The hilarity started when Ball State University senior Nicholas Reczynski began doing sketch comedy in high school.
He worked with his high school radio station to create a sketch comedy show. His freshman year in college he joined SomethingElse TV, a sketch comedy organization through the Ball State University Department of Telecommunications. All this work prepared him for the Rooftop Comedy Funny Film competition this year in which he submitted his video.
"Dick Pills" is a short sketch written by Reczynski and friend Joe Ferguson.
"Me and a few friends were sitting around talking about nothing as usual, when an ExtenZe commercial came on," Reczynski said. "We had heard it makes your dick spongy so we thought it would be funny to have an intervention sketch."
"Dick Pills" features the strong relationships between three college roommates. One roommate has a serious pill popping habit and his two roommates decide to confront him.
The character Reczynski plays is a wholesome and kind-hearted friend who facilitates the intervention in a calm and serious matter. In contrast, the character Ferguson plays is a frank and off-the-wall friend who blatantly says what Reczynski cannot. Travis Davis' character is a laid back and relaxed person who thinks the pills he's popping are harmless, until the two friends tell him some bad news, the pills make his dick spongy.
In the end Davis realizes his friends just feel left out, so the three roommates bond while popping the pills.
"We wanted a character to control the intervention and also an unfiltered character to bring more comedy," Reczynski said.
The character of the pill popper was a little harder to find. Reczynski knew the perfect person to play the character, but Davis was skeptical.
"I really didn't decide to act in the film," Davis said. "They wrote the sketch and said I would be perfect for the part, but I'm not an actor."
The video was chosen out of hundreds of submissions and has made it into the final 48 picks from Rooftop Comedy staff. Now Reczynski said he hopes to make it through to the next cut, the viewer's choice voting of the 24 best videos.
"The sketch was near and dear to me," Reczynski said. "It was written and produced in a matter of a month with three or four crew members."
If "Dick Pills" makes it to the next round it will have to be reviewed by film industry experts who will select the top 12 films to advance to the viewer's choice voting. In round two the public will vote for their favorite four films which will advance to the final screening live at the Rooftop Comedy Festival in Aspen, Colo.
Today is the last day of voting at rooftopcomedy.com, and the winners will be announced tomorrow on the Web site.
"Besides the free trip to Aspen, I hope the film will be validation for dick jokes in general," Reczynski said.
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