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This hit the web a few days ago and hasn’t gone wide yet, which is a surprise, because it’s hilarious. It’s the latest top show at Channel 101, the L.A.-based web-video operation also responsible for such brilliant goofballery as House of Cosbys, Yacht Rock, and The ’Bu. This is by excitable House of Cosbys creator Justin Roiland, the funniest writer-actor-animator-director-pervert-scatologist working on the web today. Ladies and gentlemen, 2 Girls, 1 Cup: The Show.
(If you’re unaware of the 2 Girls, 1 Cup phenomenon, make sure you read this Wikipedia entry before deciding to watch this.)
The latest batch of five-minute shows is up at Channel 101, the L.A.-based “untelevised TV network” founded by Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab, two goofballs who are best known for having sprung Heat Vision and Jack on an indifferent world (and, more specifically, on indifferent Fox executives). Anyone can submit a five-minute pilot to Channel 101; the least sucky submissions are then shown at the next live monthly screening, where the next “primetime lineup” is determined by audience vote. The primetime shows are placed online, as is the occasional “failed pilot.” Most of the shows are fond parodies of bad TV. Some of them are pretty atriocious—productionwise, actingwise, scriptwise—but many are hilarious, and sometimes it’s the atrociousness that makes them so hilarious. A lot of them are the work of underemployed actor/comedians and pop-culture geeks who like to fuck around with cheap video cameras.
You should check out at least two of Channel 101’s shows this month. First and funniest is the premiere episode of Yacht Rock, a show devoted to exploring a little-understood rock genre that flourished from the mid-’70s to the early ’80s. The show’s debut is a fictionalized retelling of the story behind Michael McDonald’s Doobie Brothers hit “What a Fool Believes,” which, honest to god, for real, was co-written by Kenny Loggins. Who knew that Kenny Loggins co-wrote that song? I did not know this; I had to go to Google to confirm that it’s actually true. Nor did I really want to know this information, because I eventually could have used that part of my brain to store something useful. But Yacht Rock is really funny, complete with a drunk and depressed Jim Messina, a scarily accurate Jeff “Skunk” Baxter, and a belligerent John Oates, who hurls the epithet “California vagina sailors” at McDonald and his bandmates. Check it out:
Second, the cheesy, very low budget sci-fi show The Most Extraordinary Space Investigations stars Dan Harmon, House of Cosbys creator Justin Roiland, and Sarah Silverman as stoner space cowboys who do bong hits before strapping themselves into their fighters to go off on their missions. It’s cool that Silverman is game for such sophomoric shenanigans.
Some people in New York have started a similar project called Channel 102; the next Channel 102 screening is on Monday, July 25, at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre.
I hardly know what to say about this, except that it’s bizarre and twisted and hilarious: House of Cosbys, an animated Internet series about a guy who clones Bill Cosby a bunch of times and then lives with the clones in a huge house.
There are two episodes so far (here’s the first and here’s the second). A third is on the way.
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