This Guy Wins at Drivers License Photos

Jono Zalay is a comedian whose family has a humorous tradition: they troll the DMV by creating a new wild persona every time they need to pose for a new drivers license photo.

My family has a tradition of being officially documented as by the government as characters, because they don't know we're not those people. My dad started this tradition in the 70s. Here is my brother's latest: pic.twitter.com/gtcYbgdTt3

— Jono Zalay (@JonoZalay) January 10, 2018

Here are some of the drivers license photos Zalay created for himself over the past couple of decades in different states:

After back to California recently, Zalay needed to get yet another new drivers license. And since he had relatively long hair, he decided he would use it to his advantage for his new portrait.

Here’s the progression of how his look changed through styling:

Today I wanted to take advantage of my relatively longer hair and lack of mustache, but my idea would need a lot of steps to transform this wholesome young boy. pic.twitter.com/s1wut5qrwU

— Jono Zalay (@JonoZalay) January 10, 2018

Phase 1: start-up CEO/barista/lyft driver pic.twitter.com/zDcqQdTTD4

— Jono Zalay (@JonoZalay) January 10, 2018

Phase 2: Alex Jones: Supreme Court Justice pic.twitter.com/jHdn9gVCZr

— Jono Zalay (@JonoZalay) January 10, 2018

Phase 3: Mean Surfer #7 (uncredited), Point Break (1991) pic.twitter.com/IQ755NYkan

— Jono Zalay (@JonoZalay) January 10, 2018

Phase 4: Aaron Carter becomes a birthday clown after his solo album tanks. pic.twitter.com/OIZlyUrYuK

— Jono Zalay (@JonoZalay) January 10, 2018

Phase 5: CHAPPiE's biological father pic.twitter.com/00K30gBqiY

— Jono Zalay (@JonoZalay) January 10, 2018

Phase 666 (final phase): Not just a prodigy, I'm THE PRODIGY. pic.twitter.com/y51CYxY5vW

— Jono Zalay (@JonoZalay) January 10, 2018

Zalay was then ready for action.

When processing my paperwork, the DMV employee comments, "well you're gonna need a new photo, you look nothing like your last California ID." She is referring to this one: pic.twitter.com/OPurD2W80Z

— Jono Zalay (@JonoZalay) January 10, 2018

Unfortunately when taking the official photo the picture person doesn't let me snarl my lip. But I'm snarling them with my eyes.

— Jono Zalay (@JonoZalay) January 10, 2018

After two weeks of waiting, here’s the glorious drivers license that showed up in the mail:

“Also I acknowledge this is only something a white guy can do,” Zalay writes. I think that is tragic and want every person regardless of race, religion, or gender to have this frivolous of a relationship with people who check their IDs.

(via Jono Zalay via Distractify)