The Jamie Kennedy Experiment

In less than 20 minutes the co-creators/executive producers (Jamie Kennedy, Mike Karz, Adam Small and Fax Bahr) talk about the origin of the show, the work that goes into it, the "marks," setups, reveals...it's the whole shebang. This also includes some early standup footage with Jamie Kennedy. Found on the DVD set as a bonus feature.

This is a special episode devoted to the character of Brad Gluckman and the movie Malibu's Most Wanted, which was spun off from JKX and is centered around B-Rad. The episode features the film's cast members Ryan O'Neal, Bo Derek, Blair Underwood, Regina Hall, Damien Dante Wayans, and, of course, Jamie Kennedy. Jamie gets rapper Darryl McDaniel of Run DMC to try to get Brad Gluckman a record deal with a couple of unsuspecting impresarios. Jamie gets a friend of his a bit part Malibu's Most Wanted as a masseuse, and then has Blair Underwood "X" her by making her think she's broken Blair's back! Jamie and the cast of Malibu's Most Wanted look at clips of the film as a sneak preview. This episode aired the night before the film opened.

Jamie poses as a pathetic white rapper who wants to marry a far more sophisticated woman, much to her family's dismay; Jamie hosts a phony infomercial in which he asks audience members to endorse the product he supposedly invented... after it blows up in someone's face; Jamie interviews an applicant for a job, but having just had "jaw surgery", he's wearing an awkward jaw brace that renders him hideous, unable to speak... and constantly drooling.

As a flamboyant casting director, Jamie auditions an actor who's made an indecent proposal by the (considerably older) casting assistant; Jamie appears on a phony dating show (hosted by Whose Line's Jeff Davis) as a meek geek who still lives with his parents; at a funeral, Jamie tries to steal a valuable ring... from the guest of honor, who's wearing it, enlisting the aid of an innocent bystander.

Jamie poses as a mobster who hires a new pizza boy to work for his "family owned business"; Jamie hires a man whose job is to fire people... and then Jamie fires HIM; Jamie pays a bunch of strangers to be his friends for his birthday party. By the way, their native language is Spanish and their English is pretty bad... and Jamie's just the opposite.

In the second-season premiere: Prompted by Warner Brothers to fuse classical music with hip-hop, Brad Gluckman auditions a classically trained pianist. This doesn't go down so well with B-Rad's rapping partner, who hates the idea from the start. Giuliana asks her friend Don to meet a contractor at her house for a small landscaping job, instructing him "not to let anything happen to her house." The contractor brings with him two disgruntled workers, one of whom is Jamie in disguise, and before Don even realizes what's happening, they start demolishing Giuliana's house! (Oh, don't worry--she's in on it!) Three aspiring actors join Jamie's acting class, which is really a front for a cult that worships a robot named "Bliss", but it can't be a bad cult...Freddie Prinze, Jr. is a member!

Jamie presents two skits in which Lou Hollander, the driving instructor from Show 4, tries to train a mark to help out on his paper route. The first mark cooperates willingly and the skit works; the second mark doesn't cooperate and the skit becomes a disaster!- On a new TV show called "You Be The Judge", a member of the audience (the mark in this skit) is randomly selected to judge an "actual" (not really) court case. In this case, Jamie plays Niles Perkins, a nerdy employee who sues his male boss for sexual harassment and wrongful termination... but does he really mean it?

Jamie portrays a dentist who's in a really lousy mood, X-ing a patient while he's in the chair; Jamie plays a reality show producer (not the same one from "Show 9") who wants to replace the dad in a real family with an actor. As a psychic, Jamie predicts that a college guy will meet his dream girl at a party that night, and the dream girl ends up being Jamie's psychic character in drag!

The third season of JKX has an "on the road" theme. First stop: Los Angeles. In the first skit, Amanda Bynes hosts a new show called "Makeover Takeover", and the mark Rochelle is set up by her friend to be on it. Jamie, playing a flamboyant German named Gunther, teams up with world-renowned hairstylist Jose Eber to give Rochelle a new look. How will Rochelle react when she comes out looking like a circus clown on drugs? Jamie plays Don Henderson, the producer of a new hidden-camera show called "Undercover." Holly Robinson Peete's brother Matt tries to play a joke on Holly by pretending to be a bumbling Pakistani waiter. The joke's on Matt, however, when Holly, whose football-playing husband Rodney just left for training camp, is caught getting her freak on with another man. And by the way, did I mention that Matt and Rodney are really tight? Jamie takes on the role of "Shane Martin," a British director on the set of Anthony Anderson's TV series.

Jamie is in Los Angeles once again for this episode. At Dodgers' Stadium, LA Dodger Paul Lo Duca and his wife Sonja enlist Jamie to "X" fellow Dodger Dave Roberts, whom Sonja describes as "the nicest guy in the world." The setup: Jamie is a Little League dad whose son Tommy has won a chance to play baseball with Roberts. How nice will Roberts be when Jamie turns out to be the meanest, greediest, most selfish dad Roberts has ever seen... or when Paul Lo Duca loses his temper and gives Jamie a beatdown? Comedian Pauly Shore's mother owns the famous club The Comedy Store on the Sunset Strip. This is the setting for our next gag: Jamie plays a Saudi prince who, with Shore's help, is auditioning comic talent for a new club he wants to open. The problem is that Jamie doesn't speak any English, and every joke must be translated into Arabic for him! But that's not the worst of it: the mark ends up being Brian Holtzman, a comedian that Jamie worked with in his standup days!

This episode takes places in Los Angeles. Avery, a professional writer looking for work, is our mark in the first skit. He has been set up by his friend Nicole. Avery has an appointment with the president of a studio, but he gets held up by a remarkably thorough gang of security guards...Jamie and his crew! Jamie and his mark Harris go on a paparazzi mission, posing as gas men to invade a celebrity's home and photograph her as she's recovering from plastic surgery. (Actually, it's a celebrity lookalike, and the name of whoever she's supposed to be keeps getting bleeped out!) Meet Jacqueline. She's setting up her boyfriend Manny at a nice restaurant. Jamie plays a (very gay) waiter who mixes up desserts, accidentally giving Jacqueline a dessert with an engagement ring in it! How will Manny react to his accidental proposal... or when the guy who intended that dessert for his girlfriend confronts Manny?