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To say that the trailer for upcoming Calico Arts series The Clinic intrigued me is an understatement. From beginning to end, the trailer is tight, entertaining, fresh, and it had me begging for more. Created by Danny Lee, the series provides a mockumentary look at the people behind one of California’s many medical marijuana clinics.

This isn’t completely fantastical, however; the way Lee describes it, he was inspired by a real club.

“One of my friends happened to own a local medicinal marijuana dispensary in Hollywood, so out of pure curiosity I decided to pay a visit. Within 5 minutes, I knew right away this world would provide great material for a series…however, my objective was to make a show about the people who try to make a living there. The owner Marty (played by Joe Hursley) is morally conflicted about his career choice, but does everything he can to justify why he’s there, while trying to keep a rickety ship together.”

As web productions go, The Clinic appears to have a robust cast — Hursley along with Caroline D’Amore, Luke Massy, and Gabbriella Gatto — which means it will have some long term potential.

None of that stopped me from watching My Show with Matt Chin, however, where he seems to generally divide his time between being obnoxiously funny (see “Action You’re On” segments, where he gets random people on the street to read statements like “I have Jen it all her pees” out loud) and bizarrely funny (that would be the “My Show the Musical” episode). Sadly, it’s not going to stop me from watching Matt and Rick either.

The Canadian duo describe themselves on the website as “two geniuses that appear to be idiots” who “always manage to get themselves in ridiculous situations but always manage to get out of them, (sometimes) unscathed”. I’m not sure exactly how they got themselves into the ridiculous situation in the debut episode, “Upside Down” (below) – where the major plot point of the 26-second-long clip is that Rick’s head is upside down – but it looks like Matt and Rick is a place for Matt Chin and Rick Thompson (the same two guys on My Show) to get thirty-second sound bites of weird humor out of their system.

Has long-form, independently produced video finally found a place on the internet? If you think you’re ready to evolve from typical three-to-five minute micro-TV on the web, would you be open to a little in-depth, Hollywood talking head action that lasts, say, a couple hours? You would!?! Well then welcome to Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show. [...]

A Priest, A Rabbi and A Minister, the new animated comedy starring Lenny Clarke as the Priest (Rescue Me), Larry Miller as the Rabbi (Pretty Woman, The Nutty Professor, Law and Order, and Mad About You) and Adam Carolla as the Minster, premiered on Crackle.com today.

Hold on to your prayers books and pray for redemption because after you watch Crackle’s new show, you might feel a little dirty. The show is the brainchild of actor-comedian Larry Miller, who wrote the script and recruited Adam Carolla and Lenny Clarke to be in it with him. Miller set the scene in a dive bar and gave the characters permission to tell some truly scandalous stories. Fans of religious jokes and blue humor have found their dream show.

Fred Seibert is a media and marketing sensation whose influence has shaped the future of both traditional and online entertainment (and if you don’t believe us, I refer you to Wikipedia). He’s also a good friend to Tilzy.TV. We’re excited to have him for an in-depth conversation followed by mixing and mingling with some of [...]

Thanks also for making me laugh at the absurdity of office life. Thanks for being out there, fighting the good fight against office regimen. Thanks for working in the most generic office space possible to create one of the funniest web series in this millennium, Scotty Got An Office Job.

I challenge anyone out there to watch this show, at least three of them (at about a minute or so each, you’re looking at three minutes of your life) and tell me you are more productive than Scotty, the most-slash-least productive office employee on the planet. This, dare I say, reality web series is not only funny, but tense, entertaining and deeply creative as its creator Scotty Iseri walks the tightrope of employment by way of rapping, office synchronized swimming, office chair ballet and personal grooming, among other things, all while in the office and on the clock at work. No joke.

In an unnamed, perpetually sunlit city there is a park lined with immaculately trimmed four-foot hedges. Along the hedges a lightly dispersed array of manicured flowers reach toward a sun whose rays strike the ground through gaps in leafy boughs. Under one such bough sits a lone bench made of thin iron curlicues. Intimate gatherings [...]

If someone would ask you, “What defines your culture?”, how would you respond? One would say it would be the city lights of Tokyo at night if they came from the land of the rising sun. The majestic sight of the Taj Mahal in India would perhaps show the roots and ancestry of the people from that country. Or maybe, just a taste of a fresh taco along the streets of Mexico can define culture to others coming from south.

But to Nando, a photographer who discovers he has some sort of inheritance waiting for him in Beirut Lebanon, we grasp a vivid and uncanny vision of what defines his culture behind his lenses—that definition is simply everyday life.

Flying Kebab is an amazing narrative web series that follows the adventures of Nando, played by Fernando Borges, as he explores his heritage along the street of Beirut while he awaits to unravel his mysterious inheritance. Directed by São Paulo Brazil-based Matheus Siqueira along with associate producer Clederson Perez, the series introduces a new perspective in the way we see life around us.