway walk out of it.

Bisutti SistersThis show was very easy on the eyes. Watch it at www.thestream.tv.

Being a talk show host certainly has its unpleasant and challenging moments. This wasn’t one of them. Lucky Stu got to interview a three-pack of funny, interesting and yes, far from unattractive, young actresses. Collectively they are the Bisutti Sisters, and they graced our closet-sized studio for a night to discuss their work and give away some autographed schwag.

Stu the groupie

Talk show hosting is extremely hard and thankless work. Poor Stu obviously needs a vacation.

It was a packed house, because we also had our reliable sidekicks John Fulron and Jessie Schneids. John, by the way, was freshly returned from someplace vague and unspecified which caused him to miss last week’s show. In spite of that, he was in fine form throughout the evening, leading some to speculate that he might have taken advantage of the generous booze service on his cross-continental flight. Which may be what led him to confess, via the medium of song, that his fondest wish in life is to conceive a Chinese baby. We lacked the heart to tell him that he is, in fact, incurably Caucasian and thus far from the right ethnicity. After all, who are we to shatter a man’s dreams?

John n Jessie

Jessie does her best to prop up John after his long journey. Those Bar Method endurance sessions are really coming in handy.

The three Bisuttis all took turns in the interview chair. First up was Mason, a rapidly up and coming young actress. You might have seen her as Wasted Party Girl in the Foundation For A Drug-Free World’s public service TV ad, “Cocaine, Party All Night”. It seems that Foundation overshot with its casting in the ad, as it probably encouraged viewers to snort coke and stay up all night in the hopes of meeting girls like Mason. Regardless, our actress friend has since moved up into the feature world, snagging a role in the currently filming Paradi$e.

Next was her sister-in-law Kylie, who triumphed over many, many other young women in a contest to become a Victoria’s Secret Angel. Due to a highly inconvenient bout of laryngitis Kylie was rendered speechless, but she gamely soldiered on to become our first celebrity guest answering questions via whiteboard. She got a break from the whiteboard action by giving us her version of the runway model strut. This was a splendid job of acting, as our studio carpet is about as far away as humanly possible from a high-fashion model corridor.

Nice try, Stu, but let's leave the model preening to the guests, eh?

Nice try, Stu, but let's leave the model preening to the professionals, eh?

Bisutti the third was the effervescent (we love throwing that adjective into our blog posts) Danielle. A fine actress, she’s one of the leads in the Nickelodeon series True Jackson, VP and has also dipped into the feature world with a prominent role in the recent No Greater Love, among other works. For the first – and very possibly last – time, we got a Vietnamese language lesson on our show. Polylingual Danielle schooled us on how to say “please” and “thank you” in order to ingratiate oneself, for example, at certain LA-area nail salons. Stu in particular is grateful for this help; our spies say he immediately rushed out for a deluxe mani-pedi once the episode wrapped.

No, those lovely bracelets weren't consolation prizes for enduring the show. Jewelry courtesy of Lia Sophia (www.liasophia.com)

No, those lovely bracelets weren't consolation prizes for enduring the show. Jewelry courtesy of Lia Sophia (www.liasophia.com)

First, though, Stu had to emcee our favorite Bisutti-themed quiz, “Which Bisutti Do It Be?”. No, this wasn’t a test of horrendous English syntax, rather a game in which contestants had to guess which piece of biographical information belonged to which Bisutti sister. Battling for fame and glory was our own John “Mao-Tse” Fulton facing one of our chat room fans, sociology geek. The quiz was tight and came down to the nail-biting final question, which S.G. got correct and John flubbed entirely, kind of like a drunk man stumbling through an airport.

You can never have enough Bisuttis. They even emerged from our studio audience!

You can never have enough Bisuttis. A pair from another generation materialized from our studio audience.

Wow, that was a lot of Bisuttis. Next week our sister count will drop to zero as we welcome a pair of guests who are not even remotely related to each other,  Nicolas Wright and Claudia Lonow of the CBS sitcom Accidentally On Purpose. Until then, keep chugging those little airplane bottles of bourbon; we’ll be the ones working on our runway strut.

All the cool kids are doing it. Don’t you want to be cool too? Then watch this episode.

We done won ourselves a prize – Clicker.com’s best of 2009 awards in the live TV category.

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Wrap: Nar Williams from Science of the Movies

We stump a science guy, getting trivial with Science of the Movies’s Nar Williams.

Nar WilliamsStop surfing for porn – watch this show instead. www.thestream.tv

Fresh from our victory in Clicker.com’s “best of” 2009 awards in the live TV category (read all about it here), we launched our inaugural show of 2010. And what better way to start a year than by interviewing a guy named “Nar”, specifically Nar Williams, best known as host of the popular Discovery Channel show Science of the Movies.

Nar.Brian

Our fearless director Brian gives up on our trivia quiz long before our guest.

When Nar’s not filming that, he’s producer, host and co-writer of the online movie/TV/comic book preview show Heads Up!. When he’s not doing that, he’s waxing scientific on his personal blog, writing a column for the online magazine Geekscape and being 50% of the improv comedy team Goober & The Viking. If, somehow, he’s not occupied with any of the above, he’s thinking about Ye Olde Days when he was a callow youth playing Dungeons & Dragons. Nar’s still a fanatic about the game.

Or is he? We tested his knowledge with a classic trivia game we recently made up, “Monsters From the Future… or is That the Past?”. This clumsy title very poorly described the object of the contest, which was to identify whether a particular name was a) a monster from D&D;  b) a monster from a movie; c) a Scandinavian death metal band; or our sentimental favorite, d) a bacterial illness.

We feared that Nar would ace the test, showing us up for the Wikipedia-surfing chumps we are. WRONG! He scored a measly 10%, identifying only the word “sepsis”, which as the entire world knows is a bacterial illness. This is clearly a man who, despite his geek credentials and history, doesn’t know his Dracolich from his Vaporighu.

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Is that a pack of moon rats in the studio, or is Nar just scared of the next quiz?

Nar did score slightly better on our other quizzes. “Hollyweird Science” taxed his knowledge of erroneous science in movies, and he correctly nailed a semi-majority of the questions. He was also nearly successful in negotiating our “59 Second Gauntlet”, in which we learned that he’d rather fly than be a billionaire (I’ll take that money off your hands, Nar, thank you), and that the biggest jerk in his school was “fucking Greg“. Yeah, we didn’t like that guy much either.

Nar.Stu

Puzzlement seemed to be in the air this show. Stu tries to figure it all out and fails utterly.

When Nar wasn’t failing our intellectually dubious exams, he was jawboning about his many projects, including the Discovery show, Heads Up! and his upcoming series, Fan Boy Fun House. God, how many hours does this man have in a day? Here at Live! From the Future, we’re lucky if we even make it to the ATM before the convenience store closes.

Nar.Stu2

Don't worry Nar, we'll give you some hints next time!

Speaking of closing, we’ll go now (we have some Twinkies and Old Milwaukee to buy before the store shuts for the night. Wait. Waaaait!). Next week we’ll be back with Stu, Jessie and John Fulton, who was absent this show but will return for the next. According to his publicists, John is categorically “not pulling a Conan and taking a huge backhander from Stu to leave the show and do something more heroic and worthwhile… unless, of course, he is.” Whew, that puts our minds at rest.



Your eyes are getting sleepy. You are drifting into your own subconscious. When I snap my fingers, you will awaken feeling refreshed. Now watch this show.

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