Gracing our studio was the excessively tall yet very humorous Brian Posehn from The Sarah Silverman Program, and the excessively long-haired yet very smart Dawn Olivieri, lately of Heroes and soon to appear in True Blood.

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We’re suckers for tall and funny guests. So actor/writer/standup comedian/recreational metal-head Brian Posehn - all 6′ 6″ of him - matched our tastes perfectly. Somehow we fit Brian into our camera frame, and managed to interview him about the recent developments in his career. For the most part, this had to do with his constant standup touring as well as his upcoming DVD Fart and Weiner Jokes (Pre-Order HERE!)

We also quizzed him about his role in The Sarah Silverman Program, starring a woman who’s at best two-thirds his size. In spite of that, Brian enjoys his role - an easy once, since most of what he’s required to do is sit around and look irate.

Brian threatens to leave the show in the middle of actually "leaving the show" at the end of his interview! (*might not be true.)

Gee, I wonder what Jessie's singing about... (Gramo likes it!)

No one’s going to challenge a tall man’s taste in movies, but that didn’t stop us from taxing Brian’s knowledge of his favorite genre. We imposed a game on him - “Horror or Porno?” - in which he had to… well, you get the point. Horror-head Brian screeched by with a win despite a few miscues (yes, Satan Lake really is a porno.)

We wrapped Brian’s segment with a bit inspired by the aching love stanzas of William Shakespeare’s sonnets, “Dirt Bag D.I.Y.” In this special how-to, Brian showed us how to make a pipe out of nothing more than a toilet paper roll and a piece of tin foil. NOTE: this does NOT imply that we condone the usage of illicit substances. Unless, of course, you have some on your person. In that case, please send it at once to our offices, specifically the blog writing department. We’ll even mention your name on air if we can somehow remember it.

Our host tries to beat Dawn in a chin-holding contest...his giant head weighed him down.

Next up was the lovely Dawn Olivieri. Dawn’s a rising star in the film and TV world, enjoying a recurring role on NBC’s Heroes and currently lensing a part as a member of a werewolf family in the HBO vampire Gothic True Blood. In between these gigs, she manages to hop around the world at least a little bit - she told us a tale or two about her experiences backpacking in Peru. No word on whether this involved full moon howling or raw meat eating, however.

With our guests, it was a horror-filled night (and no, we’re not making a sly reference to John Fulton’s frightening sweater).

So we decided to continue the theme with Dawn, attacking her mercilessly with “Horror Virgins”, a quiz in which she had to identify which actor from a multiple choice pack made their debut in a named horror movie. Dawn wasn’t too keen on the game, yet she soldiered on, nailing all of the questions she was asked.

Dawn and Stu display gang signs from their days together in the Young Hairy Lycanthropes posse.

Finally, we took her for a midnight, full moon race along our “59 Second Gauntlet”. Very few have run the full gauntlet and lived to tell the tale (come on, give us a break; we gotta hype it up somehow). Dawn made our Wall of Geniuses for finishing it, squeezing in all 16 of her answers in something like 0:58:99.99525. Now if that doesn’t make her a prize guest, what does?

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Well, kinky and twisted Craigslist postings certainly would. We capped off the episode with a new edition of “Strictly Platonic”, and man, if you think werewolves and artificial blood-drinking vampires are weird, get a load of these folk. One contributor was seeking a “teacher for sexual competence” - apparently of the platonic variety - for which he was well qualified, as he’s “six feet tall. Inexperienced. Hung.” Another headline grabber was Mr. (we think) “Cunnilingus addict won’t quit!”. This gentleman or lady wrote, “Hell, there are worse things to be addicted to!”. Yes … like bad spelling. Despite his obvious passion, this person badly mangled his favorite word by spelling it “Cunningluingus”. We hope his/her technique is at least a little better.

Most of us get tough, a la Billy Idol... but for John, it brought back bad memories of the "Rebel Yell" tour.

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It’s giants and heroes for our next show… the impossibly tall and extremely funny Brian Posehn, and Dawn Olivieri from TV’s Heroes.

It’s often said that movie and TV actors are a lot shorter in person than they appear to be onscreen. Well, that’s not an issue with actor/comedian/writer Brian Posehn, who at over six and a half feet has got to be one of our tallest guests ever. That isn’t the only reason to look up to him: Brian’s been a fixture on comic TV series for well over a decade and a half now. Currently appearing on The Sarah Silverman Program, Brian has many TV and movie appearances under his belt. These include specials for Comedy Central as well as recurring roles in such shows as Just Shoot Me and Mr. Show With Bob and David.

