Freestyle baby.  Go with the flow. . .

Thanks to those out there in cyber world who tuned into to see me hack it up on Las Vegas.  Trust me, I realize that is a tough show to sit through. THANKS!

So I saw Garth Friday night.  For all you L.A. locals who know about his five concerts at the Staples, I was at the 10:00 PM show.  I thought it was great.  Third time I’ve seen him, and even though Im not a big Country fan (really, I’m not)  I can appreciate true showmanship when I see it.  Only bummer though:  Garth is getting old.  Still sounds great and played forever, but the days of swinging from rope ladders and stage diving appear to be over.  Sad, but true. 

It has now been raining here for about 4 months.  Ok, maybe only 5 days, but it feels like 4 months.  Sun is out now, but rumor has it more rain is on the way.  I hate the two weeks a year of precipitation that we get!

Tiger won the Buick at Torrey Pines yesterday.  I’m playing Torrey Pines in March.  The U.S. Open will be at Torrey Pines in June.  I am . . .Tiger Woods.

Watched the SAG awards last night.  Big Congrats to my good buddy Oscar Nunez for winning his second Saggie for the cast of The Office.  No big suprises though overall.  Will the Oscars be more “shocking?”  Think you know who will win?  Play in my Oscar pool!  Just click on the Academy Awards tab.

No word yet on whether or not my AMC pilot is going to series.  No news is good news thought, right?  Maybe not.

I now officially can’t stand Facebook.  I mean if I get one more friggin invitation to take a test or bite a zombie, Im going to rip my hair out.  Wait, I cant afford to lose anymore hair.  Scratch that.

Looked like I as headed to NYC next week but I would have had to travel on Superbowl Sunday.  That ain’t happening!  Catch ya next time New Yorkers.

I have never looked good in purple.

I’ve never tried hummus and I never will.  Because it’s called “hummus.”

Love,

Regan

Let’s see if I can answer all the B.K. questions at once here, because they have been flying in at my website (www.reganburns.com) and here at myspace.  Here we go . . .

1) “Is that you in those Burger King commercials?”  Ummmm, yes.  You can see the full length spot/short movie at www.whopperfreakout.com or on my homepage here on myspace.

2) “Are those really real customers in the commercials?”  Yes, they are. 

3) “Did they know they were being filmed?”  No, they didn’t.  As some of you may or may not know, I had my own hidden camera show on Spike for two seasons called Oblivous (Shameless plug: Best of DVD now available at Amazon.com).  We spent a week in Vegas setting up cameras and rehearsing to make sure that everything looked as legitimate as possible. No one had any idea.

4) “Didn’t people recognize you?”  A few.  But you really would be suprised how “oblivious” people can be.  They aren’t really expecting to see me working in a Burger King in Las Vegas. 

5) “Did people really get that upset about not being able to get a whopper?”  Well, some did.  If you’ve seen the longer spot you will also see that one of the pranks we pulled was to put a Big Mac or Wendys burger in their bag instead of a whopper.  That one REALLY got em fired up!

6) “Did anyone try to punch you?”  Believe it or not, the customers that they decided to show were among the more “calm” victims.  There were some people who were not used (I’m sure because of the f bombs being dropped) that I certainly thought might jump the counter.  But no, it never came to violence.

7) “Why are you doing commercials?  Is Halfway Home over?”  Ummm, yeah, Halfway Home is done.  RIP dear show.   And as some of you may have heard, there is a writers strike going on right now.  There are no TV shows to work on!   In other words, work is work.  And to be honest, I like doing commercials.  It’s easy work, pays great and takes up very little time. 

Speaking of which, one of my Capital One spots from last year is running again, Kia is still floating around out there (look quickly for me shooting a loaf of bread) and I will be filming a . . .wait for it . . .Tidy Cat spot next week.  Long live commercials.

8) Finally, “anything coming up?”  Well, I shot a pilot for AMC right before the holidays tentatively called, AMC’s Q&A Movie.  I hosted the pilot and it’s basically a wrap around show for a movie each week (think Dinner and a Movie) where I interview the stars and makers of a movie being shown on AMC.  We did The Matrix for the pilot.  We should have an answer pretty soon.  Fingers crossed.

