“Hey Everybody! Here is the episode from Thursday January 15, 2015… Thanksgiving in January – enjoy!” – Cynthia Troyer
In Like Cyn – Season 1 Episode 5
Published to YouTube January 15, 2015
Thanksgiving!
by Robert Gold
In the kick-ass fifth episode of In Like Cyn accomplished screenwriter Cynthia Troyer launches her latest project. An awesome new selfie reality show on YouTube channel The Comedy Multiverse chronicling an epic day in the life of one of Hollywood’s next rising starlets. In a dazzling fifth installment co-hosts Cynthia Troyer and Erikka Innes host Thanksgiving festivities.
In Like Cyn’s first ever holiday special Cynthia invites America into her humble abode for a slice of turkey and a scoop of mash potatoes. Most of the series thus far has consisted on Cynthia co-hosting with one of her close compadres. Though on this holiday occasion hundreds of socialites from across the great pastries of Los Angeles acquainted with Cynthia or Erikka come to show their face on camera. Giving you audience members at home a deeper look into Cynthia’s social life than ever before.
Most of the pastries and pumpkin delights were conjured up by Cynthia’s roommate and comedy sketch partner, Erikka Innes. An active Stand-Up Comic based out of Los Angeles, Erikka has graced the stages of The Groundlings and The Comedy Store more than once. You can find more of her work at www.erikkainnes.com Oh yah, she does.
Thanksgiving traditions date back to the days of Henry VIII. More than 400 years later the American nation state was officially founded and President George Washington, father of our country, proclaimed the first nationwide Thanksgiving celebration on November 26, 1789. George Washington stated and I quote, “As a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God.”
Now many of you may fume smoke from your ears as you hear the sacred rule of our nation being broken in that statement alone. You may say, “Hey! What about separation of church and state? I can’t believe my founding father would try to equate my turkey feast with Jesus!” But let me learn you something. Few know that the laws regarding church and state actually go a little something like this.
Thomas Jefferson stated and I quote, “The legislature should make no law prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Meaning that the laws founded 200 years ago were meant to protect religion from government persecution. This is due to the fact that many religious folk had been violently oppressed in England during the bloody conflicts between Protestantism and Catholicism. This explains why so many puritans made a mass migration to the American colonies during the mid 17th century.
Thanksgiving traditions exist within some manner or another in numerous cultures. The concept of blessing the harvest. The concept of giving thanks and praying in order to have a fruitful harvest is a tradition that exists within many cultures.
And as I was saying before, the origins of American Thanksgiving dates back to the reign of Henry VIII during the Protestant Reformation in 1536 who began annual Thanksgiving feasts during the fall season to rival the many Catholic holidays that fell during that time of year. We can’t let the Catholics have all the fun, now can we? It feels weird thanking Henry VIII for anything but he did give us this pretty delicious gluttonous Holiday. Thanks Henry! You’re the homeboy!
During the time of Colonial America in the 1620s many Puritans from England immigrated to these people purple mountains majesties and on this fruited plain they introduced many of the Thanksgiving traditions they celebrated back on their homeland.
All in all, it was quite a memorable party. Though unfortunately I was out of town visiting family at the time, and was not in attendance. Though in my return to the City of Angels, I was greeted with many first hand accounts of the unforgettable fiesta that had taken place only a few days prior. The pilgrims would have been proud. Tune in next time for Episode 6 for an introduction into the world of Sundance, one of the nation’s largest annual Indie film festivals.
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In Like Cyn – Season 1 Episode 5
Thanksgiving
Published on YouTube January 15, 2015
[KEY: Cyn: Cynthia Troyer; EI: Erikka Innes; RT: Regan Talleh; RS: Ron Swallow; CV: Cal Verduchi; ALB: Amber Lynn Blomgren; BH: Buddy Hickerson; CB: Cal Barnes; SE: Sage Emeralds, ML: Matt Lewis]
Cyn: Hello, hello and welcome to another episode of In Like Cyn.
ANNOTATION: This show is all shot on my iPhone!
Cyn: Today is Thanksgiving and here at Cheremoya we are having a little bit of a building feast. A building feast. You’re all in for a treat.
TITLE: Cynthia Troyer
Cyn: A Thanksgiving treat.
INSIDE
Cyn: Erikka, how’s your Thanksgiving going?
TITLE: Erikka Innes
EI: I burned my stomach on a sweet potato pie.
RT: Awwwww.
Cyn: Awwwww.
