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from previous page... "Scram Bitch......How Dare You!" A Convention would not be a Convention without those fabulous comedy moments. End of Days had more than its fair share and in some Q & A's you could be forgiven for imagining you were actually watching the set of a Comedy show; such was the level of hilarity. In addition to being highly talented and respected actors, Mark Lutz and Andy Hallet are two of the funniest people you could ever see! They could write their own show and in their inimitable styles they once again succeeded in reducing an audience to tears of laughter with their antics! J. and Amy did confess to the conventioneers that Andy is the most likely to make everyone laugh on set too with the delivery of his one liners. In fact they often have to ask him to tone it down a bit as they can't keep a straight face. His laugh is so infectious that alone is enough, he is just a seriously funny guy and if you add Mark and Brody into the equation, anything could happen as everyone discovered...
After the fun and games of Saturday night, Andy and Mark are a little late arriving, not that there are any complaints as Brody has looked after everyone splendidly. Arriving on stage a very croaky voiced Andy immediately produces a toy chicken that plays the Birdie Song which gets faster and faster. It would appear Mark and Andy are rather bemused by a sign they passed on the way to the hotel in their car, "Funeral Services," Mark laughs, "And it says Wedding Services as well." Suddenly developing the voice of a pantomime dame Mark calls out, "We are marrying this goat to this pile of ashes...do you goat take the ashes to be your best wedded man, say baa if you do" At which point Andy bleats like a goat. Mark continues, "Did you see the goat? It was so beautiful in its wedding dress. It was so lovely. I bought them an ash tray for a gift." This story continues for about 5 minutes and by this time everyone is clutching their sides.
After some high jinx with the three of them there is time for a question and one member of the audience has hopes that Lorne will have a family. Andy shouts with mock outrage, "I don't! I don't see Lorne being too much of a family man at this point" Turning to the laughing audience he admonishes them, "How dare you!" Andy continues, "I would like to expand my role, I think that would be quite fun and I think we got a chance to do that when we went to Pylea. And I think that was a very good opportunity to see where Lorne came from and to see why he left Pylea." At this point a lady appears on stage to give them some sandwiches. Everyone laughs and applauds as Andy thanks her. Mark notes, "Do you realise you are applauding sandwiches?" Turning his wit on the audience with the return of the pantomime dame he adds, "Look at those sandwiches, those are the greatest sandwiches I have ever seen." As a man from the audience thanks Andy for being there; he smiles and replies, "Oh thank you. I am sorry I walked away but that is because I took a big bite of an onion...and I was truly stunned. I didn't expect to bite into an onion...ever!! Especially not right now." 'Dame' Mark adds, "There is nothing like those onion sandwiches. They have the best onion sandwiches in the world, the best butter and the best onions!" Andy thanks the guy in the audience.
Moments later Dayne happens to walk through the auditorium and Andy drolly calls out, "There she goes!" As Dayne is leaving through the side curtain, he has his back to the stage and the audience. As Andy and Mark rib him, he unzips his trousers and pulls them down as he moons at them in his underwear, grinning like a Cheshire cat. As the audience howl and cheer, Andy, Mark and Brody collapse with laughter and Andy shouts, "How dare you! How dare he!" Still laughing; Mark jokes, "Well never in all my living life!" the audience are in hysterics. Andy explains the origins of their funny sayings, "Dayne makes up all of our sayings on the set and one day J. August Richards came in and he had some incense and he was going around the trailer with sage incense, he was trying to be cleansing and spiritual this particular day hmm.." laughter, "that lasted long! And so he went into the trailer and he was just waving it around and he didn't know anyone was in the make-up trailer and Dayne peaked around the corner and said, "Scram Bitch!" And so now we all say scram bitch to each other but it requires a little hand motion too, but you have to have your hand like hard."
A lady in the audience asks about the wardrobe department. Andy explains that everyone assumes that his outrageous clothes and Liberachi type suits are made for him but they are not. "The funniest thing my dear is that they go down to Hollywood Boulevard and buy my clothes out of the stores. So there are people that really wear my clothes, and that is the scariest part. I always do have a ball coming onto the set after a rehearsal; when I come back on set it is usually a fun moment as everyone gets to see my costume."
Written by CoA Writers, Julie Reynolds and Sarah Wallis CityofAngel.com
would like to extend our Gracious Thanks to Sean Harry of Starfury Conventions
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