So it turns out Sherman Rance and his bloodless snowmen enemies have one thing in common. They both love musical theater. And knife fighting.
In this weeks’ episode, SNOWMEN HUNTERS Episode 08: Michael Jackson F@#*s Boys, we see Sherman’s a Jet, because when you’re a Jet, you’re a Jet all the way.
What does this mean? And what the hell does it have to do with Michael Jackson’s unnatural love for boys? Tune in and find out.
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Every week, when we fling a new episode of SNOWMEN HUNTERSout into the world, we almost wonder if we’ll be arrested, or at least deported. But that hasn’t happened, and we live on to offend another day.
This week’s try: Episode 07: Ginagut Monologues. It tells the story of Everett’s graduation from apprentice snowman killer, to assistant snowman killer. And it has him drinking snowman blood.
SNOWMEN HUNTERS Episode 07: Ginagut Monologues. Enjoy. And be sure to watch in the next few weeks, as we close in on a season finale you flat out won’t believe.
Brought to you by the fine, damaged people at Zanzibar19.com.
Every week, when we fling a new episode of SNOWMEN HUNTERSout into the world, we almost wonder if we’ll be arrested, or at least deported. But that hasn’t happened, and we live on to offend another day.
This week’s try: Episode 07: Ginagut Monologues. It tells the story of Everett’s graduation from apprentice snowman killer, to assistant snowman killer. And it has him drinking snowman blood.
SNOWMEN HUNTERS Episode 07: Ginagut Monologues. Enjoy. And be sure to watch in the next few weeks, as we close in on a season finale you flat out won’t believe.
Brought to you by the fine, damaged people at Zanzibar19.com.
What have we done? For the burgeoning legions of SNOWMEN HUNTERS fans, Episode 06: Mongoloid Melodies is a short, sweet visit with madman snowmen hunter Sherman Rance.
For others, it may be evidence we need to be arrested for crimes against culture. We'll take that as a badge of honor, because we believe this is some crazy funny stuff.
With that warning, we give you the latest episode of SNOWMEN HUNTERS. . . Episode 06: Mongoloid Melodies!
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What kind of poor bastard man loves a stick the way normal men love a woman? Sexually, we mean, if you were wondering. Sometimes the stick on top. It’s not important. What’s important is what horrible thing in his past brings him to that kind of madness? What pushes a man to follow Sherman Rance in hunting snowmen? In Episode 5 of SNOWMEN HUNTERS we begin to unravel the mystery of Everett Van der Sloot, and find out just what he was, and what he has become.
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We here at Zanzibar19 and creators of the SNOWMEN HUNTERS are longtime lovers/followers of Leo Laporte, the tech guru of TechTV (R.I.P.) and were in large part inspired to do the internet show thing based on Laporte's podcast evangilizing. Or is it Podcast?
This week, Laporte, over at his site TWiT.tv put for the idea of calling what we all do in online entertainment netcasting rather than podcasting. As proud members of the TWIT army from the start, the SNOWMEN HUNTERS are with you here, Leo.
Having waited for the coming internet broadcasting revolution since work in network sitcoms dried up (thanks for nothing, FEAR FACTOR! THE SIMPLE LIFE... you're dead to us!) we're very excited about the grassroots broadcasting possibilities.
But with our new online comedy series SNOWMEN HUNTERS, we've become frustrated there isn't a good word for online TV-style entertainment.
Podcast... that has an audio-only meaning these days. And people think you need an iPod to see or hear it.
Vlog... No thanks, and I think you burped something onto your shirt.
Vidcast... too A/V club nerdy. By that we mean lunch-time-in-the-library nerdy. Coming from a guy who spent his lunches in the library (Jusus-bouncing-baby-Christ I was nerdy) those are days I'd like to forget. Sorry vidcast.
Internet Protocol Television, aka IPTV... a name only a Linux evangalist could love.
Feedcast... What the frack is that? (email your notations of how nerdy a curse word like frack is to CSmith@Zanzibar19.com).
Mobcast... Because there aren't enough GODFATHER references in popular culture.
