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Don Barris is not Jimmy Kimmel Guys

posted 21 years ago by koki400
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I hate to break all your hearts but i worked on this show in post production. First off, Don Barris is not Jimmy Kimmel in a fat suit. That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. Anyone who has been to the Comedy Store in LA knows who he is....his picture is upstairs in the belly room for Christsakes. Secondly, the plan in the limo was to delay Perry to the premiere so they obviously had a number of ways to keep him in the limo. In some of the footage you didn't see Perry is constantly talking about bands that he has "discovered" so they knew it would take very little to get Perry to talk about this. Also if you look at the old footage Perry is quite a bit skinner in all those tapes. Does he strike you as someone who is capable of losing weight for a role? The mole is in a bad wig and Perry only knows Tony Barberi as the mole. Tony used to crash Perry's cable access show as the mole so that is all Perry knows him as. The joke is on Perry not the audience. If the joke was intended to be on you, the make up and the characters would have been a lot more sophisticated....but you have to remember this joke started ten years ago and Perry bought the mole and the porn producer as is...so you can't have these characters change their looks because Perry already believes that they are who they say they are. There is no conspiracy, Perry really is just as he seems. I promise guys there really isn't a conspiracy here....Perry was set up and what you see is what you get. Lastly the reason you all didn't get to see the reveal and they did tape a reveal is Jimmy and Adam wanted the audience to question whether the joke was on Perry or on you....I guess it worked.

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[–] HankToms 21 years ago

Beefstake,
sorry buddy, ahhh first off I did work on the movie you can check my resume if you want Steven Ticknor on the imdb. Windy City Heat is not on there yet because it takes a few weeks for the imdb to verify credits but I think if i worked on Terminator 3 and Spiderman I could get a job on this movie. Secondly, I met Perry when he came to the studio to do ADR you probably have no idea what that is but actors sometimes do additional dialogue takes when the production dialogue is of poor or low quality. Because of the relatively low budget on this movie there were a lot of lines that needed to be re-recorded before they showed it on tv. Perry was very excited about having a movie on televison ie by this time he knew the joke was on him. I have seen hours of additional footage there was about 16-18 hours of stuff you didn't see. This was not a "parody of a reality show" this was a practical joke on a guy who is not smart and horribly untalented actor. It took him 2 days to redo about 20 lines, a good actor could do that in about four hours. So unfortunately the only case that is closed is that you beefstake are a retard.

[–] seandogg 21 years ago

Yo beefstake and the rest of you doubters,
When something is too good to be real, that doesn't automatically make it fake. I've screened WCH for a few of the uninitiated and one of them had the same dumbass conspiracy argument. It's seems to be motivated by jealousy. Face it, losers, the planets lined up and these cats made one of the funniest films of all time. If Spinal Tap was a 10, Windy City Heat turned it up to 11! Congrats to the Big 3!