Interview: Handsome Donkey from Squeegees
"Squeegees" comes from the brilliant minds of the comedy team Handsome Donkey, dubbed "Online Auteurs" by the NY Times. "Squeegees" is a character-driven ensemble comedy about entrepreneurial slackers and their fledging window washing business. New "Squeegees" episodes will debut every Monday and Friday on both sites. "Squeegees" was created, executive produced and stars Handsome Donkey principals Adam Countee, Brendan Countee, Marc Gilbar and Aaron Greenberg.
"Working with Stage 9 on 'Squeegees' was an awesome experience," said Handsome Donkey. "They gave us creative control, abundant resources and a lovely gift basket filled with exotic jams and biscuits."
We had the honor of sitting down with the guys to talk about their series, and here's what they had to say:
Can you guys tell me a little bit about the show and the characters that you play?
Marc: Sure. What you probably don't know is that we're old friends, so a lot of where the show comes from is our interactions with one another. We spend a lot of time together; we have this company called Handsome Donkey. We essentially run this company which is making silly Internet videos together and in the Squeegees world we transplanted our dynamic into the wonderful world of high-rise window washing. Our characters are much more animated, fun, better looking versions of ourselves [laughs]. Adam and Brendan are brothers and they play Adam and BC in the show. Aaron who has earned the nickname Ronny many moons ago, plays the character Ronny. And I believe the name Ronny came from him correcting people about the pronunciation of his first name, he didn't like Erin, he wanted it to be AaRON. That became Ronny.
Aaron: These guys are from New Jersey, so with their accents they were always calling me Erin.
Marc: My last name is Gilbar, and I became Gil. But the show is about four college buddies who start a high-rise window washing company and immediately drive it into the ground. So it shows the trials and tribulations of trying to run a business when you don't know what you're doing. More or less [laughs].
How did you guys get involved in this project?
Aaron: We've been involved since the start of conception in our living room.
Marc: We got involved with Stage 9 a little over a year ago. We'd been making short films on our own for fun, and we were lucky enough to be included in a New York Times article in 2006. Stage 9 was just getting off the ground, and they brought us in for a meeting. We really hit it off, and we came back in and pitched a number of ideas. One of those was Squeegees, and that's the one they responded to the most. It was more ambitious production-wise than some of the other stuff. We thought it would be a funny idea, but had no idea of how we could get up on a high-rise building and shoot it. Stage 9 gave us a little bit of financing that allowed us to build the sets and have fun with the world of being 60 stories above the ground.
"Working with Stage 9 on 'Squeegees' was an awesome experience," said Handsome Donkey. "They gave us creative control, abundant resources and a lovely gift basket filled with exotic jams and biscuits."
We had the honor of sitting down with the guys to talk about their series, and here's what they had to say:
Can you guys tell me a little bit about the show and the characters that you play?
Marc: Sure. What you probably don't know is that we're old friends, so a lot of where the show comes from is our interactions with one another. We spend a lot of time together; we have this company called Handsome Donkey. We essentially run this company which is making silly Internet videos together and in the Squeegees world we transplanted our dynamic into the wonderful world of high-rise window washing. Our characters are much more animated, fun, better looking versions of ourselves [laughs]. Adam and Brendan are brothers and they play Adam and BC in the show. Aaron who has earned the nickname Ronny many moons ago, plays the character Ronny. And I believe the name Ronny came from him correcting people about the pronunciation of his first name, he didn't like Erin, he wanted it to be AaRON. That became Ronny.
Aaron: These guys are from New Jersey, so with their accents they were always calling me Erin.
Marc: My last name is Gilbar, and I became Gil. But the show is about four college buddies who start a high-rise window washing company and immediately drive it into the ground. So it shows the trials and tribulations of trying to run a business when you don't know what you're doing. More or less [laughs].
How did you guys get involved in this project?
Aaron: We've been involved since the start of conception in our living room.
Marc: We got involved with Stage 9 a little over a year ago. We'd been making short films on our own for fun, and we were lucky enough to be included in a New York Times article in 2006. Stage 9 was just getting off the ground, and they brought us in for a meeting. We really hit it off, and we came back in and pitched a number of ideas. One of those was Squeegees, and that's the one they responded to the most. It was more ambitious production-wise than some of the other stuff. We thought it would be a funny idea, but had no idea of how we could get up on a high-rise building and shoot it. Stage 9 gave us a little bit of financing that allowed us to build the sets and have fun with the world of being 60 stories above the ground.
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