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Video of the Day: Best Buy Invasion
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Jacob Dobkin
Published May 1, 2006
Modified Mar 7, 2008
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Charlie Todd and his ImprovEverywhere agents invaded the 23rd Street Best Buy with eighty people dressed in employee uniforms-- blue shirts and khaki pants. Hilarity ensued. Check out a bunch of other clips at Vimeo, or read the full acount at Charlie's site.
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Jake Dobkin co-founded Gothamist with Jen Chung. In 2019, Jake released Ask a Native New Yorker, a book based on his Gothamist advice column.
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