So - I helped Mark Malkoff Lives In IKEA happen.
(If you look at his links page, you’ll see my OHIKEA site and my name in the Special thanks on the credits section. No lie!)

Here’s the story:

Back in like fall I got a letter from The Colbert Report. I’m like, uh okay… it’s this guy Mark and he thinks I look like someone who knows people at IKEA and wants to know if he can get one off me because he’s made high profile web videos before and has a cunning plan for an IKEA Video. Well as it hapens, I do “know” people at IKEA, big people in the PR department no less. So I hook them up.

Mark thanks me by offering tickets to The Colbert Report, where he works as a audience coordinator, I say well I can’t go to NYC right now but a close friend of mine just moved to Connecticut and it would make his freaking year. So Mark sets it all up - then mere days before my pal is to go to the show, with VIP tickets no less, the Writer’s Strike hits. No show. Mark is a super nice guy and assures me when the show is back on he’ll get my pal set up again. Cool! (If I ever get the chance to go I hope Mark is still working there to set ME up!)

So anyway, Mark wrote me again last week and slipped me the secret he had planned. To live in IKEA for a week and post videos daily. And they let him!

You might have seen the news, it’s been reported everywhere.

I’ve seen all the posted videos so far and they are GREAT, they really are playing along so well. It’s so nice to see a company with a sense of humor for a change. They saw this for what it was! A great PR op - and kudos to them!

Sadly, Mark’s expedition is over now, his journey ended at midnight. I am anxiously waiting for the last days videos.

Anyway, as it happens, one of my readers on OHIKEA is a manager at the Paramaus NJ IKEA, the very same store Mark was living in. He’s gotten me his autograph, and is on request going to try to get me the autograph of the Security guy Jarvis and the cashier. If you watch the videos you’ll have to agree that’s awesome as hell!

Hopefully more than one as I need another contest OHIKEA right now and I’d be heartbroken to give it up.

If you haven’t seen them see the top link or want to watch all of them in order - you can do it a playlist I’m keeping here, or below. Either way, just click play and sit back. It’ll play them all for you. Watch them all they just get funnier and funnier.

I’m adding all the videos as they arrive on youtube, since they hit there before they get added to his site.