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’.
MORE 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.
