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OSCARS Red Carpet Hosts (w/ John Flynn and Mark Rennie)

#41Audiostandard
Mar 27, 2022·58m
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Stage Premise:

Hollywood's top red carpet correspondents talk about the trade, who they're wearing, and WHY.

Cast & Characters (6)

Darius Walker
John FlynnasDarius Walker
Grey Gray
Mark RennieasGrey Gray
Mama Junior
Angela GiarratanaasMama Junior
Emily Movies
Kylie BrakemanasEmily Movies
Luciano Gorgonzola
Jeremy CulhaneasLuciano Gorgonzola
Godrick Gobbley
Patrick McDonaldasGodrick Gobbley

Bits & Timeline (14)

1:35 (2m 50s)
CHARACTER_INTRO

Red Carpet Roundtable Roll-Call

The panel of red carpet correspondents introduces themselves, including a stylist who employs toddlers and a reporter who only covers two blocks of East Hollywood.

"I'm Mama Junior and I work at Extra Extra Extra."

"I work for the East Hollywood Reporter, where we cover everything from the Los Feliz 3 to the Vista."

Emily Movies (Kylie Brakeman)Mama Junior (Angela Giarratana)Godrick Gobbley (Patrick McDonald)Darius Walker (John Flynn)Grey Gray (Mark Rennie)Luciano Gorgonzola (Jeremy Culhane)
#Red Carpet#Journalism#Hollywood#Awards Season
7:01 (49s)
GAME_OR_PITCH

The Clorox Viral Moment Challenge

Emily Movies attempts to fulfill a sponsorship requirement by asking the panel for their 'messy life moments' that they made clean with Clorox.

"How do you Clorox clean? As in, what was a messy life in your moment that you made clean?"

"My messy moment was when my father was on his deathbed."

"I went home and bleached my sink and toilet. And I felt better with Clorox."

Emily Movies (Kylie Brakeman)Grey Gray (Mark Rennie)Mama Junior (Angela Giarratana)
#Sponsorship#Advertising#Viral Marketing
19:30 (25s)
ESCALATION

The Gender of Real Estate

Luciano Gorgonzola explains his hobby of stalking celebrity homes, leading to a debate on the binary gender of architecture where houses are female and apartments are male.

"Lady? Houses are ladies, apartments are men. Everybody knows that."

Luciano Gorgonzola (Jeremy Culhane)Grey Gray (Mark Rennie)
#Real Estate#Celebrity Stalking#Architecture
24:55 (1m 10s)
BACKSTORY_REVEAL

The East Hollywood Blooper Reel

Grey Gray describes the East Hollywood Reporter's five-hour printed blooper reel event where readers flip pages in unison to experience mishaps like the accidental printing of his home address.

"We all agree to flip at the same time, flip pages at the same time."

"Thus Airbnb was born."

Grey Gray (Mark Rennie)Darius Walker (John Flynn)
#Journalism#Local News#Tech Origins
26:30 (2m 5s)
ESCALATION

Funeral Crashing for Career Advancement

Grey Gray reveals he was a pallbearer for Bette Davis by tapping out her nephew, while Mama Junior explains how she launched her career by interviewing mourners at Shirley Temple's funeral.

"Out of the way, out of the way, someone with real shoulders coming through."

"I'm going to show up to work like I have one and wait for someone to come in and hire me."

Grey Gray (Mark Rennie)Mama Junior (Angela Giarratana)Luciano Gorgonzola (Jeremy Culhane)
#Networking#Funerals#Career Advice
28:45 (1m 10s)
CHARACTER_INTRO

The Squirty Gum Collaboration

Darius Walker explains his avant-garde styling process which involves giving celebrities like Penelope Cruz crayons and 'squirty gum' to help them draw their feelings.

"I just give them like a pad and some crayons and say, draw how you want to look."

"Cranelope Cruz, if you don't mind."

Darius Walker (John Flynn)Emily Movies (Kylie Brakeman)
#Fashion#Styling#Celebrity Branding
31:11 (1m 27s)
VISUAL_GAG

Under Fire at the Bugsy Premiere

Emily Movies reboots her system while Grey Gray recounts being literally shot by Annette Bening on a red carpet, resulting in a kidney loss that no one in Hollywood would help with.

"I have to reboot myself every 20 minutes."

"Annette Bening pulled out a gun on me!"

Emily Movies (Kylie Brakeman)Grey Gray (Mark Rennie)Darius Walker (John Flynn)
#Red Carpet#Violence#Hollywood History
39:30 (2m 20s)
CHARACTER_INTRO

Red Carpet Correspondents Roll Call

The panel introduces their various niche media outlets, ranging from YouTube's Extra Extra Extra to the hyper-local East Hollywood Reporter which only covers a two-block radius.

"Extra Extra Extra is YouTube's version of Extra."

"I work for the East Hollywood Reporter, where we cover everything from the Los Feliz 3 to the Vista."

"It's like being a Marine and then going to Iraq because you're a fan of fighting."

Emily Movies (Kylie Brakeman)Mama Junior (Angela Giarratana)Godrick Gobbley (Patrick McDonald)Darius Walker (John Flynn)Grey Gray (Mark Rennie)Luciano Gorgonzola (Jeremy Culhane)
#Journalism#Entertainment#Niche Media
42:00 (1m 23s)
VISUAL_GAG

Darius Walker's Toddler Design Team

Stylist Darius Walker reveals his secret to affordable high fashion: a staff of three-year-olds who work for packs of gum and are currently in creative control of his preschool-oriented aesthetic.

"This year I've got a staff of all three-year-olds, and their fashion instincts are impeccable."

"They work for a pack of gum, so they're really affordable."

"Let the glue dry, you know what I mean?"

Darius Walker (John Flynn)Grey Gray (Mark Rennie)Emily Movies (Kylie Brakeman)Luciano Gorgonzola (Jeremy Culhane)
#Fashion#Labor Relations#Styling
49:10 (1m 10s)
VISUAL_GAG

Warren Beatty's House is a Lady

Luciano Gorgonzola explains his habit of visiting celebrity homes as a fan, establishing a rigid gender binary where houses are women and apartments are men.

"Houses are ladies, apartments are men. Everybody knows that."

"The house was wearing a lovely dress made from Spain."

"Spain is a great fabric for houses."

Luciano Gorgonzola (Jeremy Culhane)Grey Gray (Mark Rennie)Mama Junior (Angela Giarratana)
#Real Estate#Celebrity Culture#Architecture
51:20 (2m 20s)
GAME_OR_PITCH

The Clorox Sponsored Messy Moment

Emily Movies attempts to force a viral marketing moment for Clorox by asking the panel to share their 'messy' life stories that they eventually 'cleaned' with bleach.

"How do you Clorox clean? As in what was a messy life in your moment that you made clean?"

"My messy moment was when my father was on his deathbed and I asked him, 'Does he love you?' and he just looked away and died."

"I killed it with Clorox."

Emily Movies (Kylie Brakeman)Godrick Gobbley (Patrick McDonald)Darius Walker (John Flynn)Grey Gray (Mark Rennie)Mama Junior (Angela Giarratana)
#Advertising#Viral Marketing#Trauma