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Upscale Plastic Surgery
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Straight out of Chicago comes a fresh approach to making stand-up both visual and viral. Here, comedian Mike Bridenstine tells the tale of a girl too high class for bargain-basement plastic surgery. The mixture of narration and reenactment does a great job of preserving the rhythm of stand-up, while adding some delightful sight gags and interaction.
Chicago is legendary for its improv comedy, but a few years ago the stand-up scene was nonexistent -- save for a few struggling independent clubs, where the ten comedians who form the core of Blerds.com initially met. Blerds.com was originally meant to be primarily a blogging site (the name originated as a mashup of "blogging nerds"), until filmmaker Jordan Vogt-Roberts met Bridenstine after a variety/comedy show. "[Mike] showed this really crappy but funny short film and I approached him after the show," says Vogt-Roberts. "They gave me 10 days or something to get some shorts done before their launch party. None of the ideas for original content that they had at the time were fully developed and so we stuck with the material that we knew worked and was funny - their acts."
For "Upscale Plastic Surgery," the production's biggest complication came down to assembling the hilarious cast, including Brady Novak and Nick Vatterott, Second City's Robyn Norris, and Renee Gauthier, who was just seen as the personal assistant in last week's Victoria Beckham NBC special. Says Bridenstine, "The whole thing didn't take too long in terms of actual time spent on it. It was just a matter of getting those people to have the time to do it."
As a entity, Blerds is keeping busy with both more stand-up pieces and original content, including web ads for a major agency, and two webisode series for different studios/entities. Also, according to Vogt-Roberts, "Individually we're all working on our own stuff. Blerds is our Wu Tang clan."
Blerds.com
Comedy, Experimental
$10
Himself : Mike Bridenstine
Mike's Sister : Robyn Norris
Doctor : Brady Novak
Doctor : Nick Vatterott
Girl at Bar : Renee Gauthier
Jordan Vogt-Roberts
Jordan Vogt-Roberts
Jordan Vogt-Roberts