EI: But it hurts less – actually no it hurts more than this one. This one really stings.
OUTSIDE
Cyn: One apartment over here, and one apartment over here. We’ve all joined forces.
DONUTS
EI: He’s tired of me yelling owwww!
Cyn: Donuts with bacon. Donuts without bacon. And fruit.
TITLE: Ron Swallow – comedian
ANNOTATION: Ron on Twitter @dorkyswallow
Cyn: How’s your Thanksgiving going, Ron
RS: Great! I am Ron Swallow and my Thanksgiving is very good because of you – and Erikka.
Cyn: We’re so glad that you could join us.
EI: Here’s some fruit on a stick.
OUTSIDE
Cyn: You could eat until next week there’s so much food. And here we are at the drink table. And this is Cal.
CV: Hello selfie cam.
TITLE: Cal Verduchi, comedian
ANNOTATION: Cal on Twitter @CalVerduchi
CV: I’m Cal Verduchi, I’m a comedian, but unfortunately I’m more of an Uber driver right now.
Cyn: LAUGHS
CV: I am a stand-up comedian.
Cyn: Where do you perform? Where can people see you?
CV: Um, if there’s a shitty bar in this town I’ve pretty much done it.
Cyn: LAUGHS
Cyn: There you go.
INSIDE
Cyn: Okay, so here we are – this is Thanksgiving. And no Thanksgiving is complete without football! And right now my team – my Cowboys – are taking on the Philadelphia Eagles. C’mon, Romo! C’mon, Romo!
ALB: Sure, I’m Amber and I’m a bartender.
Cyn: Look at her. This is Thanksgiving and she’s like on a busman’s holiday ’cause look she’s at the bar, pouring drinks.
KAROAKE
Cyn: Let’s go into the festivities.
ANNOTATION: Cal Verduchi sings The Sex Pistols! He does a great Morrissey too!
CV: SINGING
Cyn: In here we have karaoke going on. So it’s a full on karaoke set. And come sing a song. Come sing a song with us.
TITLE: Buddy Hickerson, artist
BH: Try to do what I do, and that’s all I can do, and I can’t stands no more!
Cyn: And this is Cal.
CB: Hi my name’s Cal R Barnes. And I am a professional exist-er.
OOOO’S & AHHHH’S
Cyn: This is my friend Jason Long and you’re going to see a lot of him in lots of episodes.
JL: Yes, because I am important. Very important. The next great prophet or president, I don’t know.
Cyn: Doggie, doggie! Ewwwhh.
AT DESSERT TABLE
Cyn: This is my mama’s chocolate cake. And everybody’s trying my mama’s chocolate cake. Ahhhh, oh and the best arrival. Turkey Apocalypse!
TITLE: Chris Varaste
TRYING TO GIVE CYN A PEAR
Cyn: I’ve eaten so much food. I can’t eat anymore.
CV: It’s just pear, a yummy pear. And I got some –
Cyn: IT smell the vinegar.
CUT
Cyn: I have a –
CV: She went all out.
Cyn: Do you see this group? I have a fresh batch of yams or sweet potatoes coming out of the oven. Just – now I have to go check on my sweet potatoes. My Cowboys are losing I am going to cry!
CUT
Cyn: So we have like a crowd gathering. The crowd is gathering to watch the karaoke.
INSIDE
ANNOTATION: I drank a lot of champagne that day!
Cyn: All our differences. And our separations. And we come together and we be thankful that this heart is beating, and that we’re kicking it, and we’re just – we’re here and we have the ability to just be, think and create. And we are all just this community of creative people, so…
FOOTBALL
Cyn: Look at that. It looked like – I mean why does he do this Romo you become the other guys’ best player, you drive me crazy. I wanna see the Cowboys win!
Cyn VO: Even though we invited the neighbor to join us, he decided to call the cops on us.
ANNOTATION: Have you ever had a douchebag neighbor??
Cyn VO: Singing karaoke at 7 pm on Thanksgiving is such a menace to society. But luckily the cops ate some cookies and took selfies with us.
CUT
Cyn OS: [WITH A BAD ACCENT] It’s like Navy blue, love. It’s Navy blue. Right now we got – we got us some of this. Peach Moscato. By the way Thanksgiving’s still going, somehow I got me an accent – a British accent.
Cyn: We have consumed too much food. Still some people are eating. Some people are comatose. Yes.
CUT
Cyn OS: It won’t stop. The British accent it – It – It – I can’t stop it love. It just is. It just is, love.
