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Guy Branum calls out 'worst Hollywood boss' he's ever had
"He was one of the dumbest human beings that I've ever experienced," Branum said.
Who gave Wile E. Coyote a prank show?
In a video posted on social media, comedian, actor, and writer Guy Branum is calling out the person he calls his "worst Hollywood boss."
While Branum didn't name names, he did leave some pretty clear clues as to the boss's identity.
"So, he is an actor whom I had co-starred with in a movie, and who also created a noteworthy prank show – and I'm going to get in trouble for this," Branum started.
"But I had really, like, just lost the best job I had ever had in the industry, was desperate for money, and a friend of a friend recommended me to write for this prank show," he continued. "And the guy who created it already kind of didn't like me, but he was scared of me, and I valued that."
"He was one of the dumbest human beings that I've ever experienced. Like, one day, he came in and he was like, 'God, I have got it! I've got an amazing prank that will blow your mind. What we're gonna do is, there are chalk artists and they're amazing. And we'll get a chalk artist, and he'll draw like a big chasm in the ground – he probably didn't know the word chasm – We'll pretend it was an earthquake and we'll shake, and then the star will be like, 'what?' And then we'll go outside and he'll see the chalk drawing and it'll be so real you'll think the earth is opened up because of an earthquake."
"And ladies and gentlemen," Branum concluded, "there's nothing harder than having to not laugh in your boss's face, understanding if you laugh in their face, you will not be able to pay rent, but they are saying the stupidest things imaginable.
Branum says that the unnamed boss "created a noteworthy prank show" and that the two had co-starred in a movie.
In 2011, Branum appeared in the romantic comedy No Strings Attached, starring Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher, who just so happened to create the popular prank show Punk'd. In that show, Kutcher would prank celebrities, another detail included in Branum's story.
Branum is also listed as a segment producer on 12 episodes of the series.
Now, Branum hasn't actually said anyone's name, so this is all just conjecture, but seeing as the only other movies he's co-starred in are First Time Female Director and Bros, and neither Chelsea Peretti nor Billy Eichner has had a prank show, the facts seem pretty clear.
Mey Rude is a journalist and cultural critic who has been covering queer news for a decade. The transgender, Latina lesbian lives in Los Angeles with her fiancée.
Mey Rude is a journalist and cultural critic who has been covering queer news for a decade. The transgender, Latina lesbian lives in Los Angeles with her fiancée.
