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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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.

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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.

Every February 9th, these three "Friends" rejects reunite to commemorate the show we could've been on. Oh well, off to Denny's.

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We’ll be geekin’ it up this Tuesday, February 9, with Jonathan London and self-described “new media nerd” Taryn Southern. Living and working in Hollywood, as we sort of do, it sometimes feels like sci-fi and comic book devotees are taking over the world… or at least the entertainment industry. If planet Earth does get overrun by hordes of skinny people who watch too much Battlestar Galactica and can quote Spider-Man comics verbatim, the charge will very possibly be led by “Geekscape!”. This podcast is hosted by Jonathan, who has also branched out into… other online podcasts , namely as writer and correspondent of the Nar Williams-hosted “Heads Up”.

Jonathan has also made rent money directing music videos for such artists as Reel Big Fish and The New Amsterdams. His most recent large-scale work is the movie The People vs. George Lucas, which has been described as the “world’s first digitally democratic feature documentary”. We’ll probably spend about half an hour on the show figuring out what in the world that means.

Taryn is one of those young, accomplished people we wish we’d been when we were that age. Since her teenage years, Taryn has been writing, producing and starring in her own internet videos. Climbing the entertainment ladder rapidly, she parlayed these gigs into shows on broadcast TV, namely Project MyWorld, in which she traveled the planet to meet up with people in her MySpace friends list.

Since then, she’s kept one foot in the online world, starring in the web series Sorority Fever, doing a daily show on cosmopolitan.com, a little sketch comedy on heavy.com, and making a whole buncha appearances on various other sites. If the geeks of this planet do end up dominating the world, most likely Stu, John and Jessie will all be out of jobs due to their worryingly low nerdiosity and geek street cred. So in case that happens, you really should watch them live when you have the chance. After all, they could all be eaten by ravenous nerds tomorrow.

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We got musical with drummer Phil Varone, fresh from his stint on VH1’s Sex Rehab. From elsewhere in TV land we welcomed award-winning composers Jeff and Greg Burns from TV’s #1 show, NCIS.

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If you’ve seen at least one Live! From the Future episode, you know by now just how much we like music. Appropriately for our tastes, we had a trio of musical guests this episode - twin TV composers Jeff and Greg Burns, and drummer/standup comedian Phil Varone.

Shocking though it may be, Phil and Stuart still use less combined hair product than Bret Michaels.

Before the troika settled into the guest chairs, we naturally had to celebrate the great December holiday. No, not Christmas, silly. December 8 is Jessie Schneiderman’s birthday, of course! So we celebrated in exuberant yet severely budget-constrained style by showering her with balloons and booze… bad idea.

Down goes #4! Don't drink kids... because this...

... can lead to this. (*10 minutes after her shots, she was 9 months pregnant.)

The brothers Burns were up first, and they brought Jessie - whoops, the show - a special present. The two somehow found time in their busy schedule to score a clip from LFTF. We like challenging our guests, so the clip we provided was of Current TV’s Conor Knighton demonstrating how to properly arrange a paper toilet seat liner.

What you can't see in this picture is that the beard in only on one half of his face, while his brother has half a beard on the other side.

One segment that might have a fighting chance is “Prog Rock or NCIS Episode“. This thrilling, down-to-the-wire quiz tests deep entertainment knowledge and reveals just how much time a person wasted getting high as a teenager and listening to ponderous old music.

The brothers nearly took a fall on that one, saving themselves at the last moment by identifying a Genesis album.

Missing: One hunky guitar player and my summer blue polo shirt.

We didn’t torture the brothers enough with inane questions, so we also put them through our patented “59 Second Gauntlet“. Jeff and Greg were more successful at that one, getting all the way through past the final question, the all-time stumper “my career is like breakfast because ________?”

Next up was Phil Varone, an old friend of the show (read: “person who’s crazy enough to do this thing more than once”). Phil’s getting a lot of attention these days thanks to his current stint on Sex Rehab with celebrity brain fixer Dr. Drew Pinsky.