Dawn, standing at just under 5′ 10″, could give Brian a run for his money in the tall department… if she stretched another foot or so, that is. Despite this competitive disadvantage, Dawn has scored a host of wins in her acting career. You’ve seen her as Lydia in the NBC show Heroes, and you will see her in the upcoming series of HBO’s True Blood.

The regulars will also be in the neighborhood - Jessie, Juan Fulton and of course Northern Florida’s #1 above-ground pool salesman and three-time winner of the Southeast Junior Shuffleboard League’s Most Improved Player Award, Stan Vereen.

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Could any threesome in this world get cruder, more scatological and scarily funny than Stu, John and Jessie? Oh my, yes. Exhibit A, B and C: the Rad Girls.

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It’s unusual to find a young woman willing to pull outrageous pranks and nasty stunts involving foul bodily fluids. It’s unusual-er to happen upon three of them. Our guests for the night were the trilogy of unholy terror called the Rad Girls. The ladies - individually Ramona Ca$h, Darling Clementine and Munchie - have been described as a female version of Jackass, and have been prankstering for half a decade now.

John, Jessie and Stu, after learning how to pose from the Sears photo center.

We interviewed the girls in semi-alphabetical order, because we’re smart like that. Ramona obligingly went through the history of the troupe, filling us in on their most recent exploits. This included fun stuff like stage diving during Warped tour sets… with a fake pregnancy belly pillow. Apparently the girls really freaked out the tender 15-year olds in attendance. Hey Ramona, that’s nothing - Stu’s been doing that unintentionally for over a decade now.

She may have spelled R-A-D on her lip, but wait 'til you see where she put "GIRLS". No, not there. And not there... yes... yes, right there.

We wrapped Ramona’s segment with a tidy little blast of our “Useless Skills With…” bit. In her case, it was playing the ukulele. Somehow, we begged, borrowed or stole (probably #3) a genuine ukulele, with which she played a Hawaiian serenade. Useless? Says who? Hell, she made the Fulron jealous with her skill. That seems pretty useful to us.

Ramona orders Stu off his own show. Not the first time it's happened.

Next for a grilling was Darling Clementine. In addition to scaring the living Bejesus out of impressionable teenagers at touring punk rock concerts, Darling’s kept herself busy by nearly getting busted for impersonating a waitress. See, the girls were doing a prank at a Sonic’s restaurant, delivering odd items instead of the honest greasy hamburgers ordered by the patrons. An over-zealous cop happened to pull over and discover this horrendous crime, and he dutifully slapped the cuffs on our friend. Boy, it’s great that our tax dollars are going towards good, diligent crime fighting. This incident, to no one’s surprise (especially Stu’s), naturally occurred in the great state of Florida. Sigh.

Ramona and Clementine write notes on their "Upsetting the Public for Fun and Profit" DVD sets.

We ran Clem through our “59 Second Gauntlet”, and really, we should have added an hour or so onto it because she was painfully, painfully sluggish answering the questions. Maybe she was slow to recover from the “special” Warped tour lemonade; whatever the reason, we only got several queries deep before time ran out.

Munchie gets acquainted with her dessert, after eating a live cricket on the show. Really. No calls from PETA yet.

Last on the individual interview slab was Munchie. Can you guess how she got her nickname? It’s not because she likes crackers, kids. Munchie is an outrageously brave and determined consumer of inedible objects and substances, including but certainly nowhere near limited to her own urine and liquefied sushi cocktails. So it was probably just another day in the park for her when we requested that she eat a specially harvested Live! From the Future crawly critter. We even let her choose between a cricket and a worm. The former was her choice, and she chewed and swallowed it like a pro. Would you like some sushi juice to wash that down, Munchie?

During a tense round of "Easy, Medium or Drunk", Ramona asks for a lifeline - in the form of a beer bong.

With the individual interviews thus concluded, we gathered all three for a game show finale - “Easy, Medium or Drunk”? All three took the stage along with bottles of beer; we asked questions of them one at a time, and the other two had to chug their beer until the questionee answered. The three had mixed success with the queries (yes, Rhode Island is the smallest state in the union, but Tokyo the most populous country in the world? Really?). Mixed success was the point, as it forced the Raddesses to drink a lot, spilling their beer and forcing them to belch repeatedly.

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Well, that wasn’t exactly the finale.Not content with simply eating live creatures or burping loudly on-camera, the ladies decided to attack our unsuspecting director Brian. They sprayed him with whipped cream and very undelicately licked it off his face. Ah, the glamor of show business. Is this what they teach in film and TV school, Brian?

