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Franco and Billy

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About Me


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"WILD AND CRAZY GUYS...
The parallels between the Franco and Billy Show and Monty Python are undeniable. They are both sometimes surreal, sometimes historical, and sometimes completely incomprehensible. They toss film clips, music and sketch comedy into a single puke-colored but delicious stew."
-New York Press

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CHASING PARADISE: Our 5-episode "travelogue" adventure in Australia. Experience it on YouTube now! Just click our bodies below.

WE'RE ON TV.
Check us out on IFC's promo for their FREE FILM FEST TOUR.
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THE INDEPENDENTS The Pilot (5 min. version)

My Interests

SEE VIDEO - THE STORY OF FRANCO & BILLY

Making motion pictures, radio dramas, musical compositions, and gathering photos of our ancestors.

Finding the cure for sterility.

Fulfilling the Franco and Billy legacy...

I'd like to meet:

The guy who invented the motion picture camera (Sidney Lumet). The guy with the little black moustache who made so many people laugh. Richard Donner. Joan Wilder. Q-bert. Ted Kotcheff, who said of his 1983 movie (Uncommon Valour): "My movie is not ABOUT Vietnam. It IS Vietnam." (and then the Vietnam war ended) All the directors from the 1970s who broke the mold by refusing to edit their films. I'd also like to meet a robot covered in human skin. And, of course, all the Franco & Billys.
Franco and Billy in Morocco sample the local tobacco - 1937

Music:

Blomquist's goat trill a capella, Wiens' spit box, the Human Boys Choir, robotics rock, and the one and only Joe Satriani.

Movies:

Our movies: The Surveyor, East Nile, 20 Clicks, The Cobbler of New Amsterdam, Nevil's Harp, 21 Clicks, Last Laugh, Get Off Me!, Pencil For Hire, Potato, The Crimson Scorpion, Hard Liquid, Tears of Ether, Helmut, Whalebone, and Electronic Butterworth. Also Morticka - The Wrath of Toothman.

Television:

The Independents

Books:

Peter's reading list: (fiction) Bullet School, Wizard Run, Heart-On-The-Outside Bear and Bleeds Like Niagra. (non-fiction) Bullet School, Soap Tricks, Making Mummies, Get Naked-Hanging Out With Billy Joel, Things With Hair.

Jeff's reading list: (fiction) Scuba Cat, The Horn Blows David's Song, Carrots or Cancer (non-fiction) Hi Dad - A Memoir by Randall "Tex" Cobb, Get Up! Let's Make a Movie!, and Addressing Your Chrome Dome.

Heroes:

Jeff's Heroes: All the fathers, grandfathers, great grandfathers, etc. in the Franco and Billy ancestry. Plus people who risk it all and never make a difference.

Peter's Heroes: People who don't kill their clone before their clone doesn't kill their other clone who just killed the first clone before any other clones could be made because the 3rd clone destroyed the cloning facility where the original person agreed to kill the other clones because everything got totally out of control.Franco and Billy flirt with the locals while serving their country in Tour #3, Guam - 1951.

My Blog

1. PODCASTS

TIME TRAVELERSwritten and performedbyFranco and BillyThis catty crew of time travelers sure know how to throw a dance party! STREAM IT or DOWNLOAD it for later and pump it out of your Avalanche while ...
Posted by Franco and Billy on Fri, 24 Mar 2006 04:38:00 PST

2. SONGS

Songs from Franco and Billy:Please enjoy these songs. Created by Franco and Billy, "Tiny Men" salutes the vertically challenged. "Catscratch" gives special insight into the love shared between an anim...
Posted by Franco and Billy on Sat, 18 Mar 2006 05:50:00 PST

3. Jeff learns what it takes to make a movie...

Enjoy this duel.What it takes to make a movie....Thank you from Franco and Billy. ...
Posted by Franco and Billy on Thu, 16 Mar 2006 08:04:00 PST