Rich and Mike as Extras in Never Been Kissed - Red Letter Media

[@bluebadger634]

Picturing Mike on these swings for two hours and Rich aimlessly wandering around with a balloon in his hand is literally the funniest thing I can imagine. I‘m in tears.

[@arandompasserby7940]

No wonder Mike picks on Rich so much. He's still bitter at Rich got the better half of that gig.

[@mikejunior5825]

@BK Beatty they were really catering to jays tastes

[@ZeroBudgetFilmSchool]

Never Been Kissed with Drew Barrymore should have been two hours of split screen Mike on one side and Rich on the other.

[@xzn1989]

@@ZeroBudgetFilmSchool RELEASE THE STOKLASA CUT!

[@thalassa2889]

I picture that photo of Mike superimposed in one of the ride carts.

[@gl3110]

Arrow points at Mike in the background: I dunno, that could be anyone. Arrow points at Rich Evans in the background: That is 100% Rich Evans.

[@EnoughReggie]

lmaoooooo accurate

[@seid3366]

​@@EnoughReggieit's the exact Evans figure.

[@TheValeyard92]

Now on Letterboxd... Mike Stoklasa - Nauseous Swing Boy (uncredited) Rich Evans - Lonely Balloon Loser (uncredited)

[@Ichiharahakase]

>it's real

[@ChaosPootato]

Lonely balloon loser sounds so fucking sad hahahah

[@ShoRyuBarbie]

Oh my god, they've been added on imdb as well. But as "Man on swing" and "Man without balloon". Not quite as good, but I'll take it.

[@janeeyre1990]

@@ChaosPootato , two adult men sharing a balloon together at Navy Pier sounds more like a happy gay couple than loneliness to me.

[@itsamechrispratt380]

I nearly pissed myself laughing at this

[@Chipiliro613]

I knew Rich was 'Ellen' famous, I had no idea he was 'Never Been Kissed' famous.

[@maxxam3590]

Rich Evans has never been kissed by Ellen?

[@TheOrangeRoad]

@@maxxam3590 no man has

[@maxxam3590]

@@TheOrangeRoad But Rich Evans is no normal mortal. He is beyond vulgar concepts such as "man".

[@zachbos5108]

Who is Ellen

[@maxxam3590]

@@zachbos5108 Ellen is a skinny guy that people loved like 18 months ago, but now people seem to be hating.

[@blakelester1776]

It’s great how Mike gives Rich Evans full name and omitting his own when saying they weren’t coming back.

[@zyrkugilgamesh]

Because Rich Evans is a known celebrity, if you know a famous name you gotta use it

[@johntangen3652]

"I'm gonna put you on a call with the director!!" Wow, Mike could've gotten to talk to the critically acclaimed director of Big Mama's house, The Smurfs, and Home Alone 3!!!

[@Asahamana]

They should have called In a favour for such talent. Maybe he could have directed the classic Space Cop, starring Rich Evans.

[@chriscock6584]

I hear his autograph is worth $0.59.

[@Demiglitch]

@@chriscock6584 He pays you 0.59 to take it?

[@ElSocketFace]

Scooby-Doo was a cinematic achievement and i don't appreciate you leaving that tidbit out.

[@franf.4479-v9z]

@@ElSocketFace I respectfully disagree. Scooby-Doo 2 on the other hand...

[@Pulang_Diwa]

I love how Mike says both him and Rich are not coming back even though he was the only one who had a bad time. 😂

[@rovhalt6650]

I think we can safely assume Rich wanted to go home based on the fact he lost his balloon

[@robertstaples3256]

Well, Rich also alluded to the fact it wasn't really that fun for him either, relaying how the crew kinda treat extras like sheep. Plus, Rich was wandering the crowds with a stranger at first and then completely by himself. So I imagine he completely understood if Mike had a terrible time, felt sick, and wanted to leave. I mean if your best friend is having a terrible time, you're probably not either.

[@mightymouse447]

They’re a package deal.

[@blabo6427]

Classic Mike.

