November 21, 1997
The role of ESPN's Net-Boy sounds a little odd, I grant you, but given ESPN's history of very funny commercials, coupled with two audition scenes, one with Jose Canseco, one with Dick Vitale, then throw in a ten-to-twenty commercial series and this baby would be a commercial dream come true.
The Monkey Brothers are new to me. I have not even heard their name before. And when I was waiting to go in, I didn't catch anyone's name and no one looked familiar. You can imagine my surprise, then, when the leader of the Monkey Brothers says to me, "It's been a while since we've had you in."
What runs through my head as a response is, "Yes, it certainly has been a really long time since you've never had me in." What actually comes out of my mouth is, "Yes, it certainly has been a really long time." Period. Why not go along with him? Maybe I have met him at some point when he wasn't a Monkey Brother yet, or I auditioned for someone he used to work for, or any assortment of possibilities, but in all of them, it couldn't hurt to go along with the charade. So I do.
I tell off how my commercial agent has soured on me a bit because I went out of town on a couple of theatrical gigs. See, if you're going to fabricate a lie, you might as well put it into web form so that there's no way out if you happen to get called on it. And so a tangled web I weaved.
The audition went well, not fabulous. Mr. Monkey seemed to be very pleased with it and had quite complimentary things to say (like he always does for me) but it wasn't right. I could feel it. Maybe the specter of lies hanging over my head dampened my auditioning skills. Even so, it's good to be "back" in with the Monkey Brothers. (As long as they weren't just testing to see how people react when they say 'it's been a while' even though they don't know the person.)