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Andy Milonakis on his Canadian Debut: ‘I Feel Weird in the Pants’

Posted by andPOP Staff on August 4th, 2008


It’s a story that’s been heard before. Average Joe makes an Internet video. The video creates a buzz—because it’s funny, controversial or both—and earns Average Joe his 15 minutes of fame. Then, the noise dies down and Average Joe disappears from the world of pop culture. Andy Milonakis’s “cyber phenomenon” story, however, took an unexpected, yet pleasant detour.

The 32-year-old comedian’s career started with an Internet video called “The Super Bowl is Gay” in 2003.

“I was supposed to go this Super Bowl party and I didn’t want to go. Instead of going I said, ‘I’m going to make a comedy video about the Super Bowl because I think it is stupid’,” Milonakis recalls, speaking to andPOP last week. In the final product, Milonakis plays a ukulele and belts out his disdain for one of the biggest events in professional sports and other inanimate objects.

“I just started looking around my desk and started calling all the other things on my desk gay,” he recalls.

Missing out on a football party may have been the best decision Milonakis made in his life.

“The Super Bowl is Gay” became popular enough for Jimmy Kimmel to seek Milonakis out for his talk show. Milonakis obviously impressed Kimmel as he was upgraded from guest to correspondent, until Kimmel finally decided to produce a show centred on Milonakis. And in 2005, “The Andy Milonakis Show” aired in the U.S. The sketch comedy program has now started airing on Canada on MTV2, launched last week. “I feel weird in the pants,” says Milonakis about his Canadian debut.

The program includes monologues, man-on-the-streets segments and celebrity guests. Throughout his show’s duration in the U.S., Milonakis shares his most memorable encounter with interviewing strangers. “Someone hit me on the head with a bottle of soda,” he says. “They were little kids, little wannabe thugs. They thought they were cool. They walked by and threw a bottle of soda at my head. I didn’t even ask them anything.”

The New Yorker also revealed that Lil Jon, Snoop Dogg and the Ying Yang Twins are among the funniest celebrities that he has worked with. But it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Milonakis’s personality jives with rappers.

Aside from comedy, Milonakis also has a passion for rap. He has released a single with J-Kwon entitled “Like Dis” and hopes to put out an album one day.

“The lyrics would be mostly comedy, but I do take it seriously. I want it to sound as good as possible.” Yet when it comes to possibly collaborating with the giants of hip hop, Milonakis admits that he’s not oblivious to the nature of his lyrics or the reputation attached to his name. “A lot of real hip hoppers that I respect wouldn’t want to do my album and I kind of wouldn’t want them to because I kind of take the piss out of it by really having vulgar, funny, random lyrics. It wouldn’t really fit.”

So while his future in music is still in the works, Milonakis’s television career continues to soar. Aside from the show’s premiere in Canada, “The Andy Milonakis Show” is on its way to a third season in the U.S. Milonakis has also co-hosted “Loveline” and has another TV show under wraps. Not too bad for a guy who sung about a football game’s sexuality.

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