Just another Tuesday…Well no, not really. This Tuesday, March 10th, I combined my passion for entertainment television with my desire to go “geek,” and well, produced a piece that if given 10 minutes, would be pure comedy.Unfortunately, I have a fraction of that airtime, so let’s just hope someone laughs.
I produced a piece with Vik Sahay, who plays Lester Patel on the NBC comedy, “Chuck.” Haven’t seen Chuck? In short, the characters are members of the “Nerd Herd” at a store called Buy More. If you haven’t figured it out by now – I’ll spell it out … it’s a parody of the “Geek Squad” at Best Buy.
Anyway we set up the shoot as a sort of “mockumentary.” Camera discovers Vik checking out a “Chuck” dvd at Best Buy, he then identifies himself, establishes that he’s doing “field research” and goes on the harass a member of the real Geek Squad. He eventually get’s the “geek” agent to let him tag along on an emergency house visit, and in between jokes and getting into a Geek Squad car, ends up at Beverly Hills home, on a house call… only to discover it was a mere printer installation. Throughout the whole segment, Vik essentially implies he’s a tech genius, that this Geek Squad-er should know who is he and help him on his research mission, and that he really wants to just “get inside” the agent so that he can become the ultimate Nerd Herder.
FYI- he’s acting the entire time. He’s not really like this. This was a fictionalized production. The real Vik Sahay… hmm, well I can’t really write a fair assessment, because I think he was joking half the time (or well, at least I hope…because it’s not like our banter was exactly the friendliest, either.) He’s from Canada, has lived in LA for like a year and a half, getting used to the whole driving everywhere in traffic thing, and um…DOESN’T use Gmail. Seriously, who does that? How can you be a member of the Nerd Herd and NOT use Gmail? Earthlink, really? He’s totally missing out on fab gchat conversations. With me.
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