Handicap Suicide

Last Thursday, in honor of finals week, CollegeHumor pulled an all-nighter with its fans and attempted to make ten short films in twelve hours. I stopped by the office at 1:30AM and alongside David Fishel, Amir Blumenfeld and Sam Reich hoped to aid in the quest to ten. All we had was a wheelchair, fifteen minutes and a dream.

Handicap Suicide

Here it is in higher quality.

Along with the short films, CH set up a live video feed throughout the night to chat with fans and give away free prizes. In an awesome example of the die hard fans CollegeHumor has, when I sat down at 3:30AM to mess around on the live feed there were still over 2,500 members online chatting, asking questions and ordering people to put shoes on their heads.



It was a great night for CH, they finished all ten shorts, gave away a bunch of free stuff and interacted with thousands of fans. When I got home at 4am, I found myself going back online to watch the live feed for another hour before going to bed. A big thank you to CollegeHumor for letting me play around.

Teddy Saw and Bronx World Travelers now on YouTube

SuperDeluxe has uploaded my videos Teddy Saw and Bronx World Travelers: Press Conference on YouTube. Now people can embed the files on different websites without the quality getting messed up. Hooray!

Warning: For those who have never seen Teddy Saw...be warned, it's the most fucked up short film I've ever done.

Teddy Saw


Bronx World Travelers: Press Conference

Bronx World Travelers - Episode 4 - Street Legend

After a nine month hiatus, the Webby nominated series Bronx World Travelers makes its triumphant return with Episode 4 - Street Legend. The embedded player really doesn't do the picture quality justice, so please, click on the link below the video to see the short in the preferred higher resolution.



Click here to see the short in Higher Resolution.

Here are the first three episodes of Bronx World Travelers.
Episode 1 - Press Conference (with Rob Riggle)*
Episode 2 - Orientation Video
Episode 3 - The Game

*Episode 1 - Press Conference was nominated for two Webby Awards - Best Writing and Best Short of the Year.

Cast
Washington Colonel #1 Ben - Ben Schwartz
Glider - Bobby Moynihan
Bronx World Traveler #20 Eugene - Eugene Cordero
Fan - Jordan Hall

Everything Else
Director - Ben Schwartz/Vincent Peone
Director of Photography - Vincent Peone
Production Manager - Jordan Hall
Editor - David Fishel
Sound - Kurt Seery
Song during montage - Hipsters by Bellevue's Finest

A Winner is Me...Again! - 4/20 Edition

In honor of 4/20, CollegeHumor writer Jeff Rubin invited me and two editors from the actual High Times Magazine to play some of the most mind expanding video games of all time.



To go along with the 4/20 theme, here are CollegeHumor's High Times Editorial Office shorts. I play the boss, Hegie.

High Times Editorial Office Episode 1 - High Times Editorial Office
High Times Editorial Office Episode 2 - Chicken Nuggets
High Times Editorial Office Episode 3 - Mad as Hell

Assorted Jelly Beans - Debate

Here is the first installment of Assorted Jelly Beans written by myself and brilliantly illustrated by Steve Dressler.

Debate

Bronx World Travelers Receives Two Webby Nominations - Best Writing and Best Short Film of the Year!

My short film, Bronx World Travelers: Press Conference has been nominated for two Webby Awards! "Awesome! What's a Webby Award?" Great question and thank you for being so into it without being sure what it was. With the help of copy and pasting, I shall explain -

"The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. Established in 1996 during the Web's infancy, the Webbys are presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a 550-member body of leading Web experts, business figures, luminaries, visionaries and creative celebrities."

Bronx World Travelers was nominated for Best Writing and Best Comedy Short of the Year. The competition is nothing short of ridiculous. Here is the complete list of Online Film and Video Nominees.

Here is the nominated short -
Bronx World Travelers: Press Conference


In Best Writing I'm up against U.S. News and World Report, IFC and The Onion. That's like a series of King Kongs fighting a poorly rested Curious George. In Comedy: Individual Short or Episode I'm up against CollegeHumor and The Onion. Again, it's like two T-Rexes against a wounded depressed duckling without his prozac. Either way, I'm unbelievably happy and honored to be nominated.

They give a "People's Voice" award in each of the categories, so if you want to vote for the little engine that could, register and vote here.

Assorted Jelly Beans

Along with the help of artistic mastermind Steve Dressler, I am experimenting with a new segment on RejectedJokes called Assorted Jelly Beans.


A rotting diabetic corpse lay beneath the colorful beans.

Assorted Jelly Beans is a one panel comic written by me and brilliantly illustrated by Steve. Although not nearly as genius, when it works well you should see influences from the Far Side and Robot Chicken. We'll be experimenting with styles at the beginning to see what works and what doesn't but if you dig it, let us know and we'll make some more.

Just When You Thought It Was Safe

New episodes coming soon.

The Complete Top Ten Rejected Joke Video List

Here is the complete top ten rejected joke video list. You can learn more about each set of jokes by clicking on the title above each video. If you have no patience, scroll down to the bottom of the post and watch them from the best (#1) to the "almost the best." The videos include special guests Seth Green, Frank Whaley, Rob Corddry, Rob Riggle, Samm Levine, Matt Walsh, Efren Ramirez and Nick Kroll.

Honorable Mention
April '07, Week 4 with Nick Kroll (Cavemen, Best Week Ever)


Number 10
February '07, Week 3 with Seth Green (Family Guy, Robot Chicken, Austin Powers)


Number 9
August, '06, Week 2 with Efren Ramirez (Napoleon Dynamite)


Number 8
December, '06, Week 1


Number 7
January '07, Week 2


Number 6
September '06, Week 2 with Matt Walsh (Upright Citizens Brigade)


Number 5
July '06, Week 3 with Rob Corddry (Daily Show with Jon Stewart)


Number 4
November '06, Week 4 with Frank Whaley (Swimming with Sharks, Pulp Fiction)


Number 3
January '07, Week 3


Number 2
December '06, Week 4 with Samm Levine (Freaks and Geeks)


Number 1
October '06, Week 4 with Rob Riggle (Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Saturday Night Live)

ESPN Commercial - The Poser

I play the poser in this ESPN commercial directed by the insanely talented Bob Odenkirk. It's a part of this campaign ESPN is putting together for March Madness called The Bracketologists. There is even a creepy option that allows you to send voicemails of me telling people how to pick their brackets...so...fear that.