Can't Get Arrested

Adi Dardik was our PA on Can’t Get Arrested.  I asked her five questions.  She gave me five answers.  Here they are:

1 - How did you get involved with Can’t Get Arrested?  What was your role on the show?

I was randomly invited to a dinner on a Wednesday. I had never met the hosts of the house. I was in the middle of my dinner, when this guy who lives in the host’s garage house, passed by to say hello and introduced us to his brother, Michael, who came from Miami to produce a web series.  I told him I was from Miami and we talked for about 5 minutes. In those 5 minutes we realized that we had a friend in common and I that I was producer too (well, I told him that). I told him I would love to help out with the series (which i never heard it was with Dave, Jody, Dennis and Candace). I gave him my e-mail and that was it.  Then Friday he wrote me an e-mail asking me if I could go Monday. I was the Production Assistant, but thanks to my talent, charms, beauty and my humbly personality I got promoted to an acting role the second day.

2 - What is your favorite memory from being on set?

I laughed… a lot… Everyday was so much fun. We were a great team and it’s been a pleasure to work with so many talented people. I do have a problem now… every time I want to say “exactly” I have to tilt my face up and I say exaaaaaactly, just as Eric says it. I also had a lot of fun playing with my assistant, Ranger, Dave’s dog. He laughed at all my jokes.

On Saved by the bell, Dennis’s character was more caring, and had to deal with all of Zach Morris’s pranks… on Can’t Get Arrested, he wants the attention, but it shows a comedic side, and this character is definitely funnier!!!  I think Dennis Haskins is just a great actor and any role he takes he is great on it.

4 - How many languages have you watched Full House in?  Rank them in order from funniest to least funny.

I’ve only watched it in two languages. I never got to see the show in Hebrew, because I left Israel as a toddler. I grew up watching the show in Spanish, then when I moved to the States 11 years ago, started watching all of the re-runs in English. At first it was funny to hear them with a different voice, but then, not only I got used to it but I realized I like their real voices much better (not to offend the voice over actors).  The show is definitely better in English, because it was written that way. There are things that are not translatable to any other language.

5 - You celebrated Thanksgiving at Dave Coulier’s house.  What was that like?  Did you ever think that as a child, when you were watching Dave in [insert language], that you would be celebrating holidays with him in 2011?

I am new in LA, and was not able to go to South Florida to spend Thanksgiving with my family. Dave and Melissa were kind enough to invite me to celebrate with them, their family and friends. I had a lot of fun, I ate delicious food and we played pictionary… Go team boobs! Joey was one of my favorite characters on the show, and now that I know Dave, I can tell, just as his character he is a great person; caring and funny.  I would have never thought in a million years I was going to celebrate any holidays with him, although I did secretly wish I could have been in Hawaii and Disney with the Full House family while watching the show.

Blake Goza is an actor.  If you asked him, I bet he wouldn’t define himself that way.  He’d probably mention that he’s the director of development for a film production company.  Maybe he would tell you of his love of art, or his admiration for the world’s best nail benders, and he might even regale you with stories of growing up in Kansas City, where he was taught down home Midwestern values by Kirk Goza.  But we know none of that matters.  Because we know that acting’s king.  And Blake Goza is King of the Actors.

I was home last week for Thanksgiving and one day I had lunch with my Aunt Lynn.  We were having salads (Greek for me, Caesar for her.  Advantage: me) when she asked me about future projects.  She wanted to know which actors from Can’t Get Arrested I’d like to work with again.  I said I would love to work with all of them again (which, by the way, is totally untrue, they’re all terrible, but it sounds diplomatic and mature to say stuff like that), but that whatever I was making next would probably have Blake in it.

My aunt replied, “Oh, he’s great.  He’s so funny in all the stuff you’ve made, but always in different ways.  He’s like a comedy Meryl Streep.”

If you want to see more work from the Meryl Streep of sketch comedy videos that involve crystal meth, check out the stuff we’ve put on Funny or Die.

Episode 4 of Can’t Get Arrested is a fun one, and there’s a lot packed into it.  We have an Irv scene, we have Tristan and Rylan, we have Candace Cameron Bure, and we have another news report.

