The Sarah Crisman Show: Doug Benson!?

Doug Benson, Sarah Crisman and I sit down for a movie or at least to be in one.
For weeks now Sarah has been telling everyone I know of our newest guest on The Crisman show, Doug Benson. At first I was like 'Doug Benson, Doug Benson, that name sounds so familiar.' And then I had an A-ha moment and it hit me when I realized the star of Super High Me wanted to be on our show!? And he had watched our Pentagrass episode!? Someone plugged into the Hollywood scene was taking notice of The Sarah Crisman Show and my hard work to make it possible!? I felt honored more than anything to be able to be part of this episode and meet the man behind a counter movement in the reformation of drug laws in America.
Sarah had arranged for us to meet Doug at the Angelika in Dallas at Mockingbird Station to film our next episode. Early that morning I rushed to grab my gear, gassed up the van and made my journey from little D to Big D. Amidst the pouring rain and bumper to bumper traffic I was able to make it just in time to barely set up my shot and hang a Crisman Show sign before the man himself was in our presence. I've heard people say that Sarah's interview in this episode was alot like watching a couple on their first date. It was a bit awkward for both of them at first, but after a few rounds of Q & A the butterflies faded and they really got down to business.

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I wish I could of put more clips into this episode, they talked for a good half hour about a wide range of topics; including Sarah's outlook on the 4 most famous people that have come out of Dallas, which included...

The Sarah Crisman Show: Doug Benson Bonus Episode from patrick flaherty on Vimeo.

Following the interview we spoke with Doug about shooting part of his performance at Hyena's, around the corner, later that night. He agreed, but asked that we only shoot the first 5 minutes of his performance. So we shook his hand, I packed up the gear and I made my way back to little D to finish packing for a trip I was going on that weekend. Around 6 or so I threw some things in the van and again made the trek back to Mockingbird Station, but this time I was pretty excited because I was getting to see live stand-up comedy (for the first time, ya I know I live under a rock). The comedians were hilarious and Doug's set had me rolling on the floor. I was only able to put the very beginning of his set on the Crisman Show, here is the what I left out.


After the show we had our photos taken with Doug and we met the other comedians. We hung around for awhile, laughing and telling stories which was cool. As we did this I attempted to tear a piece of my pant leg off that was bugging me, but was having no success. I mentioned this to drunk Crisman (she had been drinking champagne since 3) who quickly volunteered to assist me in my time of need. She bent down and proceeded to rip my pants all the way up to the back of my knee. I tell you this cause at the time it was pretty funny and at the same time rather uncomfortable for yours truly.

We had a blast hanging out with Doug, but Sarah and I had to depart, rather quickly in fact. Our next stop was Lafayette, Louisiana and we were going to drive through the night to get there in time. Our journey there and the events that transpired is in itself a completely different amazing story. We said our farewells and told Doug to give us a holler next time he was in town, which I hope he does. It would be awesome to show him a good time in DFW...