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We nerded it up with web TV stars Taryn Southern of “Wrong Hole” fame and Geekscape’s Jonathan London.

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For this show, we welcomed two stars from the internet world (like us! Bwahahahaaaa). First, of course, we had to get in our usual round of Florida-bashing with an appearance by the one and thankfully only Stan Vereen, North Florida’s #1 Above-Ground Pool Salesman. Stan made another concentrated effort to burst through his monthly sales quota, and quite nearly half-succeeded in hawking a few kiddie pools to some of our chat room audience.

Watch out: Jonathan "Python" London - will bring you into a world of hurt - with his personality!

In a rare moment of fair play following this, Stu gave voice to a letter from a disgruntled fan from his least favorite state. Our new friend Mr. Anonymous vented by saying that Stu’s regular Florida criticisms were… by and large correct. But, he warned, he was still annoyed and would take appropriate measures should the diatribes continue. Hmmm. Perhaps we could placate you with a nice above-ground pool at cost, sir? We’d even throw in a floating air mattress and a live bootleg of John Fulton and The Fresh at no extra charge.

Guest #1 skipped on the kiddie pools, but thankfully consented to hang out in the chair and be interviewed. Taryn is an accomplished young actress/writer/director fully active in the web sphere, conceiving and starring in the video of her heart-rending power ballad about anal sex, “The Wrong Hole”, among other activities.

Taryn Southern - a guest who followed the rules - she brought cupcakes!

Proof that you can bribe writers and publicists with "Sprinkles" cupcakes.

Unfortunately, these activities do occasionally lead to Taryn falling victim to scams; she told us a story about getting ripped off by “moonlighting car repair” guys offering her a discount to “fix” her car’s dents; not surprisingly, they took her money and left the car in worse shape than before.

Taryn, reacting to the ice-cold comedy stylings of Paap.

Since Taryn wrote and conceived a show based around international travel, we felt it appropriate to subject her to our quiz on the subject, “Travel Freak”. She had to name which international city was described in each question. Out of the five queires, however, she only succeeded in nailing one - which American “party” destination had to pass a law banning the molestation of trash cans? You read that right - molesting trash cans. The answer could only be a city in Florida, in this case Daytona Beach.

See?! She DID have fun on the show.

Taryn closed her segment with a little sage and useful advice - how to make a web video for under $5. And her method? We won’t get into the details here; let’s just say it’s very effective and involves frosting, cake mix and red food coloring.

Next up was Jonathan, who was kind enough to bring Stu a genuine get-well card. Our Fearless Host, it turns out, snapped a foot bone or several while “auditioning for a part” - although witnesses swear that he was actually dancing drunk, naked and high on half a case of Robitussin cough syrup outside a Van Nuys liquor store when the incident occurred. The card had a cute picture of a kitten on it, which is perhaps what lured official LFTF dog mascot Bucky to the host’s desk to inspect the proceedings while we were on-air.

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First of all, happy new year to you, faithful viewers and other interested blog trawlers. It sure is happy for us, as we were just elected the Best Live Show of 2009 at Cicker.com! We’d like to thank Jesus, Buddha, Ho Chi Minh, the members of the Academy, Eddie Van Halen…

Not to mention our excellent fans and our very cool guests. The first two of the latter to grace our studio in 2010 will be actor Archie Kao and actor/TV host/blogger/movie fanatic Nar Williams. You’ve seen Archie in many, many episodes of CSI as well as in such series as Desperate Housewives, ER and as one of the title characters (Kai Chen, the one in the cool-looking blue outfit with matching bike helmet) in Power Rangers Lost Galaxy. Also on Archie’s resume are appearances in movies The Hills Have Eyes II, When In Rome, The Player and the upcoming and very intriguingly titled The People I’ve Slept With.

Nar Williams is one of those busy overachievers we lazy sub-slacking types are always secretly jealous of. His money gig is hosting the inside-special-effects show Science Of The Movies on the Science Channel. When he’s not doing 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. Whew, hope he has enough energy to open his mouth when he comes on the show.

Of course, your old buddies Stu, Jessie and The Fulron will be on hand to launch us all into the entertainment thermosphere of 2010. But you’ve got time to strap yourselves in and prepare - our inaugural show for this year won’t lift off until Tuesday, January 19.

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And we never get tired of saying it - LFTF has been elected the Best Live Show of 2009 at Cicker.com!