Wrap: Brian Posehn and Dawn Olivieri
Friday, March 12th, 2010Gracing 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.)
- Brian shows everyone how you can smoke harmless tobacco from toilet roll and some foil. In case you ever need that skill for… harmless tobacco products.
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.
- Dawn Olivieri considers an escape hatch, while Brian has still not recovered from this full body smile.
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).
- John is actually sponsored by argyle - the pattern.
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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We missed you Shcneiderpants! However, Jess V ably filled in. 
