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.
This 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.
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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