Comedians film at UCLA fraternity
David Spade, Chris Farley join Bruins
to promote their new film ‘Black Sheep’
By Jennifer Louie
Members of the Pi Kappa Alpha house got a rare chance to appear
in an MTV commercial yesterday afternoon.
About 60 fraternity and sorority members packed the house to be
part of a promotion for "Black Sheep," an upcoming movie starring
comedians Chris Farley and David Spade.
To prepare for national television, the "Pike" members plastered
their house with Farley and Spade paraphernalia, including a "Pike
loves Daisy" sign custom-made for Daisy Fuentes, the MTV video
jockey, who hosted the promotion.
The excitement began when the actors arrived in a truck
completely covered with AstroTurf, displaying a farm scene with
sheep and a billboard advertising the movie. The truck blocked
traffic along Strathmore Drive between Gayley and Landfair Avenues
for hours.
Inside the house, onlookers waited patiently as camera crews
filmed Spade tossing stones at Farley, who was wearing a sheep
costume.
"We’re pumped up," raved Leah Green, a Kappa Delta member. "I’m
ready to go crazy."
This excitement lingered throughout the house as fans quickly
became camera hogs when they heard the word "action."
An MTV crew member explained that the television studio had been
in search of a party atmosphere to capture the essence of the
comedy. They decided on a fraternity house in order to target the
college movie-going audience.
Farley and Spade, known for their sketch comedy on "Saturday
Night Live," first teamed up on screen in the 1995 comedy "Tommy
Boy."
In the movie "Black Sheep," Farley portrays the son of a
prominent political figure. Spade is hired to keep Farley from
becoming a public embarrassment and ruin the father’s public
service career.
The promotion is scheduled to air on MTV four to five times on
Feb 1.
ANDREW SCHOLER/Daily Bruin
Chris Farley (left) and David Spade pose during filming at the
Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity house.
Onlookers waited patiently as camera crews filmed Spade tossing
stones at Farley, who was wearing a sheep costume.
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