Wrap: Catherine Black and T’Shaun Barrett

Our guests for the evening were actress and Canadian person Catherine Black and actor/comedian/Magic Castle insider T’Shaun Barrett.

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For the first time in, oh, several shows, our core commando team of Stu, John and Jessie were in the house and working an episode together. To commemorate this increasingly special occasion, the three sang a commemorative song to open the show and greet the audience – “Hello”, in which they all, uh, sang “hello” both solo and in harmony. We have a sneaking suspicion that whoever wrote the lyrics didn’t spend a lot of time on their work. Following that, a brief recap of our three leads’ respective Valentine’s Days revealed that Stu spent the night alone thinking disturbingly sub-sexual thoughts about John’s hair.  Keep the pomade far away from that man, we beg you.

John, working hard and earning his pay on another set of lyrics... ummm, maybe not.

Fabulous hair was on full display with our first guest, Canadian actress Catherine Black. True to her name and hair color, Catherine has appeared in several movies/TV shows of a dark nature. Her most recent filmic effort, the fact-based The Donner Party, concerns a group of California settlers falling prey to cannibalism in a desperate bid for survival. Since she often appears in grim material, we felt it appropriate to throw the quiz “I Goth It Right” her way. Catherine had to guess which nearby word or name was replaceable by “Goth” (e.g., “Lead singer of Van Halen – David Lee Goth”). Would anyone like a bowl of chicken goth while you read this, by the way? Ha ha. We’re such wordsmiths.

Catherine looking bright and perky, at least before we forced her to take the Goth quiz.

There was nothing Goth-y about our next guest, actor and funny guy T’Shaun Barrett. T’Shaun’s been acting and comedian-ing since his very early teens, when he scored a part in a play being performed at his dad’s church. He’s since made it into film, TV and commercials, perhaps the most known of which is the current McDonald’s spot where he plays a penny-pinching, jack-hammering husband desperate to save money.

T'Shaun challenges Stu to a ninja fight in the parking lot. Good thing Our Host stashed a pair of nunchucks in his crutches.

T’Shaun confessed to us his childhood dream of becoming a ninja, which made him a perfect candidate for our quiz game requiring deadly stealth and nerves of iron, “Power, Fame or Fatty”. T’Shaun had to identify whether a named person was a current Olympic medalist, a president of a country, or a champion competitive eater. He somehow guessed that guy who holds the record for eating the most ears of corn at one sitting, but only broke even on the overall quiz. Obviously, he isn’t ninja material after all.

Stu falls for T'Shaun's old "I just made your paycheck disappear" trick.

It’s good that he has other talents, then. We provided a deck of cards for this aspiring magician (and Magic Castle apprentice – get us in, T’Shaun!) in our segment “Useful Skills With T’Shaun Barrett”, and he correctly guessed the card Stu picked. Rumors that our Houdini for the evening put small mirrors on the suspiciously placed set of crutches used by Stu for his “foot injury” have been strenuously denied by T’Shaun’s representatives and lawyers.

John can't hide his seething, rivalrous hatred for Stu. Good thing our guests are saner.

We wrapped the episode with one of our (okay, one of Jessie’s) favorite bits, “Strictly Platonic”. This edition of our old chestnut included lovelorn posts from one man with “all sorts of crazy fantasies about being a gay slut” and another who’s offering women to “meet for coffee i could rub your feet their or out in public”. This gentleman is particularly generous – “YES IT FREE” he writes.

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Quick: who’s Clicker.com’s best of 2009 in the live TV category? We’ll give you a hint – us! Damn, we accidentally gave it away.

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Wrap: Jon Foster, Nicolas Wright and Claudia Lonow from Accidentally on Purpose

Life is like a sitcom… at least it was on our latest episode, when we welcomed three very humorous guests from the CBS show Accidentally On Purpose – actors Jon Foster and Nic Wright, and creator/producer/writer Claudia Lonow.

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Quick, what do you get when you mix two funny actors and an ex-actress and current producer/writer with lots of good war stories from her years in Hollywood? Uh, well, the latest episode of our show, that’s what.

Would you sell any of these people an above-ground pool? We didn't - but we would!

Stu, slipping a little too easily into his new persona of Tallahassee’s #1 above-ground pool salesman Stan Vereen, made a valiant attempt to sell our musical director John Fulron a Diamond Star 52″ with “little or no” money down.

Stan Vereen, Tallahasse's #1 above-ground pool salesman gets dressed for work... as a douche bag. *belt courtesy of 2006.

John Fulton got the news he was hoping for from the clinic. Disease free - for 24 more hours!

