Hot on the heels of the last video produced for 92YTribeca (you know the one, “There’s also The Bimonthly Ender, The Mid Bimonthly Ender, and The Mid Bimonthly Weekender Weekend Weekender!”), comes the video above, promoting Purim Party ‘09 with Wyatt Cenac and John Oliver Featuring The Shushan Channel at 92YTribeca. And following in the footsteps of it’s predecessor, The Shushan Channel’s Mad Men spoof Mushugene Men, is making the rounds across the internet, being featured in too many places to count, but we’re going to try! For example, The Huffington Post, Gothamist, LA Weekly / Hollywood Daily, VideoGum, HEEB, Jewssip, No Fact Zone (The Stephen Colbert fan site), and VideoSift. The video was directed by Mike Shapiro, written by Sheryl Zohn and Rob Kutner, features Amy Sedaris as Netty Draperberg, and was executive produced by Stephen Levinson, who also produced the Weekender parody and directed the wildly popular Jewno parody. Phew!
The full cast and creative team is below:
MESHUGENE MEN
Directed by: Mitch Magee
Written by: Sheryl Zohn & Rob Kutner
Executive Producer: Stephen Levinson
Co-Executive Producers: Sheryl Zohn & Rob Kutner
Cinematography by: Todd Bieber
Edited by: Todd Bieber
CAST
Dan Draperberg - Matthew Walton
Peggy Olstein - Megan Neuringer
Sol Romandel - Jeff Kreisler
Pete Cohen - DC Pierson
Roger Sterning - Eric Slovin
Joan Holowitz - Ellie Kemper
Pavel Kinstein - Shek Baker
Christina - Andree Vermeulen
Netty Draperberg - Amy Sedaris
Client - Doug Nervik
Art: Andrew Lin
Theme song klezmerization: Jesse Novak
Hair Stylist: Jackie Chan
Makeup Artist - Emylou Rodriguez
Production Assistants:
Rebecca Gold
Josh Hirshfeld
Matthew Knauff
Rachel Shelasky
Special Thanks to:
Vanessa Cohen
Cliff Schoenberg
Bart Coleman
With apologies to Matthew Weiner