Things that I miss: The McCarty Douglass duo
November 25, 2010“The McCarty Douglass Duo: a rag tag comedy team unlike anything you have ever encountered. Truly the funniest two people on Earth.” -LA Times
Okay, so maybe that quote isn’t real at all…. or maybe it is…? hmmmm…. Marinate on THAT one a while…
This duo consisted of me (your host), and Elisabeth Douglass (who has a different last name now because she’s smart and pretty and the marrying type, and I sit in the corner and make up jokes.) … long story short: We were comedic geniuses. We met our freshman year of college, became roommates, and did this sort of thing:
That would be Liz after we decided to dress her up as a munchkin. If you are having trouble locating where her body parts are supposed to be, the neck of the black shirt is around her waist, and the jeans are fastened around her knees…. and I honestly can’t remember if she’s wearing anything under that pillowcase…… After the ensemble was completed, we went out into the hallway of our dorm where I videotaped Liz as she ran up and down it, a sight that would have probably made any small child pee their pants.(From laughter or fear, I’m not really sure. But there definitely would have been pee involved.) We continued this through various hallways in our building, proud of the reactions we were getting… until a girl we had never met before took one look at munchkin Liz and absolutely came unglued. Liz tried to console her, but it only made her hysterical screams and sobs get worse. After hiding Liz behind a door, I was finally able to get a response from the crazy crying chick.
Upon asking her what was wrong, she said
“I’m afraid of midgets.”
This kind of caught me off-guard and I didn’t know what else to say, so I asked her why. Her response made everything clear.
“Because one time, when I was little…………… one bit me at the zoo.”
I immediately heard munchkin Liz laughing behind the door as tears started to run down my cheeks from trying to suppress my own hysterical cackling. Liz emerged from behind the door so we could apologize.. which only made the girl start crying again and we left as fast as we could from crazy crying chick’s room… with a newfound knowledge of phobias and slight apprehension towards little people at public zoos.
