Tuesday, December 30, 2008
The Big Drug Bust
Monday, December 29, 2008
Freshman Roommates
I made this one myself. I think it shows.
Brent's Suit
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Vote For Change
If you do not like the video, or don’t like us, vote against us and ruin our future.
Friday, December 12, 2008
Last Best Night Ever of 2008
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Mustache Mania
Thanks to the guys at Escape Pod Films for getting us involved.
Youtube Salute
Forget Presidential politics, these kids are the hope for this country. When I was these kids age, if I was even able to play the guitar at that point, I was barely able to get out the chords of Smells Like Teen Spirit on my yamaha guitar. These kids are ripping face, blasting the solos on an entire Iron Maiden song. Also let us not forget the warlock, real flame job and arcane futuristic guitars. Keep it up dudes.
Also for the first time we have special acknowledgment for bass covers. And the winner of Best bass cover of Iron Maiden's Flight of Icarus goes to...This guy.
I originally was not into this cover. I thought it was a sultry delusion of a metal classic. But right around 1:35, things really take a turn. This guy totally flips it and commences with the thunder bass. Oh and he unfurls his mighty locks just in case you aren't totally convinced of the power shift. I respect his cockiness after the shift because hey, he had me fooled.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
The One Word Woody Allen Impression
Friday, December 5, 2008
Robert Zemeckis Strikes Back
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Wikipedia Lesser Known Facts - DMX
From Rory and Craig: Our Internet Knowledge at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre.
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Giving Thanx
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Bangs Williams
At first I thought it was a joke. Sean Clements whispered to me in the greenroom, "Robin Williams is performing with us," and I thought, "great...we're playing a trick on Tricia." Then someone said, "look who's sitting on the couch in the green shirt." Then it all came together in my head. Bangs is performing with Robin Williams.
It's hard to sum up the night, because it had an infinite amount of highlights, so I'll just mention a few.
-- Warming up with Robin Williams was amazing. He participated in all our silliness and at the end when we did our ritual of chanting and putting our hands in the middle, we all followed his hands up and had them raised in the air chanting. When it was over he said something like "The Hitler youth returns."
-- Coming out on stage. The crowd had no idea what they were in for, and when people realized what was going on, it was a wall of sound. Clapping and yelling. We all had huge smiles on our faces -- it was pure joy.
--The performance was unreal from beginning to end. Everyone was so supportive and made huge moves. Robin Williams injected a ridiculous sense of fun and confidence. Seeing him on the back line watching us perform was so great. He was smiling and laughing the entire time.
-- During the performance I both squeezed Robin Williams face, and got him to flip me off...this is just as funny to me out of context as it is in context.
-- Afterwards he asked us if we should get notes, which we all thought was pretty awesome. We didn't get notes, but we talked about the show. He loved our opening, the scene painting, and said how great it was for drawing information for new scenes. He also said how great it was to do improv since he's been doing stand-up a lot recently (his next stop is Ottawa to do some shows).
--A note on how cool he is: He knows everyone. After the show he was trying to figure out the name of the "other famous Australian actor" -- because he was trying to think of another reference he could have used in a scene where we all played Hugh Jackman. Sean said "Paul Hogan." Robin Williams was like "no a current actor," and I jokingly said "Yahoo Serious," expecting a chuckle from him, instead, he looked down and said "he's a good guy." That was amazing...and he was trying to think of Russell Crowe.
Photos Courtesy of Ari Scott and Devlyn Corrigan
To check out all of Ari's photos go here.
Monday, November 17, 2008
Friday, November 14, 2008
Best Height (difference) Ever
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Viral Ad 7. Cloverfield 2: Contact
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Rory and Craig Go to a Concert
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Best Election Ever (Ever)
Here's some stupid moments from CNN and NBC.
Monday, November 3, 2008
Who Knew?
