Eric Appel is a writer/director in Los Angeles, California. He has an awesome wife and an awesome dog and is friends with a bunch of cool people. He loves to show his friends funny things that he finds on the internet, and he also loves talking about himself in the third person.
KICKING CAMERAS - PART 1
I’ve been dying for this sketch to air so I could tell people the story of how it came about.
It was about a month after I had finished writing for Human Giant and Tom Gianas (the showrunner) called me up to tell me about a couple of my sketches that they had shot, and some changes that had been made to them during shooting.
Getting that call was very weird timing, because the night before, I had a dream about pitching a sketch, and the subsequent filming of said sketch. I told this to Tom and he asked me what the sketch was about. This is what I told him…
“basically, Huebel is this karate instructor filming a local commercial for his studio, and he kicks the camera off the tripod. He apologizes and says that his foot is a weapon. Everyone is really pissed at him and they begrudgingly set up another camera. BOOM! He does it again. After that, it’s just a montage of him breaking camera after camera, no matter how far away they set it up. He’ll literally run across the room to break a camera. Everyone keeps getting more and more pissed off, but he just can’t help himself.”
Tom cracks up and says, “dude, we have to shoot this.” I tell him that I’ll email him the idea so he has it on file, and as I’m typing it out later that afternoon, all I can think is, “this is so stupid. I can’t believe I’m transcribing a fucking dream I had.”
A couple months go by and I’m in New York for Christmas. Aziz and Jason bring me by the office to show me some of my sketches that they’re currently cutting and they tell me, “oh, dude, we shot kicking cameras.” I have no idea what they’re talking about. “What’s kicking cameras?” They’re like, “remember that sketch you had the dream about?”
Holy shit! They actually shot it and it turned out so funny! They even heightened it and shot a second part, which turned out to be even funnier than the first!
Ever since I was a kid, I’ve always prayed that modern science would figure out a way for me to record my dreams. I never thought it would be made possible by a sketch comedy show on MTV. Thanks Human Giant!!!
