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  • Here in Los Angeles,

  • COVID vaccines are being slowly

  • distributed to people 65 and older.

  • But according to a recent article,

  • some people under 65 in L.A.

  • are still trying to get the vaccine at any cost.

  • These people are being called vaccine chasers.

  • Yeah.

  • Now, typically these people line up at vaccination sites

  • for hours, hoping there might be an extra dose

  • available at the end of the day.

  • Not only that, since this is L.A.,

  • some of these people are going as far as sending in

  • audition tapes to be considered for early vaccination.

  • Yeah, we actually got our hands

  • on some of these vaccine audition tapes.

  • Yeah, unbelievable, check them out.

  • Hi, Jocelyn Marks, Stewart Talent,

  • and I am auditioning to get a vaccine.

  • (gasps)

  • (moans)

  • (groans)

  • Hi, I'm Jeff Matthews and I'm auditioning for the vaccine

  • with some of my impressions.

  • So you want the vaccine?

  • You can't handle the vaccine!

  • Hi, Danny Richardson, SAG-eligible.

  • No, I'm not technically a doctor.

  • I did play one once in a small, adult film.

  • Eli Bright, special skill: stand-up comedy.

  • You know, men and women get COVID very differently.

  • So I actually brought some wigs.

  • They're from my improv studio before it burnt down.

  • Oh, this one's cool.

  • It's kinda like...

  • No, you know what?

  • I'm so sorry.

  • Slate, hi, my name is Barry Diesel, no relation.

  • This is my first video audition.

  • I am a stage combat expert,

  • proficient in such styles as punching,

  • staff work,

  • (staff clatters)

  • swordplay,

  • and throwing a banana in slow motion.

  • (banana thuds)

  • Hi, I'm Kathy Yamamoto.

  • Please give me the vaccine.

  • (pounding on door) (child screaming)

  • Sorry.

  • Sorry, I'm doing an audition.

  • [Child] We're hungry!

  • Can you just keep it down?

  • [Child] Mommy, you never feed us!

  • Roommates. (laughs)

  • And I, they let me keep the lab coat,

  • which is pretty great, right?

  • Also I will do nudity.

  • Wow, ow, wow!

  • White people take the vaccine like this.

  • Allrighty then.

Here in Los Angeles,

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