The Full House reunion scene was a lot of fun to shoot.  David (director), Matt (DP), Michael (producer), and I (me), all grew up watching Full House as kids, so it was pretty surreal.  I was voted down by the other Can’t Get Arrested movers and shakers, but I really wanted to put in audience reaction in the pause after Dave says, “Cut it out.”  I feel like huge laughter and applause would have been hilarious in a very weird and jarring way.  I get why the idea wasn’t liked, though.  Obviously having four episodes without audience reaction, and then suddenly introducing it is a strange thing to do, but still.  Pretty good idea, I say.

I also really like the news report in Episode 4.  Olev Aleksander played our reporter, filling Stephanie Allynne’s huge shoes.  He is the Steve Young to her Joe Montana.  We decided not to use Stephanie for this one because we only had audio for Candace’s part, and we figured it would be less confusing to go from a male voice to Candace’s female voice.  Another factor was that Stephanie was a nightmare to work with (patently untrue).

But anywho, Olev was great.  You could even say he, “Nailed it.”  The first and last lines of the broadcast, which are my two favorite lines in the episode, were lines we came up when we were shooting the news.  David asked me if we could shoot somewhere that looks like a zoo.  There’s a park near my apartment, so we shot there.  On set, we came up with the line referencing the fact that it’s just a park that we hope looks like a zoo.  Oh man, we’re so hilarious.

David came to set with the line about Siri being racist, which I find very funny.

I don’t like the scrolling news ticker in this episode as much as I liked Episode 3’s scrolling news ticker, but I guess there’s some funny stuff in there.  Here are the headlines I wrote this time:

• Neo-Nazis Change Name to Neon-Nazis to Attract Rave-Goers
• So Justin Bieber and Usher are Having Sex, Right?
• On the Next “Kitchen Nightmares”: That British Chef Yells at People
• Herman Cain Sexually Assaults 12 Women in Bed Bath & Beyond
• Stupid NBC Idiots Bench “Community”
• Dippin’ Dots Files for Bankruptcy, Spelling a Future Without Ice Cream
• Snoop Dogg Releasing Line of Swizzle Sticks, Unsure of What to Call Them
• Woody Allen Signs on to Direct “Human Centipede 3”
• Will Smith Opening Bel-Air Poster Store Called “Fresh Prints”
• What Ever Happened to Rick Moranis?
• Today in Business News, Transactions and Mergers Took Place.

I’m probably going to make a sketch comedy video at some point of what Human Centipede 3 would look like if Woody Allen directed it.  So… don’t steal that.  Or whatever.

David Odio is an editor extraordinaire.  Saturday, November 19th, I was taking care of my producer duties, drinking on the wrong side of the country at a bar in Maryland.  David, meanwhile, was slaving away at his computer in LA, editing Episode 4 so you people (“you people” said with love) could enjoy watching it Monday morning. 

That night, I got an email from David saying the Can’t Get Arrested hard drive crashed.  Disaster.  Did it mean we had to push Episode 4 back at all?  Absolutely not.  You know why?  Because David Odio is an editor extraordinaire (you should know this already, it was the first sentence of this post).

Hire him for stuff and pay him lots of money.

The news segment in Episode 3 came together pretty last minute.  As written, the news piece would be heard, not seen, but that’s obviously not so exciting, so we decided to shoot something.  Luckily we were able to get the hilarious Stephanie Allynne to play Angelica Fritzman, our news reporter.

A fun aspect of the news report was that it allowed us to write some extra jokes to work in as a scrolling news feed at the bottom.  I didn’t expect many people to actually read the news feed, but a lot of people have emailed us about it.  Because we cut away from the news, you can’t actually read everything in there, so listed below are the jokes I wrote for that part:

• Billy Crystal drops out of Oscar hosting duties.  He will be replaced by Eddie Murphy, who will be in makeup that makes him look like Billy Crystal.

• Anti-depressant prescriptions on the rise to coincide with holiday season and release of Adam Sandler’s “Jack and Jill.”

• Charlie Sheen still eager to make “Major League 3.” Questions loom as to whether or not he knows the first and third base lines are just chalk.

• Andy Dick is annoying.

• “Desperate Housewives” is still on TV?  That’s surprising.

• Dennis Haskins reportedly involved in karaoke-bar brawl after patron sings Elvis Presley’s “Hound Dog.” Haskins allegedly left yelling, “That’s my song, dammit!”

• “Twilight” star Taylor Lautner invol… ahh, who cares.

• Today the stock market did some stuff.  That’s both the NYSE and NASDAQ.