No word on when my episode of Notes From the Underbelly is going to air (if it airs), but I can tell ya that my guest star appearance on NBC’s Las Vegas is scheduled for January 18th.  Set the tivos.

Guess that does it for now.  Been trying to see as many movies as possible here during award season and my annual Oscar contest is right around the corner.  I”ll keep ya posted.

More later.  Im beat.

Rock on,

Regan

Hey Gang,

Regan here and I have soooo much meaningless shit to fill you in on.   And I know how my fans LOVE the meaningless shit.  Let’s go!

Yes, I was in Vegas last week for six days filming a series of “hidden camera” commercials for our friends at the Burger King.  Yours truly was in disguise as a Burger King employee, messing with people in line and at the drive thru.  And yes, after 6 days spent in a Burger King, I do still smell like a french fry.  Strike that.  An onion ring.

Regan sighting!  Look for me next week on TV Land in the special “Entertainment Weekly & TV Land Present: The 50 Greatest TV Icons.”  The special airs at 8:00 PM Eastern time, next friday the 16th and I’m sure re-runs a bazillion times after that. 

No word yet on when my guest spots on Las Vegas and Notes From the Underbelly will air, but it should be pretty soon.

My travelogue for American Airlines in London is now up.  You can go to http://www.aadvantagemilestones.com/London/index.php and check out the new video and outtakes, as well as re-visit the Rome and Hawaii videos.  Paris is coming soon. 

Unfortunately, I just found out that American Airlines has cancelled their plans to send me to several other locations this coming year to film more.  There was talk of Rio, Argentina, China, Japan, etc.  Here’s one I’ve never heard before; “The company has decided to go in a different direction.”  Shocking.  Rumor has it they want to get away from the comedy and try a “cooking around the world” theme.  Whatever.  It was a great gig while it lasted and I made some cool friends while shooting them.  And I went to friggin Rome and Paris and London!

I had the great fortune to perform at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre last night in my buddy, Jimmy Pardo’s show, Running Your Trap along side Paul F. Thompkins.  Jimmy is a super talent and it was great to help him out with his show.  Anyone in the L.A. area should definitely check it out the next time it is up.  I think he runs it once or twice a month.

Also, continuing on the note of pushing my friend’s projects, check out my buddy, Oded Gross’s new music video, “Just Found a Red Sock in the Laundry While Washing My Klu Klux Klan Sheet.”  Go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgwnkNDT4Yg
And who hasn’t seen Todd Glass’s new To Catch a Predator takeoffs yet?  If you haven’t, they are too friggin funny.  Starring Spade, you can catch both episodes and outtakes at: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=21343204

And rumor has it there is some kind of strike going on right now.  Poor, poor writers.  “Ohhh, we don’t make enough money.”  Just because they are the central creative force behind everything you see on television and film, they think they actually deserve a fair precentage of the billions of dollars that studios take in for DVD sales and (one day) on-demand internet sales.  Even though they are the heart and soul of everything that holds the industry together, the scripts, they can’t be happy with their $0.01 cut of every DVD sold in the world. What a bunch of greedy SOBs!  Don’t they understand how hard the studios work to fuck up almost any project that they lay their hands on by dumbing it down and sucking the intelligence out of every show and movie?  These guys (and yes, gals) that work for the studios obviously deserve at least 85% of the product.  Hell, they deserve at least 98% of it.  We can just divide the 2% left between the directors, actors, writers, and various other artists that actually create the material.  Doesn’t that seem fair to you??   Alright, enough sarcasm.  Support the WGA!

And now that I have spoken up for the writers, what the hell have they done with Heroes??  I watched the first season on DVD over the summer and got hooked.  What a fun, well made show.  This season?  What the F?  I have never seen a show go from ultra cool, to super lame so quickly.  It’s like the writers for Heroes went on strike at the beginning of the summer and let their kids take over.  Hiro in ye olde Japan, that looks like my backyard.  Claire is a whiny brat who despite everything that has happened to her, still cares about being a friggin cheerleader.  Amnesia?  COME ON!  You’re killing me Smalls, you’re killin me.

Next Tuesday is my big year end golf tournament for my golf club.  We’ve got 80 golfers teeing off at Black Gold Golf Club in Yorba Linda, and I will be bringing it, Arnie Palmer style.

My training for the Chesebro Half Marathon in April continues . . .slowly.  Why do I run again? 

