‘The Onion’ and ‘Letterman’ personalities bring Found Footage Festival to Tampa this month

'Oral Aerobics' is just the begining

By Ray Roa on Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 2:05 pm

c/o Found Footage Festival

Joe Pickett (L) and Nick Prueher, who bring the Found Footage Festival to New World Brewery in Tampa, Florida on March 28, 2024.

We’ve all got old VHS tapes, but very few of us properly celebrate the dusty cartridges and what’s on them. Not filmmakers Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher, who’ve been collecting them since 1991 and have more than 11,000.

Pickett, a 12-year-contributor to The Onion, and Prueher, a former “Late Show with David Letterman” writer, co-host YouTube series “VCR Party Live!,” where they did up zany old clips for discussion.

Their Found Footage Festival celebrates a 20th anniversary this year, and tour dates will take it to Europe, but not before four stops in Florida. Expect to see footage from the massive collection along with new finds, then year commentary from the duo.

A press release says that highlights of the new show include:

A retrospective of the Magical Rainbow Sponge crafting videos and a tribute to its star, Dee Gruenig
A new montage of exercise videos, including a Christian workout called “Believercise” and a tongue aerobics tape called “Oral Aerobics”
A mysterious New Age video called “Elimination: The First Step.”

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Ray Roa

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief in August 2019. Past work can be seen at Suburban Apologist, Tampa Bay Times, Consequence of Sound and The...

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