To appeal to the adults and parents buying our Video (who will, like all parents, be watching the video over and over again with their kids who love it), we cast professional TV actors in the main roles because they were favorably familiar to our audience of parents and their children:
- Danny Breen as the “Waiter”: former member of the Second City Troupe, he went on to become a writer-producer and familiar face on TV with a long list of TV series appearances http://www.tv.com/people/danny-breen/ including his co-starring improvisational comedy roles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5S-Ao3wGI0 on HBO’s sketch comedy: Not Necessarily the News http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085065/,
- Kelly Coffield Park as the “Mom”; member of the original cast of Fox Network’s “In Living Color” sketch comedy http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0168907/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 among other numerous TV appearances, including performances with Movie Star-in-the-making Jim Carrey http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juyz9himDIA.
And playing the Star of our Show – as Rudy, the Manners Monster himself – was Emmy-nominated William “Bill Farmer” http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0267724/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 best known for being the voice of Disney characters Goofy, Pluto and other memorable voices http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXxeUNTSrm8 in Toy Story, Monsters University and the revival of classic Warner Bros Looneytune characters http://looneytunes.kidswb.com/