User:Allicloss/sandbox

Allison Closs is an 18 year old filmmaker, comedian, and viral sensation from Carlisle, Pennsylvania. She is best known for taking a cardboard cutout of Danny DeVito to her senior prom on May 11th, 2018. Currently, Closs is a student at Gettysburg College, double majoring in Cinema and Media Studies and Video Production. The second major is being fulfilled as an independent study.

Prom 2018
Closs was struggling to find a human date to her high school senior prom, so she decided to instead purchase a cardboard cutout of Danny DeVito on Amazon, duct tape it to a small square scooter with a leash attached, and take that. The Carlisle High School prom took place at LeTort View Community Center at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania on May 11th, 2018. Though her strange choice of a date certainly caught considerable of attention at the dance, no one at the time considered it particularly noteworthy since Closs already had a reputation for wacky antics among peers. Local news disagreed, however. The story gained popularity in local news, causing the Associated Press to reach out to Closs, asking for permission to publish it on a larger scale. Closs happily complied, and the story gained immense media coverage all across the world.

Closs on the set of Always Sunny
Word of Closs's magical night with the cardboard celebrity even spread to DeVito himself, who was filming a season of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia at the time. According to Rob McElhenney; a star, producer, and writer on the show; the prop team for the show was tasked with making a cardboard cutout of Closs. On June 4th, 2018, McElhenney posted a photo on Instagram of DeVito posing with cardboard Closs on the set of Paddy's Pub with the caption, "Hey Allison- I heard you took cardboard Danny to Prom. What a coincidence. He took cardboard Allison to Paddy’s..."

This caused Closs to go viral once again, but this time, on an even larger scale.

The Talk
On September 20th, 2018, Closs appeared on an episode of The Talk. She was interviewed, gifted a variety of cutouts of iconic DeVito characters, and, at the end of the segment, met DeVito in person. According to Closs, she had no idea she was going to be meeting DeVito, but was pleasantly surprised when she did.

Other media
The story of Closs and her cardboard prom date has been discussed on many talk shows, news shows, radio shows, and online news sources such as Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Good Morning America, Inside Edition, Time Magazine, Vice News, BBC News, Entertainment Weekly, and numerous more.

She has also inspired many other bizarre and comedic Danny DeVito fan tributes.