I don’t know how far the buzz penetrated beyond the Ivy League world, but a few months ago Aleksey Vayner was the talk of certain corners of the Internet. See, Aleksey is a weird Yale student known for making up stories about himself: he was employed by the Mafia as a child; he gave tennis lessons to Sarah Michelle Gellar; he is one of four people in Connecticut certified to handle nuclear waste; the Dalai Lama wrote him a college recommendation. You know, that sort of thing.

The tipping point was this video resume he created when looking for a job after graduation — a six-minute span in which he appears to be almost miraculously self-interested and self-deluded.

Anyway, all that is prologue for the video below: a parody of the Aleksey Vayner video by my hero — and one of North America’s great actors — Michael Cera, better known to the elect among you as young George Michael on Arrested Development.

By the way, speaking of Arrested Development — as we all should more often — series creator Mitch Hurwitz has signed on to do an American adaptation of a British political office comedy. Hopes are high.

04 January 2007

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