• Just a reminder: There was a time when Whoopi Goldberg was a huge movie star.

This tweet from Kato is my favorite part of Episode 3.  When we showed up to shoot the news scene, David came with this idea.  It’s great.

The editing process on Can’t Get Arrested has been a fun one.  Some of my favorite parts of Episode 2, in particular, have come from editing.  I thought you may be interested in finding out about those last minute editing jokes here.

The scene in which Dave, Jodie, and Dennis look at the computer felt a little long to us and we wanted to edit it down.  The easiest way to do that was to cut away from the actors and show the computer screen, which we realized would be a great opportunity to work some new jokes in.

David pitched the name “AndersonMiniCooper” as one of our article commenter names, and I thought it was hilarious.  I told him I thought it would be funny if we followed it up by giving Anderson Cooper-themed names to all of the commenters.  So that’s how that bit of weirdness ended up in the episode.

As for the one non-Anderson Cooper name, that was a joke really just to amuse us.  Kadroll is a commenter on Youtube who wrote, “Wow - that was a waste of time.” in the comments of Can’t Get Arrested Episode 1.  We thought it would be fun to put that into Episode 2.

In the script phase and even while shooting we hadn’t considered the idea of seeing comments.  Luckily David is a quick and skilled editor, and he was able to make it happen at the last minute.

The next place we thought we could get a funny visual joke was when Dave gets a text from Kato.  We never gave Dave a specific text to read, which left a lot of leeway for us here.  We took that leeway and we got absurd with it.

David and I spent a lot of time talking about what the Kato text should say.  Early on I threw the phrase “murder people” out there, so it quickly turned into building the rest of it around that.  As for why we have Kato refer to himself as “K-TRAIN”, that decision was quite simple, since Kato refers to himself that way in real life.

David came up with the idea that we add a second text, which I think is really funny and unexpected.  We liked that it would be an incredibly threatening text conveyed in a really childish way.  I don’t know for sure, but I think it may have been David’s roommate, Nick, who came up with putting a winky face at the end.  If it was you, Nick, great work.  We salute you.

How can you find out with certainty that your edit is finished?  Well, you simply check to see if Matt Macar is asleep with his hand down his pants, of course!

A lot of people (not one person) have been saying, “Jordan, we read all of your posts about the web series, but we don’t know anything about you.”

Well people (again, nobody at all), I hear you loud and clear (silent and nonexistent).  This blog will continue to be the #1 place on the Internet for Can’t Get Arrested news (actually, tied for #1 with the Can’t Get Arrested Twitter, Facebook, and website), but I’m going to start writing periodically about other things, too.

I have referenced on occasion that my mom is my only reader, but that’s of course not true.  How could it be true if you (dad) are reading this right now?

My dad hasn’t been mentioned on the blog before, but I figured you, the readers (mom), might enjoy this email I received from him this weekend.  Maybe it’ll help you understand where I come from.

Email Subject: Life is good

Email Body:

Can’t Get Arrested, Episode 2 premieres tomorrow on the Internet.  Watch it.

I went over to David’s last night to look at an early cut of Episode 2.  It’s coming along really nicely, and I think it’s a stronger episode than the first one. 

Here are some notes on Episode 2.  Based on comments we received after Episode 1, I thought you may find them interesting:

- Irv Steenstein, Dave’s manager, is not in Episode 2.  That will make some people very happy, and it will make others very sad.  Good/bad news, Irv will be back for Episode 3.

- Tristan and Rylan, the two paparazzi idiots played brilliantly by Blake Goza and Eric Moneypenny, are great in Episode 2.  Episode 1 really only scratched the surface on these guys, and Episode 2 is where they get to shine some more.  After this one they will appear one more time, in Episode 4.  These two characters are my two favorites in the show.

- I don’t think we ever actually hear Tristan or Rylan referred to by their character names in the series, but we gave them those names because I didn’t want them listed as Paparazzi #1 and Paparazzi #2, like they are on IMDB.  Also, a few weeks before we started shooting, a friend of mine had a baby boy and named him Rylan.  I thought it was a cool name, so that’s why it’s in the show.

- Episode 2 is the first of two episodes in which Kato Kaelin appears.  He was really funny when we were shooting and I’ve never met a more upbeat, high-energy guy in my life.

