College Buddy

My long time friend since college Josh Beckerman will be in town on Friday to visit me. He lives in New York so we only get to see each other once a year. So far he's managed to visit us once for each time that we've moved to a different apartment. This probably equals to just about once every year for the last six years at least.

Josh and I met on the set of "J.C. and the Mangy Goat Herders," a skit comedy show that was put on by a group of broadcasting students. I got involved my freshman year and stuck with the production until my Junior year when things got too busy for me to attend the tapings. Josh had been on the show already. We worked together in a few skits, and eventually ended up collaborating a couple of times. We also hung out after the tapings. I think that we have a common sense of humor. Years after I graduated from college Josh and I taped a couple of skits on our own but I don't know if they lived up to the standard set by "J.C. and the Goat Herders" or its predecessor "Aardvark."

Josh chose to parody the CBS show "Survivor" back when it was still red hot. Later on, we did a skit where a son rides with his father to his first day of college only to get into an uncomfortable argument. We recorded this skit while I was driving (carefully I should add) and on the campus of CMU. I was able to throw in a couple of nuggets of wisdom that my dad told me over the years. I enjoyed acting in the skit.

Now that Kayla and Josh are older (Kayla was only a baby the first time Josh visited, and my son Josh was merely a conversation about the future) perhaps they can star in skits of their own while Josh and I direct. Its certainly worth a try and beats my having to pretend that I can act.