Stephan Colbert’s going to play Andy’s oft mentioned but never seen college friend by default, Broccoli Rob. The Office counts Ed Helms and some other guy you may not know as The Daily Show alums.
Back in 1994 my brother and I loved the short lived Dana Carvey Show, our favorite sketch was two waiters who’d read off the menu and get sick. I would find out the day’s dining from my mom, than I would stand as a waiter reciting it word for word until I faux-puked on my mom’s bewildered dinner plate. It’d send my brother laughing. The next day she caught on to what I was going to do, so she wouldn’t tell me but I figured it out anyway. I’d read the menu off, puke on her plate at the right interval, and she would scrap her teeth along a fork. The third night I figured I’d have a hard time getting out what we were eating, so I told her I would make dinner, she agreed early on before stopping my plans. As I created, individual set and served dinner, I put a dish towel on my arm like a fancy waiter depicted in Ren and Stimpy, lifted my nose and said something to the affect of “Spaghetti on long noodles, uhm… *cough* in a tomato sauce that’s *cough* like blood…UHM, and garlic bread covered in *gagging* butter and rich in *gag* garlic and milk…!!!”. I went over to her plate and air barfed on it three straight nights in a row.
On the fourth night I ran down the stairs and over to see fresh pizza on the dinning room table, lifting the cover, yelling for her to look and me, and fake barf into it. Each time I did it the sound effect would get a little wetter, a little meaner, more real-life to trigger her disgust centers. I’d be honored to fulfill the same long standing comic tradition today.
Stephan Colbert and Steve Carrel, thank you.
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