Just Looking at you Makes me Laugh …

If a couple of Domino’s workers hadn’t decided to defile a sandwich, video it and post that video on YouTube, I may have been robbed of hours of fun filled procrastination. And not because their video was entertaining and thus encouraged repeated viewings, but because an American comedy writer/producer did a spoof video on Funny or Die, which then got posted by Perez ‘millions of hits a day’ Hilton and the rest is procrastination history – aka hours spent on Funny or Die and scouting the Myspace of this hilarious man whose name, my friends, is Andy Harris.

His first video, an AT&T commercial parody was picked up by Funny or Die, the website owned by Will Ferrel’s company, a year ago. Since then most of the twenty plus videos he has made, from alternate Twilight trailers (which feature extraordinary hair and make up) to an Iron Gym advertisement parody (personal favourite) have been featured on the site, many as user picks. As much as I love Zac Efron, his pool party video doesn’t hold a candle to the Recession Gift Collection series, or The Coupon Book – Sex Acts for the Emotionally Challenged. And as much as I love Robert Pattinson, there is something brooding about Andy’s Edward Cullen, something dark and mysterious I can’t quite put my finger on.

Andy’s day job of creating comedy for radio, and his hobby of viral videos aside, next month he will start improv shows as part of a troupe formed with his classmates from the Improvisational Comedy and Sketch Comedy at The Upright Citizens Brigade. If you live in the area and want to find out where you can catch Andy’s shows, or if you simply want to send him an email to tell him how much you love him (he’s totally open to fan mail) then drop him a line here andyharris729@yahoo.com.

In an interview which marks the debut of a new Trespassing With format, Andy delves deep and lets us into the inner workings of a very funny mind. He also reveals the real reason he dons wigs in his videos, and it isn’t commitment to the character.

My name is … Andy Harris

I secretly wish my parents had called me … Master.

I hail from …Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, Planet Earth.

By trade I am …a writer and producer of comedy for radio morning shows all over the world.

But in my spare time I … write and perform sketch comedy for stage and video, and attempt to do improv comedy. I also like to spend my spare time wishing I had more spare time.

If the Oracle of Delphi was still in existence, and I had one question I could ask her, it would be … “Why do you have a policy that won’t let me ask more than one question? How can you possibly enforce that? Oooh! That was TWO questions! In your face, Oracle!” ***

My pride and joy is … my ability to find humor is otherwise humorless situations.

I take my coffee … with one sugar, one French Vanilla cream, and in high quantities.

Liv, the editor of Trespass, can’t help but notice I am often in a wig. This is because … my hair is falling out! Thanks a lot for reminding me, Liv! Now if you’ll excuse me, it’s time for a “cry break.”

I wish I wrote/sang/directed… “The Birthday Song.” I could have made it so much more interesting and less annoying. Seriously, does anybody actually enjoy having people sing “Happy Birthday” to them? Does anybody enjoy singing it? Anybody? That’s what I thought.

When I grow up I want to be … a lottery winner, or super muscular with a full head of hair. All equally likely.

The perfect Sunday … waking up in the afternoon, because Saturday night was awesome, eating a big breakfast, playing 18 holes of golf (and actually playing well), making out with my smoking-hot wife Selena, eating an entire pizza, going for a jog (for fun, not to evade predators), going out to dinner with all of my closest friends and family, then going home and watching old episodes of “Seinfeld.”

If you’ll allow me to indulge in a little word association …

• Will Ferrell – Always good.
• Tom Hanks – Should do comedies again.
• Hanson – Robots created to destroy the world with their cuteness.
• Obama – Better than the last guy.
• Kate Winslet – Hot.
• Federer – He’s a racecar driver, right?

The last thing I bought was … a bunch of tacos. Smartest purchase I’ve ever made.

Can’t live without … making somebody laugh. Also oxygen.

I wish I never … (question intentionally left unanswered)

My ideal invention … would be a machine that prints money, and also dispenses beer and pizza. It can also predict the future. Don’t steal my idea.

The first thing I do in the morning is … hit the “snooze” button on my alarm clock for an hour and a half… and the last thing I do at night is … wish that my cat would get off the bed so I can see the TV, because he’s really fat and blocking the screen. He stands there because he knows it bothers me. I just KNOW he does!

If I had a magic travel wand, my next holiday destination would be … Rome, Italy. I’ve always wanted to go there. I’ve heard that they have great Mexican food.

I am terrified of … bugs, guns, scary movies, riding on motorcycles, skiing, pumas (the animals, not the shoes), women who wear a lot of makeup, rats, …pull up a chair, this could be a while. The list goes on and on.

One reason you should love me … is that everybody else is doing it, why shouldn’t you? You don’t want to go against the trend, do you?

If I could tell you all to check out one video I have made, it would be … “The Love Coupon Book!” It’s a little dirty, but one of my favorites…

*** To which the Oracle would then probably respond, ‘it’s not my policy, per se, I was just trying to discern what it is you most want to know in the world. Which, as it happens, concerns my question asking policy.’