by C.J. Arabia on March 5th, 2009
After his strike videos hit the internet, “my agent Marc Gordon suggested I have my own talk show on-line,” he added. The pair pitched around some ideas and eventually came up with the Anytime 5-minute talk show concept. If you’re looking for quirkiness of Between Two Ferns, you’re not going to get that. However, you will see a funny bit followed by a funny and often awkward interview with a high profile celebrity guest, like Christina Applegate, John Stamos, Neil Patrick Harris, Kat Von D and many other people you would normally have to turn on your television to see.
by C.J. Arabia on March 2nd, 2009
Sean Barrett, Vanessa Ragland and John Irwin may have small dreams but they have tons of talent and I don’t use the word lightly. Massively talented and their quirky, no holds barred comedy is pure web gold. The team got together two and a half years ago when Sean and Vanessa met an improv class at the Westside Eclectic in Los Angeles. Sean had a camera and the two of them decided to put a few characters on the tape, when videographer John Irwin joined the team they created SmallDreams.tv and the rest is internet comedy history.
The first thing they shot was a quirky one off called “Sex Party,” then a series of viral videos called Polygamy based on the Texas Polygamist Cult that was raided last year.
by C.J. Arabia on January 22nd, 2009
Jonah Ray’s BarBeQuay is a quirky new party type spin on the ol’ talk show format hosted by comedian Jonah Ray that you can see on maniaTV.
You might remember Jonah Ray from The Freeloader’s Guide To Easy Living, his writing on SuperNews!, or even as Clancy on Saul of the Mole Men. Now you can find Jonah interviewing some extremely hilarious and cool people like Janeane Garofalo, Steve Agee, Har Mar Superstar and others at his BarBeQuay.
Jonah Ray’s BarBeQuay is the creation of Jonah and his friend, writer/director Mason Steinberg. The pair met on The Andy Milonakis Show where Mason was a writer and Jonah the ill-fated writer’s assistant. “It was a disaster,” said Jonah, “I had been fired from the Arclight and was offered this job and I had no idea what I was doing.”
by C.J. Arabia on January 16th, 2009
You probably know A.D. Miles from Reno 911, Dog Bites Man, Wainy Days, Wet Hot American Summer or his very successful internationally known online web series, Horrible People. The web series was embraced by an international base of true soap fans and the comedy community as well. Thirteen web episodes were translated into just about every major language in existence and was oddly popular in France, go figure. At one point it was the “#2 most viewed entertainment video” on the internet. With over 1.7 million (and counting) views Horrible People has shown the world that A.D. Miles knows what hungry web audiences want, and how to give it to them.
If you haven’t seen Horrible People, I’m jealous of you because you get to go to www.mydamnchannel.com right now and watch it from beginning to end. Needless to say I am thrilled to death to hear that A.D. Miles has another web series, Hot Sluts, Rated R, in the works. So we reached out to A.D. and asked him a few questions about the sultry new series.
Tubefilter: Who are the stars of your new web series?
Sandy Martin as Jackie the harsh club owner. I met Sandy on the Comedy Central pilot Speed Freaks that I did with Zach Galifianakis. She’s a true one of a kind actor who never fails to make me laugh. We also have Alison Brie from Mad Men as our lead, the part of Amber, a midwestern girl who literally gets off of a bus right in front of the nightclub. I met her through Joe Lo Truglio. A real pro, she came in and got the joke and gave a terrific performance all while wearing a very skimpy outfit. Not an easy task. The rest of the main cast consists of the club employees played Angela Sarafyan, Zach Abel, Shvonna Lavette, and Debbie Boone. Most of them I met through the normal casting process and have to say I feel very lucky, because finding women who are beautiful enough to play Hot Sluts but also good enough of actors to act in the style of the genre was a little like looking for a needle in a haystack. And we found a whole bunch of needles in the haystack. A whole bunch of very talented beautiful sexy needles.
