Post by gpduke on Sept 24, 2007 0:52:07 GMT -4
BJ is a hilarious writer/actor on NBC's "The Office."
His blog explains the prank
So, a few months ago, on the Tonight Show, I talked about a prank I did with a friend at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston when I was in high school.
Basically, we took tour of this exhibit of Chinese art. They had one of those audio tours where you put on headphones and get a guided tour of the art ("turn to your left... you will see...." etc.).
We decided it would be funny to replace the tapes of the tour with our own recording. We stole a cassette tape from the tour, took it back home, and transcribed where everything was in the exhibit. Then we wrote our own tour and recorded that. My brother Jesse Novak matched it up with appropriate ancient-Chinese-sounding music in the background.
We made fifteen copies of the tapes and got fifteen friends to take the tour with a new tape in their pocket. On the tour, everyone quietly replaced the original tape with the new tape at some point before returning the headset at the end of the tour. This left the next batch of museumgoers with the new tour we recorded.
Anyway, my friend just put the tour up on iTunes. This link should work, or you can just search the iTunes store for "B.J. Novak" or "Prank Audio Tour."
It's free so go listen!
His blog explains the prank
So, a few months ago, on the Tonight Show, I talked about a prank I did with a friend at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston when I was in high school.
Basically, we took tour of this exhibit of Chinese art. They had one of those audio tours where you put on headphones and get a guided tour of the art ("turn to your left... you will see...." etc.).
We decided it would be funny to replace the tapes of the tour with our own recording. We stole a cassette tape from the tour, took it back home, and transcribed where everything was in the exhibit. Then we wrote our own tour and recorded that. My brother Jesse Novak matched it up with appropriate ancient-Chinese-sounding music in the background.
We made fifteen copies of the tapes and got fifteen friends to take the tour with a new tape in their pocket. On the tour, everyone quietly replaced the original tape with the new tape at some point before returning the headset at the end of the tour. This left the next batch of museumgoers with the new tour we recorded.
Anyway, my friend just put the tour up on iTunes. This link should work, or you can just search the iTunes store for "B.J. Novak" or "Prank Audio Tour."
It's free so go listen!