#ANDY MILONAKIS TV#

NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. SIEGEL: Charles Monroe-Kane is a producer for Wisconsin Public Radio's To The Best of Our Knowledge.Ĭopyright © 2006 NPR. Smear some cream cheese in my gold locket, cause it's my show. MILONAKIS: So yo, I gotta go, it's time for me to rock it. So, Andy, I know you're 30 and I don't care. The unbending optimism and wishful thinking of America. Some of us actually believe reality shows aren't fake. In this homogenized, mass-produced country of ours, I feel like I'm always looking for something that's not fake. But I care if it's real, not if it's funny. MONROE-KANE: Why does this bother me so much anyway? I mean who cares if he's 12 or not? I guess I do. MILONAKIS (as Pancake Face): Wait, I am him and I love syrup. MILONAKIS: Does pancake face like syrup and butter. (Soundbite of the The Andy Milonakis Show) So I'm asking myself, is a talking pancake still funny? I put Andy's DVD on again and watched some of my old favorites. And I'm just another step closer to not believing in anything. How could I have been so dumb as to let the MTV machine fool me again? Here's one more thing I thought might be real that turns out to be fake. No, he's a 30-year-old man with a congenital growth hormone condition working with a team of some of MTV's best and brightest. Turns out Andy is not an endearing, though strange, 12-year-old kid making his own show.

MONROE-KANE: Truth arrived one day in the form of a New York Times article. Why do you have to always pressure me? Have a nice day. Unidentified Man: What do you mean you hate yourself? Not bad for a show that has cherubim-faced Andy skipping up to strangers and telling them, thanks for not stabbing me.

The video for a song, The Superbowl is Gay, is emailed around the world. Andy was discovered by late-night comedy icon Jimmy Kimmel. And I like that.īut the back story on the internet was even better. Sure, it's poorly done homemade videos of him trying to inflate a Twinkie with a bicycle pump, but he's got that goofy grin of a child unselfconsciously testing the world around him.

#ANDY MILONAKIS TV#

MONROE-KANE: Stupid, I know, but here's Andy Milonakis, a chubby, apartment-bound city kid who looks like he's about 12, who's writing, directing and acting in his own TV show. But more importantly, I wish I didn't have to deal with having a such a sucky pen pal. We have heat and we never have to worry about freezing to death. Write back soon, Freddy.ĭear Freddy, things are going great here in New York. Awesome!ĭearest Andy, today it was 35 degrees below zero. ANDY MILONAKIS (Comedian): I wonder if got a letter from my pen pal in Alaska. I couldn't believe a show this funny, this original was anywhere on TV, especially MTV. When I first saw The Andy Milonakis Show, my jaw dropped. Lately he's become a big fan of one of MTV's biggest stars. The channel debuted when he was in the sixth grade and he's still watching. You're listening to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News.Ĭommentator Charles Monroe-Kane is a member of the MTV Generation.

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