This started off as a music video for the song Talking Cat Blues by shirt-tail group member Ed Haynes. Who hear remembers music videos? No one? That's okay. I added a little back story (in the front) and it became what my be the longest music video ever. It originally aired on the The GNU Video Show, which aired on midnights on KSTS-Channel 48 in San Jose. YouTube has a 10 minute time limit, so it is being shown in two parts, as it was originally made. Hospital Vice As timely as a show that was cancelled almost 20 years ago, Hospital Vice is a mock promo for an upcoming series about a doctor and a copy who work together to solve crimes, cure people and stuff. American Television and You This is a parody of a commercial that no one remembers, in which ABC President Jim Duffy tells television viewers just what television is. It was produced in 1986. I like to brag that my co-horts and I were making youtube videos long before there was a youtube. Masterpiece Wrestling In an effort to jazz things up a bit, Masterpiece Theatre adds a professional wrestling segment. National Speech Contest For the Self-Righteous We took a topic that always sparks friendly debate (abortion) and built a speech contest sketch around it. One speaker takes the pro position, the other the con, and both would be kicked out of any debate club. Past winner Earl Spetze takes the always politically-correct view of stringing his metaphors and similes around no particular subject. Homely Savings Homely Savings is a parody of a commercial series the Home Savings ran in the mid-1980's. Various customers and employees would take about how wonderful Home Savings was, and then announcer George Fenneman would let us know that it was people like this who made Home Savings so strong. I am proud of the fact that I have the lady poisoning her husband long before the Dixie Chicks wrote Goodbye Earl. Wang Dang, Sweet Poontang This is a cover of a Ted Nugent song by the Wandering Limes, once our in-house folk trio. Martha Quinn This is a Wandering Limes tribute to Martha Quinn, one of the original five MTV veejays and a cutie-patootie in the first order. At one point it garnered modest college airplay (well, it was played on KSFS at San Francisco State.) The subject of the song, Martha herownself, enjoyed it, even if it took me twenty-two years to notify her of its existence. "Hmm..." Ggreg wonders, "Should I contact Vin Scully about the song I wrote for him?" Bottom of Things visits Basset Rescue Network This is not an offical TLE project; rather, I did it as an audition for The Tonight Show's roving reporter spot and also to help the bassets. |