From On Patrol #70: It’s Not About The Umbrella
June 9th, 2014

One of my favorite things to do on the show was to have people play these twisted versions of themselves – sort of an extrapolation of my own exaggerated on-air persona. This really worked well with something as long-form as On Patrol: since people were coming on regularly it led to these characters, and eventually bits like this. I was always teasing Intern Will about his love of reverb – later to be spoofed on with the Infinite Reverb Pedal – and Morgan Ann Gray was really into period pieces; Mitch Greenberg and I were constantly talking about Star Wars, both on-air and off, and then I decided to have Anastasia Skliarova be obsessed with meat for some reason. We had all these personalities for people to shift in and out of – it was quite organic, which was always something I loved about the show. This bit was for the year’s finale and I’d been making a lot of SNL jokes throughout the term, so it made sense to do a cold open like this. The best part is when Mitch calls me a terrible writer, reading from a script that I wrote. This was just as we were going into the last year of the program, when the characters and situations became even more outlandish and interconnected – it was really a launching pad for the craziness of senior year.