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Dan Tebo was born in Worcester, MA on October 21, 1978. Six days later John Carpenter’s Halloween opened in theaters. Tebo begged his parents to take him to see it but they mistook his begging for the nonsensical ravings of a six day-old infant. He’s still mad about it. When he was 5 years-old his mom took him on his maiden voyage to something called, “The Video Store”. She told him to choose between the latest film in the Herbie the Lovebug series…and Risky Business. He chose the latter. The video store clerk flicked her cigarette ash onto the floor and told him to enjoy the film. He did just that. He sat on his family’s brown velvet sofa and was immediately hypnotized…by Tangerine Dream’s hypnotizing score. This film also marked the genesis of his lifelong love affair with the F-word, which he employs frequently and to great effect. Dan Tebo spent his early years peddling his Huffy around the mean-ish streets of a pre-charcuterie bar-infested Worcester, determined to rent every VHS tape from every video store within the city limits at least once. After bankrupting his family with video store late fees reaching into the low five figures, Tebo escaped to Boston to study filmmaking at Emerson College. In 1999 he traveled to Hollywood where he landed a prized movie industry internship that found him spending hours making a science fair poster for former SNL cast member Ellen Cleghorne’s 10 year-old daughter! After graduating from Emerson, Tebo spent the next 20 years doing “not much of anything, dude,” his decades-long depression no doubt fueled by the long, slow, painful death of the institution known as the video store. He regularly attended video store close-out sales where he purchased boxes upon boxes of VHS tapes for pennies. Realizing that there was no way to rationalize owning thousands of never-watched VHS tapes in the late 2010’s, Tebo launched VHS of the Week in 2017. Every week Tebo watches a film from the golden age of the VHS tape and then writes a profanity-laced review that usually plays loose with actual facts and often includes a personal story that has nothing to do with anything. VHS of the Week currently has a dedicated readership of at LEAST five people (six if you count Tebo’s Mom). Tebo is hoping to take VHS of the Week nationwide because he’s confident that people really want to know what some scarcely employed dude in his early 40’s thinks about Paul Shore’s Son-in-Law (hint: it’s aces).
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