- Dennis Haskins, who was so funny in his little cameo at the end of Episode 1, is back in a more substantial role this week.  After this week he pops up once more in the series, but I won’t tell you where.

- I don’t want to spoil anything, so I’ll just say this: To find out if President Barack Obama appears in Episode 2 of Can’t Get Arrested, you’ll need to tune in this week and see for yourself…

Episode 2 premieres Monday, November 7th.  If you want a little taste of what’s to come, check out this short EPISODE 2 TEASER that David put together.

Bad grammar always amuses me.  I was in Encino the week of our shoot with Michael Branciforte, our excellent producer, and we were blown away by the fact that there was a restaurant with grammatical errors on its sign.  The restaurant is called Versailles.  Cuban food.  “At it’s best.”

NO!

There are six words on the Versailles sign.  How did the people that own and operate the restaurant not make sure it was correct?  They could really use a Michael Branciforte type behind the scenes.

I was reminded of the Versailles sign when I happened upon my favorite Youtube comment on the first episode of the web series.  You can see it here:

Why, tischner, why would you think “Add’s” is correct?  Certainly you’ve never seen that word written that way, right?  Didn’t it look weird to you when you typed it?

I hope you’re not insulted that I pointed you out, specifically, tischner (I’m kidding, I’m not delusional enough to assume anyone other than my mom is actually reading this blog.  Hi, mom!).  Because at the end of the day, whether you know how to use apostrophes and commas or not, as long as you’re watching my show, I’m happy.  Note: If you want to make me very happy, click on the ads that pop up in the video.  These web series don’t pay for themselves, am I right?

UPDATE: Some jerk I know named Blake Goza just pointed out to me that this post had a grammatical error in it.  It has since been corrected.  If there is a second season of the web series, Blake just wrote himself out of it.

One of the coolest experiences that came out of making Can’t Get Arrested was making the music for it.  On the night we ended our shoot, which was Thursday, October 22^nd, I went with Dave Coulier, David Odio, and Michael Branciforte over to Gary Griffin’s house.  Gary did all the music for “Full House” and he toured as a keyboardist for the Beach Boys, s o as you can probably guess, making the music for our web series was an incredible experience that Gary will remember forever.

Gary has a recording studio in his backyard and the things he does in there are magic (cool musical magic, not creepy magic like magicians do).  Coulier sang our theme song and Gary added all the music behind it.  He also made our transitions, promo music, and a bunch of other little pieces for us, a lot of which you’ll hear in the show.  The speed at which he works is staggering.  One of us would ask him for something and within minutes he would have a fully formed piece of music that sounded far better than what we could have imagined.  It was cool.

Also cool was just seeing the kinds of things that hang in his studio.  The funniest thing on the walls was an old package that contained a small vial containing what the package claimed was “authentic sweat from Elvis Pressley.”

Gary also had his three days’ worth of tickets from Woodstock on the wall.  Unfortunately they weren’t tickets from the incomparable rapestravaganza that was Woodstock 99, but still pretty amazing nonetheless. 

Gary says you can even see the side of his head for a brief second in the Woodstock movie.  I jokingly said something dumb like, “Oh, I thought I recognized you from somewhere.  You were great in that.”  He didn’t realize I was joking, probably because it was such a bad joke that he assumed nobody would even think to make it.  Next time I talk to someone that’s in the Woodstock movie I’ll have some better jokes prepared.  Maybe some puns about Quaaludes.

Whenever I sign into the Facebook fan page for Can’t Get Arrested, Facebook recommends more pages it thinks I may like and lists them on the side of the site.  Facebook’s recommendations are based on what the page is about and what CGA’s fans like (This is all assumption-based, but I’ve seen The Social Network a bunch of times, so you can pretty much accept it as fact).

Facebook tells me that 33 of the 357 Can’t Get Arrested fans are also fans of Vin Diesel.  This makes me happy, and I’d like to see that number go up.

Can’t Get Arrested supports Vin Diesel and you should too.  U-S-A!  U-S-A!  U-S-A!

Halloween is so 2010.  October 31, 2011 is for Can’t Get Arrested.

The show premieres today, but as of yesterday there was still plenty of work to do.  Last night I met with David, Matt, and Michael at 9:00 pm to finish editing.  I didn’t leave until 12 hours later.  Here are some highlights of the night:

• Matt Macar can and will lie down on the floor and be asleep within five seconds.  Photo taken at 6:27 am:

• Matt said he wishes he had an off switch he could flip, “like a dog.”  If you see Matt, please explain to him what a dog is and how dogs work, generally, as a species.

