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Thanks, Internet!
You’ve made our sketch about bootlegging Avatar go totally viral. It’s still called “going viral,” right? Even in the 2010s? Lemme know if that changes.
Our little video has received plenty of comments, links, retwitterings and spam. Just check out these nice posts from Gawker, Huffington Post, Gizmodo, The Washington Post, Vanity Fair and The New York Times.
Avatar: The Making of the Bootleg
Everyone knows James Cameron spent three centuries developing new technology for Avatar, but what about the bootleggers who developed the new technology to rip it off? Take a look behind the scenes of the revolutionary new bootleg of the revolutionary new movie.
See You in Toronto!
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It’s happening, it’s really happening! We’ll be back in Toronto this weekend for the fifth annual Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival. Each year, our neighbors to the north (or rather, “neighbours”) dish out their finest comedy delights and privilege a few groups from the USA to join their North American comic affair. We’re incredibly honored to have been accepted for a third year in a row (or rather, “honoured”). If you’re in Toronto, don’t pass it up – something killer is happening every night from the 10th to the 15th! For a full festival schedule and ticketing, go here (or rather, “hereur“).
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We’ll be performing full sets at the Comedy Bar on both Friday and Saturday:
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Friday @ 9pm [tickets]
with Free Love Forum,
Hot Thespian Action,
and Approximately 3 Peters
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Saturday @ 7pm [tickets]
with Free Love Forum,
The Skinny, and Frenzy
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And for you fellow sketch troupes, we’re planning on being in the midnight Sketch-U-Bator as well.
Thanks Funny or Die!
Just two weeks ago we joined Funny or Die, and today, much to our surprise, we were featured on their front page! Coal, our coal industry parody, received a big push thanks to it’s placement among the top five featured videos. So this is our note of appreciation to you folks at Funny or Die, it was an awesome welcome from an awesome video community!
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Thanks!
A-Side/B-Side, vol. 9
This Friday, comic visionaries, Aaron Kheifets and James Eason, have once more wrangled three sketch troupes to perform for your pleasure in their comedy masterclass, A-Side/B-Side. The show sees each group perform one sketch that’s a proven audience fav (an A-Side), followed by one sketch that’s strange, new, or unproven (the B-Side). If that hasn’t got you setting your gCal to remind to your iBerry, I should note that the bunch of us, Free Love Forum, have been asked back to join Adam and Trevor and Party Central USA! The details:
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Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre
Friday, November 6, 2009 @ 11pm
$5 [make your reservation here]
Vote For Reform (and us)
Hey everybody, got six minutes? Our video, Serve & Protect, made it into the top 20 of the OFA’s Health Reform Video Challenge! If the video wins, it’ll air on national TV. The polls have opened, and now you could give us a real boost. Click here, then hit the “start voting” button. You have to rank all 20 videos for your vote to count. Don’t worry, they’re only 30 seconds each. Together we can bring comprehensive healthcare reform, and get us on TV!
Adobe Creative Pros
A little while ago, Adobe – the maker of Photoshop and the Creative Suite of any serious creative professional – invited us to make a web series for their site, AdobeTV. Thus we made “Creative Pros,” our glance at the individuals who make up the advertising, publishing, and entertainment industries. Here’s the whole series:
Creative Pros: Self-Photoshopping Models
Creative Pros: The Life of a Typographer
Creative Pros: The Life of a Freelancer
Creative Pros: The Life of a Documentarian
Creative Pros: The Life of an Audio Engineer
YouTube Comment of the Week
This week’s comment comes from Jaymotox from the UK in response to our video MS Paint
“I don’t get it? Is this supposed to be a pisstake video? :S”
If by pisstake Jaymotox is suggesting that we are taking a piss, the answer is yes; we are for sure taking a piss.
For any American readers out there, see below for a definition of taking a piss.
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To be essentially fucking with someone or to be condescending to someone by implying that they are stupid.
Refers to when someone says “Don’t piss in my pocket and tell me its raining, jerky…” Tom: “Thanks for the CD, I like rap music..”
Sue: “Are you taking a piss?” Tom: “Yes, I hate all music” |
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