[@shuouma7120]

Rich Evans lost the ballon. Now you tell me who had it worse!

[@AleKar1991]

"ME AND MY FRIEND RICH EVANS ARE NOT COMING BACK!" is a line I'm going to use one day. Without any context or rhyme or reason.

[@SpawnRevenge92]

"Good morning!" "ME AND MY FRIEND RICH EVANS ARE NOT COMING BACK!"

[@scottieman2]

People be like who's Rich Evans?

[@alexanderbrambila8274]

Without reason is the perfect reason

[@cont600ml]

​@@scottieman2 "I'M NOT SHOWING UP!!, ME AND RICH EVANS ARE NOT SHOWING UP!!!" and then walk away from that convesation... at church, or whatever you like, idk

[@eddaniels2056]

Have you said it yet? It's been 9 months.

[@tucker3601]

I love how at age 22 Rich Evans is still dressed like he is 45 years old

[@SuperfieldCrUn]

Oh my god, it's actually up on the iMDB right now. Mike is credited as "Man on Swing" and Rich Evans is credited as "Man Without Balloon". There's a piece in the trivia section covering the entire incident.

[@Tyler2k]

Better yet, he's now "Man Being Sick on the Merry-Go-Round"

[@sgshaday]

OMG They are lol Mike Stoklasa ... Man Being Sick on the Merry-Go-Round (uncredited) - LOL

[@ramblincapuchin9075]

Cattle

[@makosimp5022]

Man being sick and Desmond. What a resume

[@rhetiq9989]

Drew Barrymore and her male co-star were beyond lucky being able to share the screen with Hollywood mega superstar Rich Evans, I'm so jealous right now

[@mightymouse447]

You just know it was probably Mike’s idea to be an extra and he likely dragged Rich Evans along.

[@arandompasserby7940]

All the better that Rich Evans wandered around with a balloon with a stranger while Mike spent two hours spinning around on a swing getting deathly sick

[@rafe7625]

Karma hit Mike like a truck even at an early age

[@johanstone]

2 days before: 'me and my friend Rich Evans are in'

[@ralphyetmore]

What an appropriate movie title for Rich Evan's and Mike to be a part of.

[@50PullUps]

ouch

[@TxxT33]

@Dural Desgraçadão Virado na Cachaça idk about Mike but Rich Evans makes my shorts tingle. And I'm a straight af dude.....well, guess not

[@makosimp5022]

Rich Evans makes my girlhood tremble

[@justinjoseph9746]

The greatest and most wonderful story of all time. We all aspire to start a sentence with “Me and my best friend Rich Evans…”

[@SuperfieldCrUn]

I love how he ensured that the casting director knew Rich's first and last name but kept himself anonymous.

[@woodside4life]

The most powerful words in Hollywood!

[@jiggycalzone8585]

Rich never forgave Mike for spoiling his career as an extra in Drew Barrymore films

[@imjustsomeguy72]

No, it was always Male Co-Star's (tm) film

[@somerandolad]

​@@imjustsomeguy72 The part was originally meant for Rich.

[@FillBar]

I hope whoever that hack was realizes that Never Been Kissed is forgotten and RedLetterMedia is infinite.

[@justincoleman3805]

That hack made Big Mommas House. How dare you.

[@jogymogy3691]

Even Drew Barrymore is forgotten already

[@Pulang_Diwa]

@@justincoleman3805 Produced by Harvey Weinstein.

[@d.n.9133]

@@Pulang_Diwa *Sad slide whistle sting*

[@FrenchToast663]

The director was Raja Gosnell, who directed many prestigious pictures such as Scooby-Doo, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, The Smurfs, The Smurfs 2, and Big Momma's House, lol

[@Chipiliro613]

The 'Never Been Kissed' IMDb page has already been changed.

[@twalt]

Rich Evans is credited as 'man without balloon' LMAO

[@SylentVoidkeeper]

The world is changing. Or, I guess…the world has already changed.

[@dm6182696]

THE WORLD IS CHANGING

[@ralphyetmore]

Oh, shit. It really is.

