Situation: Watch this TV show

After cleaning up a flood of biblical proportions in our apartment (you’ll have to listen to our next podcast for further details) I headed over to my computer to sit down and rest my arthritic joints. I was checking my RSS reader and saw over at Gothamist that there is an interview with Bex Schwartz (performance artist, poet, comedian, producer and one of those talking heads on those addictive VH1 shows about how celebs spend their money). After I read the interview I headed on over to check out her blog. There I learned that my former counselor from Kikecamp (Mark Treitel) is now a finalist on Bravo’s Situation: Comedy, a Project: Greenlight-esque reality show about the making of a sitcom pilot. His idea is an updated version of Small Wonder, where Vicki the Robot and that annoying redhead neighbor with the freckles are pimped out by a crack addicted Jamie Lawson. No it’s not, but I think that would be really funny. Anyway, together with his writing partner Shoe Schuster they managed to beat out 10,000 applicants and are now certified reality television stars. Their pilot is called “The Sperm Donor” and when the time comes you should vote for it. In the meantime, check the show out on Friday Night at 7 PM (eastern time).

I haven’t seen Mark in years. In fact, the last time I spoke to him was probably in the early nineties standing outside of our synagogue during Rosh Hashana or Yom Kippur services back on Strong Island. He’s a really funny guy and wrote the most irreverent play that Camp Ramah in the Berkshires has ever seen!

As I mentioned above Mark was my camp counselor. It was 1989, I was a 15 year old with slight behavior problems and desperately in need of ritalin. Mark was fairly tolerant of my nonsense, tantrums and incessant ramblings and is without a doubt responsible for my undying love of everything Elvis Costello. Spike was the first Elvis album I had heard (although I had heard the song Alison before but it didn’t really do it for me) and when the summer ended I got my hands on Costello’s entire back catalogue.

Thanks Mark!