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Web Cram Off
Our newest short "Rory and Craig Go to a Concert," was selected as a finalist for the The New York Comedy Festival Web Video Cram-Off. Come check it out this Wednesday at 7:30pm at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. Info and tickets here.
We're really happy with the video. Here's a teaser pic:
Friday, October 31, 2008
Best Fright Ever
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Deal or no Deal
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Video For Killgore
Friday, October 24, 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
Sully's Vintage Pornography
Friday, October 17, 2008
Best Friends Ever
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Wookieepedia Lesser Known Facts
Come see Wikipedia Lesser Known Facts, this Saturday 10/18 at 7:30pm. Tickets here.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Beatles homage viral ad.
And check out our show Saturday @ 7:30pm at The UCB theater.
Friday, October 10, 2008
The New Little House on the Prairie
Friday, October 3, 2008
Thursday, October 2, 2008
NBA Jams
A Sega Genesis man myself, here are some of my favorite, although lesser-known, titles from that era:
Karl Malone Wolf Fighter!
How does Karl Malone train in the off-season? He fights armies of genetically crazed wolves in the Wilderness of Utah. The game play and wolf physics in this game were years ahead of their time. The only downfall was the amount of levels. There were literally 200 hundred levels of non-stop wolf fighting without save points, a truly Herculean trial.
Grant “Hamburger” Hill: War at its worst. Basketball at its best.
The game Hamburger Hill was originally released as a graphically violent port of the 1987 Vietnam War film. The game was deemed too disturbing for the youth market and pulled from the shelves. Looking to cut their losses, Sega reskinned the game into a jungle basketball adventure. They replaced the M-16 with a gun that shot basketballs, turned the Vietcong into cartoon walking basketball hoops, and interchanged dying Vietnamese villagers with cheerleaders. This was a great side scroller on par with Contra.
Bill Laimbeer’s Laimbeard Growth Simulator
Sega wanted to capitalize on the success of Bill Laimbeer’s Combat Basketball for the SNES. Unfortunately Laimbeer’s contract with Hudson Soft gave them exclusive rights to any basketball game featuring the bruising center. Sega scrambled and came up with this game, wherein the goal is to induce beard growth on a 16-bit version of Laimbeer’s face by pressing a sequence of buttons. This is still the all time best selling basketball videogame in Japan.
La Picturas
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Monday, September 29, 2008
Friday, September 26, 2008
Best Night Ever - Green Screen Bonanza
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Hewlett Packard - Great Computers
"Pickup Artist"
"The Young and The Wireless"
The other people in the videos are Andrée Vermeulen from UCB and Patrick Shepard and Eliza Bent from The PIT.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Fun With a Greenscreen
Fun with a Greenscreen from Eugene Cordero on Vimeo.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Regular Shopper Viral Testimonial
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Shamu Sandwich
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
New York Mets Press Release
FLUSHING -- The New York Mets announced today that they are changing the name of their new stadium. The brand new facility, which is to open in Spring of 2009, was set to be named Citi Field. Today Citigroup officials announced that they recently realized that the logo for Citi Field looks strikingly similar to that of fast food pizza chain, Domino's Pizza, and decided to merge companies.
The new stadium is now to be dubbed Citi Domino's Pizza Field.
Mets Manager Jerry Manuel, reached by phone, said, "man I like those Domino's Oreo Dessert Pizzas."
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Funemployment - Oprah's Book Club
Sunday, August 24, 2008
RodCrast - Rory and Craig's Podcast
UPDATE: Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes here.
Funemployment - Craig's Kold Kalls
Friday, August 22, 2008
"Play On Words" Paul
Editor's (Craig's) note: I, no joke, got invested in the show "Tabitha's Salon Takeover." Those people had invested a crap load of money, that they didn't have, into their salon, and were very close to losing it all.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Viral Ad Campaign #2
Thanks to Mike Still for being patient with our tedious stage directions.
