From On Patrol #25: Time Goes Fast In Busy Day Life
May 21st, 2012
At this point we knew that Joe Fey, who played Jabadiah, was going to be leaving at the end of the year, and the future of Major Grotto was very much up in the air. Joe was serving as the play’s editor, as well as writing a lot of the jokes with me, and this was one of the last things we worked on together. I think it’s also the only time that Joe ever broke character and couldn’t keep from laughing. We’d talked a lot about the ridiculous scene in The Matrix Reloaded where Lawrence Fishburne addresses this massive crowd in a cave – something that has stuck with me from childhood – and the decision to have Joe read that script verbatim worked out perfectly. Honestly I’m a little mad at myself for how much I lost it, but Joe holding this annotated paragraph in his hand, having watched the clip a million times, was just too much. Also, Morgan Ann Gray had done that Claudette voice a lot – the old-timey “I’m a woman, I have rights” thing – and so incorporating it into the show was a must. Her and David talking about the Dusty Clam is so hilarious.
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from Off Duty: The Best of On Patrol With Peter Raffel,
released September 19, 2018
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Featuring:
Peter Raffel
Joe Fey
David Lewis
Nico Glennon
Morgan Ann Gray
Mari Ayala
Greta Schmitt
Kanami Fukuda
Maggie Ward
