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Who the Eff Is Hank?

2016-11-14 · other · Craig Benzine · 2:37 · watch on YouTube

Topic: History & curiosities (also: Nerdfighteria, Science & nature) · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: guest or collab, calendar ritual, community lore, song or performance

Guest host Craig Benzine (WheezyWaiter), standing in for Hank on the second Monday of Pizzamas, does comic Hank impressions and a mock 'science of pizza' that drifts into pizza and moustache history.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Craig answers 'Who the eff is Hank?': he is not Hank but Craig/WheezyWaiter; recalls filling in for John years ago; Roger Ebert gag

  • ★★ Craig Benzine: Craig takes up the question 'Who the eff is Hank?': he is not Hank but Craig, aka WheezyWaiter, and tells the asker to clean up their language. (playful) — 00:00:00 · Who the Eff Is Hank, Craig Benzine, Hank Green
  • ★★ Craig Benzine: Craig recalls that a few years ago he filled in for John, doing his best impression of him, and says it was well received. (playful) — 00:00:13 · John Green, Craig Benzine

00:00:24 — Craig does impressions of things Hank does: hip-thrust dancing, rock music, breathing, smiling while talking

  • ★★ Craig Benzine: For nerdfighters missing Hank, Craig imitates things Hank does: dancing with hip thrusts, singing rock music, breathing, and smiling while he talks. (joke) — 00:00:24 · Hank Green, Nerdfighteria

00:00:52 — Pizzamas: a promised 'science of pizza' becomes its history: the word in a 10th-century Latin text from Gaeta, 12 pizzas a day to the bishop

  • ★★ Craig Benzine: Craig says the term 'pizza' first appeared in a Latin text around the 10th century in southern Italy. (playful) — 00:01:00
  • ★★ Craig Benzine: Craig says the Latin text was found in Gaeta, Italy, and stated that a person of a certain property was to give the bishop of Gaeta 12 pizzas every day. (playful) — 00:01:11
  • ★ Craig Benzine: Craig realises he is giving the history of pizza rather than the science, says history is more John's thing, and apologises. (playful) — 00:01:30 · John Green

00:01:38 — The 'science': bread, sauce, cheese; baker's yeast is the fungus Saccharomyces cerevisiae

  • ★★ Craig Benzine: Craig says basic pizza is bread, sauce and cheese, and the bread is made of flour, water and baker's yeast, a living single-celled fungus, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. (playful) — 00:01:38

00:02:05 — History of the Pizza John moustache: oldest moustache portrait an Iranian horseman from 300 BC; centaur gag; thanks and sign-off

  • ★★ Craig Benzine: Calling the Pizza John moustache crucial, Craig says the oldest portrait of a moustache is an Iranian horseman from 300 BC (first saying AD, then correcting himself). (playful) — 00:02:11 · Pizza John
  • ★ Craig Benzine: Craig thanks Hank and John for having him, says he loves doing these, and asks them to have lots more kids. (playful) — 00:02:29 · Hank Green, John Green

In the description and comments

Humor (dominant)

  • Craig claims his earlier impression of John was well received and cites Roger Ebert saying two thumbs up — 00:00:19

    “several times throughout his career about other things.”

  • Explaining the Gaeta text, Craig says the 12 pizzas were owed by people of a certain high income level — 00:01:21

    “or upper crust, if you will.”

  • Craig couldn't find the 300 BC horseman portrait, so imagines what it looked like — 00:02:21

    “By “horseman” I assume they meant “centaur.””

Threads in this video

Where the stories that moved here went next

Mentioned

People: Craig Benzine · Roger Ebert

Projects: Pizzamas

Works: Super Mario 64

Organizations: Chicago Sun-Times

Terms: Pizza John · Who the Eff Is Hank

Concepts: moustache · pizza · Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Places: Gaeta · Italy

Only in the description or credits: The Good Stuff

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