Local Comedians Spoof "We are RI" Tourism Video

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Thursday, March 31, 2016

GoLocalProv News Team and Kate Nagle

It wasn't even twenty-four hours before two local comedians capitalized on the Rhode Island Tourism campaign video debacle.

Using the same voice-over of the now-deleted "We are Rhode Island" tourism spot, local comedians Derek Moore and Dan Paswell put together a parody of the original video that had been pulled by the Commerce Corporation after it was revealed that the state's video had used footage from Iceland.

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Moore, a local comic who does standup and is nationally known, spoke with GoLocal Wednesday morning.

"What happened was, Dan saw the original video first on Tuesday, and he tagged me in a comment -- I'd seen the logo and the spoofs on it already," said Moore. "So he asked, what are you doing between 4 and 8? We have to make a spoof this video. I said really? He said, just watch it again, we've got to spoof it. I just grabbed a few different clothes and we took off. It's just the two of us."

"We grew up in West Warwick. We all know it's not the "shine" of Rhode Island," said Moore. "As soon as we got the audio with our footage -- it all just timed up perfectly. The scene of the American flag and the trolley? Where I'm in my boxers and drinking? People were looking at me the whole time, I can only imagine what they were thinking."