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YouTube "Star" "Janine" Unmasked!

Richard Lawson · 05/28/08 01:16PM

Remember Craig and Janine, the seemingly completely clueless Southern couple (a geigh and his beard) who just moved to New York to pursue their acting dreams and who document their struggles on YouTube? Yeah, well, we've lots of good information over time that they were, in fact, fakes. Brilliantly done (if at times a tad too over the top) fakes. And now a helpful critter has pointed us in the direction of the real Janine, a young actress and recent NYU grad named Lauren Marcus. And, heh, she went to the same high school as our dear friend Julia Allison, née Baugher (and Charlton Heston and Donald Rumsfeld). I gotta hand it to you Lauren, it's really a virtuoso performance. The daffy, dimwitted, shrieky Janine is both irritating and likable, relatable and ridiculously silly. Brava! See some of "Janine"s best work after the jump.

Trouble For Craig and Janine?

Richard Lawson · 03/24/08 09:52AM

Craig Stevens, the clueless, probably fake aspiring Broadway actor, has a new video blog up. Girlfriend Janine is back, talking about her weight loss and displaying a strange, mysterious (and a bit fake-seeming ) sadness about living in New York ("It's tough"). But Craig totally loves the city, so far. Will this drive a wedge between the two? (More than his latent homosexuality already does?) And, more importantly, is this even real? Our crack research team can't find a matching Craig Stevens on Facebook or MySpace, and a Googling for "Craig Stevens Tidewater Community College" yielded nothing. Nothing! Someone please provide definitive proof. After the jump, watch the lovely couple say "super" and "you guys" a lot. Plus "EASTER!"