[@Algorithm_Poison]

Confirmed. And Mike is man on swing 😂

[@TokyoXtreme]

It could be argued that Mike now has a bigger direct influence on Hollywood than Drew Barrymore has ever had. And Rich Evans is now being hailed as a messenger from God.

[@snuke37]

These men are frauds!

[@TokyoXtreme]

@@snuke37 I put a price of 20,000 dirham on their heads.

[@SaulGoodman3D2049]

*They were just a couple of KZbinrs*

[@KingLich451]

@@SaulGoodman3D2049 still beats whatever drew barymore is doing now

[@JimmyJames10-k7v]

@@SaulGoodman3D2049 L

[@Nick-ib1gi]

I can attest to the fact that it was, indeed, an empty threat. Everybody is jostling to assert their importance on film sets, and the Crowd supervisor is way too low on the totem pole to exchange words with the director.

[@lewisyeadon4046]

Even a lot of producers (especially on billion dollar projects) never get to personally talk with the director. He'll give instructions to his five main producers who go talk to their five producers who go talk to department heads who go talk to set designers/costumers/etc

[@gandalf8216]

What the director sees under personnel for a scene: -

[@Acrocanthosaurus]

I noticed this continuity error when I first watched the film. Wait a minute, there was a guy swinging around on the swing machine and then he was just gone. And another guy was walking around the park and suddenly he disappeared. Ruined the whole movie for me.

[@ZeroBudgetFilmSchool]

Don't forget the balloon, where did the f'in balloon go? Took me right out of the movie

[@funguy8801]

"Rich Evans has lost his balloon." Director: "You had ONE job!!!"

[@FlymanMS]

He failed to realise Rich’s true unique talent for boobery, unlike Mike.

[@DrunkenCoward1]

“They put you on the swing? For 17 hours?!“ “Yea! For two hours!“

[@xzn1989]

I was an extra for an Italian-Brazilian co-production about WWII. We filmed a scene during the Winter in a remote mountain village near where I live in Northern Italy, freezing well below 0 celsius. The gave me authentic German WWII shoes from a museum, 3 sizes too big and with a tip made of iron. I used to ski pretty often, so I thought my technical underclothing could suffice to keep me warm. Unfortunately I learnt on my expenses that a perfectly fitting ski boot is much better at keeping you warm than a oversized 70 years old shoe. I had to rush to the hospital when I got back home, almost losing the little finger on my right foot. Overall, I remember it being a horrible experince, also because most of the crew was from Rome and couldn't keep their mouth shut about how much their f****g city was so much better then the set we were filming in (yeah, no shit, Sherlock. Rome is so much better then Enemonzo, thanks for the insight) and how much we were provincial (despite none of us coming from that location).

[@Demiglitch]

Beautiful city but apparently the people from there are dumb as rocks.

[@drake9634]

Road 47 isn't it ?

[@xzn1989]

@@drake9634 yes! Filmed partly in Enemonzo. How did you know, it's a pretty obscure movie?

[@dewok2706]

Those Romans...they go too far.

[@matheussberant]

I like to imagine Rich Evans having a great time waiting for the casting guy to call back to tell him tomorrow's day schedule and discovering what really happened just now.

[@psychonaut1829]

Mike:🤢 Rich:🎈😄🍦

[@Csetnikke]

The assistant:✌️🍼

[@NealX_Gaming]

Mike and Rich is like Jesse and Walt in Breaking Bad. "Jesse won't cook for you if you kill me. And if you kill Jesse, you lose me."

[@FreddyMacT]

this is the magic of RLM, they're talking about the most boring movies and then suddenly Mike will say the wildest story about being an extra and wanting to throw up on Drew Barrymore.

[@korganrocks3995]

I can't believe they managed to talk about movies for a decade without this story ever coming up!

[@FreddyMacT]

@@korganrocks3995 they always have a story up their sleeves that they haven't told. There used to be a lot of movies produced in Chicago around the 90s, so it wouldn't surprise me that they were extras in other movies.

