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Date Posted: 17:03:47 01/30/06 Mon
Author: jennings
Subject: My Dr. Phil...
In reply to: Jim Bevan 's message, "The long-awaited Sarsgaard review!" on 11:16:56 01/29/06 Sun

Jim, just so you are aware...I wrote my DR. PHIL sketch as part of a 24 hour playwrite show the weekend of the Dane Cook episode. I wrote it on the Friday night within an hour, only needed about half that. I knew I was going to be acting and directing my own piece, so I knew I had to write myself into the scene - where I'd play a character I was comfortable with. I do DR. PHIL in my stand up act, so it was just 2nd nature to play him and really shoot daggers at his persona. I went to a costume shop and bought a bald-cap and a fake mustache so I could look more like PHIL when I actually did the show. I even shaved off my beard so I could play Dr. Phil.

Within 24 hours, starting Friday night at around 10pm, all the writers came together, thinking we were just going to write our own ideas, we came to find that there was going to be a challenge. We had to pull 3 things out of a hat. A person, another person and a prop. I drew "male or female dancer", "son or daughter", and finally, "rope". So I made the idea about a mother who is an aging stripper and her son. And rope would be used as a prop when she is dressed as a stripper, wearing a cow-girl look.

Saturday the directors came in and chose a script to direct, I picked my own, because I simply wanted the Dr. Phil sketch to be my own personal production. Then we auditioned actors, who were not getting paid, just there for the fun of it. I got a young guy Doung to play the son, who I soon found out was older than me. Doug was 26 and looked like a young Harold Ramis. There was a lack of women that auditioned, so I ended up getting a male actor to go drag, which worked out perfectly.

We rehearsed thoughout the afternoon, and performed the scene along with 9 other scenes by other writers, directors and actors Saturday night.

Dr. Phil went over very well. Several people in the audience came up to me after the show and told me they loved my impression of Dr. Phil. My voice was totally on.

It's really the closest thing to actually perform on SNL I have. It's a fun experience.

The playwrite show was the same show I did back in August when I wrote "The Actress".

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Replies:

Re: My Dr. Phil... -- Jim Bevan, 18:32:01 01/30/06 Mon
- Thoughts about a HAMAS parody -- jennings, 23:49:24 01/30/06 Mon
  - Re: Thoughts about a HAMAS parody -- Jim Bevan, 06:59:59 01/31/06 Tue