On camera, John turned down the offer, but his surreptitious passing of several large-denomination bills Stu’s way after the show suggests he might have subsequently changed his mind. Pool-less Jessie, meanwhile, was re-christened Tits Johnson for no good reason at all by Stan/Stu.

Claudia Lonow, creator of "Accidentally on Purpose" shares all - and we mean ALL her secrets. Just go to 22:00 minutes in to the show and you'll get it.

We have a sneaking suspicion that Claudia lacks easy access to a nice vinyl-lined backyard swimming facility or has ever spent quality time in Tallahassee. Despite these glaring character flaws, we were open-minded enough to welcome her as our first guest of the night. She talked about the genesis of Accidentally On Purpose, and its very long journey from book adaptation to story pitch to TV series.  She also talked about her early years as an actress in Hollywood, when she played a role in the night-time soap Knots Landing, and at one point even made an appearance on The Tonight Show… tripping to the ground on her way to the guest chairs.

Once again, Stu tries his "I had a cameo on Dallas" pickup line on a guest. Once again, it fails.

In her actress days, Claudia also dated actors from CHiPS and Little House on the Prairie. Which was enough reason for us to grill her in the quiz segment of her appearance, “Bad Boyz“. Non-sympathetic characters from TV of that era were named and described, and she had to guess which show they appeared in. Facing slightly less pressure than she probably did after that stumble on The Tonight Show, Claudia nailed three out of the four questions (okay, there was a gimme – one Bad Boy was the man her character was married to on Knots Landing). Not content with grilling her about characters on 30-year old TV shows, we also put Claudia through our (not exactly) patented “59-Second Gauntlet“. She didn’t quite get all the questions, but managed to spill some very revealing tidbits about her past. We won’t get into it here, let’s just say we’re definitely buying this woman’s memoirs once they’re published.

Bucky, our newest P.A. is already sleeping on the job while Stu downloads a "make it funny" app for the show.

Given Claudia’s sterling performance in her quiz, we thought her colleagues Jon and Nic would nail the questionnaires we set up for them. BZZZT, wrong! With a strong handicap in favor of Canadian Nic, we pitted the two actors against each other in our contest “French Rock Band or Montreal Sex Shop?” But it was Jon who pulled off the major upset, taking the victory, or as they say in Quebec and in certain strange neighborhoods in Tallahassee, La Victoire.

Nic Wright with the "spoils" of his win on the show - pure, uncut Quebec Maple Syrup. *Made in Mexico. Jon Foster considers where he left his pomade. Oh yeah, Stu stole it.

Despite his painful loss, Nic didn’t slide into dejection, bitterness and eventual painkiller addiction. Instead he and Jon regaled Stan – I mean, Stu – with a tasty anecdote regarding Nic losing his twelve-gauge shotgun virginity (and nearly his shoulder) at an L.A. gun range with Jon. This activity was probably a little less challenging than Jon’s old pastime of noodling. For those many of you unfamiliar with noodling, it has something to do with looking for a good time in Iowa, catfish punching, river wading, and several days of fish leftovers for lunch.

Jon Foster quickly became our favorite person in the world by endorsing our show. Turns out, he was just covering a mustard stain. Great hair though.

We quizzed the boys a little more, raising the stakes substantially in our next test, “Ca-Nuck Buddy“, with a bottle of what Stu claimed was genuine 100% Canadian maple syrup. With much to play for, Nic took this one, guessing the identity of enough Canadian celebrities from a series of clues to claim the prize.

Finally, we ran our gentlemen guests through the “59 Second Gauntlet”. Despite enjoying a huge competitive advantage given that they had heard the very same questions only minutes earlier, Jon and Nic couldn’t quite make it to the end. Which was tragic, however at least Nic has that nice bottle of maple syrup to comfort and console him.

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Jon and Nic, by the way, have their own online talk show, and it’s remarkably free of Florida pool salesmen, pancake condiments or Canadian sex toys. Lunch with Nic and Jon comes to you every week or so on the AoP web site. And don’t forget to feast your eyes on Accidentally on Purpose itself, currently airing Monday nights at 8:30 on CBS.

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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.

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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.

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?

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 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)

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. 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.

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

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Wrap: Musetta Vander and the Hillenbrand brothers from Transylmania!

We give thanks for vampires, 800 year old Romanian castles and our guests, actress Musetta Vander and directors Scott and David Hillenbrand of the upcoming horror comedy feature, Transylmania.

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As anyone in Los Angeles will tell you, Halloween in this city stretches pretty far past October 31. For us, it’s lasted well into Thanksgiving, as we hosted a troika of guests from the soon-to-be-released vampire spoof, Transylmania - in theaters December 4th, 2009.