BH: LAUGHING
ANNOTATION: My sweet potatoes turned out great.
Cyn OS: Don’t judge. Peach Moscato love.
ANNOTATION: And so did my green bean casserole with French onions!
Cyn OS: Yes, fucking Andre love. Judge me, judge me!
CUT
Cyn OS: So the party is continuing on out here. It’s all going down.
TITLE: Sage Emeralds
Cyn: What’s up, Sage?
SE: What’s up?
ANNOTATION: Sage makes the best beats! His website is listed below!!
Cyn OS: Now we found Buddy Hickerson again. Buddy!
BH: I’m just so happy. I’m so happy that everybody has come here to tell me that I can be a good singer and its okay. And I can sing. Apparently I can sing.
Cyn OS: Tell me what you’re thankful for.
BH: Oh.
Cyn OS: What are you thankful for?
BH I’m thankful for –
HA: Being alive
BH: – being able to walk around and -be with people who are like minded.
Cyn OS: Well that’s something to be thankful for.
BH: People like Hunter, smart, and fun, and cool. They’re all around us. If you didn’t notice. See look. Pan around us, see what I’m talking about.
Cyn OS: They’re all around us.
CUT
Cyn OS: So what’s your name?
SS: Sean [Stepanoff].
Cyn OS: What do you do, Sean?
SS: I do art, I paint.
ANNOTATION: See Seans’ art – his tumbler http://stepanoff.tumblr.com
SS: I DJ, all that hipster things that people do, yeah, all that stuff.
Cyn OS: I bet you skateboard too.
SS: I don’t skateboard, no.
Cyn OS: No?
SS: But I bike tho.
Cyn OS: Well that’s good.
SS: And I have a messenger bag, that’s go.
Cyn OS: Well then you’re not a cliché then!
SS: Yeah.
ANNOTATION: See Sean’s art – his tumbler http://stephanoff.tumblr.com
SS: No skating. I wasn’t allowed to skate, yeah.
Cyn OS: And what are you thankful for?
SS: I’m thankful for having a cool place to eat some really good food with some very inviting people. You got the Cheremoya Posse over here.
Cyn OS: Thankful for friendship and apple pie!
SS: Friendship and French – Green Beans and French Onions.
Cyn OS: Rock ‘n’ rolla! And this is Chris.
CV: (SINGING) I know what you’re saying – don’t tell me ’cause it hurts!
Cyn OS: Chris, tell us what you’re thankful this year.
ANNOTATION: Chris on Twitter @Varaste
CV & BH (SINGING) Don’t tell me ’cause it hurts. I know what you’re thinking. No reason. Don’t tell me –
Cyn OS: What are you thankful for in your life?
CV: Um. I’m thankful for my life.
BH: Thank you. Thank you.
CV: My friends. My ‘hood. My cat.
RT & EI: (SINGING) Working hard to get my thrill. They’d give anything to roll the dice, just one more time.
ANNOTATION: Regan on Twitter @ReganTalleh
RT & EI: (SINGING) Some will win, some will lose, and some are born to sing the blues. Oh the movie never ends. It goes on and on, and on and on. Strangers waiting. Up and down the boulevard.
EI: I’m going to post on the Facebook invite that we’re out of Meth.
ANNOTATION: THIS IS A JOKE!! There was no meth at this party… (ah living with a comedian)
EI: I’m grateful that we are having a party. And that this burn’s not worse. That’s gonna scar. And after that I’m grateful I can wear this bra.
ML: Hi my name’s Matt Lewis.
TITLE: Matt Lewis.
ML: And I’m a stand-up comedian.
ANNOTATION: Matt on Twitter @MattISFunny
ML: I act, and I’ve also produced two movies.
Cyn OS: Wow, Matt’s a busy man. What are you thankful this year?
ML: I cannot tell you what I’m thankful for right now because I outsourced my list with a group of kids near Bangladesh and they’re filling out my list of what I should be thankful. So I can’t tell you until they give me my list.
Cyn OS: Oh, you’re waiting.
ML: Please, please things are going very well, I don’t need help from my mom and dad, no not at all. Nevermind – wait how far behind on my credit cards I am.
ANNOTATION: Erikka on Twitter @nerdgirlcomedy
EI: I’m also thankful for my bra and I can do this and I can’t feel it.
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Cyn VO: Join me next Thursday for another episode of In Like Cyn.
OUTRO
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