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