FOUND FOOTAGE FEST: Porcelain VHS Treasures
Live comedy with VHS tapes! BRAND NEW SHOW FOR 2026!
Joe Pickett (The Onion) and Nick Prueher (Late Show With David Letterman) have over 14,000 VHS tapes in their cluttered office in Brooklyn and will take viewers on a guided tour of their latest/greatest finds in this brand new Volume 11 show for 2026. Highlights include a psychotic dollar store salesman, a video catalog of frightening porcelain dolls, two wonderfully homemade Bigfoot videos and a new age “miracle” treatment from the 80s called “Psychic Surgery.” (90 mins - contains nudity, language, clowns)
“I think I speak for fans everywhere when I express gratitude for their continued hunt for hilariously bad videos. I hope the search never ends.”
-Steven Hyden, Uproxx
Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher began collecting found videotapes in 1991 after stumbling across a training video entitled, “Inside and Outside Custodial Duties,” at a McDonald’s in their home state of Wisconsin. Since then, they have compiled an impressive collection of strange, outrageous and profoundly stupid videos. Pickett, a writer/director, and Prueher, a former researcher at the Late Show with David Letterman, have written for The Onion and Entertainment Weekly and directed the award-winning documentary, “Dirty Country.”. With college friend Mark Proksch, they pulled off the Kenny “K-Strass” Strasser yo-yo pranks that hit local morning TV news shows across the Midwest and have since racked up millions of hits on YouTube.
So sit back, adjust the tracking on your VCR, and enjoy the show.
Wanna talk? Got a video we need to know about? A good second-hand store tip we should check out? Drop us a line.
Joe Pickett, Co-Founder and Host, joe[at]foundfootagefest.com
Nick Prueher, Co-Founder and Host, nick[at]foundfootagefest.com
Glenn Severance, Business Whathaveyous, glenn[at]foundfootagefest.com
FOUND FOOTAGE FEST: Porcelain VHS Treasures
Live comedy with VHS tapes! BRAND NEW SHOW FOR 2026!
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Live comedy with VHS tapes! BRAND NEW SHOW FOR 2026!
Joe Pickett (The Onion) and Nick Prueher (Late Show With David Letterman) have over 14,000 VHS tapes in their cluttered office in Brooklyn and will take viewers on a guided tour of their latest/greatest finds in this brand new Volume 11 show for 2026. Highlights include a psychotic dollar store salesman, a video catalog of frightening porcelain dolls, two wonderfully homemade Bigfoot videos and a new age “miracle” treatment from the 80s called “Psychic Surgery.” (90 mins - contains nudity, language, clowns)
“I think I speak for fans everywhere when I express gratitude for their continued hunt for hilariously bad videos. I hope the search never ends.”
-Steven Hyden, Uproxx
Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher began collecting found videotapes in 1991 after stumbling across a training video entitled, “Inside and Outside Custodial Duties,” at a McDonald’s in their home state of Wisconsin. Since then, they have compiled an impressive collection of strange, outrageous and profoundly stupid videos. Pickett, a writer/director, and Prueher, a former researcher at the Late Show with David Letterman, have written for The Onion and Entertainment Weekly and directed the award-winning documentary, “Dirty Country.”. With college friend Mark Proksch, they pulled off the Kenny “K-Strass” Strasser yo-yo pranks that hit local morning TV news shows across the Midwest and have since racked up millions of hits on YouTube.
So sit back, adjust the tracking on your VCR, and enjoy the show.
Wanna talk? Got a video we need to know about? A good second-hand store tip we should check out? Drop us a line.
Joe Pickett, Co-Founder and Host, joe[at]foundfootagefest.com
Nick Prueher, Co-Founder and Host, nick[at]foundfootagefest.com
Glenn Severance, Business Whathaveyous, glenn[at]foundfootagefest.com