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Today's COMEDYSMACK | January 21, 2008
Websites
Upright, Got a Site
Website: UCBCOMEDY.COM from the Upright Citzens Brigade Theatre
Porn sites may outnumber comedy destination sites by a 5,000-to-1 margin, but the gap is closing fast. Comedy uber-franchise the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre (led by founders Amy Poehler, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts and Matt Walsh), are the latest high-profilers to ante into the online game with www.ucbcomedy.com. This spoof of Tony Robbins-type gurus from comedian Rob Lathan is just an example of the type of UCB-brand funny you can expect:
Web Shorts
A Confederacy of Dunces
Webshort: “Changes” by Hugh Atkin
The funniest political video since Mitt Romney’s laugh-out-loud TV spot about rescuing a lost teenager, this skillfully edited video finds a fresh way to convey what Paul Simon’s “Mrs. Robinson” said about the electoral process way back in 1967: “any way you look at it, you lose.”
