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A Tribute to Every Video Site
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Tribute... or satire? In this spot-on spoof of the production values and styles of the various leading online video sites, the folks at Panda Smash take us through various incarnations of a first date, according to YouTube, iFilm, AtomFilms, JibJab, CollegeHumor.com, et. al. Even Homestar Runner's animated characters make an appearance.
Founded in October 2006, Panda Smash are Midwesterners Paul Jury and Sam Greenspan, former Northwestern University students who after trying Hollywood screen-writing and producing plays ("only about 500 people saw them," they admit), took to the Internet. Since launching pandasmash.com, the duo have posted more than 80 videos and drawn more than 520,000 views to the site (and that's not including eyeballs from other places such as as YouTube, iFilm and Revver).
Both Jury and Greenspan have comedy backgrounds (Jury did sketch comedy at Northwestern and aspires to be a TV writer; Greenspan does stand-up, provides jokes to radio stations and wants to do the "Mel Brooks/ Zach Braff/ Seth Rogen actor-writer-producer thing"). For now, they'd both like to parlay online success into a living wage. "It would be cool if [Panda Smash] made enough money to become our full-time jobs," says Greenspan, "but we're not holding our breath."
Panda Smash
Comedy
2:06
$80
Redondo Beach, CA
The guy : The guy - Sam Greenspan
The girl : Shannon Evans
Paul Jury and Sam Greenspan
Paul Jury
Paul Jury
Music : The Onion Experience
