Time for a Fling

Yes, It's "Naughty but not that naughty." Don't blink or you'll miss me in the new FLING candy bar ad campaign. The audio is me and even I find it disturbing. This spot was done by the very talented team at Smuggler. It was a fun fulfilling day for sure! The fitting for this commercial took longer than shooting. The opening image on this website was taken at the fitting. I had to wait in my boxers while they ran to some boutique to find smaller jeans. They kept trying on smaller and smaller jeans, but never wanted me to get them over my knees. It is on this day that I learned that I could fit into a size 28 jean if I tried hard enough. We ended up going with a ladies size 1.

The Cellar Project

We just wrapped shooting for "The Cellar" - a pilot trailer that takes a look at life in the unconventional, ageless, superficial world of retail. Over the next few weeks we'll be editing a 7ish minute project that included a cast of over 50, a crew with the talented Mr. David Garrett in the directing chair, The Grainey Pix team behind the camera, the support of super hip store LASC in West Hollywood, and Sets in the City in Santa Clarita. We'll be taking it out to a few promised networks first but our powerhouse team over at Innovative Artists with Michael Pio at the helm are ready to take it to a few hungry friends all over town. If you want to see pics, let's be friends on facebook and you'll see about 625,000 photos. In a completely unrelated topic, check out retail snobs APPLEMOUTH & COX

The Pizza Whisperer

My friends at Y&R in San Fran and my friends at Round Table pizza thought I'd be a good spokesman for their super awesome delicious pizza pies. Now, I'll admit that many times I'm in it for the paycheck, but I gotta say, this is GREAT fricken pizza. We'll be shooting some more spots in June, but check out our latest below:


Now go get you some. If you recognize me on the street, I'll give you a free pizza coupon. That's how I show the love. There are about 500 stores, but they're only on the West Coast. Sorry Easties. But that doesn't mean you can't be part of the Round Table experience. Here's how:
You can watch the commercials on Roundtable's Website - Click on the ingredients for more PW fun.

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Konica Minolta Biz Hub

Sometimes you see the breakdown and you know you're the right guy, and sometimes everybody agrees. That was the case with this Milt-Down spot for the Konica Minolta Biz Hub Copier. We shot at the LA Chamber of Commerce. It took about 1/2 a day and I was exhausted at the end of it.

Interesting side note on this project. It premiered during a New Year's bowl game and I was in the Minneapolis airport and I ran into one of my co-stars from this commercial.

Smarte Bidness

So Dave and I were hosting a happy hour at the office a few weeks ago and the number one question (behind "who's your agent?") was "Where's the bathroom key." For some unknown reason, our building, which often allows homeless people to mill about the lobby is very protective of the toilet. Our buddy Josh Weinroth was in the house and Dave suggested we attach the key to him. Then, Dave decided we needed to shoot that. We did. It may end up as a series about two inept business consultants and you can keep up with their adventures here. Since Josh was there from the beginning, we cast him as the annoying neighbor who keeps stealing the key, and since Ron Jeremy needs to break out of porn, we cast him as the key. Here's how it turned out.

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Primetime in No Time

Last year, on my birthday, I got a call from Corey Moss who produces the original content on Yahoo! He was looking for someone to write on their new show, Primetime in No Time. It's a daily show that highlights the best moments in last night's primetime. Now, since I love sweet, sweet TV, it was a perfect fit and I started writing on the show that very night. Since then I've produced a few episodes, hosted a few episodes and written several hundred episodes. The show is hosted by comic Frank Nicotero, who brings it every single day and as it turns out is my neighbor in Studio City. Nick Paschal (Nick the PA) is our version of Chris Eliot and does a great job managing the day to day while Jason Fitzpatrick shoots, directs and edits it all together. Kyle Moss just joined the team to pick up the slack on the days when me and Corey can't or won't write and the Moss Sequel is kicking some cyber ass himself these days.

Our little webseries now has 100s of millions of viewers and peaks with around 9mm streams on a single day. Not bad for a bunch of TV junkies. Expect great things as Primetime expands the empire.


