Scott Capurro has become known to
STAR WARS fans around the world as one of the two hilarious POD RACE
announcers; Fode. However Scott is so much more than that! He admires
Scotland so much he named the country after his great uncle, Randolph Scott.
Sadly Randolphland never stuck, so the locals, over their pints,
characteristically chose the briefest and easiest way out. Since then, in a
faerie land where English is ne’er spoken, Scott has pushed his mother tongue,
and, in 1994, he miraculously won the Perrier Award with his magical show Risk
Gay, an installation/performance chronicling the power of wind, where Scott
mimed a glittering chime.
Between reading the Koran and mocking the
Bible, Scott has developed an eye twitch while chasing gay sheep around
Montana, where male-on-male action is limited to animal pens. I know. HOT! The
result, The Truth About Gay Animals, has been an internationally televised hit,
having played Israel and, consequently, resulting in death threats. Scott has
written for several newspapers, including The Guardian, The London Times and
the Scotsman; and for various magazines, like The Index on Censorship, which
isn’t half as stuffy as it sounds. His book, “Fowl Play”, a comedy novel about
murder and date rape, received good reviews and it is out of print. Currently,
he’s working on a second novel about the making of a Broadway musical, entitled
Runt. And there’s a third novel, Loaded, based on his play about his
correspondence with killer Erik Menendez, which the English press called ‘sick
and dangerous’.
Wait,
it gets better: His stand up CD was just released in the UK, his second home,
to enormous fanfare, and very limited sales. Obviously, Scott is too busy to
date. So he lives on friends’ couches. If you wanna call his a ‘life’. Or a
lawn chairs a ‘couch’.
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ON STAR WARS: Flamboyant, colorful and
not always too accurate, Fode and Beed were the popular announcers of the Boonta Eve Podrace. The two were well suited
for their chosen vocation -- they were a two-headed alien that shared a single
body. Fode, whose skin was tinted red, provided commentary in an easy Basic
drawl, while Beed, the green-hued head, provided counterpoint in Huttese.
