SNOWMEN HUNTERS, now on iTunes!

Greetings Snowman Army, and Zanzibar19 fans nearly everywhere...

A quick, sweet note from those of us slaving over the first season of SNOWMEN HUNTERS. You can now subscribe to us in iTunes. Right now the teaser trailer is there, but come September 6, you'll be able to get new episodes of SNOWMEN HUNTERS every Wednesday.

To subscribe, simply click over to Zanzibar19.com, and click on the iTunes subscribe button.

That is all for now... Watch This Space.

C & R

Four shows you MUST watch. . .

So we’ve been watching video-over-the-web grow for awhile now, and we couldn’t be more excited about the next year or so. The promise of web video is finally paying off. As you may have read by now, we’re betting our futures (well, part of them…) that quality, independently made TV-style entertainment will live and breath on the web. Sexy, isn’t it… ‘independently made, TV-style entertainment?’ That kind of phrasing makes you want to rip your clothes off, huh? Thank God we make better shows than write late-night blog postings...

September 6 we’re premiering our first show, SNOWMEN HUNTERS, at Zanzibar19.com. So we’re stoked.

But enough about us (for now). We’re here tonight to praise four fellow travelers. While watching the YouTube wave lift all boats, we’ve come to like four shows and feel the need to throw praise their say. Three you probably know, but the fourth is maybe the best of them all, and not nearly as famous as it deserves. . .

First, ASK A NINJA . These guys can do more with a wall and a ninja suit than most comedians can do with $60 million and a gang of ex-SNL writers. How is it some guy is making money doing NATIONAL LAMPOON’S DORM DAZE 2, and the Ninja is still shooting in his apartment? Well, that’s the kind of injustice the web-video revolution will fix.

Second, SOUP OF THE DAY . . . This one premiered in May with three-episodes-a-week, (obviously, a show made by robot crews and edit-droids) and finished their season in July. It was a hell of a stunt to watch. The premise is simple: A guy is dating three sexy, accomplished women and must choose between them. Yes, yes, it’s the kind of problem we all are familiar with, but what they do with it, and the fun improv stuff they pull off, shows a good web-based show will give you things network and even cable won’t. They’ve broken up the show and are now having daily 3 minute episodes.

Third, CHAD VADER. Even while we’re both geeks with toxic levels of nerd-based paint swimming in our blood, we make it a practice to steer clear of STAR WARS send-ups. We only need one Kevin Smith, thanks. But when we finally saw this one, damn it, it was funny. It also proved something we truly believe: Even a bad sounding idea can be great if you do it right. Vader as a day manager of a grocery store? Where’s Carrot Top when you need to shoot him? But it was really, really good. And despite their recent undeserved cancellation at Channel 101, we hear they’re making more episodes now. . .

Which brings us to the funniest, weirdest, wildest series we’ve seen in this new medium. If there were justice in this world or the next, these guys would be as big as ASK A NINJA . Not only is this the funniest thing we’ve seen this year, it’s fearless. These guys know how to go farther than anyone, and why if you do that right, you’re funnier than anyone.

Their show helped convince us the truly wild frontiers of comedy were here on the web, which is why we’re going to make people laugh by shot gunning snowmen in the face. The title says it all: PUPPET RAPIST. These guys are gods.

I say again… PUPPET RAPIST. Go watch it. Then write them an email and thank them from us.

We thought the time had come to say some of this. See you with more news soon. . .

C & R

Zanzibar19.com announces SNOWMEN HUNTERS premiere date!

Attention Snowman Army, SNOWMEN HUNTERS fans, and twisted children of most ages…

Zanzibar19.com is crazed with happiness to announce the premiere date of our new comedy series, SNOWMEN HUNTERS, is set for Wednesday, September 6.

Starting then, at Zanzibar19.comcom and across the internet, you’ll be able to see the weekly adventures of idiot idealist Sherman Rance and his more idiotic friend Everett Van Der Sloot as they try to make the world a better place by destroying every snowman in sight. How is that you ask? Tune in and see.

Some of you may have first seen SNOWMEN HUNTERS as one of the semi-finalists in the FX Network’s show us your pilot contest in June. It was ranked in the top 20 out of over 3000 entries. (That’s the top 0.67-Percent to you and me Russ). While we didn’t make it to that air, we’re pretty sure it was because we were too raw in our comedy, and too insane in our premise, to be seen on even cable TV!

Check us out at Zanzibar19.com, or see our Myspace page Myspace.com/Zanzibar19

Greetings from Zanzibar19.com

So this is how it all begins.

This is Christopher Allan Smith and Ryan Neisz saying hello from our new entertainment mission, Zanzibar19. We're the creators of SNOWMEN HUNTERS, and you 're looking at the first entry in our new blog about all things Zanzibar19. Which, honestly, right now that pretty much means all things SNOWMEN HUNTERS.

Now, you might ask, ''Who are you, and why should we care, taint face?''

Well, first off, what 's with the attitude? Really. Taint face? Is that necessary? Funny, yes, but you 're talking to us like we made you watch JOEY or something.

Second, we 're a couple of talented and kind of cocky hustlers who have nearly cracked into the Hollywood entertainment fortress a few times over the years. Well, we 're tired of waiting. With the arrival of iPods, cheaper professional digital filmmaking tools, and the deluge of podcast and video sites, Old Hollywood 's strangle hold on big audiences is finally broken.

The jig is up. We 're storming the doddering network 's castle and gonna burn it down from the inside. Well maybe. Old Hollywood may see the light and surrender. We 'll let them surrender, I guess.

So with this attitude and a few well chosen tools, namely our beloved Panasonic DVX-100A, our background in entertainment production and lifelong love of every kind of ridiculous comedy, we 're going to be rolling out every crooked idea in our heads for your entertainment. Our first entry? The aforementioned SNOWMEN HUNTERS.

It 's the touching story of Sherman Rance, a shotgun toting madman, and his drooling fool of a sidekick, Everett van der Sloot. It 's Sherman 's manic belief true evil in the world is embodied in snowmen, and we won 't be safe until they 're exterminated. What 's made him so crazy? Why does he have a child molester 's flattop? What horrid secret has turned Everett into a retard? (Save your emails kids. Retard. We said it. Retard, retard, retard). And what is it about snowmen they think is so threatening?

Find out when SNOWMEN HUNTERS debuts on a Wednesday in the next few weeks. We 're a little gray on the exact Wednesday. How gray? Charcoal. (A hooray for you in this blog if you can name that reference). Actually, we 're going to have new SNOWMEN HUNTERS every Wednesday, but we need to make sure everything is in place, so we 'll be coming at you soon with a premiere date. Expect it in August or early September at the latest.

So okay, is this blog going to be just a bunch of shilling for SNOWMEN HUNTERS?

Yes. Um... no. No. Definitely not. Well, probably. I 'm sorry, what answer are you looking for?

Okay, it won 't. In the coming days, we 'll be using this blog as an outlet for our ideas/rants/observations/reviews of everything entertainment, both on and off the web. If we see something we like, we 'll let you know. Here 's our first offering now: Watch every episode of Ask a Ninja and Puppet Rapist you can. They 're on the web. Email us if you need the links.

If we see something we don 't like, we 'll let you know too. If it 's bashing Rob Schneider, it 's probably me, Chris, writing. If it 's bashing, I don 't know, Mother Theresa, puppies, or defenseless penguins or something, it 's probably Ryan talking. Hmmm. Ryan might not like the fact I revealed that. Anyway...

So hello, and thanks for your attention. Watch this space for more insanity soon.