Friday, August 15, 2008
Friday, August 8, 2008
Astrology
Rory is a:
Craig is a:
Well there you have it. If you would like to commission your own song, just go to astrologysongs.com
Thursday, August 7, 2008
TruVue Contact Lenses
Also, DEL CLOSE MARATHON THIS WEEKEND. Check out the schedule here, and what shows I'm doing here.*
*Note: My tumblr blog is very similar to this one so far.
Friday, August 1, 2008
A Fish and a Shark
The Ol' Monkey Arm Gag
Monday, July 28, 2008
Indie Cup
Rory and I got to play a couple of hipsters in this new UCB Original video. We hung out in Williamsburg all day, and Rory got pretty attached to that kite by the end. This sketch was written by Caitlin Tegart, and Directed by Nick Paley (director of Episode 2 of Beyond Fact).
Friday, July 25, 2008
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Family Sercus
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Anchor Action
Monday, July 14, 2008
Text Book Graffiti
This picture also appeared in my High School US History Book. Coincidentally, the version in my book was accompanied by the best text book graffiti I have ever encountered. It appeared as follows.
"Teddy Roosevelt Getting a Blowjob."
Brilliant in it's simplicity, perfect in its accuracy. Thank you whoever wrote that, you made my day many times. Do you have a favorite piece of text book graffiti? Drop us a line.
Friday, July 11, 2008
Greatest American Dog
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Ringo Harper and the Beatle Criminals
Ben Harper is a great interviewer: "Is the loudest thing you've ever heard Shea Stadium?" Thanks Ben Harper; I always wanted to know the loudest thing Ringo Starr has ever heard. And now I know that it was in fact Shea Stadium.
Also, Ringo describes keeping time for The Beatles as "Keep[ing] the Whack On."
Artist on Artist Ringo Starr - Ben Harper
Monday, July 7, 2008
Bad Company Fudge Company
If you want to get updates on when new UCB videos are coming out, check the UCBComedy Production Blog.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Fandamonium
Thanks Natalie and Caitlin for all the LOLz.
Friday, June 20, 2008
Time Travel Expedition
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Anything is Possible
Friday, June 13, 2008
Hollywood Insider
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
It seems that the history of the “Traveling Pants” goes much further than the spooky attic where the girls found them. Some believe that the jeans were the handy work of Jesus Christ Himself. Legend has it that the Messiah passed the magical jeans on to Mary Magdalene because, “she just couldn’t find anything that didn’t make her but look huge.”
Mary Magdalene Trembles at the thought of trying on another pair of jeans.
The story of the Traveling Pants does not end there. The Priory of Sion was a secret society set up in 1099 to protect the secret of the jeans. Priory of Sion loosely translates to Sisterhood of Traveling Pants. Former grandmasters of the Priory of Sion include Leonardo Da Vinci. If you examine the sculpture below, you may notice a hint to the secret of the jeans. Looks like in addition to tanks and flying machines, Da Vinci also invented a few fashion trends (skirt with jeans under it anyone).
Evidence of Da Vinci's involvement with the Priory of Sion?
The Priory of Sion was responsible for installing the Merovingian line of Frank kings. The Merovingians are believed to be descendants of the original Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Mary Magdalene and her 3 friends Bridget, Carmen and Tibby, the rebel.
The jeans have been kept a secret for so long by the Merovingian run fashion industry. If everyone looked great in every pair of jeans, it would be the end of fashion, as we know it. But who knows what will happen now that the new Sisterhood has the pants in their hands.A Merovingian king is initiated into the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.
Friday, June 6, 2008
Stand-Up for Yourself
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
The Fartrix
Rory might have good comic timing, but he has perfect fart timing.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Back In Time
Huey Lewis - Back in Time - BTTF Tribute
Also, much Back to the Future news in the past two weeks. The Clock Tower set from the trilogy, burned down this past week (full article). And Bob Gale makes it completely official that there will not be a Back to the Future IV (full article). Kind of good to know they won't be soiling the BTTF franchise, but I can't help but wonder when the remakes will go down (Shia Labeouf as Marty McFly anyone?).