I'll post a clip of one of my hosting gigs shortly, but it's tricky because I think there are rules about Fair Use that prevent me from posting other people's work in certain forums but I gotta read up on all that.

Neighborhood Watch

The greatest sketch comedy team I've ever worked with are The Exploding Pajamas and when Will Ferrell wanted to create a funny website, he came to us. We wrote this sketch on Wednesday, shot on Thursday and thanks to the incredible talents of Dan Lindsay, Kyle Roper and JW Wolterman we delivered the finished product on Friday. By Sunday we had over 100K hits.

Fat Cat & Smuggler

We all have our favorites and these are mine. Early in their careers, Renny Maslow and Jake Abraham created these spec spots. Renny and I got to work together on a short film Standard King (AKA "Mr. Fantastic) not too long ago. Later, I had yet another opportunity to work with Smuggler on a recent ad for "Fling" candy bars. I guess it's all about the relationships.

Allied Steel Erections

A little while ago, Allied Steel Buildings came to The Exploding Pajamas for a funny, viral spot they could pass around to clients and vendors. They also wanted something to show at those boring conferences about roof pitch and I-beams. When we sat down with the team at Allied Steel, they said that their erections were fast and easy - yeah - we said, "Excuse me? Did you just say..." That's all the info we needed and the meeting was ended immediately. Here's the finished project.

The Bio - Dave and Mike

David Garrett/Mike Bachmann (Writer/Producers)

David Garrett & Mike Bachmann first teamed up in 2008 to write two indie comedies, "The Big Meet" and "National Lampoon's Rock Hard", both of which are scheduled for production in 2009. In March, the musical web series "Private High Musical" (which Garrett Executive Produced) was sold to MTV.

Previously, Garrett co-wrote "Foreign Exchange" for MTV Films and the musical comedy "Do That To Me One More Time" for Touchstone Pictures, with Jack Black attached to star and produce. In 2005, Garrett co-wrote "Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo". In addition to co-writing "First Pet" and "Corky Romano" for Disney, Dave has written screenplays for directors Ivan Reitman at Dreamworks, Tom Shadyac at Universal ("Haunting Darryl") and Peter Segal ("Garden of Steven").

In 2008, David sold the half hour reality show "I've Never" to Reveille and the one-hour dramedy "Citizen's Arrest" to the USA Network. Previously, he co-wrote the half hour pilot "Central" for CW. In 2006, NBC bought the half-hour comedy pilot "The Dysfunctionals". which was based on David's life. WB's "Living with Fran", which Garrett co-created and Executive Produced, was also based on his life and ran for 2 years. He sold the half-hour comedy "Model Family" to Fox with Jamie Kennedy in 2007.

Mike Bachmann is a writer and Guest Host for "Primetime in No Time" (PiNT) on Yahoo TV. With over 250mm streams, CBS Marketwatch dubbed PiNT "one of the most successful original programs in the history of the internet." Bachmann co-wrote Overture Film's upcoming Peter Farrelly/Charles Wessler sketch comedy film slated for production in 2010. Previously Mike was a writer for Nick@Nite's original hit "Hi-Jinks" and is a member of LA based sketch comedy troupe The Exploding Pajamas.

Bachmann/Garrett have also written/produced/directed several award winning short films including "Sunday's Game" (multiple festival awards), "Hott4Hill" (Top Political Video of the Year - CNN) and "Neighborhood Watch", which was used to launch Will Farrell's "FunnyOrDie".

In addition to other collaborative projects, Garrett sold and co-wrote "The Hatfields & McCoys", a dramatic mini-series for the USA Network. He has written and produced nearly two dozen pilots, series & specials for ABC, NBC, CBS, UPN, Comedy Central, Showtime and Fox, including the animated series "Da Mob" for Fox Family. He's had development deals with Fox Television Studios, Paramount TV, and Touchstone.

David is an attorney, a member of the California State Bar and graduate of UCLA Law School. As an actor and stand up comedian, Michael can be seen on several hit television shows, films, and commercials. He currently resides with his wife and 3 small children in Studio City, CA.