[@wantedwario2621]

Its good to know that Mike and Rich know the absolute pain it is to be an extra. What they didn't mention though is all the people who have made a career out of being extras, and think they are real movie actors because of it

[@Theoppositesex]

Watch the Best of the Worst for Robowoman.

[@jjclaxton1652]

Bro I did the latest West Side Story, I worked for three days on the hottest day in NYC while wearing polyester clothes

[@williewinkles9288]

You mean Jesse Heiman isn't a real movie actor?

[@drpibisback7680]

In a very broad sense, they are. They're professionally bored for very little money, it's almost admirable if it weren't so sad.

[@brendanklase5048]

What makes this even funnier is that the director of Never Been Kissed is Raja Gosnell, meaning Mike and Rich likely pissed off the guy that would go on to make such classics as Big Momma's House, the live action Scooby-Doo movies, Beverly Hills Chihuahua and the live action Smurfs movies

[@lazyartiste_2357]

Don't forget Home Alone 3!

[@sock2828]

I've been an extra in a movie before and it is in no way fun.

[@jorge_cloonez4984]

Rich and Mike have such a beautiful friendship.

[@CoffeeMugTwentyFive]

Ever since Macaulay Culkin, Drew Barrymore needs to be the next guest host on BOTW.

[@jellyontheplate2934]

...and now Rich and Mike are more famous than Derhu Barrimor!

[@bhargavnelapolu8193]

That’s her elven name

[@J4sse]

The fact that Mike keeps telling them Rich's full name like they're gonna track him down 😭.

[@owexsolo]

“ME AND RICH EVANS ARE NOT SHOWING UP!!!” 😂😂😂

[@korganrocks3995]

Mike always using Rich's full name is such a great running joke. :D

[@lrts1lrts181]

In the June 2021 episode of the web series Best of the Worst (2013) (Episode 101), comedian and host Mike Stoklasa revealed that he and fellow host Rich Evans were extras in the carnival scene shot at Chicago's Navy Pier. Stoklasa was one of the carnival goers on the chair swing ride while Evans was paired with a stranger walking along the pier. As filming dragged on, Stoklasa was on the ride for two hours and became nauseous from a combination of subpar craft service food and the high speeds of the chair swing ride. Both were scheduled to return the following two days to resume filming, but Stoklasa called the casting director and refused to return.

[@Megistus9]

Imagine the importance of that continuity error... Rich and Mike causing a Drew Barrymore Kelvin timeline.

[@Caleb42523]

I took an extra job once as a teenager so I could hang out with this girl I was seeing who lived an hour a way. Out of the 8 hour day, we maybe spent 40 minutes together. I was unlucky because they decided to put me directly in front of a scene where the actor had to run past me, and then get confronted by a group of clowns. So instead of just standing around, I had to mildly act (which I'm not an actor at all). They paired me up with some random girl and we had to pretend to talk for probably about 6 hours in a freezing barn. Was almost cool getting a sample of how a production runs, but I was so cold it was ultimately miserable. I did make a 150 bucks, though, so that's something.

[@caesarpizza1338]

Woah, what movie was this?

[@Caleb42523]

@@caesarpizza1338 It was an episode of a tv show called R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour. The episode was called "Afraid of Clowns". I've actually never watched the episode in full and I don't know anything about the show. I did used to read Goosebumps as a kid though, so it's kind of fun having been in a production related to his work. I tried watching it at one point but couldn't find a copy with good picture quality. If it ever pops up on netflix I'll finally give it a watch.

[@MrBobbyBoucher1]

@@Caleb42523 kzbin.info/www/bejne/pKHYn6mrprmMoLs&ab_channel=it%E2%80%99s._.saniyah somewhere between 13:00 and 15:30 you should find yourself

[@MitchCyan]

I can’t believe we’ve never heard this story until now.