We did kowtow a little to the current holiday. We effected this in true, grand LIVE! From the Future… style with Stu venting about the worst Thanksgiving side dishes ever. His candidates? Yams with those ugly little wet marshmallows.

Andrea Ball (andreaball.com) gets ready to take some live Instant Messages in her "Beat It" edition jacket. Smooth, criminal baby!

Our IM Girl for the evening, the lovely and vivacious Andrea Ball (substituting for Jessie Schneiderman), volunteered green beans as her least favorite side dish, and LFTF’s musical director, John Fulton, piped up that he hated cranberry sauce. Communist! At least that’s what I think he said; honestly, nobody pays him any attention when he’s not playing music.

John Fulton, the new spokesman for "Midnight Von Douche"

Jared "I brought the tripods and legal releases" Greenhouse shows us his one-handed technique.

Subsequent to this discussion, we welcomed Musetta Vander, one of the stars of Transylmania, who plays vampire hunter Teodora van Sloan (which, coincidentally, is also the name of John Fulton’s transvestite lounge singer alter ego).

Actress Musetta Vander, aka "Teodora Van Sloan" from the new comedy feature "Transylmania" talks about Zip Lining from a castle, training with knives and the countless ways she could punish Stu.

Cheerful Musetta talked about her experiences on the (freezing cold Romanian) set of Transylmania, which included delivering her lines in an Eastern European accent (hot!), taking sword fighting lessons for a month (er, not that kind of sword fighting), and training in martial arts.

Musetta Vander sharpens her fingers as she prepares to stab Stu in the neck - vampire-style.

Then it was time for Musetta to play: “Ikea or Romanian Town?” Thanks to our little quiz, Musetta is now well acquainted with the best cheap pillowcases the Swedes have to offer, and the countless Romanian towns that no one can pronounce. Who says you don’t learn anything on our show?

John tries to convince Andrea that some women actually like his sweater.

Next up were Musetta’s former bosses, Scott and David Hillenbrand, the directors of Transylmania. Scott and David have tag-teamed for over half a dozen movies, including National Lampoon Presents: Dorm Daze, and their collaboration reaches back far in the past – they’ve been making films together since childhood.

Scott and David Hillenbrand listen unenthusiastically to Stu's movie pitches, inlcuding: "Octopus Outfielder: the life and times of Duke McNutts", "Tardball", the unofficial sequel to Dodgeball and "Earnest goes to Hometown Buffet", the proposed 15th installment of the beloved "Earnest goes to..." series.

We tested just how strong those bonds really are by putting the brothers through our notorious “59 Second Gauntlet” (formerly the “60 Second Gauntlet”, now shaved for budgetary reasons). Scott fired off a few quick and theoretically correct answers, but David struggled to come up with a meaningful comeback or two – one stumper was, “Biggest jerk in high school?” Might I propose example “A” below?

John Fulton was a bouncer at LL Bean.

Wow, all that questioning and zip lining and Ikea catalog itemizing really made us hungry. We’re gonna feast for a few days, then we’ll see you at the usual time next Tuesday for a fresh new show. Until then, happy Thanksgiving from all of us LFTFers. Pass the yams and marshmallows, will ya?

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Wrap: Director Ti West and Actress Ashley Palmer!

On Tuesday, October 27th at 8PM - LIVE! From the Future…with Stuart Paap! welcomed Ti West, Director of “The House of the Devil” and Ashley Palmer, actress from “Paranormal Activity”.

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First, Ti West joins us; Ti is a precocious young filmmaker who’s made 4 feature films – and he’s not even 30! His latest film, “The House of the Devil” (in theaters Friday, Oct. 30th and on VOD now) is a throwback to old school horror flix from the ’80’s, when Satanic rituals were all the rage. In the movie, college student Samantha Hughes (Jocelin Donahue) tries to pick up a quick $400 to babysit a house; then, all goes… to HELL!

Ti West, imagining how he’d slaughter Stu in a horror movie. Spoiler Alert! He’d do it slowly using a battery and nipple clamps.

Ti autographs a few “House of the Devil” shirts for fans. (Note: real blood)

“Anonymous Serial Killer” played a mean set of keys. I asked him where John Fulron was – he had no comment – about anything. All night.

Next up, the effervescent Ashley Palmer joins us to talk about her hit movie “Paranormal State” – the low budget thriller that is tearing up the box office. She wrapped production over three years ago, but they are killing all the competition thanks to scary-but-believable scenarios about exorcisms.

