JOBY SAAD
Movies/Television
- Thou Shalt Laugh -Warner Brothers- Los Angeles Ca.
- Comedy Central- Los Angeles Ca.
- Bananas with Thor Ramsey -Sony Studios
- CMT -40 sexiest Videos-Guest comentary Nashville TN
- ABC News Now-Alpabet Soup w/ Alyse Mandel -New York NY
- Vidiots- All ages, all nations Creator, Producer. Mackinac Island MI.
- Crook and Chase- Nashville
- Abraham and Sarah (The Movie) “Egytian Slave” EFM Productions Miami Fl.
When he lived in Los Angeles, working as a comedian, Joby Saad started a company called Village Entertainment. He instructed his roommate to answer the phone that way — “Village Entertainment” — whenever anyone called.
“Frequently, what would happen is, the phone would ring and Rob would answer and say ‘hello.’ And I, in the background would shout, ‘You idiot!’ And then the caller would say, ‘Let me speak to the Village idiot.’”
Thus a concept was born. Saad became the Village Idiot. He was destined for it, he says, thanks to his dad.
I love Charlie Chaplin, the Marx Brothers. I love the old masters
“My father used to give me a hard time. He would always call me an idiot. Or, sometimes, he’d say, ‘You’re a fool,’ and I’d get upset. ‘I thought I was an idiot.’ ‘Well, you’re both!’ ‘Great! Now I’ve got to redo my résumé.’”
No more. Now he is the Village Idiot. Saad’s Web site is www.villageidiot.tv, and he’s also created his own “Vidiots” TV series. In one hilarious bit, Saad leaves an ice cream store at a tourist spot, only to have one scoop roll up his arm and down his back. He contorts himself trying to eat it, while passersby stare.
“That’s going really well,” said Saad of “Vidiots.” “It’s silent comedy. I love being able to tell a story and reach an audience of all ages and all languages.”
His look matches his stage name. He sports a doofus grin, a stocking cap, and expressive, rubbery face. Makes sense that he’s a big fan of physical comedians such as Steve Martin, Jim Carrey, and Tim Conway.
“I love Chaplin,Keaton,Jerry Lewis. I love the old masters,” said Saad. “My favorites are Abbott and Costello, the Marx Brothers, Charlie Chaplin. Those are the guys I love. I got to see Red Skelton in concert when I was in my 20s. He came to Nashville, so I bought tickets. I asked this young girl to go with me. I told her I had tickets to see Red Skelton, and she said, ‘Well, I don’t really like heavy-metal music.’
“She didn’t know what Red Skelton was. So I’m educating America on comedy.”
His stand-up, like his films, involves a lot of physical comedy. He frequently closes his shows with an inspired bit where, in pantomine, he removes one pair of pants after another, becoming a new character each time. But everything he does is clean.
“It’s just really goofy and absurdist,” Saad said. “It’s hard for me to describe exactly what I do unless you see it. You can see a lot of the stuff on me over the Internet.
“It’s amazing, I don’t use paper for anything. Most everything, I read on the Internet. I don’t read newspapers, I don’t read magazines. If I need toilet paper, I can just type in ‘toilet paper’ and hit ‘print.’
“That’s a joke I often do in my show,” he added. “What I love about it is it reaches every age group. Little kids think it’s hilarious.”
In addition to someday performing on “Late Show with David Letterman,” Saad has one other career goal in mind. He aims to break the Guinness world record — 71 miles — for human-powered flight. He had an attempt scheduled this past summer in Orlando, but was forced to cancel it due to FAA flight restrictions and concerns over public safety. But he’s determined to try again. He says that record can be beaten.
“It’s very feasible,” Saad said. “There are constantly changes in technology that I think will make the goal feasible. I don’t want to give a lot of details away, so I’ll say just two words — ‘helium enema.’ Actually, I said too much.”
Guess that’s why he’s the village idiot.