[@FUCKINGENIOUS]

Actually they talked about it a little bit on Previously Recorded once years ago

[@Nellsism]

Drew Barrymore must have been so excited and honored to be in a film with the legendary Rich Evans

[@Racc00nR1ck]

2:17 funny thing is, the singer for Negative Approach claims to indeed have vomited on Drew Barrymore. It was the height of the grunge scene, there was some party where Drew Barrymore was dating some rockstar, he introduced her to the Negative Approach singer, and then vomited all over her because he had too much to drink. Apparently his reaction to the situation was “whatever.”

[@Kinkoyaburi]

Respect for Mike Stoklasa who suffered nausea for two hours on that swing, he sacrificed a lot for the art of cinema and for there to be no continuity errors in the one second that the distant blurry crowd of extras is seen in the film.

[@youreshouldoflearntgrammer8277]

'I didn't know where Rich Evans was' 😂😂😂😂

[@michaelthecreative1529]

Why do I imagine Mike threatening the assistant on the phone in his slightly drunken Wisconsin accent: “I have your car keys you ffffuck!”

[@ryanheilman3807]

I love how Mike frequently calls Rich by his full name

[@bourbonernie9534]

IMDB has Mike uncredited as 'Man Being Sick on Merry Go Round', and Rich as 'Man Without Balloon'.

[@MrBloodbunny]

One of the greatest RLM story ever, thanks for sharing it 👍

[@Elizabelle79]

I worked as an extra for 2 years and this is hilarious 😂

[@cordovalark5295]

I want to know Drew Barrymore's reaction to this. Someone give her this clip on her talk show.

[@jeremypayne5078]

Yeah, don't mess up the continuity of a carnival where the same people ride the same ride for hours at a time while the line holds still.

[@soup1594]

My brother came to home from college after watching this episode and spent the entire time trying to start fights about Drew Barrymore with me and my dad and I didn't understand where this new found hatred had come from until I watched the same episode. Thanks for Drew Barrymore pilling my brother he is now unsufferable to talk to about any movie that has Drew Barrymore associated with it

[@justincoleman3805]

Never Been Kissed? Never been seen.

[@AhmedAdel-kp9wu]

What's even more hilarious for me is that this story is now on the trivia page of the film on IMDB 😂

[@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat]

“Tell me where you were standing.” “Have fun playing where’s Rich and Mike for 4 hours, jackass.”

[@Asahamana]

This is The Best ad for never Been kissed. I Have seen it maybe once years ago but because of this I want to see it again!

[@TxxT33]

I love how Mike spoke for both Rich and himself 😂 EDIT: I added Rich and Mike in the 'Cast' section in the Wikipedia page of the movie lol.

[@acridyd]

Is anyone else just loving the video and comments right now? Both are just pure gold.

[@danoso0931]

Watching both gave me my first genuine laughter in months!

[@TransoceanicOutreach]

'Me and my friend Rich Evans are not coming back...' 'DON'T YOU FUCKING DARE, WE NEED RICH EVANS! I'M CALLING THE DIRECTOR!'

[@killergoose7643]

It's actually weird to hear about a movie being shot in a city that isn't Vancouver or Toronto.

[@ladistar]

Lmaooooooo Mike literally told Hollywood to fuck off in the most epic way possible, awesome lol

[@jillmo6458]

How could Mike lose Rich Evans 😭

[@ScottJackson117]

I'd buy that movie just for the Rich and Mike cameo

[@japeth3213]

It's especially funny when you consider that the director in question is Raja Gosnell.

[@gaminghands4945]

If they had gone back for just one more day the director would have seen Rich and immediately changed the lead male in the movie

[@NoahRichard]

Mike said "Rich Evans" more times in this one conversation than he did on the entire rest of Best of the Worst.

[@byteresistor]

Wow, I never knew Rich Evans, the star of the Ellen Show, also starred in a movie with Drew Barrymore. What hasn't he done?

[@mcnamaraky]

"I DIDN'T KNOW WHERE RICH EVANS WAS!"

[@consonantsandvowels1]

0:28 i also loved Jimmy Kimmel in Never Been Kissed

[@demonsty]

thats an awesome story

[@DendyJungle]

I love how they saw rich and thought to themselves “lets pair this guy up with someone he needs to get laid!”

