Entries For: November 2006

11/30/2006

Nobody's Watching Friends

Felicia Williams
Posted November 30, 2006
Does any one else feel gypped? I can’t believe that I spent 10 years watching the sitcom that Derek and Will highlighted in 90 seconds. In this hilarious short, the characters some how manages to establish all major plot developments and the characters reactions to them.

Nobody's Watching is a scripted web series conceived by Bill Lawrence, the creator of "Scrubs" and "Spin City." Originally intended for television, Nobody's Watching broke the two-cameras-and-a-stage sitcom and fleshed out the characters of Derek and Will, two young guys from Ohio who were so over television that they decided to make their own comedy show.

In this episode, Derek and Will play all of the characters in the Friends cast. Though all of quirky dramatizations are effective, the Jennifer Aniston bit cracks me up.


Related: Nobody's Watching the Emmys

11/28/2006

Cinema Psychic

Felicia Williams
Posted November 28, 2006

You know how some people can predict the end of a movie about three minutes deep? Well Charlie Baker, “Cinema Psychic”, has the same uncanny foresight... but he doesn't even have to cough up the ten bucks to know how it all ends. In this new podcast, psychic powers are borrowed from the hands of local Colorado gypsies and finally put to good use: predicting box office receipts.

The first episode of this new series aired last Friday, and I'm already in love with Charlie and his witty “psychic” perceptions. The podcast has great pacing and offers intelligent insight into this weekend's “do’s” and “don’t” of box office. A new installment comes out this Friday; the “viral psychic” in me thinks that this web show is going to develop a strong and loyal following.

11/23/2006

ZeFrank Gives Thanks

Felicia Williams
Posted November 23, 2006

One of the most watch web series in the vlogosphere, Zefrank gives thanks to the many gracious gifts that his fans have blessed him during the first year of his show.

Recently featured as an "online auteur" in the NY Times, Zefrank's "The Show" has been stirring up a flurry of media attention over its nine-month course. In this episode of "The Show", Ze analysis the meaning of the word “Thank you.” As much as I am not a fan of the cult-series, I found this episode to be particularly noteworthy. I think there is a lot of truth in what Ze is saying about societies forced feeling of thanks and the importance of sharing thanks when it is genuine and heartfelt.

I would like to take this opportunity to share the holiday spirit and thank you Ze, for being the first to pave the way for thousands of other confessional video makers. Thank you for your extreme close-ups and witty banter. Thank you for starting a revolution of hope and popularity, exclusive to the web. And thank you for “thinking so [we] don’t have to.”

11/17/2006

Goodnight Burbank

Felicia Williams
Posted November 17, 2006

Talk about inter-office politics? Goodnight Burbank is a sketch-comedy series that goes behind the scenes “and between the headlines.” With American news anchors achieving near celebrity status, GN Burbank is a behind the scenes look at the the “almost big time.”

Created, written by, and staring Hayden Black, Goodnight Burbank’s cast is a mash-up of actors that you feel like you have seen some where before. Possibly because you have. Burbank regulars include Shulie Cowen (Reno 911), Jamie Denbo (Happy Hour), Angela Espinosa (Young & The Restless), Kenny Schickler, John Schaffer (West Wing), Wendy Rosoff (David Letterman) and Eve Savona (French Maid TV).

Featuring news anchors, who care less about the news and more about their personal lives, the satiric comedy humanizes the nightly news anchors that we, as an ignorant public, assume live, eat, and breath News.

Cleverly well-scripted, Goodnight Burbank is one of the longest running series online. See why the San Fran Chronicle calls Goodnight Burbank a cross between Studio 60 and The Daily Show.

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