I'm not surprised to see this discussed on the FOT forum, and also not surprised to find out that PFT doesn't really dig these dudes either. There was a "This American Life" segment about I.E. recently (during the "Mind Games" episode) that made me hate Charlie Todd about as much as anybody can hate anyone whom they've never met. I sat in my car, unable to turn it off, listening to this twisted little snot come up with bizarre, tortured explanations of how psychologically assaulting and harassing innocent people is "art". He even went so far as to say that in some cases, the "agents" were providing a kind of gift to the people they were exploiting. To the credit of the producers of the piece, they then interviewed the victims and several of them said "No - I was terrified," or "It was a real blow".
Yeah, great, now I've got severe emotional damage from a huge public humiliation... THANKS IMPROV EVERYWHERE, WHAT A THOUGHTFUL GIFT!
This dude has absolutely no shame, no humanity. As I sat there listening to the piece, I kept thinking "I'll bet Tom HATES this dude!"
If you want to hear it, it's at:
http://podcast.thisamericanlife.org/podcast/286.mp3The Improv Everywhere story is the second "act".
Who knows, could make for a good Wurster call...