Also, check out this fake trailer for Back to the Future IV that someone made. Does anyone else get tingles?
Note: by far the nerdiest blog post I have ever written. Is it nerdier than Rory's Optimus Prime/Darth Vader blog...we will never know.
Check out my Back to the Future related sketch at The Upright Citizens Brigade on Monday June 9th at 6:30pm. It's my Sketch 201 class show and there are a lot of great writers in the class and all the sketches will make you laugh.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Dogpocalypse (D-Day Plus a Million)
Did you know that Chihuahua's fought alongside Aztec Warriors back in the day?
Did you know that when Chihuahuas intermingle, they wear headdresses, while dancing and rapping together?
Did you know that the Paris-Hilton-looking Chihuahua pictured below is considered 'hot 'among Chihuahuas, and that they expect humans to be jealous of said hotness?
You Can find out for yourself by clicking this link: Beverly Hills Chihuahua Trailer.
If you're not already sold on this movie, check out the all-star cast that voices these amazing animals: Salma Hayek (Wild Wild West), Drew Barrymore (50 First Dates), Jamie Lee Curtis (My Girl 2), Andy Garcia (Godfather: Part III), and many more.
This is the perfect formula for a movie that will freak out a generation of young children. I see many sequels on the horizon.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Andromeda Strain - Brain Drain
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
What to Do With Your Stimulus Check
Four Honey Baked Hams - Whether you’re stocking up for future holidays or just want to have a big fe ast today, these hams look and taste great.
A Nice Bull Whip - A must have for any cattle rancher. Not a cattle rancher? Well, pick one of these up to show your enthusiasm for the new Indiana Jones Picture: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
A 1947 Cadillac Flying Goddess Hood Ornament - Whether you are restoring a 1947 Cadillac or you’re just a big fan of the art deco design aesthetic, your collection wont be complete without this little beauty.
A Custom 2 on 1 style, Bobble Head Set - Do you have a best friend, spouse or other loved one, who you would like to cartoonishly immortalize standing next to you? Then you’ll want to get yourself one of these. What's that, No one loves you? How about two of you!
A Gold Plated Basketball Trophy – Whether you recently won a basketball championship, or want to highlight the poetic form of a regulation size basketball, you’ll want to save a place on the mantle for one of these.
I hope I represented all demographics. Happy Shopping!
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Family Feud, Dude (or Survey Says: Awesome)
This was the coolest thing ever. A bunch of other people from the UCB Theater were there as well, and we got to pretend we were celebrity families playing Family Feud. I felt pretty good about my performance in the first game of the morning, and got to play the Fast Money round with Jon Gutierrez...and we rocked the crap out of it. Al Roker was making puns left and right, and I appreciated every one of them. It was a day to remember.
Also, I got a video of us together; Al Roker thinks we're taking a still photo. Note: after we took the picture, he said 'groovy.' It's below.
Friday, May 16, 2008
Bangs
Note: Part of the opening is cut off for some reason.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Buy This Product
Kids will stop complaining that their arms hurt while brushing, because they'll be too focused on grating the sour candy over their teeth and gums. And after a couple of months of using this product, they'll be ready to move on to the real thing. Kudos to the candy corporation!
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Politics as Usuals
Another note: American Gladiator is still a ton of fun to watch.
Also, below is a video I helped Mike Still write. It's an ad for Moveon.org's Bush McCain Challenge. I love important scientists.
Friday, May 9, 2008
This Video is Sick (Literally)
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Also some news: My improv group Twelve Thousand Dollars has been dissolved. I am bummed that I won't get to perform with a lot of the great people from 12K, but am excited about my new group, Bangs (which is a group of awesomely hilarious people). We will be performing on Tuesday Nights at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. Check out show dates and reserve tickets here.