Gag

Today I made another small step towards eternal fame and prosperity.
We strolled near Saint Laurent to fill some time before our movie was going to start, and I saw a film crew. We took a closer look, and somebody approached us and asks what they were filming. We didn’t know either. Then some production crew comes by and asks the woman if she wants to participate in the filming. She declines and then Alison pushes me forward saying that I’m game. I reluctantly agree and so I ended up acting in a Juste Pour Rire television gag.
These gags, filmed with a hidden camera, are aired almost every week nation-wide on Canadian television. Unfortunately they are never really funny and often quite mean. But I’m getting ahead of myself.

The situation: A courier van approaches innocent bystander who walks on sidewalk (me). The driver asks the innocent bystander if he could deliver two packages because he can’t stop his van. The innocent bystander accepts. Seconds after he puts the first package in the mailbox the mailbox explodes. He looks at the mailbox, then at the package. He decides to put the package down and step back from it. A man approaches and asks what happened. The innocent bystander explains and points at the van. The man starts to laugh, gets a transmitter out of his pocket and presses a red button. The van explodes and boxes are flying out. The van driver gets out of the car walks towards me and together with the other guy they point out the hidden cameras.

I played all of it in one take, and they filmed it with three “hidden” cameras. And of course I knew 75 percent what was going to happen, because they had briefed me. On the picture the director, with red cap, points out where the hidden camera is located. It will be aired in January 2007, so if you happen to see it, watch me. Sorry if I spoiled the brilliant joke for you. Who writes these things? The jokes are so infantile…

But nevertheless, an Oscarô is waiting for me. The only thing is they forgot to pay me, so the prosperity has to wait a while.