# Well... the "Berries & Cream" Lad apparently doesn't want that job to be part of this resume **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 5, 2016, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-the-berries-cream-lad-apparently-doesnt-want-that-job-to-be-part-of-this-resume/765134 "2016-09-05T21:54:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2016, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-the-berries-cream-lad-apparently-doesnt-want-that-job-to-be-part-of-this-resume/765134/1 "2016-09-05T21:54:57Z")
On a whim I looked up the Lad “who likes Berries and Cream” - [Per his bio](http://www.jackferver.org/bio/)he’s now a very serious “writer, choreographer, and director” now and his epic "[Berries & Cream commericals"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ryjpbd4D4bg) don’t make any kind of appearance. But no matter, he’ll always be the Berries & Cream Lad to me. > [@](#): > > Jack Ferver > > is a New York based writer, choreographer, and [director.](http://www.jackferver.org/i-want-you-to-want-me/) His genre defying performances, which have been called “so extreme that they sometimes look and feel like exorcisms” (The New Yorker), explore the tragicomedy of the human psyche. Ferver’s “darkly humorous” (The New York Times) works interrogate and indict an array of psychological and socio-political issues, particularly in the realms of sexual orientation, gender, and power struggles. His visionary direction blurs boundaries between fantastic theatrics and stark naturalism, character and self, humor and horror. > > Ferver’s works have been presented in New York City at the New Museum; The Kitchen; The French Institute Alliance Française, as part of Crossing the Line; Abrons Arts Center; Gibney Dance; Performance Space 122; the Museum of Arts and Design, as part of Performa 11; Danspace Project; and Dixon Place. Domestically and internationally, Ferver has been presented by the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College (NY); American Dance Institute (MD); Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (IL); Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (OR); the Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA (ME); the Institute of Contemporary Art (MA); Diverse Works in collaboration with the Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston (TX); and Théâtre de Vanves (France). ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-the-berries-cream-lad-apparently-doesnt-want-that-job-to-be-part-of-this-resume/765134/2 "2016-09-07T17:21:03Z")
I’m…not surprised he wants to downplay that. I’m not sure, but I think I recognize him as one of the regular kids on the Amy Sedaris show “Strangers with Candy.” There’s a scene where a bully starts punching him and punching him and punching him…and on and on…while everybody stands around smiling and grinning. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-the-berries-cream-lad-apparently-doesnt-want-that-job-to-be-part-of-this-resume/765134/3 "2016-09-07T17:29:18Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > I’m not sure, but I think I recognize him as one of the regular kids on the Amy Sedaris show “Strangers with Candy.” He’s got that listed under “other,” which is a pretty good descriptor for that show. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-the-berries-cream-lad-apparently-doesnt-want-that-job-to-be-part-of-this-resume/765134/4 "2016-09-07T17:29:22Z")
> [@astro](#): > > On a whim I looked up the Lad “who likes Berries and Cream” - > > [Per his bio](http://www.jackferver.org/bio/)he’s now a very serious “writer, choreographer, and director” now and his epic "[Berries & Cream commericals"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ryjpbd4D4bg) don’t make any kind of appearance. I’ve never seen that commercial before, so I wonder how many visitors to this thread will have no idea who you’re talking about. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-the-berries-cream-lad-apparently-doesnt-want-that-job-to-be-part-of-this-resume/765134/5 "2016-09-07T17:41:29Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I’ve never seen that commercial before, so I wonder how many visitors to this thread will have no idea who you’re talking about. I don’t know what he’s talking about, and I’m at work so I can’t watch the video. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-the-berries-cream-lad-apparently-doesnt-want-that-job-to-be-part-of-this-resume/765134/6 "2016-09-07T17:42:27Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I don’t know what he’s talking about, and I’m at work so I can’t watch the video. Do yourself a favor, don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-the-berries-cream-lad-apparently-doesnt-want-that-job-to-be-part-of-this-resume/765134/7 "2016-09-07T18:12:45Z")
Kind of like Jonathan Lethem, who made his bones breaking new ground in science fiction and was such a PKD fan he has a tattoo of a spray can of “Ubik” on his arm… who now, as one of the literary world’s darlings, distances himself from sf as much as possible and is allowed his tattoo only because PKD became something of a post-darling himself. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-the-berries-cream-lad-apparently-doesnt-want-that-job-to-be-part-of-this-resume/765134/8 "2016-09-07T18:17:36Z")
What boggles my mind is that somebody actually paid for that ad.