INSATIABLE.(TV movie "Porn 'n Chicken")(Brief Article)

Achievements stud the college record of James Ponsoldt, Yale '01: varsity wide receiver; managing editor of the Yale Daily News Magazine; student-council president. But as he prepared his resume after graduation he omitted his boldest accomplishment. Two years ago, using the alias Sweet Jimmy the Benevolent Pimp, he and three college friends founded a club called Porn 'n Chicken, dedicated, sensibly enough, to watching porn videos and eating fried chicken. Meetings of the club's hundred members were announced by pseudonymous e-mails, and most of the attendees had no idea who was in charge.

Then the Times got wind of the enterprise, and stories followed in Time and Premiere after Sweet Jimmy and his co-conspirators--the equally shadowy Zeke (Silver) Cohen, Baby Gristle, and Dallas Everhard--announced plans to film the Ivy League's first porn movie, called "The StaXXX." "It got a little out of hand, because the media saw it as the perfect McStory," Ponsoldt said recently. "We wrote this manifesto, a mixture of Artaud and babble, about how we'd force Yale students to reevaluate the social constructs and stigmas surrounding sexuality, including the exploration of 'non-physical intercourse'--and journalists printed it! Everybody wanted to see the future leaders of America with their pants around their ankles."

History repeats itself: first as collegiate high jinks, then as TV movie. In this case, the movie is "Porn 'n Chicken," the first original film to be made by Comedy Central, which premieres on the cable channel this Sunday night. Ponsoldt, a slight, gregarious twenty-four-year-old who resembles a maturing paperboy, was the film's camera intern and one of its associate producers. Not long ago, while "Porn 'n Chicken" was being filmed, he was taking notes on the set of a dorm room at Union Theological Seminary, adjacent to Columbia, which had been painstakingly made over (Cuervo poster; Tweety Bird plush toy) to look like a dorm room at "a generic Ivy League school."

The scene being shot was the first meeting of Porn 'n Chicken. As a dozen actors milled about--various geeks looking awkward; a brooding guy wearing a boa constrictor around his neck, as so many students do nowadays--the movie's writer-director, Lawrence Trilling, ...