The Sean Patton Collection

Brock — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:00:08 +0000

Studio 8 has had the enviable pleasure of working with standup comedian Sean Patton for many years now.

Mean mug.

We’ve shot videos with him, we’ve written TV pilots with him, we’ve even performed onstage with him in various standup, sketch, and improv shows. Hell, next month, Terp is going on tour with Sean Patton and Kyle Kinane (view details of that HERE). Anyway, you may recognize Sean’s name and/or cute face as one of the brightest up-and-coming standup comedy dudes on the planet. I won’t delve into his impressive resume…that’s what his narcissistic website up above is for.

What I do want to talk about is the sad fact that you can’t watch most of the stuff we’ve produced with Sean over the years. Mostly that’s because many of the videos we’ve done with him were sold to websites like Break.com and we can’t use their video code in our website except as simple embeddings within posts. In other words, if you click on “Videos” up on our menu, all of what you see has been uploaded to YouTube and then integrated into the inner workings of our website (we love YouTube!). And since Break won’t allow us to upload the videos they bought from us onto other sites, they have to live forever in their old, shitty non-HD forms on sites like Break.

Until now. I went ahead and uploaded the videos in question to Vimeo and below you will find them embedded in slightly higher quality, along with all the other videos that we’ve put up on YouTube (which are also not really in great HD form because many of the videos weren’t shot in HD).

So I’m creating this page as a sort of all-inclusive archive of the stuff we’ve done with Sean. And it’s a celebration of him as a man, as a child, and as a person. Below each video, I will include a little behind-the-scenes tidbit or description so you know why it’s relevant and what Sean did in the video.

The Amateur Streaker

This was not only one of the first videos we ever shot with Sean, but it was also one of the first videos we ever produced and sold for a client. So it’s extra special (just like Sean!). In this, Sean plays a news reporter who freaks out on a streaker who keeps running behind him. Shooting this involved Sean grabbing the genitalia of another man, the talented Eric W. Pierson, but he also had to scream, strip naked, and run around for several long takes in the cold night. Hats and pants off to you for this, Mr. Patton.

We also shot an alternative version of this video, as we thought we were going to produce a longer series of these streaker videos, and you can see that one here:

News Streaking Goes Wrong

35 Topics

In this silly sketch, Sean pops up all over the place as a variety of dumb-looking guests for this talk show that never gets to actually interview any of its subjects. My favorite shot of Sean is when he portrays Magnificent Carl, who hopes to discuss the mustard shortage. I wish Sean looked like that all the time, but I bet none of the women who have dated him share that wish with me. The host character, Jack Picklebush, is one of the favorite characters that I’ve ever played on-screen. We’ve actually written more episodes of “35 Topics,” but for some dumb reason, we’ve just never gotten around to shooting them because we do so many other things. This was another sketch that we sold to Break.com, even though they never really promoted it. Weird!

Discount Dare Salesman

This is one of the dumbest commercials we’ve ever done. I think Sean actually wrote this one himself. We sold this one to Break, too, and NBC wanted to put it on some weird “internet on your TV” show a few years back, but we couldn’t let that happen since Break owned it and we had to just let it sit there amongst videos of crotch-shots and hot woman boobs or whatever. This is one of my favorite things that Sean has ever done, partly because the character he portrays here is almost exactly what Sean is like in real-life.

All the Beers in the World

This epic short film is the first thing we shot after we left New Orleans and moved to Los Angeles. I’m extremely fond of it for many reasons – the writing is top-notch stupid, the direction and performances are retarded, and it all adds up to one dorky pile of weirdness that clearly shows how little we knew about what we were doing, but it’s a fun celebration of our ineptness, too. Sean’s Chester character ties the whole thing together, of course, from start to finish. This film actually won the Silver Outhouse Award for Best Comedy AND the award for Best Performance in a Lead Role (Sean Patton) in the 2007 Outhouse Film Festival. And it’s the perfect blend of Twilight Zone/Tales From the Darkside/absolute garbage that we at Studio 8 are still producing to this very day with shows like “The House That Drips Blood on Alex.”

