stewart and will carsola took bad to a whole new level. this video features a couple of jacks dressing up ridiculously and getting their photos taken for a driver s license in virginia. great concept. it s kind of subversive but really stupid and silly and a smart and dumb idea. pictures are pretty funny and spray painting hair on somebody s head is also pretty funny. the brows are great. they were like, weren t you just in here? i m not going to be able to get away with this. like so many viral videos, this one left people wondering. there was zero footage of them in the actual dmv. actually i didn t believe this much at all. anyone can photoshop a driver s license to have that picture but at the same time it s funnier if it is true.
hey, teach the idea was about creating a performance and putting it up in front of people who were expecting the performance where they were. it s very funny to have somebody stand up in the middle of a very normal situation and start singing. people tend to dance i love, love, love that idea. i always felt that it would be fun to do. but that i could never keep a straight face. reach, teach it s very original and it s a little subversive. you ve got that element of like, oh, i ve never seen that before. so i love that. i like musicals. as simple as it may look, breaking out into song in class took a fair amount of planning. mike and his band of pranksters picked the largest lecture hall they could find which turned out to be a chemistry class.
people have asked us the question, who knew what? and the answer is, is that, except for the people involved in the actual prank, the camera people, the director, the choreographer and the people that performed in it nobody knew. if it was a setup, it would be a big production, not just four kids totally disrupting a class. it was a great idea. all that stuff is just great ideas. but all we need is one chance to be treated as your equals as you dance the idea came out of an improv group barry was part of that posted the video in 2005. it was a bunch of students at columbia university and our main mission was, really, to perform sketch comedy in public for, i guess, we would call, a captive audience. they risk their professions for the chance to be inspirations to kids like me
like 20 minutes and he kept stalling and going to the back and everyone was looking at me. it was especially a surprise to the richmond dmv which became away of the stunt after it was featured in the local paper. the dmv demanded the licenses back. will and dave claim they ve lost them. the virginia dmv says it has updated its policy and will deny a license or i.d. card to anyone who appears in disguise. when these videos came out, the first reaction is, these guys are awesome. how did they come up with this idea? why do they think they can get away with this? what they did was they managed to get a number of different driver s licenses pictures with completely different identities in a post 9/11 world. this is remarkable and it caused a major outcry. maybe one of the reasons i was a little skeptical is like, really? the dmv is that lax about letting that stuff go with the way security works in this country? will and dave say they meant no harm and maybe even did some
they showed up to our interview dressed in garbage bags and wearing plastic sunglasses. will wore a hightop sneaker on one hand while dave wrapped his in tin foil and painted eyeballs on his eyelids. the idea came in a dream. cosmos is aligned and now we re huge hollywood movie stars. we are geniuses and we deserve that kind of attention. i just really want to capture the struggle of people. what was the question? i get a little lost in myself. this is rad. rad our only friend. the more we talked to them the more we wondered, was the interview they were giving us real or fake? we went to their website where they wrote about sitting for an interview with us. they said they decided to help us spice it up a bit and answer our questions as art fashion snobs.