After getting out of Sex Rehab, Phil explained why his wrist has been cramping up.

When not recovering from his sex problem, Phil finds time to do standup and play drums, not necessarily in that order. He couldn’t resist dropping a plug for his upcoming hosting gig at LA’s Improv, where he’ll be introducing the Sex, Stand Up and Rock & Roll show.

Happy Birthday Jessie... You're the Best-y... (real lyrics).

Unlike his fellow musicians the Burns twins, Phil didn’t quite make it through his edition of “59 Second Gauntlet”. Perhaps it was that one missing second that threw him. Either way, we still like him, and we’ll happily have him on as a guest again. As long as he isn’t too busy chatting with Oprah, that is.

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Tuesday, December 1st at 8PM, we welcomed award-winning actress and former Miss Romania Irena Hoffman, who stars in the new comedy Transylmania (in theaters Dec. 4th), and actor Miles Teller, who just wrapped filming on Nicole Kidman’s new movie Rabbithole (0ut next year).

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Miles Teller gives a review of our show.

The look that won her the crown.

Irena has to occasionally fend off marriage proposals physically.

Our studio audience! The homeless shelters were a little less crowded for 2 hours.

John and Stu check out John's photo of Jack Johnson's photo taped to the back of his axe.

We couldn't afford a seat for Miles Teller, but Irena had both a nice footrest and chair.

Miles moonwalks his way into everyone's hearts. (*caption courtesy of the year 1985)

Miles, wildly unimpressed with Stu's bank robber technique.

Little known fact: Miles Teller's favorite website is cagepotato.com. True story.

We are officially on Zune!

Poses courtesy of supercutz, sears home improvement and a 10th grade semi-formal.

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Next week, Dec. 8th: NCIS composers Jeff and Greg Burns and Phil Varone from VH1’s “Sex Rehab”

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Vampires are in the air. No, really. We’ve lost count of how many TV series, Young Adult (jeez, can’t we just call them “teenagers”?) book and film adaptations these days feature the world’s favorite blood suckers. Not long ago, someone had the bright idea of spoofing this vampire craze. The result is the upcoming horror comedy Transylmania, in which a group of naive young victims - wh-hoops, students - travel to the far reaches of Romania to attend the one school that will accept them - Razvan University. Of course, as in the real world, low academic standards = homicidal monsters, so the students must use what few wits they have to avoid becoming vampire chow in their new place of study.

Transylmania is directed by the durable brother directing combo of Scott and David Hillenbrand, who will join us live in the studio. To offset all that comedy-soaked the testosterone, we’ll also welcome one of the lovely female stars of the movie, Musetta Vander. Get your garlic and wooden stakes out, kids, this one might just get bloody.

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Stu tries to host a clean show (PG-13 at best) with Danielle Bisutti of Nickelodeon’s True Jackson, VP.

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It’s not often that Live! From the Future… hosts a guest who appears in a kid-friendly TV show. Danielle Bisutti, one of the stars of Nickelodeon’s teen fashion sitcom True Jackson, VP, stopped by for a little good clean (mostly clean) fun.

Danielle explains exactly how she’s gonna grab this show.

Stu and John made subtle yet oily suggestive comments about Jessie’s wet hair, acquired from a quick shower after a late encounter at Bar Method.

Jessie shows her patented hair tousling technique. Chat roomers passed out in short order.

Our Host somehow got over the heavy breathing long enough to interview the lovely, kelly green-clad Danielle. We talked about her show, now striding along in its second season - thank you very much - and the production thereof.

Stu and Danielle Bisutti having good clean fun sharing filthy stories. I’M KIDDING! - (it wasn’t fun).

Danielle was born into the business; this self professed “theater geek” had very early memories of live TV, sitting in the studio audience for a taping of Mork and Mindy (Nanu Nanu!) She also loves the Godfather, which was good because, from now on, we bring everyone on by kissing Stu’s ring. See examples A and B.