Couchy

With only 10 words of dialogue, this is the shortest script we’ve ever shot. It’s a pretty simple premise – a guy (Rory Windhorst) catches his buddy (Sean Patton) performing oral sex on his couch, then months later, the couch poops out a bloody pillow baby, which the guy’s buddy then adopts as his own child. We shot it cheaply and quickly on a really shitty camera (it was before we had all the fancy equipment and know-how that we do now). What makes this short even more fun is that I had an idea to shoot a bunch of extra insert shots that would later be edited into the short and re-released as a special director’s cut version. You can see that below:

Couchy: The Uncut Extended Unrated Director’s Cut

So basically, this version is three times longer than the original and none of the extra footage adds anything useful to the story. Do we need to see how Rory unlocked the door, put away his keys, turned the knob, and pushed the door open? Do we need to see another minute’s worth of couch fellatio? How about the long, boring stock footage-heavy opening credits? The answer to all of these questions is: NO! But we thought that it would be a funny experiment. And it was!

Mr. T’s Lesson Learning Hour

We only shot 2 episodes of this series, but I wish we had shot 50. Aside from Rory’s excellent Mr. T impression, what makes this series special in my heart is Sean’s dope-ass performance as the bully Phillip, who tortures Rory’s Tommy character in every episode. Sean’s taunting of Rory were always spot-on awful and I can fondly look back on this short-lived series as something that we definitely did at one point in time. In the above episode, I love Rory’s revenge on Sean and how it’s not really revenge and I also love the poopoo on Rory’s butt, especially when he’s hugging the tree. In the below episode, I love the scene where Sean tricks Rory into taking the fake drugs from him and I also love Rory’s pathetic sobbing at the end. And I love everything else, too!

So that rounds up all of our Sean Patton videos! What’s your favorite? Do you want us to make more things with Sean? Have you seen Sean do his classic standup routines? Did you hear his jokes, too? Man, I wish you did!

Thanks for everything, Sean! And thanks to you, readers, for reading this!

Bad Umbrella!

Brock — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:36:44 +0000

Studio 8 member Eric W. Pierson wrote & directed a really cool 1-minute horror film about a sneak-peeking man, a woman with a secret, and a badass, bloodthirsty umbrella monster. He’s finally released it online, so you can watch it below!

WARNING: VIOLENCE, NUDITY, & PENAL DECAPITATION!!!!!

Bad Umbrella aka キチガイ・カラカサ from e.p. on Vimeo.

Let EP know what you think of his film in the comments section below.

Wressle Men Commercial #2

Brock — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:28:57 +0000

You like wressler men? We give you them to you! Order today and start to wressle yourselfs! This is one video of a man Avenger Savage.

Collect all 3!

Starring Eric W. Pierson, Chris Trew, & Brock LaBorde.

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Nature's Wilderness - "Hurts"

Brock — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:07:33 +0000

Hamp Coogan knows how to survive in the wild and you don’t. In this episode, called “When Hurts Happen,” Hamp suffers some serious injuries and then shows you how to treat them. DANGER ZONE!

Starring Eric W. Pierson as Hamp Coogan and Akul Dang as Bokstyk Dangli.
Written, directed, & edited by Brock LaBorde.

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Nature's Wilderness - "Snows"

Brock — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:53:09 +0000

Hamp Coogan knows how to survive in the wild and you don’t. In this episode, called “Surviving Snows,” Hamp saves you from the cold clutches of a frozen, snowy death.

Starring Eric W. Pierson as Hamp Coogan and Akul Dang as Bokstyk Dangli.

Written, directed, & edited by Brock LaBorde.

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The Sean Patton Collection

Bad Umbrella!

Wressle Men Commercial #2

Nature's Wilderness - "Hurts"

Nature's Wilderness - "Snows"