We just wrapped “Harold and Kumar 3,” marking the end of my first experience acting in a film.
In fact, before we started shooting, I had never even been on a movie set. To me, the entire shoot was a crash course in movie making.
Here’s what I learned:
-I learned that acting is difficult, and the audience is unforgiving when it comes to excuses. Nobody cares that you only got two or three takes to say a specific line, or that you’re talking to a piece of tape on a camera, and not a…
Three great Q’s and A’s from an amazing Ron Artest Interview. I used to think Ron Artest was crazy– now I realize he’s just 100% unabashedly truthful.
DO YOU STILL WANT TO PLAY FOR TEAM USA?
I want a gold medal so bad, I’d be the water boy. But they won’t even let me try out! I’ve been trying to get on that team forever. Three years ago, I called Jerry Colangelo. He answered the phone. I said, “Hi, this is Ron Artest,” and the dude hung up!
I found the painting by doing a google image search for “Woody Allen Portrait” and contacted the artist: Gayle Bell. Three weeks later Woody was back where he grew up, in Brooklyn, NY.
(For more Gayle Bell artwork, check out GayleBell.com!)
To me, weather prognostication is like stacking pillows: The first two or three may find themselves accurately above the ones below, but once you’re ten pillows high the tower will come crumbling down in a heap of inaccuracy.
That is to say, tomorrow or the day after’s weather prediction may be accurate, but I’ve always operated under the assumption that 10-day weather forecasts are bullshit (and judging by conversations I’ve had with my friends this is not an unpopular opinion.)
I’m going to be in the new Harold and Kumar movie! It’s true.
Three cool facts:
1) It’s called “A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas”
2) Todd Strauss-Schulson, the director, also directed Die Hardly Working.
3) It’s being shot in 3D!
It comes out a year from this Christmas so hopefully you all stay alive to watch it.
I couldn’t make the Webby Awards last night because I was not in New York so I trusted Jake to go up there and accept our People’s Voice Award for best Comedy Series with grace, dignity, and respect.
Every winner is allowed a 5 word acceptance speech and I was certain Jake would find a way to succinctly and brilliantly sum up how grateful we are for having the best fans in the world and how humbled we were to even be considered for the award.
In college I used to make videos for the Internet with my roommates/friends Offer and Pavla before most people even made videos for the Internet. I eventually parlayed my mild Internet video and writing skills into a job at CollegeHumor.com, which forced me to move to New York.
Saturday, June 12, 2010 was my fifth year anniversary of moving to New York, and also the day Offer got married.
I love it when milestones cross paths like that. It makes them easier to remember! And…