Danielle “Corleone’s” her way on to the show. R-E-S-P-E-C-T!

Danielle’s been acting professionally for a while, appearing on Two and a Half Men, Dharma and Greg and Without a Trace. On True Jackson, VP, she plays Amanda, a viperish corporate type forever trying to foil the heroine of the title. Our chatties were curious about Danielle’s experience in this and other shows, and saved us from descending further into R-rated murk with good questions about her career. One of the most pertinent ones was, “Will Amanda ever bust out in song?”

Song lovers rejoice - Danielle had some serious pipes.

Danielle is a fine singer. She accompanied John on a new song: “At Least You’re Home By 8:30″ and “Check It.”

Danielle’s also pretty good at answering quizzes. On the infamous Ikea or Social Networking Site?, our guest nailed most of the 10 questions to take home the magnificent prize (i.e. gratitude for enduring the bit).

Danielle ponders: “Is ‘Nujij’ an Ikea Product or a Social Networking Site?”

Then Danielle also nearly made it through all queries in our one-minute, think-fast Gauntlet, managing to keep her porn star name a secret (inappropriate!) but revealing that she’d rather date Sinatra than Elvis (even if he was the young, skinny Elvis? Really, Danielle?)

John shows his true feeling about LV. Scandal!

Johnny Fulron broadcasts only #1 hits.

Stu and Danielle brought the interview to a close by giving away gifts of intrinsic emotional value such as a book by Stu’s friend and a DVD. On the subject of intrinsic emotional value, Stu also screened a sneak preview of his relentlessly flogged web series, Hurtling Through Space At An Alarming Rate.

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Clearly, one of these kids knows which camera is on.

After the sneak, Danielle joined John for a special duet of The Fresh’s classic, “Two Buck Chuck”. But again, this was meant to be clean entertainment, so the duo modified the lyrics to sing about the benefits of cheap wine at family Thanksgivings. With that, we managed to once again escape the sharp eye of the Motion Picture Association of America and score only a mild R rating (or PG-13 if you’re optimistic) for this episode.

Will we succeed in doing so next week? Doubtful - our guests include several vampires. Tune in next week for more… we probably won’t be very PG-13 in that one.

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After a fun show with John Fulton substituting in the host’s chair, we’re gonna get even funner with the return of Stu to said piece of furniture. We have a single guest for our upcoming episode, but what a guest - Antonio Sabato Jr., from VH1’s hot reality show My Antonio.

In My Antonio, set on the Big Island in Hawaii, the titular actor has to whittle a crop of 14 lovely women down to one single mate. Gosh, some guys have the toughest jobs. The first season of the show is currently airing. In addition to his Hawaiian adventure, Antonio is a veteran actor who has logged many hours in front of the camera. Among his notable roles is Dante Damiano on the durable CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. He previously got soapy for several years as a cast member of General Hospital, later reprising his character in the spinoff series General Hospital: Night Shift. In addition, he has played recurring characters and made guest appearances on many top TV shows, including the original Melrose Place, NCIS, Charmed and Ally McBeal. His movie resume is similarly crowded, and Antonio has also occupied the producer’s chair on more than one filmic effort. Now if all of the above doesn’t qualify a man to win the heart of a beautiful female on a Hawaiian island, I don’t know what does.

Speaking of beautiful women, Stu… uh, whoops, I don’t think he wants that cross-dressing lounge singer secret to get out quite yet… anyway, Stu will be brandishing a fresh Canadian tan after his working break in the Great White North and will be primed and ready to resume his hosting duties. John Fulton will return to the music director chair while covetously eyeballing the host’s chair, and Jessie Schnooterman, complete with her patented Jewbs, will hold down the IM unit. Needless to say, we’ll also feature the usual menu of gags n’ games and interview fun.

See you online for the festivities, but don’t forget, this one airs on a special night - Friday, to be exact (that’s October 23 for you calendar-heads).

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