• When he’s not sleeping, Matt Macar will occasionally fall while walking, like an infant, only taller.

• Michael Branciforte admitted to eating, on average, 10 Li’l Dudes brand sausages per day on set.

• We learned that David Odio can juggle by watching him juggle the small, individually wrapped Li’l Dudes brand sausages that Michael holds so near and dear to his heart.  At one point David was juggling two sausages (amateur hour, I know) and I threw in a third, which he handled with ease.  Whether dealing with an out-of-nowhere third Li’l Dudes sausage or giving on set direction to Dennis Haskins, David Odio is one cool customer.  And here’s what you really need to know about David.  The guy’s a dreamer.  The three of us, especially with our lack of sleep, would have been endlessly entertained watching him juggle sausages.  But where most men would be content, David forges on.  Each time he reached for new heights, trying to get fancier with his sausage throwing trickery.  Each time he failed.  “No matter!”, I say.  Because where I used to see a weak and pathetic little boy, I now know David Odio as a sausage-juggling king who reaches for the stars.  I almost even respect him.

• Photo of David juggling sausages taken at 8:19 am.  Photo of David and Matt sleeping taken at 8:40 am, just 21 minutes after the excitement of the sausage juggling.

• The driving force of the night was a magical phrase from Wilmer Valderrama’s masterpiece of a show, MTV’s “Yo Momma.”  Apparently some genius once won an episode of the show by saying, “Yo momma so fat, berfer nipples touchin’!”  David, Matt, Michael and I combined to say “berfer nipples touchin’” around 180 times last night.  I can tell you’re wondering, so let me clear something up.  “Berfer” seems to mean “both of her.”  Still don’t love it?  Well then Can’t Get Arrested probably isn’t for you.

Episode 1, “Full Blouse,” premieres very soon!  Can’t wait for everyone to see it!

“Full Blouse,” the first episode, premieres tomorrow.  We have picture lock on the episode, which means that the cut will not change, but there is still plenty of work to do.  This morning David Odio, our director and editor, is sound mixing so the episode sounds good.  When Dennis Haskins delivers a line, we want you to hear that line, dammit.  That’s what sound mixing is all about.

This afternoon Matt Macar, our DP, has a lot on his plate, starting with green screen compositing.  In Episode 1 there are three scenes where we see a computer screen.  Rather than putting the videos or images we want on the screen, we opened a green screen on the computer so Matt could insert what we wanted later.  Web series magic!  It’s a tedious process, but not for me, so who cares, am I right?

After that, Matt will put the finishing touches on our opening credits sequence, which he has described to me but I have not yet seen.  It sounds really cool.  The final step tonight is color correcting.  Color correction is an unnatural process, the goal of which is to make the episode look more natural.  A number of factors, but mainly light, alter the look of an episode.  Color correcting will make it look all pretty and stuff (industry terms).

It’ll be a long night of work and I expect our first episode won’t actually be completed until 5:00 am Monday morning.  David and Matt have worked so hard on the series and will continue to tonight solely because they care about putting out a quality product tomorrow.  Michael Branciforte (producer) and I will be sitting with them through the night.  I have nothing to add from an editing standpoint, but I feel that if I’m asking people to work through the night, I should show I’m willing to do the same**.

**The truth is, I’m hoping to sign David and Matt to an exclusive long-term contract in the middle of the night when they’re at the height of exhaustion.

I can’t wait to put the episode online and I really can’t wait to be asleep while you are watching it.  Big day tomorrow!

We knew early on that we were going to give Dave a manager, but we didn’t know what that character would become.  We could have gone young and green, we could have gone intense and driven, we could have gone distant and aloof… anything would have worked, really.

Then Dave pitched the idea that he would play his own manager.  “And… well… maybe that’s the one thing that won’t work,” I thought.

Having Dave play his own manager meant more work in makeup, wardrobe, location, shooting, and editing.  It would mean shooting Dave’s half of a scene and then shooting Dave playing his manager in that half of a scene.  Dave Coulier and Irv Steenstein would be like the Winklevoss twins.  Except older.  And more “chinsy.”  It seemed difficult.  And from a comedy standpoint, it seemed too broad.

