I’ve said it before. I’ll say it again. Sometimes, in web series, simple is better. UCBComedy's “How to Make a Situation About You” confirms that hilarity can come out of smart, small ideas. The key to making short pieces successful? Clarity of message.
It’s easier to write a five-minute-per-episode, arc-heavy web opus than it is a sub two-minute idea good enough to have staying power. To be quick and memorable and quality demands a hyper focus on the single salient element of a funny idea, the nugget that cuts through all the fluff to the core of the most illustrative beats. Few attempt simple because it’s risky. It forces [...]
SNL has just hired another new writer for the upcoming new season: Funny or Die's Chris Kelly. Kelly left a staff job as a writer/director at the Onion News Network this spring (something he wrote about here on Splitsider) to head west to be a writer at Funny or Die (something I recently wrote about for GQ). Now, he's heading back east to start his new gig at SNL in NYC next week.
As you may recall, he'll be joining CollegeHumor's Sarah Schneider as the season's other new writer. So with these two hires, SNL is bringing in former staffers from the three biggest original comedy [...]
Serena Williams Sex Tips UCBcomedy.com Original UCB member Matt Besser was tapped by Comedy Central to do a new sketch show pilot, and what he came up with was This Show Will Get You High. It wasn't picked up, unfortunately, but now Comedy Central is prepping to air the pilot a few times in the middle of the night. Luckily, the individual sketches are starting to pop up online so you don't need to wait until 4am to see them.
This sketch, written by Besser and Onion News Network writer Chris Kelly, makes me instinctively cross my legs.
