Full post and interview at Tubefilter! There aren’t too many other people who embody the spirit of web entertainment as well as Sandeep Parikh. Parikh is all over the web: as an actor on marquee web series The Guild, writer-director of Atom’s Legend of Neil and creator of his own website, EffinFunny. Already a celebrity [...]
Posts Tagged ‘comedy’
Sandeep Parikh, Web Entrepreneur, Shifts from Web to TV
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on July 27th, 2010
The Past and Future Market for Web Comedy
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on July 20th, 2010
Comedy tops virtually every “best of the web” list. From the top web series, top viral hits and YouTube’s most subscribed. Internet video, in many ways, is comedy. While major television networks search for new comedy formulas — though we might be seeing more classical sitcoms a la Hot in Cleveland and Big Bang Theory [...]
‘We Are With The Band’: Lampooning Hipsters and Coming of Age As Women
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on June 3rd, 2010
In case you didn’t notice, I have been on a gender/film kick the past week — from Sex and the City 2 to independent cinema – so I was particularly excited with the creators of We Are With The Band contacted me to remind me the first season of their web series was coming to [...]
Does Web Comedy Work on TV?
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on May 19th, 2010
For the past few years, cable television and web comedy networks have been in an on-again, off-again love affair. Wednesday, Viacom’s Comedy Central and Atom started its third — third! — season of Atom TV, a program of comedic shorts from the site and one of a handful of web-to-TV comedy deals from the past [...]
‘Very Mary Kate’ Mixes Celebrity Parody, Web Series Into One-Minute Bonbons
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on April 29th, 2010
Mary-Kate Olsen’s E-birthday card. This article was originally posted at the Wall Street Journal’s Speakeasy Few people know the real Mary-Kate Olsen, but actress Elaine Carroll has given the web the Mary-Kate the world dares to imagine. Carroll’s Mary-Kate has a “normal body temperature of 62,” wonders if heaven is like the Soho House and [...]
Finding a Comedy Audience in a Crowded Web Series Market
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on February 19th, 2010
Originally posted at Ronebreak. [Note: I had a very insightful interview with MyDamnChannel's CEO and a representative from FTVS' 15 Gigs, both of which are really thinking about how to scale the web series market. I'll be posting more of that interview in the coming week.] Online comedy hasn’t been kind to television studios looking [...]
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2 Comments »Lost About “Lost,” YouTube Tries to Help
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on January 30th, 2010
Original at Ronebreak I don’t follow Lost. I don’t mean I can’t follow it, as in I watch it but don’t understand. I mean I’ve completely given up trying to watch the show. Around season three I tried once again to get into it. No go. Too complex. Too many peculiar things happening. What is up with [...]
Posted in uncategorized Tags: comedy, Digital Culture/Industry, sci-fi, TV, Web Series/Online Video, youtube No Comments »Super-Indie Web Series "Semi-Dead" Advances Horror-Comedy Trend
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on December 10th, 2009
Web series are great spaces for narrative experimentation and genre-bending. Many of the most popular shows are genre hybrids, especially with comedy (sci-fi comedy, fantasy comedy, etc.). This fall, we’ve seen several series blending horror and comedy including Electric Farm Entertainment and Jon Heder’s Woke Up Dead on Crackle, where it’s doing well; Babelgum’s The [...]
Fine Brothers: Making and Marketing Hit Videos, Today and Tomorrow
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on December 1st, 2009
I’ve already posted some comments from the Fine Brothers before, but I thought I’d post the whole interview, which we did via email a couple months ago (Sorry folks! Scholars are slow). The Fine Brothers — Benny and Rafi Fine — are two standout comedians in an online world awash in aspirants. They’ve created numerous [...]
Posted in uncategorized Tags: comedy, Digital Culture/Industry, web series, Web Series/Online Video, youtube 4 Comments »Fine Brothers, Shane Dawson Collab To Viral Vid Success
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on December 1st, 2009
Originally published on the Wall Street Journal culture blog, Speakeasy. Cult fandom and teen taste can be potent combination. (Two words: “New Moon.”) Taking a cue from the trend, Internet personalities the Fine Brothers and Shane Dawson posted an 11-minute parody of the Canadian teen drama “Degrassi: The Next Generation” — filmed in just one [...]
For Wanda Sykes, George Lopez, Success Not Guaranteed
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on October 28th, 2009
UPDATE: George Lopez’s show Lopez Tonight also started strong on TBS (and TNT, TruTV), so it looks like we have hit a temporary POC (people of color) late-night trifecta. UPDATE: The ratings for Wanda Sykes were good; not, SNL good, though. UPDATE: Fox has the site up, with promos and such. With the (apparent) success [...]
Where and How to Publish Your Videos, Web Series
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on September 29th, 2009
UPDATE: For the full interview, click here. I had an email interview with Benny and Rafi Fine recently, the pair that makes up the Fine Brothers, the duo of producers making some of the most popular viral videos on the net, along with a couple of web series. They’re razor-smart, and I hope to quote [...]
A “New Kid” Delivers Mad Men Parody “Ma Men”
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on September 16th, 2009
(Click the photo above for video!) The level of humor here is pretty base: the Boston accent is funny. But, hey, it is funny! Bloggers are already raving about New Kids on the Block’s Joey McIntyre’s spoof Ma Men – although it really has little to do with the original. The 36-year old McIntyre is [...]
Posted in uncategorized Tags: comedy, Digital Culture/Industry, new media, web series, Web Series/Online Video No Comments »Dr. Ken Jeong: Brilliant or Lucky?
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on September 8th, 2009
Original at Ronebreak. Not many people know the name Ken Jeong, but they definitely know his face. Ever since his big-screen debut in Knocked Up two years ago, North Carolina-raised Jeong – also known as Dr. Ken – has been a hot commodity, booking nearly two dozen current and upcoming parts in TV and film. I didn’t realize [...]
