Jun 21 2007
They Don’t Call Me “One-Take Dave” for Nothin’. They Don’t Call Me That at All.
For anyone who’s ever wondered how many takes I require to get my lines right:
(If you click the picture, the movie will play in your browser…if you right-click it, you can save it to your desktop and play it from there.)
Now with a bonus clip! The cat interview!
Hats off to you Dave. Even though it took a few takes, you really are a natural. (I know. I wanted to say something funny, but dammit, I was impressed).
So why do you have to go in and out through the window? Is that a safety feature? cause I’m with you. I would not want to be stuck in there if it was burning!
It’s because there’s a roll cage there. Even if the door opened, you’d be faced with crawling between the pipes to get in.
The drivers are a lot more graceful getting through that hole than I was. :D
Oh, and thanks. It was a helluva lot of fun doing this series.
Jackie nailed it. As much as I’d like to fire a volley of my jocular hilarity, you’re a natural. I can already see myself watching you on a PBS special. Hell, if I didn’t know you were hung like a hamster, I’d suggest porn!
Does anybody know how to get coffee stains off the monitor??
Mr. Dylan would be VERY jealous of your red race car. Weld the Mini’s door shut. Your chiropractor will thank you.
What’s the cat interview? I hit the link, but the text that came up on the screen was screwy. Unless that was a transcript of you interviewing a cat while speaking Farsi, but that seems a poor fit with the rest of the shows theme.
…how does Joe know you were…….you know what? Never mind. What happens in Vancouver stays in Vancouver.
Jim
Try right-clicking and saving the cat video to your desktop. It should play in iTunes.
Hmm….it starts as an MPEG4 file then switches to .txt as it saves to the desktop.
Just rename the file dropping the .txt extension. It works.
It worked…..as for the interview: less probing than Mike Wallace, more lucid than Larry King, but could work as a stand alone extra on the inevitable “Dave measures stuff” DVD.
Jim
OMG Dylan would be SO incredibly jealous.
The important thing to remember when vacating a burning (or not burning) Nascar is to strip down to your drawers and run around shouting, “Help me Jesus, Help me Allah, Help me Jewish God’ “Help me Tom Cruise”
Hey, you look and sound great on camera. I can’t wait to see the show.
Thanks! :D
I finished the edit yesterday and it went off for captioning today. I’ll probably have a copy of it next week some time.
I’m a little sad I guess. I mean, I suppose you’ll be moving on to greater things now. You and your fancy schmancy clothes and your fancy schmancy personal chef. What’s next Dave, hair replacement surgery? You make me sick! I knew you’d leave me laying in the dust. Abandoned. Forgotten.
Don’t do it! Don’t leave us! Hollywood is evil! They’ll chew you up and spit you out and have sex with you on couches! Or something. Hey, can you get me a date with Salma Hayek? She’s still single right? How many friends can you take to the Awards? This is gonna be so cool!
Meds, Joe. Forget them not.
That’s funny, watching you get in and out of that window!
I can’t wait to see the show. You do a great job!
Damn, you’re as agile as Bo Duke getting in that thing!
Which one was Bo? Was he the bald one with glasses? When you’re inside the car, are your thoughts read aloud by Waylon Jennings? Was the cat’s name Cooter? I think the cat’s name was Cooter.
Jim
You’re a regular Adam Savage.
…except much dorkier.
We saw those guys when they came to town. There’s no way I’m as dorky as Adam Savage.
That was pretty cool. I wouldn’t have been any more graceful getting in and out of the car, and I’m much shorter.
Well done!
Mernos reference to Talladega Nights cracked me up!