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PED CROSSING

Ped Crossing is a comedy web series that follows a presumed pedophile.  Yep. Written and directed by comedian Paul Thomas and featuring over 20 Chicago stand-up and sketch comedians,  Ped Crossing ups the ante on America’s love affair with antiheroes.  The 11-episode series has a continuing storyline that focuses on a presumed pedophile named Byron, played by Thomas, as he struggles with drama-inducers like job hunting, car buying, and roommate trouble, all along trying to impress a world-wise kid he refers to as Kanye West. 

Ped Crossing was a weeknight and weekend project from 2009-2011 and released January 2012. With only a budget for mustaches and microphones and a crew of one, Ped Crossing was produced, shot, and edited by Chad Wilson, a frequent collaborator of Thomas. Watch the trailer and fall in love.  

   PED CROSSING Trailer
Created by Paul Thomas     Produced by Chad Wilson         
Written and Directed by Paul Thomas    
 (Episodes 5 & 6 Written by Paul Thomas and Chad Briggs)
Camera, Sound, and Editing by Chad Wilson
Opening Sequences Shot by Patrick Wimp
Music by TJ Devoe, Paul Thomas, and Lola Balatro 

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Episode #1 - "Kanye"
Meet Byron.

Episode #2 - "Leon of Kings"
Byron goes vehicle shopping.

Episode #3 - "James Dean"

Byron gets stylish.


Episode #4 - "A Close Shave"
Byron gets a roommate.

Episode #5 - "Reality Bites"
Life gets real for Byron.

Episode #6 - "Snap, Crack, and Pop"
Byron moves out - kind of. 

Episode #7 - "Lady and the Tramp"
Byron gets another roommate. Or 2?


Episode #8 - "Parks and Wreck"
Byron has man trouble.

Episode #9 - "The Pianist"
Byron's crap hits the fan.


Episode #10 - "The Seeker"
Byron needs a job.

Episode #11 - "All Quiet on the Eastern Front"
The epic finale.


PED CROSSING  - 
Full web series in one video -

It's kinda like a movie!

Mop Men - Extra

Here's a "DVD extra" of Mop Men, a show within the Ped Crossing show.  This features Mark Raterman, the best straight man in Chicago---now Los Angeles, dare I say.

Teaser Trailer

The Cast
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Comedian Paul Thomas’s satiric mind emerged from the pandemic unbowed, leading to Intimate and Appropriate, an incisive collection of scenes steeped in the selfie-righteousness of a country that has lost its mind. With grounded characters and the logic of an ancient Midwestern philosopher, Thomas delicately stomps through the “mine” field of identity, language, and recycle bins, putting a hall of mirrors up to a narcisstocracy that kinda seems to wanna offend itself.

OCTOBER 18-21   8PM
The Den Theatre
1331 N. Milwaukee Ave.  
(Wicker Park) Chicago
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