You know him as the hunky star of "One Tree Hill" and "How to Make It in America"—but if you knew Bryan Greenberg in high school, you'd have known him as a class-clown-turned-persona-non-grata due to his prankish public announcements. (Aha! We knew that adorably smirky, quirky grin was hiding a past full of shenanigans.) And in this clip from Bryan's upcoming appearance on "When I Was 17" (airing Saturday at 11 a.m.) he reminisces about the time that a PSA went SNAFU.
"I did the announcements for the high school," Bryan recalled. But for his teenage self, the usual notes about club meetings, ball games and bake sales just weren't fun enough to make the job worthwhile. And, he explained, "we quickly became bored of just reading the agenda and we would make up our own stuff."
A sample of Bryan's off-the-cuff fakey announcements:
"The procrastination club meeting has been postponed... again."
Confession: We totally laughed. But apparently, not everyone was a fan of the ad-libbed PSAs—and particularly not the vice principal.
"He gave us a couple warnings," Bryan said, "but we thought we were funny."
And so the prankery continued...until the day that the two of them took their fun a step further and played rock music over the loud speaker, with very exciting results:
"I remember the vice principal, red-faced, running right at us," Bryan said. "He burst through the door, grabbed the mic and said, 'You're done! You're FIRED!'"
(To which we assume Bryan replied, "One day, I'm going to be a famous TV star with my very own feature appearance on MTV. And you will really, really regret this.")
"When I Was 17" airs tomorrow morning at 11.
Did you get a kick out of Bryan's high school memories?
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