TAWCast or DCast... Stop. Just stop.
TeleCast... now we are literally going in cirlces.
Leocast... insert your complaint about shameless Laporte bottom-kissing here.
Netcast is short, simple, clear to the regular person and it's short, sweet and non-techie. i.e. It's a normal word.
So we're with you, and everyone who disagrees with you (in this case) is wrong. There, we said it.
From the Snowman Army to the TWiT army, we're with you.
You would think shooting snowmen is the craziest thing a man could do. You would think a man marrying and making sweet, gentle love to a stick would really, really be as far as a man could go.
But in this week’s SNOWMEN HUNTERS, you’ll see just how far Sherman and Everett will go to get what they need to be he best damn snowmen killers in the world.
Brought to you by the fine, damaged people at Zanzibar19.com. We should be sorry, but we’re not.
Boy, this... What we do in this episode will live to embarrass our relatives. This on ends on such a crazy, random, ridiculous level we’ll be living it down for years. But man, it’s funny.
So what won’t we do for our audience? NOTHING! But explaining this new episode of SNOWMEN HUNTERS this coming Thanksgiving is going to be tough. But we’ll take it for you!
Anyway, with that warning, we unveil SNOWMEN HUNTERS, Episode 3: Boy Meets Stick.
So who’s more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows him? That’s the question we tackle, in our first Everett centered episode. You’ve been asking for it, so you get the background on Sherman’s moron partner. We see the effects of a horrible secret from Everett’s past, and how they lead him to follow a man who shoots snowmen for a living. The end of this one is something you won’t want to miss.
Lately we’ve been buzzing with the fun of having our own mini-studio, punching out these SNOWMEN HUNTERS every week.
Yay, good for us. Whatever.
But as usually happens when you get a bit of success, your mind starts wandering towards the next head to mount on your wall. While we haven’t found that yet (other than more, crazier SNOWMEN HUNTERS episodes) we came across a hell of a headtrip.
It started as we thought about last week’s posting, about the SNL cast that is playing somehow, somewhere in the afterlife.
The SNL posting got us thinking about somehow bringing actors/directors from any era together for fantasy projects. We then remembered George Lucas talked a few years back about just this: At some point, the CGI engines which brought us the true, interesting fantasy acting of Gollum and King Kong (not just the misfires of Jar Jar) could eventually be used to resurrect Alec Guiness, River Phoenix, Natalie Wood, whoever. Grab an actor’s catalogue, every performance, picture, interview, voice-recording, plug it into a new script and POW: Now 1960s era William Shatner is the villain in the rebooted JAMES BOND series.
Try to tell us you didn’t just get a geekgasm.
Then it hit us: It’s only a matter of time before this process was used to remake the STAR WARS saga. Just try to tell us Lucas, the man who rewrote history (by CGIing Jabba the Hutt and having Greedo shoot first) wouldn’t jump at this. Or at least order his minions jump on this after he passed on.
Then it hit us again: The fine points of this technology will take a few years to develop, so when would this happen? Lucas is fond of reissuing tweaked versions on anniversaries (1997’s SPECIAL EDITIONS), so a better question is when could this happen? Wednesday, May 26, 2027, or the 50th Anniversary of STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE.
Dust off your countdown clocks. So stake-out your place in line now. It’s coming. Search your feelings. You know it to be true.
Of course that got us and our pals thinking about what/how we’d do it. Here’s what we’ve come up with. Totally useless, we know, but really interesting to contemplate.
STAR WARS 2027
Writer/Director: Peter Jackson (we’re sure they’ll eventually have director-bots too). We thought about what he said in remaking KING KONG: That he’d use the original as a ‘real historical document’ i.e. the core which would act as a skeleton around which he’d update/change/enhance, all while being faithful to the ‘reality’ of the original work.
