“Whose Mime is it Anyway?” Launches Despite Writers’ Strike
With the writer’s strike in full swing, I’m benefiting handsomely. My treatment for a new comedy, “Whose Mime is it Anyway?” has been picked up by a major (I can’t tell you which) network. Doesn’t hurt that I’ve already written the pilot and first eight episodes. Enough to stretch into most of a season. With ‘24′ postponed (Kiefer used to be my old body double, so I’m really happy to see him finally get his due), I’m thinking a perfect slot has opened up.
The basic concept is this: World-famous mimes Shields and Yarnell (click this link to jog your memory) are traveling with their four year-old son. Looking to found a Marcel Marceau museum in inner-city Chicago, they lose track of young Preston during a botched convenience store holdup. Shields saves the day by miming himself into a badass gunslinger, but in the commotion young Preston wanders off……and smack into the home of the Dayton Family. Hilarity ensues when the young white mime tries to enlist the help of the urban black family. . .WITHOUT WORDS!! Get it? He’s a mime! He can’t talk! HARHARHARHAHAHA! Oh my god, that’s so darned funny! Isn’t it?
Thinking he’s a racially-insensitive deaf mute with a bad habit for flashing offensive gang signs, the Daytons adopt Preston into their family. Each laugh-track filled episode follows Preston, in full white face makeup, and the Daytons as they try to figure out “WHOSE MIME IS IT ANYWAY???????”
Yeah, I know. It’s fucking genius. And the reason I’m walking funny? My pockets are loaded with cash from FO. . .oh wait, I can’t tell you. Just stay tuned.
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