VIDEO: Hollywood Assistants Strike Back

COMMENTS (50)

• great!

  Comment by Anonymous — Wednesday February 18, 2009 @ 6:43pm PST  Reply to this post

• Yea, cute, tad too long. didn’t like the rapping and hand gestures, it doesn’t look right when a white kid in a business suit does it. And yes every so often, some assistants get together and do a film, book, etc and generation after generation, their plight still remains the same. maybe they should join a union… and all go on strike.

  Comment by lol — Wednesday February 18, 2009 @ 6:51pm PST  Reply to this post

• “GENIUS. GENIUS. GENIUS. ”

  –co-author of “It’s All Your Fault: How to Make it As a Hollywood Assistant”

  Comment by ceridwen morris — Wednesday February 18, 2009 @ 7:45pm PST  Reply to this post

• $14.00/hr? That makes you stingy, bosses. You studio people/celebs have the reputation of paying really bad to your assistants.

  Comment by Lou — Wednesday February 18, 2009 @ 8:38pm PST  Reply to this post

• I hope they do not get canned over this, I know I would have which is why I stay quiet, work hard, speak when spoken ect

  B.

  Comment by Bob — Wednesday February 18, 2009 @ 10:02pm PST  Reply to this post

• Good stuff, that.

  Comment by zackery — Wednesday February 18, 2009 @ 10:04pm PST  Reply to this post

• silly rabbit, who has the money to afford an assistant in this biz anymore? careful, boys (and the one random girl they threw in), stock prices are plummeting around town… so stop your bitchin’ …paychecks are getting as scarce as the client gift baskets…

  good point on them leaving out the drug runs… classic hollywood assistant task… well, besides blow jobs… that is pretty standard too.

  Comment by silly — Wednesday February 18, 2009 @ 10:09pm PST  Reply to this post

• Umm… I don’t know what everybody else saw but that shit was funny.

  Comment by Umm... — Wednesday February 18, 2009 @ 10:31pm PST  Reply to this post

• Evil flashbacks…my heartrate went up hearing some of those lines.
  We used to do Variety speak all the time.

  Comment by varietyspeak — Wednesday February 18, 2009 @ 10:38pm PST  Reply to this post

• You just know that some agent will sign these guys in the next week or two.

  Comment by realworldperson — Thursday February 19, 2009 @ 5:34am PST  Reply to this post

• How do ASST’s have enough TIME to make these things? LA workload is inversely proportional to amount of sunshine on any given Friday…

  Comment by Breeze McCoy — Thursday February 19, 2009 @ 7:34am PST  Reply to this post

• Boring, overeducated white guys complaining about being assistants. Would have been better to include women and minorities. Wouldn’t have felt so canned and desperate for representation.

  Comment by EaterLA — Thursday February 19, 2009 @ 8:51am PST  Reply to this post

• Ah, wow. A lot of haters. Probably cause this short film will have more viewers than your last film. And now these boys will be hotter than your career has ever been.

  Comment by DMS — Thursday February 19, 2009 @ 9:34am PST  Reply to this post

• It’s worse for black assistants to the very few black executives who would even hire us!

  Comment by Asst2dabtch — Thursday February 19, 2009 @ 9:41am PST  Reply to this post

• Not too long at al!! Pretty hilarious, if you ask me.

  Comment by Padizzle — Thursday February 19, 2009 @ 10:44am PST  Reply to this post

• Four stars.

  Comment by Anon — Thursday February 19, 2009 @ 11:21am PST  Reply to this post

• Great stuff.

  Comment by Frank — Thursday February 19, 2009 @ 1:50pm PST  Reply to this post

• I didn’t even make it to the halfway point before I began to lament the time I wasted in watching this video. Do people REALLY think this stuff is funny?

  Comment by PlayedOut — Thursday February 19, 2009 @ 4:10pm PST  Reply to this post

• Way too true and accurate to not be assts… I agree shave off a min of it and you will be gold.

  Comment by HillArIus — Thursday February 19, 2009 @ 4:25pm PST  Reply to this post

• Asst2dabtch you speaketh the truth! I know first hand! Hopefully that trend will Change in the near future!

  Comment by BlkHllywoodAsst — Thursday February 19, 2009 @ 4:49pm PST  Reply to this post

• oh, GOOD stuff. Laughed, and nodded! Loved it! Cool idea, and props to the guys. Well done, fellas.

  Comment by M — Thursday February 19, 2009 @ 6:15pm PST  Reply to this post

• Way to go Levin Asst…Mark and Jen would def be proud, even if the visual FX just aren’t quite up to Journey 3D

  Comment by Asst — Friday February 20, 2009 @ 7:52am PST  Reply to this post

• #

  re: “Every year, for years on end, some smart ass assistants do some sort of stunt. Be it a tell all email or chain letter or website or Kevin Spacey movie and now the lame videos. It’s just not that interesting. Nobody gives a shit about assistants. Never have. Never will. Get over it. Speaking as a former assistant who swam upstream way back when, nobody gives a shit about you. So be something else and stop bitching.”

  Comment by overit — February 18, 2009 @ 5:47 pm

  Whaddya MEAN, no one cares about the assistants? What?? This so isn’t what I signed up for. I want my mom. I want to go home. You’ve convinced me that there will never be any hope for people like me that thought this video was funny.

  Seriously, if you didn’t like it, shut up and go straighten your shiny business cards and admire yourself in a mirror. Don’t rain on the parade.

  Comment by NY asst — Friday February 20, 2009 @ 12:48pm PST  Reply to this post

• so many haters… I laughed my ASSt off! well written and so TRUE!! I think every assistant has forgotten to hit the mute button… and many have survived on gift baskets
  I worked my way up from being an assistant and this video made me LAUGH! It is so true!
  Screw the loser haters who never worked their way up… go max out Daddy’s credit card and leave these guys alone

  Comment by babs — Saturday February 21, 2009 @ 12:45pm PST  Reply to this post

• That was actually really funny. Well played.

  Comment by The Pit — Tuesday December 7, 2010 @ 11:13am PST  Reply to this post