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Ben Popik was born on 22 November 1981 in Alameda, California, USA. He is a producer and director, known for The Exquisite Corpse Project (2012), Belize Sports: Rock, Paper, Scissors Championships (2013) and Olde English Comedy: Sketch Pilot (2008).
- Producer, Additional Crew, Director
- November 22, 1981
- Ben Popik
In this first-of-its-kind crossover comedy, director Ben Popik brings together five comedy writers, and surprises them with a challenge: to each write fifteen pages of a movie, having read only the previous five pages of the script.
- Ben Popik
- 85 min
- 8
May 20, 2013 · Last week, Exquisite Corpse Project director Ben Popik sat down for Last Call with Carson Daly to talk about the process of making the movie and why it's so unique.
- Adam Frucci
- Contributor
- Dishes Like to Be Dirty. This musical-style sketch, written by Raphael Bob-Waksberg with music by Jesse Novak, was based on the days when Raphael and Adam Conover used to be roommates and both of them would avoid doing the dishes like the plague.
- Michel Gondry. Released in 2007 at the height of Michel Gondry fame, this sketch parodies both Gondry’s directorial style and MTV’s Cribs (remember when everyone owned a DVD of Scarface for some reason?).
- Cave Miners. Watch it here. Step into a magical world where cave mining is a lucrative business. Think there’s only one way to find a cave? Think again. This documentary-style sketch follows the inspiring story of a scrappy underdog company going against the industry’s top dogs, CavernTek and Chasm Industries.
- Peanut Butter’s Birthday. Look, this sketch is weird—I don’t think anyone is going to deny that. But just because a beatbox rap about peanut butter doesn’t make sense does not mean it can’t also be brilliant.
Ben Popik, with the help of writers Joel Clark and Chioke Nassor, reunited the group in 2009 for one final project - The Exquisite Corpse Project, a project that challenged the five assembled writers to each write fifteen pages of a movie having only seen the previous author's final five pages of their section.
The Exquisite Corpse Project is a 2012 crossover comedy/documentary from director Ben Popik and the comedy group Olde English. In the film, Popik challenges five comedy writers to each write a fifth of a film, with the constraint that each writer can only read the previous five pages of the script before writing their section. The final film is ...
May 8, 2012 · Recently, director Ben Popik sat down with The San Pedro Sun to talk about his new film “ The Exquisite Corpse Project “; a Comedy/Documentary that portrays a group of guys who work together to write a screenplay for a film, but with one major twist… each person only gets to read the last five pages of the previous section the other person wrote.