Sean Penn (FALCON AND THE SNOWMAN era) as Anakin Skywalker Rachel Weisz (ABOUT A BOY) as Padme Amidala Vincent Price as The Emperor Andy Serkis (Gollum in LORD OF THE RINGS) as Yoda Sean Connery as Obi Wan Kenobi Orlando Bloom (PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN)as Luke Skywalker Vivien Leigh (GONE WITH THE WIND) as Princess Leia Burt Lancaster (FROM HERE TO ETERNITY) as Han Solo Peter Mayhew as Chewbacca Denzel Washington as Lando Calrissian Christopher Walken as Count Dukoo Lawrence Fishburne as Mace Windu James Earl Jones as Darth Vader Peter O'Toole (LAWRENCE OF ARABIA) as Qui Gon Jinn Errol Flynn (THE SEA HAWK) as Jango/Boba Fett/Clone Troopers
Hashing around this idea with our friend Scott Sleeper, he came up with an interesting list:
James Dean (REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE) as Anakin Skywalker Sophie Marceau (THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH) as Padme Amidala Boris Karloff (or maybe Robert England) as The Emperor Frank Oz as Yoda Russell Crowe as Obi Wan Kenobi Hugh Jackman as Luke Skywalker Katharine Hepburn as Princess Leia Charlton Heston (PLANET OF THE APES) or Bruce Campbell (EVIL DEAD 2) (LOL!!) as Han Solo Kevin Peter Hall (the Predator in PREDATOR) as Chewbacca Lawrence Fishburne as Lando Calrissian David Carradine (KUNG FU, KILL BILL) as Count Dukoo Keith David (PITCH BLACK) as Mace Windu James Earl Jones as Darth Vader Jet Lee as Qui Gon Jinn
You’d think if a man hunted snowmen, you’d know the craziest thing you’re ever going to know about him. But when it comes to Sherman Rance and his mumbling idiot friend Everett, shooting snowmen is the sanest thing they do.
Check out the new episode of SNOWMEN HUNTERS, and feel free to click over to our YouTube profile (or double click the player below) to give us the rating you feel is fair. Based on the feedback and emails we’ve received since last week’s premiere, we suspect we’re close to breaking into the top ranks of YouTube comedy. But we’ll need your help, and your 5 star votes, to get there. We’re probably a mere episode or two away... (famous last words...)
But who are we really doing this for, anyway? That’s right. It’s you. Only you.
Here endith the ass-kissing, and here startith the show. . .
So I don't know if this means anything but. . . well,
actually I am sure. It means nothing, but I thought it was interesting.
In the mad dash to get things ready for the launch of SNOWMEN
HUNTERS
and Zanzibar19.com,
we've been fleshing out bios and PR info for our various profiles and sites. In
a way, trying to put down everything you like/are interested in/all that's
influenced you in these bios might qualify as a kind of therapy. I'm not sure I
want people to know all that's revealed about our inner lives as seen by the
favorites movies/TV entries of ours, but oh well. The stuff we left off so as not
to look like letches would make your toes curl.
One thing we did realize, going through all our comedic
heroes, is that if there is a heaven, it's got a hell of a SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
cast. Here's the line up so far: John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Phil Hartman,
Chris Farley, Andy Kaufman and Charlie Rocket (okay, so it's not totally great)
with special appearances by Jim Henson's Muppets (check your SNL reruns if
you're confused by this). What's more, the potential guest stars are Richard
Pryor, Sam Kinison, with musical guests: Half the Beatles.
I'm only being half ironic when I say I wish I were dead.
Well, it’s that
time. The premiere of SNOWMEN HUNTERS , Episode 1! But unlike another,
more famous Episode 1, we're
trying to be absurdly funny.
How successful are
we? You be the judge.
And remember to
check back at Zanzibar19.com
every Wednesday for new episodes.
C & R
Its getting close to that time... the September 6 premiere of SNOWMEN HUNTERS! With the minutes ticking down, we thought wed throw out another of our Confetti previews.
So sit back and see what Sherman has in his freezer.
Greetings Snowman Army, and Zanzibar19 fans nearly
everywhere...
A quick, sweet note from those of us slaving over
the first season of SNOWMEN
HUNTERS. You can now subscribe to us in iTunes.