The other day Dave called me to tell me his favorite part of this blog has been when, in a post entitled, “Seed of an Idea,” I said that Dave is much smarter than me.  He’s going to like this post, too.  Dave’s idea of playing his own manager proved brilliant.  That character, Irv Steenstein, is my favorite character in the series.

When we were talking about the Irv character, Dave told me a bunch of stories about Bernie Brillstein, the legendary manager who used to represent Dave.  Dave said that Bernie used to walk around the office hallways farting, knowing people were too scared to say anything.  Farting at work.  The ultimate power play.  As ridiculous as that sounds, Bernie Brillstein feels like a throwback that just doesn’t exist anymore.  We liked the idea of capturing that feel for Irv.

We found a way to play Irv that would make our lives easier in production.  We simply bought Dave some glasses and shot all Irv scenes on a MacBook instead of with our big fancy cameras.  We used a filter on the computer to make Dave look different and that was that.  Super easy.  Still broad?  Sure.  But it doesn’t matter as long as it’s funny, right?

And when Irv Steenstein becomes a hugely popular Halloween costume, you can outfit yourselves by buying his glasses at the Rite Aid on 3rd Street and Fairfax in Los Angeles.  They were $10.99.

You’ll see far more of Irv Steenstein when the series premieres Monday, but for now you can check out some Irv videos here:

Irv on Can’t Get Arrested

Irv’s No Cadillac

Irv Doesn’t Get the Show

Irv on Golf with Gayle Sayers

On Sunday, September 4^th, I was in an RV in the 105 degree heat of the desert shooting a “Breaking Bad” parody called “Blake-ing Bad.”  Matt Macar, who shot the web series, shot the sketch.  Blake Goza, who plays Tristan in the web series, stars in it and co-directed it with me.  You can see it here.

While I was in the desert, Dave called to tell me about a web series idea called “Can’t Get Arrested” that would revolve around him and Jodie Sweetin starting a talent management company for down on their luck actors.  After a few minutes I told Dave I had to get back to set and we would talk more later.  Yep.  Classic Hollywood move.

I spent a lot of the day thinking about “Can’t Get Arrested” and here’s where I stood:

·       I loved the title.

·       I loved that the premise gave us a reason to bring on guest stars.

·       I didn’t love the concept.  I wanted to find a more natural way into the show than Dave and Jodie starting a management company.

After our desert shoot, Blake was at my apartment and we talked about ideas for the show.  I didn’t know exactly what I wanted to do with it, but I knew I wanted to work in a paparazzi element.  I thought it would be funny if Dave and Jodie worked with the paparazzi to reinsert themselves into the spotlight.

I called Dave that night to run my ideas by him.  He liked what I had, and from there we started figuring out together what the show would become.  We were really motivated to start and, more importantly, finish quickly.  Six weeks later we had finished shooting the series.

This photo was snapped during an argument I was having with producer Michael Branciforte (he’s on the right).  He was immediately fired and removed from set.

Because I’m mature and forgiving, I rehired Michael shortly thereafter, albeit at a much reduced rate.  As you can see, he was very happy to be back at work.

Matt Macar is an incredibly talented DP.  If you’re making anything and you want it to look incredible, you should pay Matt a lot of money to shoot it.  Here’s his reel.

I was at Matt’s apartment one night and he mentioned that he met Dave Coulier.  Because I’m a person that exists, I grew up watching “Full House”, so this was exciting news.  I asked Matt if he thought Dave would consider making a sketch with us.  He thought he might.

That night I wrote an idea called “Cut it Out with Dave Coulier.”  It was a talk show sketch that Matt sent over to Dave, and a week later the three of us had lunch to discuss it.  Because Dave’s much, much smarter than I am, he felt that instead of doing a one-off sketch, we should focus on something that could make us some money down the road, like a web series.  I don’t know if he knew back then that “web series” should be two words, but we have the same phone, so I’m sure he figured it out (that’s a reference to an earlier blog post I made, so you loyal readers [mom] can enjoy).

Matt and I saw a chance to impress and we jumped at it, splitting the cost of Dave’s BBQ Chicken Salad.  We must have looked like such Hollywood big shots.

As we drove away from lunch, Matt and I were 100 percent sure Dave would make my “Cut it Out” sketch.  And even though we were wrong, I’ve spent very little time regretting paying for half of that BBQ Chicken Salad.