I had to miss Bruce Springsteen last week since I was in Vegas.  Rumor has it, he sang a lot of songs about growing up in Jersey and some girl he met by a river.

I’ve settled on the new Camry Hybrid, black, fully loaded for my next ride.  This will end my 9 year run in Beemers.  I was going to get another one, but then NBC decided to go green for a week, and boy, that changed everything!  

Craving of the moment:  Salsa.

Sweet, open mouth kisses,

Regan

Ok, late night bloggin here so expect many a typo and grammatical error.  Also, there will probably be no real coherent thoughts.

Craig Ferguson’s Really Big Game Show is really dead.  I went out and played a comissoratoy round of golf this week with one of the shows producers and costar Joshua Funk.  We laughed, we cried, we smoked cigars (ok, I gagged on a cigar).  So, moving on to the next project.  What’s a guy got to do to get a hit show in this town??

The list of guest star appearances continues to grow.  After shooting spots on Back to You and Las Vegas, I did a guest spot earlier this week on ABC’s Notes From the Underbelly.  And, I failed to mention in my last babbling blog that the episode of Las Vegas that I shot was directed by John Badham.  That was SUPER cool.  For those of you too young to know who he is, he directed just about every cool movie I grew up on.  Blue Thunder, War Games, Short Circuit, oh, and a little film called Saturday Night Fever!  Super nice cat.  That’s what us old guys call each other . . .CAT.

Race season is upon us.  I have several 5 and 10Ks coming up in the next couple of months as I begin the training process for my first ½ marathon in March.  YES, I have run my last full marathon.  2 is enough!  But then again, Sean Connery said never again, right before he made that last crappy Bond movie with Kim Basinger.

My mom turns 60 next week.  DAMN, that’s like grandparent age!  (She doesn’t read this, right?)

My golf tournament this November has changed locations.  We will now be holding it at The Black Gold Golf Club in Yorba Linda.  Again, any local golfers who want to come out for a great event on November 13^th, drop me a line!  Tons of contests and prizes, lunch and oh yeah, golf.

New Shows?  I watched Journeyman on NBC.  Well done, but not that compelling.  And Bionic Woman was a real letdown tonight. (TIVO baby)  I’m a HUGE Battlestar G. fan, and you sir, are no Battlestar G!

Oh, and speaking of new shows, one of this summer’s most promising programs, FX’s Damages has dwindled into yet another really long cock tease.  If you watch it, you know what I’m talking about.

Well, all my green friends will be happy.  It looks like my new car is going to be the new Toyota Camry Hybrid.  I’ve driven it a few times now, and while it’s certainly no Beemer, it’s still a nice ride and gets about 12 more miles per gallon compared to my BMW.  However, I still have until April to change my mind when my lease runs out.  So nothing is official!!

Now, you should be watching my buddies alerts!!

Make sure you are watching my friend, Oscar Nunez on the new season of The Office.

Make sure you are watching my friend, JP Manoux on the new season of E.R.

Make sure you continue to watch my friend, Joel McHale on E!’s Talk Soup.

Make sure to watch my friend, Steve Agee in the new season of The Sarah Silverman Program.

Ok, enough shit about my friends, back to me.  Oh wait, I’m unemployed right now . . .nevermind.

Off to bed.  I have a voice over audition tomorrow for KFC and you know what that means.  I’ve got to sell me some chicken!!

Hey Gang,

It’s been awhile since I’ve typed away on here.  Just havent had the opportunity, what with all the excitement!  Ok . . .so, that’s a lie.  No real excitement.  I’ve really just been so deep in thought lately about what this thing called life is all about and how I fit into it. . . .ok, that’s a lie too.  I’m just not that deep.  Would you believe I’ve been busy eating cheese doodles and watching Survivorman on Discovery?  I mean, that guy drinks his own pee for crying out loud!

So, let’s get to it:

We taped the CBS pilot a few weeks ago and I think it went pretty good,  The show (originally titled, The Wizard) is now called Craig Ferguson’s Really Big Game Show.  At least for now.  Both Joshua Funk, myself, and of course Craig Ferguson returned for this version of the pilot and were now joined by Danielle Gaither of Mad TV and Maribeth Monroe of Thank God You’re Here fame.  This hybird/improvised/game show is now in the hands of the suits over at CBS and we will see what happens.  I would imagine it will still be a month or two before we know if they want to pick it up as a series or not.  Yes, that’s right, I’ll keep ya posted.

