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The Brooklyn Heights Vanity Film Shoot Disaster
from Who's Gonna Fix Our Lives · #16
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11 minTim describes acting in a rich kid's vanity film project 'After Laughter,' getting stuck waiting for hours, overhearing insufferable LA-type conversations about mantras and Korean takeout, raiding the homeowners' kitchen for pretzel crisps, honey, bananas, croissants, and clementines, getting caught by a PA, and finally escaping with a driver named Kane who asks bizarre questions about being a New York comedian.
- 3:43Tim just returned from a shoot and doesn't want to create anything anymore—everyone tells him to make things, but without unlimited money, he ends up saying yes to projects he shouldn't.
- 4:17Rich kids in a $3 million Brooklyn Heights brownstone, all 24 years old, quiet and passionless, nothing like the people he grew up around.
- 5:19The script is called 'After,' about a guy who quit comedy and moved to LA—it's just a masturbation process, a fucking vanity project.
- 5:53Tim shows up 20 minutes late because he's walking five miles a day for his blood pressure, then sits around for two hours while they film other scenes.
- 6:45He overhears the director having pretentious conversations about meditation mantras while rich kids discuss whether to order touros, and Tim gets furious.
- 7:29Tim starts eating from the homeowners' kitchen—crackers, honey, bananas, croissants, cashews—because he was promised lunch and only got muffins on the craft services table.
- 9:09A gaunt white guy from the project tells Tim they're not supposed to be eating the homeowners' food, and Tim pretends he thought it was craft services.
- 10:37Tim discovers the refrigerator is full of clementines and decides to have one, but accidentally knocks two or three onto the floor with a loud thud.
- 11:55The PA walks in and sees Tim on the floor with clementines, then quietly tells the director they have to film his scene next and get him out of there.
- 12:28Tim announces he has a hard out because of his podcast, and the director doesn't coddle him or respect his time despite being told about it repeatedly.
- 13:24Tim opens a bag of bread to make a PB&J but the boom operator gives him a look that stops him, and he decides not to get involved with utensils and knives.
- 14:12Tim asks for an Uber and the director says Ken will drive him—Ken from Florida looks like an MK Ultra victim.
- 14:22Ken, named after Cain and Abel, arrives wearing something that makes him look drugged or brainwashed.