The Comedy Life of Brian

Something unexpected came up recently, and it is time that I wrote about it. I'm intentionally leaving out some specifics below, as I don't want to step on anyone's toes.

So a few weeks ago I was in Las Vegas on my honeymoon. The trip was great, but I wasn't able to unplug from the real world as much as I should have. In the middle of that, I got word of people quite adamantly trying to track me and my friend Greg down. Eventually they got a hold of Greg's sister. They got to us through a domain registrar so my guess was that they wanted to buy the rights to a domain we held. I was in no rush to deal with that, especially on my honeymoon.

Turns out that wasn't exactly the case. The reason that they got to us through Greg's sister based on info from a domain registration was because they were having trouble tracking us down. No offense if any of the trackers are reading, but I find that to be a little baffling - as far as I am concerned there is quite a bit of information on me floating around the web. My personal web site comes up #3 if you Google my name for example. Anyway...

The reason they were really after us was a bit of a surprise. They represented a production company and they were interested in optioning the rights to an old project of ours. Turns out that they had stumbled upon the Home Depot challenge in college when it was a bit of a buzz on the web, and the idea stuck with them. One of them apparently even went as far as printing out my journal from the bet and kept it on their bookshelf to revisit at a later date. I found that both amazing and super flattering.

So after putting our heads together, Greg and I made a day trip to meet with them. They ended up being reasonable guys who we could relate to for a variety of reasons. Also in the good news category, their specific idea for the project was interesting and most importantly they seemed to genuinely be excited about the material.

So a bunch of boring business bullshit followed, and eventually Greg and I agreed to option the rights to the concept. Regardless of what comes out of this, that is a major milestone for both of us considering that we both have goals to continue to grow our creative careers. It is entirely possible that nothing more will come out of the project. At the same time, it isn't an impossibility that this could develop into something tangible - and that would be good times. Regardless of any 'final' outcome we support the people who are taking a shot at moving this project forward and wish them the best of luck.

If there are any future updates fit to print, I'm on it. At some point, I'm sure I will have an opportunity to flesh out some more details.

Labels: comedy