Right now the teaser trailer is there, but come September 6, you'll be able to
get new episodes of SNOWMEN
HUNTERS every Wednesday.
To subscribe, simply click over to Zanzibar19.com,
and click on the iTunes subscribe button.
So we’ve
been watching video-over-the-web grow for awhile now, and we couldn’t be more
excited about the next year or so. The promise of web video is finally paying
off. As you may have read by now, we’re betting our futures (well, part of
them…) that quality, independently made TV-style entertainment will live and
breath on the web. Sexy, isn’t it… ‘independently made, TV-style entertainment?’
That kind of phrasing makes you want to rip your clothes off, huh? Thank God we
make better shows than write late-night blog postings...
But enough
about us (for now). We’re here tonight to praise four fellow travelers. While watching
the YouTube wave lift all boats, we’ve come to like four shows and feel the
need to throw praise their say. Three you probably know, but the fourth is
maybe the best of them all, and not nearly as famous as it deserves. . .
First, ASK A NINJA .
These guys can do more with a wall and a ninja suit than most comedians can do
with $60 million and a gang of ex-SNL writers. How is it some guy is making
money doing NATIONAL LAMPOON’S DORM DAZE 2,
and the Ninja is still shooting in his apartment? Well, that’s the kind
of injustice the web-video revolution will fix.
Second, SOUP OF THE DAY
. . . This one premiered in May with
three-episodes-a-week, (obviously, a show made by robot crews and edit-droids)
and finished their season in July. It was a hell of a stunt to watch. The
premise is simple: A guy is dating three sexy, accomplished women and must
choose between them. Yes, yes, it’s the kind of problem we all are familiar
with, but what they do with it, and the fun improv stuff they pull off, shows a
good web-based show will give you things network and even cable won’t. They’ve
broken up the show and are now having daily 3 minute episodes.
Third, CHAD VADER. Even while
we’re both geeks with toxic levels of nerd-based paint swimming in our blood,
we make it a practice to steer clear of STAR WARS send-ups. We only need one
Kevin Smith, thanks. But when we finally saw this one, damn it, it was funny.
It also proved something we truly believe: Even a bad sounding idea can be
great if you do it right. Vader as a day manager of a grocery store? Where’s
Carrot Top when you need to shoot him? But it was really, really good. And
despite their recent undeserved cancellation at Channel 101, we hear they’re
making more episodes now. . .
Which
brings us to the funniest, weirdest, wildest series we’ve seen in this new
medium. If there were justice in this world or the next, these guys would be as
big as ASK A
NINJA . Not only is this the funniest thing we’ve seen this
year, it’s fearless. These guys know how to go farther than anyone, and why if
you do that right, you’re funnier than anyone.
Their show
helped convince us the truly wild frontiers of comedy were here on the web,
which is why we’re going to make people laugh by shot gunning snowmen in the
face. The title says it all: PUPPET
RAPIST. These guys are gods.
I say
again… PUPPET
RAPIST. Go watch it. Then write them an email and thank
them from us.
We thought
the time had come to say some of this. See you with more news soon. . .
Attention
Snowman Army, SNOWMEN
HUNTERS fans, and twisted children of most ages…
Zanzibar19.com is crazed with happiness to announce the
premiere date of our new comedy series, SNOWMEN
HUNTERS, is set for Wednesday, September 6.
Starting
then, at Zanzibar19.comcom and across the internet, you’ll be
able to see the weekly adventures of idiot idealist Sherman Rance and his more
idiotic friend Everett Van Der Sloot as they try to make the world a better
place by destroying every snowman in sight. How is that you ask? Tune in and
see.
Some of
you may have first seen SNOWMEN
HUNTERS as one of the semi-finalists in the FX Network’s
show us your pilot contest in June. It was ranked in the top 20 out of over
3000 entries. (That’s the top 0.67-Percent to you and me Russ). While we didn’t
make it to that air, we’re pretty sure it was because we were too raw in our
comedy, and too insane in our premise, to be seen on even cable TV!
