Jason Sudeikis guest stars as a pot-smoking, explosion-loving screenwriter in the latest episode of Magic Eye Shark Movie, a web series from Lorne Michaels's company's YouTube channel Above Average. The show stars Griffin Newman, Morgan Evans, and Taran Killam as people developing a movie that combines sharks and magic eye books, and the two dozen explosions Jason Sudeikis suggests may just be what the film needs.
Here's the first episode of a brand new web series that NYC-based sketch comedy group Elephant Larry made for the Above Average Network, the official YouTube channel of Lorne Michaels's Broadway Video. Deranged millionaire John Hodgman guest stars in this one as some sort of deranged criminal.
Last year, Above Average began partnering with internet sketch groups to commission new videos, and here's the first Above Average video from the network's partner BriTANicK. Other Above Average partners include sketch groups Paulilu, Magic Hugs, and Bobby Chicago, who have each made an original video for the YouTube channel and helped Lorne Michaels to make his iron grip on the comedy world even stronger.
Here's the first episode of a new sketch series from the Above Average Network called Eliot's Sketchpad and starring comedian Eliot Glazer, whom you may know as the star and writer of the web series It Gets Betterish or as an Assistant Editor at Vulture. The first one just debuted today, and it stars Glazer as Oprah, recreating famous viral videos with her friend Gayle. Above Average is the YouTube channel from Lorne Michaels's production company Broadway Video, which also produces SNL, 30 Rock, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Portlandia, and everything else you love. New episodes of Eliot's Sketchpad drop each Thursday, and SNL's Kate McKinnon will appear in [...]
Here's the first episode of Waco Valley, the first-ever animated series from Broadway Video's web label Above Average. Created by Ben Warheit and produced by Brooklyn-based company Landline TV, Waco Valley is set to drop six episodes, one every Wednesday, and follows a dinosaur local news reporter. It's a funny, absurd send-up of local news human interest stories. It also finally puts news-reporting dinosaurs in their place.
Here's the first episode of I Expect You to Die, a new web series from New York-based sketch group Captain Hippo, produced for Above Average, the YouTube channel from Lorne Michaels's production company Broadway Video. I Expect You to Die follows a stand-off between a James Bond-esque spy and his evil mastermind foe, with SNL's Kate McKinnon playing a supporting role. It's proof that there are still new funny ways to make a James Bond parody, even when it feels like every possible angle has been done before.
This is the latest episode of The Future, a new web series from Lorne Michaels's company's YouTube channel Above Average. Each week on The Future, comedian and self-proclaimed psychic Emily Heller looks into the future of a different comedian guest. Her guest this week is John Mulaney, and his appearance on the show is a really fun time.
Here's the latest episode from Above Average's web series Sugarboy, in which a boy who ate a lot of sugar tells a different story every week. Dubbed "Bike to the Future," this one's a mashup of Steven Spielberg's movies featuring SNL's Taran Killam. It's pretty great, but it's severely lacking in War Horse references.
Raw, unbridled creativity may be the stuff of pure genius, but it's rarely what we see on screen. Somewhere in between a creator's hatching a wild idea and wide dissemination of that nugget of would-be beautiful, groundbreaking insanity, brilliance becomes watered down vanilla fare. Flickers of original concepts are barely visible, trapped beneath think packaging slapped on to make the whole shebang more marketable or salable or more like Bridesmaids (love Bridesmaids, of course). This is almost always the case in TV and film. In web media, it varies. There are ample opportunities to be left-of-center, but tiny (if existent) production budgets and fear of losing clicks usually steers [...]
Yep. It is great. Belle & Bernice: Livin' in the City was one of the three new series that launch this week on the Above Average YouTube channel. The previous three series – The Front Desk, The Assistant, Cool Kids Table – have sadly ran their current course but "out with old and in with the new," I think someone once said (Shakespeare?). The other two new shows, Puppet High and Rejected Pitches, had already existed on the Internet but it’s good for them to have a proper home. In only about a month, Above Average has already established itself as one of the premium homes for funny interneting. Watch all [...]
Here's the debut episode of the Above Average Network's brand new web series The Trunk. The show is created by and stars Cory Cavin, Bill Grandberg, and Josh Lay, the trio behind the WGA Award-nominated web series Model Wife. Telling a different story entirely from the trunk of a car each week, The Trunk is narrated by SNL's own Jason Sudeikis, just like all car trunk stories should be.
Above Average, the YouTube channel from Lorne Michaels's company Broadway Video, just debuted a new web series today. It's called The Future and features stand-up Emily Heller giving psychic readings to comedians. Reggie Watts is the guest for the first episode, which was directed by The Lonely Island's Jorma Taccone and explores the subject of feline breast augmentation in-depth.
Here's SNL's Kate McKinnon as the guest on the second episode of Eliot Glazer's new Above Average Network sketch comedy web series Eliot's Sketchpad. Glazer is two for two with his sketch show now, with this one being really funny just like the debut episode of Eliot's Sketchpad, which starred Glazer as Oprah recreating a bunch of viral videos, was really funny. The sketch this week is an '80s exercise video, in which gay comedy power duo Glazer and McKinnon do their part for powerwalking education. It manages to somehow be funnier than inherently funny powerwalking is on its own.
“Just let it happen. The best things come when you just let it happen.”
It’s something many ultra-creative people say as they sip their beers and bask in a glow that seems as accidental as it is divine. They never set out to be awesome. It just turned out that way. “Just let it happen.” I wish I could! I wish I had that kind of peace of mind, but I don’t. I want it to happen now. NOW! FASTER! FASTER!
That’s why I’m envious of people like Ben Warheit.
Creator of Broadway Video’s Above Average channel’s refreshingly offbeat animated series Waco Valley, Warheit didn’t set out to [...]
