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Dudes in Bed
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Welcome to the world of Dudes in Bed, where if you're a straight man, any topic is fair game as long as your pants are off. In this first episode of the ongoing web series, Dan Bialek and guest stars Ryan O'Neill and Jeff Danis sprawl across a queen-sized bed (beloning to Bialek's girlfriend Amanda) and discuss Jeff's recent haircut. It's not quite as gay as it sounds. Well. Maybe.
Dan Bialek held any number of odd jobs, including covering city council meetings for the Hermosa Beach Easy Reader and interviewing extreme sports stars for ESPN (the hardest part of which, he says, was "asking them to stop smoking pot so we could interview them on camera"). But five years ago, Dan began his career in the world of stand-up comedy, starting as The Comedy Store's doorman and eventually working his way up to regular performance and hosting gigs at the legendary club.
When asked to develop a comedy series for NBC Universal's Dot Comedy.com, Bialek turned to the Internet for inspiration, and realized what was popular: naked people. Specifically, naked girls. "When I was looking around, it seemed like every show had a half-naked girl or a girl in a bikini hosting it," Bialek says, "but nothing with guys. So I thought it would be funny to shift the paradigm the other way, by having guys sitting around talking guy stuff."
What constitutes guy stuff? "Not what you'd think. I mean, I don't know anything about sports. When guys get together, they usually end up talking about their dads, because everyone has a story about their dad doing something crazy. Like, my dad chased the school bully with a hammer in his Corvette. Ryan's dad illegally raised a falcon in Indiana." The only topics that haven't come up so far are sex or pornography, because "with three guys in their underwear on a girl's bed, it gets way too weird way too quickly." Bialek observes that while at first the guys find the situation a bit uncomfortable, eventually everyone relaxes. "It's kind of like hanging out in a jacuzzi. The first five minutes are really strange, then everyone gets used to the water and it's fine."
Bialek is excited for future episodes of "Dudes in Bed," which he says he can literally produce forever. "I've got a lot of extroverted stand-up comedy friends. So it's just a matter of luring them over to my house with pizza and beer and X-Box. Once they're there, I ask if they're wearing underwear or not -- and if they say yes, I'm like, 'guess what we're doing for the next 20 minutes?'"
-Liz Miller
Dan Bialek
The first show on the web to feature Dan and his heterosexual male comic friends talking about men's issues in their underwear.
Comedy, Web Series
Himself : Dan Bialek
Himself : Ryan O'Neill
Himself : Jeff Danis
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