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...
September
6 we’re premiering our first show, SNOWMEN
HUNTERS, at Zanzibar19.com.
So we’re stoked.
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. . .
C & R
