These “Rat Don’t Care” videos really just don’t make sense. But I’m glad we made them if only for capturing this fully insane street carnival worker on tape. We had watched him shout at people and blow his whistle for a while…all we asked him to do was give Amey his normal sausage-selling pitch. I was not expecting him to make me contemplate my own mortality.
“Rat Don’t Care” started as a doodle that Neil drew while we were writing. Now Amey regularly puts on that rat costume and wrestles other improvisers in a basement theater under a supermarket. And for some reason, her wrestling character’s name is the phrase “Rat Don’t Care.”
Friend of the UCBW, Joe Wengert, provides some insight into the origins of Rat Don’t Care! There’s no telling where Rat Don’t Care will show up next!
