“Comedian JOHN LUTZ, who plays a sketch writer on the popular TV series 30 Rock, is often the fall guy for others’ mischief and the target of practical jokes on the show. So when I read in a recent Arts Beat blog entry about a new endeavor titled The Lutz Experiment, I naturally assumed he’d be the lead role in some sort of new reality TV show where he would eat strange and unusual foods, perform death-defying acts and, in general, test his emotional and physical limits,” LIA STEAKLEY, a social media producer for the Medical School, posted recently on the school’s SCOPE blog.
As it turns out, Lutz has teamed up with JAMIL ZAKI, assistant professor of psychology at Stanford, for a series of experiments and a book.
In that New York Times Arts Beat piece that Steakley refers to, Zaki describes Lutz as “the perfect lab rat.”
“You see him on 30 Rock and he comes off as this total goofball, a little bit of a doofus, even,” Zaki said. “It’s so strange to then meet him and see this incredibly well-spoken, thoughtful guy in the same body.”
Read Steakley’s full post on the SCOPE blog.