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The whole world’s talking about Whaboom guy. He’s the man with the bit most likely to cause irreparable brain trauma, and that makes me respect his commitment to physical comedy. To the seasoned and skeptical Bachelor/Bachelorette viewer, it’s obvious this guy’s just there play his comedy hits, get his face out there, and hope the franchise keeps him around for a few years. They will. He’s one of the most Bachelor In Paradise-able contestants we’ve ever seen, and as it turns out, he has some acting chops under his belt.
One of our listeners hit us with a link to his IMDB this morning, and it’s exactly what I thought it’d be.
Doritos Super Bowl: Doritos Massage (Video short) Doritos Guy
2015 Six Guys One Car (TV Series)
2015 Doritos Super Bowl Commercial: 10 Minutes ’till Kick Off (Video short)
Day & Night (Short)
8 Reels of Sewage Davis
12 Corazones Especial de Circo Entretenimiento (TV Series)
Of course he has the role of “Doritos Guy” to his credit. I don’t know if that thing ever aired, but he’s exactly what I want to see in a chip commercial. I don’t want high level comedy with my trash food ads, I want someone who’s willing to lay it all out there and look like a dumbass. And don’t be shocked there’s a struggling actor on the cast. If you’re new to this, Bachelor winner Vanessa went down that road, too. The producers love it. They’re in the content business, and you can’t have a cast that’s only made up of 8s with sob stories. You need flare. You need someone who has absolutely no shot, understands that, and burns fast and bright.
Lucas Yancey was born June 4th, 1986 … yes he’s a Gemini … and has a twin brother. Crazy huh!?! He also has the same birthday as Angelina Jolie, so I guess that makes him legit, in one way or another.
He is originally from Woodside, CA and now lives in Los Angeles working as an Actor/Writer/Producer. He is known for his Comedic Films, TV Shows, Reality TV and Commercials. He’s a jack of all trades and a master of many! A renaissance man, who has a vision that only the wisest of wise understand.
Cast him in your next film, and you will never be disappointed. With his friendly demeanor, charisma, charm, wit and innovative comedy, he will always aim to please! However, he does like that Craft Services has a nice crispy breakfast burrito for him in the morning … extra avocado, bacon, cheese with some veggies mixed in 😉
If you want to know more … just ask!
Your friendly neighborhood Y-Man… At your service 🙂
There’s no way anyone calls him Y-Man, right? Even if they did, he’s whaboom guy now, and possibly Doritos guy if they’re smart. That’s probably better for him long term anyway. And if you thought he was punchable before, you’re going to absolutely lose your shit at his demo reel:
He also did a sketch with Rob Riggle, which actually makes a lot of sense if you think about it.
That’s a showman if I’ve ever seen one. I don’t know how far you can go working Jim Carrey impressions into your set, but I guess it’s a crowd pleaser. Does that make him my power player of the week? No, but let the record show that I’m bullish on Y-Man in 2017..
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3rd bachelorette article of the day.
The photo and video section meanwhile is notorious for rarely having new content.
As a user and commenter, please hear out my feedback. You guys are playing it safe right now. I’ve said it before on here that we are in the golden age of TV, but aside from your podcast oysters clams and cockles, the TV shows that it mentioned here are the bachelor/bachelorette, friends, And sometimes Seinfeld and Fraser. Take some risks, mix it up, add variety, and think outside your wheelhouse. Be creative and ballsy.
But I’ve said all in gonna say about this today. I expect down votes and snarky replies, but I’m gonna be busy re-reading how Duda can’t grow a beard.
Downvote me too because I agree. I like the bachelorette talk but this is just too many articles about it. To be honest all I really care about is Crick’s column; no offense but he is just the best at it.
I mean, is anyone actually submitting photos that they can upload?
Hard to knock them for not posting if they don’t exist.
We post the best ones to Instagram. The photo and video tabs will be gone soon. Any video worth posting will be in a column with analysis, as it has been for the last few months.
I don’t expect you to answer this but since I don’t want to work right now I’m going to ask it anyway, what’s the drive to push your photos and videos to Instagram? You guys in the past have talked about how the goal of the company now is to build strong communities on your sites; in my mind that means keeping people on your url. Isn’t posting exclusive content on Instagram and Twitter hurting that idea. I’m not judging, it really doesn’t matter, was just curious.
I would think that while the goal is to build a strong community here on the site it’s also to add more people to the sites user base.
Instagram and Twitter are easy ways to drive traffic to the site and add more people to the community. Look under any given post for PGP, or another relative publishing company, and you see people tagging other people. That probably drives people to investigate PGP more and add to the user base after they check out other content.
The article comments have always been where the most engagement is if you keep up with the site and that doesn’t seem to be declining. So if you’re able to add more users on the site through Instagram and Twitter, then you have more of a community in the comment section via new users and following interactions.
Holding those photos and videos strictly on the site wouldn’t seem to make a lot of sense to me given the publishing platforms and the ability to reach an infinitely vast amount of people and get them engaged in the site.
But idk that is just a guess because I don’t feel like doing anything at work today either.
Yeah, what he said.
I actually didn’t explain myself well. Video section will be removed, and I believe the plan is to mirror the content from our Instagram on an updated “Photo” site. It likely won’t be called that, though. Our goal is for the brand to be platform neutral.
That makes absolutely sense. Sorry for doubting you Dave, I’ll never do that again.
I’m reading this now and it seems my point was lost. The lack of content in the photo and video section was just an example of my point: that you guys are being lazy and not challenging yourselves or presenting broad enough topics/tent. Simply put.
Going to kindly disagree. I’d argue our content is some of the best out there. There are a lot of websites who write a paragraph of shitty commentary on a funny news story or topic, really offering nothing but 30 seconds of entertainment. The amount of quality we put out every day from a great team of remote writers goes against to laziness you allude to.
I agree with you on using social media to expand the users on this site, that makes sense; but what doesn’t make sense is not posting that same content on this site. I’m just an observer to this whole field so I don’t really know anything, but it just seems different then what other people are doing. For example Rooster teeth (yes I know I’m a nerd), uses social media but they just as a effort to drive people to their own site. If you listen to any interview with Burnie Burns he constantly points out how their main goal is to drive people to their url; all exclusive content is going there. I get posting stuff to Twitter and Instagram I just don’t understand why make that stuff exclusive to just there and not also post it here. As a fan I just feel like Grandex under values their own sites in favor of using other platforms.
Just out of curiosity Dave, if you hadn’t said anything now would we have ever heard that those sections leaving or would we have just gotten on the site and gotten an app update that would’ve deleted those sections?
They’re probably just trying to gain more clicks from ladies. Accept it. I’m going to assume most PGP readers are dudes. While no dude watches the Bachelorette, unless his wife/girlfriend makes him watch with them.
So far his breakfast burrito order seems to be his only redeeming quality
As I stated before, I am ALL IN on Lucas. He’s exactly what you want out of someone on the Bachelor(ette) this early. Someone who doesn’t take himself too seriously, and who pisses off the other contestants.