For those of you that have been watching What I Learned About . . .From the Movies, I can only say thank you and I hope my comments have left an indelible mark on your souls.  The Reelz Channel continues to air new episodes each Monday night and then re-run them several times during the week.  This week, What I Learned About Cracking a Conspiracy From the Movies.  And most episodes from past weeks are being re-aired as well.  Check you listings!

As some of you may know (Ok, two of you), I worked on the movie, The Island with Ewan McGregor, Scarlett J, and directed by Michael Bay.  Unfotunately, my scenes all ended up on the editing room floor.  Well, this past week, Michael Bay requested me to help him film an industrial for Cisco communications.  He needed actors and was nice enough to think of yours truly.  We filmed for two days at his production company in Santa Monica and it was a blast.  I played a French (yes, French) production designer named Francois working on Michael’s next big movie.  All of my scenes were with Mr. Bay (who played himself) and it was a blast.  Although the short film is for in-house use only, it may eventually air on the internet (doesn’t everything eventually air somewhere on here!).  And I did get the, ”can’t wait to work with ya on Transformers 2″ vibe from him, so we’ll see how the cards play out.

I filmed more episodes of TV Land’s Myths and Legends this week as well.  Those will air sometime later this fall.  

I’m on hold right now to shoot another episode of Fox News’ 1/2 News Hour this coming Thursday (the 23rd) to air next Sunday (the 26th).  I’ll let ya know if it actually happens.  My last taping with them got cancelled at the last minute.

Think that covers the work.  The family and I just got back from a small vacation up North in the San Luis Obispo area.  Always good to get out of the L.A. area and just de-program for a few days. 

I will be hosting a golf tournament Labor Day weekend here in So Cal. at the Knollwood Golf Course in Granada Hills.  If there are any hackers out there that want to play, drop me a line.  We have a few spaces left.  It is for my online golf club (of which, I am the Chairman) but anyone can play.  Oh, and you can suck too.  Most of us do.

Ok, who knows anything about Hybrid cars?  My lease is up in a couple of months and I am weighing the pros and cons of getting a hybrid.  I’ve had a beemer now for the past 10 years, but I have to tell ya, I kind of like the new Camry Hybrid.  The Prius is ok, but it is just EVERYWHERE and not that smooth a ride.   What else is out there that I might like?  Or should I stick with what I know?  Thoughts young people?!!

 Ok, random thoughts:

 As pretentious as it is sometimes, Garden State is a pretty friggin funny movie (watched it again the other night).

My son turned 5 on Friday.  Party is today.  My God, I remember when he was 4!

September is property tax month.  DAMMIT!

Race season is around the corner.  Although I have sworn off the marathons now, I am contemplating my first 1/2.

Is Scott Baio REALLY 45 and Single? 

Can men take manscaping too far?

Does anyone really like Mike & Ike candy?  I mean REALLY?

Discuss

Mr Burns

Here we go:

My third appearance on the 1/2 Hour News Hour on Fox News Channel will be this Sunday night (July 15th) at 10:00 PM Eastern Time .  Same show, different character, really hot wig.

Brand new episode of What I Learned About . . .From the Movies airs this coming Monday night at 6:30, 9:30 and 12:30 on the Reelz Channel .  This week, learn about “Getting Married.”  And, you can still catch airings of “Surviving High School” all this weekend at various times.  Check your listings.

Monday, I will be filming 5 episodes of the syndicated show, Jury Duty I know very little about the show, but I believe it is like The People’s Court with celebrity guests as the jury.  Premiering in September.  Stay tuned.

Tuesday, I am flying to Hawaii for four days to film another webisode for American Airlines.  You can still check out the Rome videos at:

http://milestones.tmiwindev.com/

A few weeks until we re-tape the CBS pilot, The Wizard w/ Craig Ferguson.  I just received word that another one of the cast members, Josh Funk, will also be returning. The guy is hilarious!  If you live local, make sure to catch him and his wife’s improv group at Improv Olympic.  Go to the following link for more info:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=57793750

That’s it.  Make sure to enjoy everything while intoxicated.

Yours,

Regan