Six
Characters is proud to present its new original video piece, Jim’s
No Good Very Bad Day.
The genesis
of this video piece occurred in the mid-70s when the Six Characters (who,
at the time, were called the Hot Buttered Love Biscuits) went on
a “heroic journey” sabbatical with the late author-turned-guru-turned-dead-guy
Terence McKenna. Dr. McKenna was expounding on his theories of mathematical
unification when his head spontaneously turned into a Danish-speaking
hamster. As Kym struggled to keep all the bugs off her skin, she had an
idea that would turn the comedy world on its ear.
Twenty-five
years later, Kym remembered that idea and flung herself out of the third
story window of Charles Nelson Reilly High School, plummeting to her death.
She was subsequently replaced with a biomechanical android (The BlondeBot
4000), but the remaining Characters still felt that an appropriate tribute
was in order.
Phone calls
were made and before they knew it, Six Characters had raised over forty
million dollars and had signed some of Hollywood’s top talent.
“Everyone who was anyone was there,” recalls
Alex. “Kathleen Turner, Michael Bolton, that girl who played Felicity,
Scumtroll the talking armpit. It was amazing to be part of something so
big… And so important… And so big.”
With a multi-million dollar budget and an all-star cast
secured, Six Characters had nothing left to do but blow the entire budget
on science experiments with Twinkies.
“Sure, we lost Bolton,” said Seth at the time.
“But I’ll bet you didn’t know that Twinkies are an effective
replacement for seat-cushion flotation devices on airplanes. If that’s
what you call ‘ruining a great project’ then you can just
call me Kevin Costner.”
With only $14 to their name (and an excess of 40,000 Twinkie
wrappers), Six Characters decided to plow ahead with their labor of love,
even though no one really remembered why they were doing it in the first
place.
And the film you see before you is the result of their
epic toil. Watch it with someone you love… Or at least someone you
like… Unless you’re a Republican… In which case you
probably don’t like anyone.