[@redtexan7053]

Punished Rich Evans: A Man Denied His Balloons

[@arthurgodwin6571]

Rich lost his prop, and at some point there was a director screaming "HE STOLE MY BALLOON!!!"

[@oliverliu5065]

Just discovered the director was Raja Gosnell. Well what kind of threat is that? I would love to tell Raja Gosnell he’s a hack to his face.

[@4477superman]

When are we going to get a video about Mike’s time as an extra on Thomas and the Magical Railroad?

[@connor48880]

Is that a joke?

[@Demiglitch]

@@connor48880there’s a guy on the magic railroad who looks like Mike, that’s about it.

[@chrisw6164]

I love this so much.

[@danfors1333]

The f*cking swings. All those hours and the face is just gonna be a blurred smudge on film at best.

[@stabbityjoe7588]

Reading the title for a second I thought it was saying there was a never before seen clip of Rich and Mike kissing

[@rovhalt6650]

Its strange because their names are not on the cover 🤷‍♂️

[@gyromurphy]

I saw Never Been Kissed in the theater on my 16th birthday. I was trying to get with a girl I was madly in love with...and all I wanted was a magical "16th birthday miracle". Yeah, I ended up having a great time with her... but who knew years later I'd find out the real miracle was unknowingly seeing Rich Evans on the big screen! Sorry Jenny, but Rich has retroactively stolen my heart

[@lordrayden3045]

And now mike and rich are more famous than the director

[@DeltaSpark8]

Dick the Birthday Boy lost his balloon, how sad :(

[@prolevelcallout4597]

This came back in my recommended a day before Drew Barrymore came up again about the writers strike

[@196cupcake]

Kind of reminds me of Trevor Moore's story about going to Mexico, "you can't make me go to Mexico!"

[@themerote]

The food in the UK was pretty decent but the cattle thing is pretty much the same. I remember The Ring director wanting to do like 72 takes in a studio with no aircon where I was dressed as bear beating up a rabbit and him taking off my head and telling me very good, again like 15 times.

[@thsudy]

For a second I thought this clip has 800k views

[@Chipiliro613]

I just thought it had 1.7M

[@thsudy]

to bad they weren't in the hunger games lol

[@HOTD108_]

@@thsudy I thought this video was posted 12 years ago.

[@realmoviefactsnotfake]

he was also in Tho as and the Magic Railroad but he is refusing to add it to his IMDb page; he even has straight up screen time

[@Gary_Hun]

I'm always bothered by the continuity errors in my romantic comedies, but Never Been Kissed took things to a whole other level, what's with that pile of puke on Ms Barrymore's right shoulder, the film cuts and it's there, an other cut and it's gone... one cut and Mike has obviously finished vomiting, the next scene he is just preparing to do it... an absolute mess.

[@takerdust]

so this is why Hollywood blacklisted Space Cop.

[@Crazy56U]

I love how Mike keeps saying Rich’s full name, as if he thinks the story wouldn’t sound real if he didn’t.

[@michaelglatt100]

I don’t think I’ve seen this episode of Best of the Worst. Funny story 😂.

[@kamdan2011]

I’m suprised they’re not on The Drew Barrymore Show yet.

[@Fauntleroy.]

I think Mike and Rich have probably kissed.

[@NomnomJawsnomnom]

"Continuity errors"!? They're the size of fuckin' ants!

[@zazenbo]

I miss my wife

[@Sanscripter]

Ok, I'll bite: what happened?

[@davechan8613]

@@Sanscripter I assume she was hunted hunted.

[@fuckman297]

We all do.

[@Slop_Dogg]

ME AND RICH EVANS ARE *NOT* SHOWING UP

[@Tyrell-d6o]

Rich and Mike kissed on the set of Extras?

[@gonzalodavidvazquezgonzale5796]

2:24 LMAO

[@mandocalrissian6454]

Juggler mike returns.

[@J4sse]

This is fucking hilarious!

[@yellowblob405]

I know they’re sitting down but Rich looks tiny compared to all the others sitting at the table 💀