Peelings

(posted 11/07/07)

Directed by Brett Weiner
Written by Prescott Gadd
Actors: Prescott Gadd, Jon Silver,
Max Dionne

Director's Commentary

Max: I'm pretty sure Prescott wrote this from a true experience.  He'll correct me if I'm wrong.

Prescott: Similar experience.  it was a plantain, and it was to escalate the relationship to 3rd base.

Jon, did we think of this sketch idea together? It's in my notes near the vampire with AIDS idea.

Banana came to fruition with the thought that convincing a banana to be eaten has a lot of parallels with the stereotypical pleadings a guy must go through to get laid.  Why a banana? I don't know, because I personally hate bananas unless they are sautéed in a frying pan with rum and lemon juice and butter and brown sugar (not maple sugar as is falsely stated in the sketch).  I do know that the banana absolutely had to be voiced by Jon (the current voice of the banana), so we locked him up before I even signed on to the project.  I'm very pleased with the structure of the sketch.  It has the most natural gradual rise to climax, then denouement, then button that I've ever written.

Brett: In order to translate the aforementioned depth and craft of Prescott's writing, I made sure to keep the working environment on set as professional as possible.

Max: Bananas are delicious.

Jon: You thought of it during that night where we went to parties while thinking of sketch ideas, however I can't say that I contributed anything meaningful to the idea, but oh what a night of great ideas. Humorously, we tried to think of ideas together and we both just thought of ideas on our own that we wrote by ourselves.

Brett: I also want to point out two more things:  1) Prescott yanked the banana away at such an extremely unsafe speed it's a miracle that nothing broke and, 2) I am still trying to figure out what the girl's equivalent of a "sticker" is when I carry the metaphor through.

Dan: Remember how hot it was that day?  Man, it was hot.

Max: Once again, Dan has given our 3 viewers the quality insight into our work that they deserve.

Prescott: I would equate the "sticker" to the female "hymen" which I am told is located somewhere on a girl and can be peeled off before sex.  Jon, what other ideas did we come up with separately? remember the horrendous cow sketch where the kobe beef cows were the cool cows?  Also, I recall the shooting of the sketch being held up due to a classic skateboarding movie being on.

Dan: Oh yeah!  Rollerblading though.  A classic.  Remember how rad that movie was?  Man, it was rad.

Max: I don't know if we do this sort of thing, but I would like to dedicate my performance in Peelings to Shane McDermott who starred as Mitchell Goosen in Airborne in 1993. Shane -- this one's for you, pal!