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.

Are you suffering from anxiety and depression? So are we, but we're hiding our pain. That's ACTING!

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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Clicker.com says we’re the best of 2009 in the live TV category. We didn’t even bribe them or anything.

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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.

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 2: Nicolas Wright/Andrea Abbate AND Leyna Weber/Hal B. Klein

Election day last Tuesday and we voted in a DOUBLE SHOW !

The 1st show was @8PM, and featured 2 guests: A) sitcom writer Andrea Abbate and B) actor Nicolas Wright, both from CBS’s hit comedy “Accidentally on Purpose”  - (Mondays at 8:30 on CBS).

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And our 2nd show was @9PM, and featured thriller-dancing thespian Leyna Weber and culinary-enthusiast/history-nerd actor Hal B. Klein!

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25% of the night’s guests was our first: comedy writer Andrea Abbate. Andrea works on the truly hilarious new CBS sitcom “Accidentally on Purpose” starring Jenna Elfman. Watch it after “How I met your mother” and then, just don’t leave the couch. “2 1/2 men” comes on after “Accidentally” and there’s your night!

Stu smiles through his botox while comedy writer Andrea Abbate waits patiently.

Stu grilled her mercilessly about her experiences on the show and the live chat room followed suit (we are a live and interactive show), but the most compelling question from the chatties – Do the actors ever bribe writers to get more lines?  We can’t say what she said – but, if you’ve ever seen a corpulent comedy writer, you already know the answer.

Andrea Abbate, Nicolas Wright and Stuart “reflect” on the show.

Young actor Nicolas Wright was up next. Nicolas is Canadian, which makes him exotic, interesting, and possibly a Communist. (Hey, isn’t Stu Canadian? We’re calling a Mountie just to check if he’s on a milk carton.)

On Accidentally on Purpose, Nic plays Davis, a freeloading associate of the show’s lead character, Billie.

Nicolas plays the “slap skateboard” – angry letters from Victor Wooten followed. (Just Google “Victor Wooten Bass”)

Nicolas talked about getting started in acting, getting to L.A., and he brought TONS of SWAG - including several shooting signed scripts, 4 signed photos of the cast and, a working skateboard, that’s not only been used on the first 8 episodes, but was also signed by the show’s actors.

These prizes were given away to chat roomers who could answer Nic’s trivia questions about the show. Rumors abound that John Fulton used a series of chat room surrogates to claim several of the gifts; the LFTF Investigative Unit is currently conducting inquiries and taking DNA samples from cans of Evo to ascertain the truth.

John Fulton thinks about which John Mayer song to rip off. At least it wasn’t “Your body is a wonderland”

Actress Leyna Weber teaches Stu how to properly do the pottery scene from “Ghost”

Show number two got off to a kicking start – literally – with energetic guest Leyna Weber. She’s the star of the web series “Road to the Altar”, playing a stressed bride-to-be getting hitched to Jaleel White (Urkel in “Family Matters”). She also taught the Thriller dance, leading LFTF ace Producer LV, TheStream.TV’s Chloe and the ever-flexible Jessie.

Jessie wonders if “going commando” was a good idea after doing the Thriller dance.

Last (and definitely least – kidding, Hal!), it was time to EAT with actor and self-taught gourmet Hal B. Klein. Hal plays interesting characters in such films as Bottle Shock and Nobel Son, but is also a pretty deep character himself. He’s a self-professed history geek and a proficient cook in his free moments (Check out his website Thismanskitchen.com)

We made him prove his history geekitude in a rousing round of ‘Stache or not?, in which the object was, to identify which U.S. Presidents had facial hair. John and Stu made a wager to see if Hal was THAT good – John said: “Yes” and Stu said “No way!” Who won?!

Hal B Klein making organic basil-pesto sauce on LIVE! From the future…

Hal inquired whether or not Jessie wanted to taste his “sauce”.

This coming Tuesday, November 10th at 8PM – Comedians Mitch Fatel and Gary Cannon!

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