
We Cause Scenes
So Cody, do you want to start
passing out the flashlights?
Here's how I'd like you guys
to hold it.
I'd like you to hold a flashlight
with your left thumb on green,
on white.
And if you want to get fancy,
you can press them both at the
same time and it'll switch.
Right?
Uh... or you can you know, press
one quickly and press the other.
Is anyone definitely
afraid of heights?
Ready?
One, two, three, on.
On my cue:
One, two, three, green.
One, two, three, go.
Now with both lights up and
down in an alternating pattern.
Now move both lights
in random directions.
Start dancing.
randomly.
High energy.
This is the finale.
You're going about
your business,
maybe you work in a nine-to-five
job but on Tuesday night,
you know you've gotta go meet Charlie
Todd and his Improv Everywhere group
and... you have no idea
what this mission's gonna be.
When everybody's kind of in
on the joke,
everybody gets to feel like,
"Oh!"
That empowering feeling.
That is... why people
do Improv everywhere.
People are going
through their life,
in a very routine way,
and a very normal way.
And all of a sudden, there is
this thing that makes it "Now!"
This like, exact moment that's like "Oh!
I am very alive now!"
That's the end goal,
is that somebody goes home
and they're like,
saw on the subway today. "
I've never seen Charlie
drop sweat or look nervous
and yet he's accomplishing
all this things.
It's unnerving.
It's weird.
Welcome to the running
of the Bright Park Steaks.
Italy, and Sweden, and France.
Charlie Todd has planted
his seed, for sure.
When I first met Charlie,
he just told me
"I really like
organized fun. "
And that's all
Improv Everywhere is.
It's just him organizing fun.
I moved to New York
in... July of 2001.
I graduated college and then just
took two suitcases to New York City.
Directing, that's gotta be
an interesting thing.
How did you get into doing
that?
Well um...
Wanted to be a movie star
when I grow up.
So um... decided
I'd audition for a play.
I moved to New York
to be an actor.
plays or I'd direct plays.
Media now
is-is all sorts of things.
It's like your CD-R.
Uh... your, um, CD-RW.
Um, they got this new thing, it's just hitting
the shelves this Spring, called DVD-R.
that's a difficult thing to do.
You're absolutely nobody when
you arrive in New York City.
And there's hundreds, if not
thousands of people just like you.
I was in New York literally stuffing
envelopes all day at temp jobs.
But... every moment
when I was not doing that
I was trying to express
myself in a creative way
so that I could...
feel good about myself.
Almost every night that I went
out, I would do something weird.
I was constantly trying
to amuse myself.
And I was taking advantage
of the fact that nobody knew me
and that I could...
make a fool of myself
no consequences.
About a month
after I was in New York,
my friends Brandon Arnold and Jon
Karpinos were visiting one weekend.
So when I went to meet Brandon,
he said "What's up, Ben Folds?"
And I was like,
"What are you talking about?"
He said
"Oh, that shirt you're wearing,
it makes you look
like Ben Folds. "
Right then, just a little, like
light bulb went off in my head
and I said "Let's see, if we can make
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