“Sunrise 7″ — the morning show for WSAW, a CBS affiliate in Wisconsin — had a guest named Kenny Strasser last month, who is supposedly a yo-yo professional. The interview goes so badly that it feels more like a comedy sketch than real television. Here’s how it starts:
Interviewer: Just tell us a little bit about how you got started to be a yo-yo master.
Kenny Strasser: I am just a 35-year-old kid at heart. Twice divorced. I have no kids. I don’t have a girlfriend, don’t want one. Ya know, it takes a lot of practice. My parents, they live in Denver, they just got divorced. My dad is now in Osh Kosh. Honestly, I’m just goin’ all around. I have a brother in Portland who I don’t get along with very well because of his wife…
Incredibly, after a commercial break, they go BACK to Kenny for more, and it somehow gets worse. If it seems too painful to be true, that’s probably because it is:
It turns [out that "Sunrise 7"] wasn’t the first morning show Kenny appeared on. At WFRV-TV in Green Bay, he said he brought his yo-yo’s but forgot the string. He told a similar story to WISC-TV and WMTV-TV in Madison, and also made awkward appearances during their live shows, talking about his family, failures, and never actually performing any yo-yo tricks. Strasser claimed he was a local resident at each TV station he appeared on.
Those press releases came from a man named Joe Guerhke. But the phone number that was included as Guerhke’s in an email to one Madison station, and also appeared on the website for Zim-Zam Yo-Yos belongs to Joe Pickett. Pickett is a comedy film-maker, who operates a website called ‘The Found Footage Festival’, specializing in “odd and hilarious found videos”.
Man, I hate that this was a hoax. It would be so much better if Kenny was a broken, lonely man.
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“… and I live in a VAN down by the RIVER!”
This is great – reminds me of “Best in Show”
And how about the Sunrise 7 female talent ftw?
IT’S STILL REAL TO ME DAMMIT!
It’s nice to know local news outlets still do their research BEFORE they book a guy for live TV.
It would be so much better if Kenny was a broken, lonely man.
This guy makes viral videos for a yo-yo company. I’m reasonably sure art is imitating life.
Yo-yo experts get all the hot Wisconsin ass.
Reminds me of when a then unkown Danny McBride went on Late Night and did a “failed” interview.
“The Garth Brooks of Yo-Yo” yeah- he was way too smooth for it not to be a hoax, truly broken down men in their mid 30′s with an obscure hobby intended for children almost always have a lisp or a stutter. I should know…. I mean I’m just guessing.
Also- last night’s Community deserves a post all to itself… just sayin’.
What this article fails to mention is, this whole text is actually copied from that same station in Wausau that was “duped”.
This was all copied from an investigative report by anchor Mikel Lauber, in which, we exposed who this guy was and what he was doing.
Hey wausau, it’s not copied; it’s quoted. I provided a link to the original article. Welcome to the internet, retard.