We also play: “Body Count High” – she has to guess which movies have higher body counts; and let’s not forget “Horror or Porno?” – a fairly self-explanatory game.

We wrap up Ashley’s interview with the 60 second gauntlet – and we’re out!

Jessie “Slitherman” was serving up cold-blooded IM’s all night – then, she shed her snuggie-skin, ate a hamster and bounced.

The tiny skulls of all our former guests. At least they’re happy!

Ti explains what it’s like to hold a human skull while Stu contemplates when his horns have to go back to West Hollywood.

Missing: 1 Ronnie James Dio. Nevertheless, sweet album cover, right?

Special Thanks:

Miriam Urizar for the amazing makeup

Lawrence Anthony for most of the above photos

Producer LV for additional photos, getting decorations, twittering during the show and all her hard work every week

Brad “ASK” Watson for the music – it was (ahem) KILLER!

Arianne Ayers and Jason Stoff from Magnolia Pictures for Ti and the merch for giveaways!

And of course, Jared, Brian, Chloe, Jessie, John, Eric, Dave and everyone who helps on the show – it’s a group effort.

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Wrap: Conor Knighton from Current TV

From Current TV’s #1 show infoMania, Host/Executive Producer Conor Knighton!

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Stu threatened to “do the show in reverse”, but that would mean we’d have to get dressed during the show, and nobody wants clothing on the internet, so we did it medium old-school. We kicked off with a round of that old family favorite, Softcore Hollywood Hits. After @JohnFulron gave us a lovely theme song, it was time to get dirty in an after-school special type of way. Stu mutated Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen into Transporners: Revenge of the Ballin’ and the chat room blessed us with: Hotel For Doggie Style, Harry Potter and the Half-Boned Prince and naturally, Alice in Underpants.

(John: “Smell it!” Jessie: (thought bubble): “Don’t”)

The massive, many-branched sequoia of entertainment that is Live! From the future… grew ever higher with a segment of the fan favorite: Jeff Trail: Mid-Level Warehouse Manager. Then it was time for a visit from Conor Knighton, host of Current TV’s infoMania. Conor gave us fun tidbits about his show and the benefits/perils of having Al Gore as a sort-of boss.

(Conor scares Stu with his vast knowledge of the counties of West Virginia. 18 seconds!!!)

More importantly, Conor showed off the skills he can’t demonstrate on-air at infoMania, particularly his ability to name all 55 counties in his native West Virginia. Conor’s not only full of useless skills, he actually demonstrated the proper way to position a paper toilet seat cover (the trap door of the cover goes in the front – to protect your man/lady/man-lady business). With everyone’s business thus protected, Stu, Jessie and The Fulron signed off.

(Jessie and Conor get into the post-show, and each other, while everyone else gets some much needed sleep.)

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Character Shane Hartline is coming!

Ever wanted to be on Saturday Night Live? Well comedian/filmmaker Shane Hartline is out to make it happen for himself. He’s not going the traditional route however, he’s using the Internet! He’s using his website, SNLorBust.com as the means to achieve his lifelong goal, to get an audition for SNL, and he’ll be joining us on Live! From the Future next Tuesday May 12!

Check out his many characters:

Even though he’s only 22, he’s got 7 years of Improv Experience, and I bet you would never guess that he was an Independent Pro Wrestler for 3 years! He’s also made various appearances on small Television shows, Independent Films, Improv Shows and radio events.

In 2005 he started his own video production company, Wooden Steel Productions through which Shane has produced Comedy Sketches, Live Webcasts and much more with his friends and anyone that wants to be involved!

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Brian Huskey – very funny and hung like a mule.

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Comedian, actor Brian Huskey!

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Brian Huskey (pronounced WHOS – Kaaaay) or as he maintained: Brian Huunshzqe was the hilarious guest. He was, what we like to call, A GAMER – up for anything, including telling us how his ex-roomate Rob Corddry used to be a serious actor. Seriously.

He also told us how a wandering squadron of Lebanese men invaded the set of VH1’s Free Radio and stole their food, what it was like to work with Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly, and he gives the exact dimensions of his man business.

Then, we did not one – but three full rounds of Jeff and Rick Trail: Mid-level warehouse managers (must watch), did one version of FREAKY TALENT (which involves both his lips and some lube), saw a new exclusive video of I LOVE LA, and then rounded it out with improvised 15 second commercials, in Spanish, Stu vs. Brian (involved beer, knives, Jessie, and two mustaches.)

PLUS – we kicked off the show with chat room – You supply the punchline! and gave you one and ONLY one Useless Fact about Cinco de Mayo! Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrriba – a ha ha ha ha, etc. and all that Jazz.

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