Wednesday, September 3, 2014

The Tommy Wi-Show is Even Weirder Than You Expect

Tommy Wiseau, the anti-visionary director behind the cult classic, The Room, has been busy. This time he's tethered to a much smaller screen: your laptop. Growing media giant, Machinma, provided Tommy with a venue to express his various eccentricities. He is the host/subject of a weekly web series called The Tommy Wi-Show.

On the Wi-Show, Tommy generally sticks to playing video games, although he occasionally drifts off into the stranger corners of his mind and viewers are rewarded with comedy gold. His trademark "Ha, Ha, Ha..." laugh makes many appearances as well. The production values aren't excellent, but they're good enough to fully capture the force of nature that is Tommy Wiseau.

I can't tell if I feel sorry or envious of the poor souls that are behind the camera for this one. It is a rare opportunity to be able to film one of the strangest human beings alive, but it's impossible to imagine how absurdly long it takes to make a series of 10-minute episodes. During the filming of one scene in The Room, Tommy reportedly took 33 takes to do a scene in which he had two short lines.

Props to Machinma and their crew for creating this.


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