Am leaving Miami and returning to Philadelphia to supervise the care of my elderly parents.

Left Philly in 1964 and spent 40 years in Manhatten. Co founded Weiss/Watson and sold it in 1986 to BBDO. The story gets more dramatic---but that is not why I post.

Philadelphia???

I do not even know where to eat. Where to drink. Where to chat. Where to hang out?

OK, I'm not a kid, but I am single and like to party.

Can someone help out? I am driving and expect to arrive August 8th.

Hey comedy lovers, just wanted to invite you all to join us on our new Daily Reel Comedy myspace page. Think of it as our home away from home. Or our weekend getaway. Or our vacation digs. Or our myspace page. Whatever.

The explosion of online comedy videos is relatively recent, but there's already a long line of success stories - particularly when it comes to comedy groups, who seem to be particularly appealing to the Hollywood crowd. First, the boys at Lonely Island took the Net by storm and parlayed it into Saturday Night Live gigs and upcoming movies. The next wave featured Human Giant and the Whitest Kids U Know taking their sketch acts to MTV and FUSE. So, the question now is, who will be the next comedy group to explode into the mainstream media on the heels of internet stardom?

One likely contender is the boys in Blerds (who just created a Daily Reel profile as well), a collective of Chicago comedians and a filmmaker who have taken the web by storm over the past few months. The crew has been featured on just about every video site around, collecting well over a million views for their work - much of which features a unique presentation of their standup material that acts as kind of a mashup of standup and sketch comedy.

The next step for the group is the development of some episodic online series (we hear that deals are currently in the works) as they set the table for what they hope will eventually be a transition to television and/or film projects. Here's a sample Blerds clip if you want to see what all the fuss is about...

TurnHere has shot travel videos all over the world. Here's one we created in Roppongi, Japan, one of the hottest nightlife spots in Tokyo.

We've already got some awesome companies contributing to REELEDin --
big ups to the folks at CODEtv and TurnHere for reaching out to
everyone. I'm curious to know what other kinds of employers you guys
would like to see on the site. Are you itchin' to work for big
corporate brands -- like Coke or JetBlue -- or are you more interested
in smaller production companies who do music videos and web series?
Let us know, and be as specific as possible so we can make it happen!

TurnHere is pioneering video production for the publishing industry. We create video docs about authors and their latest books for the website www.bookvideos.tv, and we're always interested in meeting filmmakers who would like to participate on projects like these. Watch this TurnHere video about bestselling author Marianne Wiggins. Click here to contact TurnHere and join our international filmmaker network.

TurnHere is a global Internet video production company seeking talented filmmakers to create short, compelling videos for clients. Visit www.turnhere.com to learn more about what we do. If you'd like to apply to join our international filmmaker network, please fill out our form at: http://admin.turnhere.com/entryForm.php

Thanks!

Hey Comedy peoples…

Welcome to the brand spankin’ new Daily Reel Comedy crew blog. This crew has been created for all of you who make funny videos – or at least try to. I’ll be your host and you can look forward to hearing from me just about every day on the latest and greatest in the world of online comedy videos as well as tricks of the trade and other assorted nonsense.

To kick things off, I guess I should tell you a little about myself. In addition to my new responsibilities as the Daily Reel’s comedy kingpin, I am the “brains” behind WhipItOutComedy.com – a site that regularly features some of the funniest videos on the web every single day (except for the days where we feel lazy).

I’m also a partner in Take The Stairs Productions, a production/management company that produces movies, TV, online series, live comedy tours, and manages comedians.

Anyway, I hope to make this crew blog a daily must-read for comedy content creators (and buyers) so in order to do that, I’d love to hear from some of you about the kinds of things you’d like to see blogged about. Feel free to leave a comment or shoot me a message to let me know what you’d like to see more or less of as we get going. Thx!

Online videos and series are being bought and sold. Nobody is getting rich yet, but money is changing hands. What are the metrics? What do the deals look like? Do you need an agent? A lawyer? Who do you recommend?