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Web Series To Watch
July 11, 2012
This Week In Web Videos: ‘Bathroom Thoughts’ We all do it. No one talks about it…except when they’re alone… in the bathroom.
LA-based comedy troupe Untitled Sketch Group and director […]
By Luke Kelly Clyne
July 5, 2012
This Week In Web Videos: Funny or Die’s ‘New Woody Allen Trailer’
I’m sorry, but I had to. I…had to. Even though Funny or Die’s freshest parody, “New Woody Allen Trailer,” isn’t anything groundbreaking. […]
By Luke Kelly Clyne
June 21, 2012
This Week In Web Videos: Incognito The more people read this column, the more web series recommendations I get. It’s one of the most rewarding parts of the job: readers I’ve […]
By Luke Kelly Clyne
June 13, 2012
This Week In Web Videos: ‘First Look: Ultimate Teaser Trailer’
Really funny people doing really funny things.
That’s what we’re all about here at Splitsider. And this column’s about really funny people […]
By Luke Kelly Clyne
June 6, 2012
This Week In Web Videos: ‘I’m 24’
In comedy, honesty’s best. I know I’ve said it before, but it’s true.
Time and time again, what’s truthful is what’s relatable, and what’s […]
By Luke Kelly Clyne
May 23, 2012
This Week In Web Videos: ‘Your Dad’s Friends’ Lena Dunham knows it’s tough to be young and creative and struggling to find a purpose in life, and she’s not alone. Not by a long shot. Aaron […]
By Luke Kelly Clyne
May 16, 2012
This Week In Web Videos: PoolJumpers
Ever wonder what’s the best parody video on the Internet? Well wonder no more. Unless you disagree with me and don’t think this is the best […]
By Luke Kelly Clyne
May 2, 2012
This Week In Web Videos: ‘Howard Gets an Interview’ When I received an email plugging a web series about a guy interviewing for jobs in corporate America, I felt a pang of disappointment. Someone […]
By Luke Kelly Clyne
Apr. 25, 2012
This Week In Web Videos: ‘Beer Goggles’
A sketch about beer goggles? Not the most original joke. “Oh,” I thought “it’s probably some ironic play on the old trope about being too […]
By Luke Kelly Clyne
Apr. 11, 2012
This Week In Web Videos: Ted and Gracie We all love stuff that’s cool and weird and offbeat, don’t we? I’ll answer for you here — yes. Of course we do. Like any aficionados, we […]
By Luke Kelly Clyne
Apr. 4, 2012
This Week In Web Videos: ‘Donald Trump’s Celebrity Apprentice Post Show […] Historically speaking, I’m not a fan of web videos centering around celebrity impersonations because they’re often short on content. Especially […]
By Luke Kelly Clyne
Mar. 28, 2012
This Week In Web Videos: ‘How to Make a Situation About You’ 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 […]
By Luke Kelly Clyne
Feb. 8, 2012
This Week’s Web Series You Need To Watch: The Real Housewives of South […] Very few web parodies inspire actual TV shows. In fact, I can’t think of one that has. Until now. Yes, that’s right. The Real Housewives of […]
By Luke Kelly Clyne
Feb. 1, 2012
This Week’s Web Series You Need To Watch: The Untitled Webseries That […] Morgan Evans says of his new web series: “It is weird, it is sad, it is funny and it was expensive.” I can’t speak to the budget (though I’m […]
By Luke Kelly Clyne
Jan. 18, 2012
This Week’s Web Series You Need To Watch: Paul Solomon: Chronicles of Love There are very few songs that could open the LA Shorts Film Festival and be worth listening to for their non-comedic artistic merit. The Lonely […]
By Luke Kelly Clyne
Jan. 11, 2012
This Week’s Web Series You Need To Watch: I Wanna Have Your Baby SNL and UCB are two of the most powerful 3-letter acronyms in the New York City comedy scene (behind CFF, “cool funny frogs,” the all-amphibian […]
By Luke Kelly Clyne
Dec. 28, 2011
This Year’s Web Series You Watched: 2011 In Review We’ve all seen and been through a lot this past year. Some good. Some bad. Thankfully, we’ve had web video to get us through the rough patches […]
By Luke Kelly Clyne
Dec. 21, 2011
This Week’s Web Series You Need To Watch: ‘The Trivial Pursuits of Arthur […] This Week’s Web Series You Need To Watch has explored tremendous variations in quality web video, from low budget viral hits (Tiny Apartment), […]
By Luke Kelly Clyne
Dec. 7, 2011
This Week’s Web Series You Need To Watch: ‘The Actress’ Making something scripted seem like it’s actually happening sounds easy until a camera’s switched on. Once tape’s rolling, too many actors’ […]
By Luke Kelly Clyne
Nov. 30, 2011
This Week’s Web Series You Need To Watch: The Maurizio Show A hundred new character ideas run through my mind every week. Each time I think of one, I get really excited and rush over to my “idea book” to […]
By Luke Kelly Clyne
Nov. 23, 2011
This Week’s Web Series You Need To Watch: Lonny Since I started writing this column, I’ve had a recurring nightmare: I’m hunched over my computer, trolling the Internet. My eyes ache. I’m […]
By Luke Kelly Clyne
Nov. 16, 2011
This Week’s Web Series You Need To Watch: Clark Kent Has a Dream A lot is “funny” to me. But there’s one particular kind of funny I can’t shake. One flat-line, single-cam, straight-faced, deadpan, mumblecore […]
By Luke Kelly Clyne
Nov. 2, 2011
This Week’s Web Series You Need To Watch: ‘Bestie by Bestie’ “What if moles wrote in tiny notebooks called human skins?” Go. “I don’t believe the Grinch’s heart could’ve grown three sizes in one day.” […]
By Luke Kelly Clyne
Oct. 26, 2011
This Week’s Web Series You Need To Watch: “Starf*ckers” It’s nice to write for a readership that gets comedy and Splitsider’s’ certainly does. You understand the importance of craft. You appreciate […]
By Luke Kelly Clyne
Oct. 19, 2011
This Week’s Web Series You Need to Watch: Shutterbugs This week’s series isn’t new. It’s not cutting edge or avant-garde. It doesn’t star two young comedic upstarts just beginning to make their […]
By Luke Kelly Clyne
Oct. 12, 2011
This Week’s Web Series You Need to Watch: Lena Dunham’s Delusional […] To be born rich, delusional, and superficially interested in having a career in the fine arts is to be born hilarious. Especially if said […]
By Luke Kelly Clyne
Sept. 28, 2011
This Week’s Web Series You Need to Watch: The Mis-Adventures of Awkward […] FML. Creeper. Awkward. These are the go-to utterances of the bottom dwellers among us, the flip-cup braggarts, the BBM-addicted, […]
By Luke Kelly Clyne
Sept. 21, 2011
This Week’s Web Series You Need to Watch: Very Mary-Kate Most celebrity impersonations are to comedy audiences what in-flight meals are to airline passengers, bland and predictable, yet almost […]
By Luke Kelly Clyne
Sept. 14, 2011
This Week’s Web Series You Need to Watch: Easy to Assemble The thing about web series is that they’re easy to make…sometimes a little too easy.
Anyone with a camera and a face can throw something up […]
By Luke Kelly Clyne
Sept. 6, 2011
This Week’s Web Series You Need to Watch: Ronna and Bev For all the time and effort so many spend trying to think of the perfect premise for the perfect show that can be perfectly pitched to the […]
By Luke Kelly Clyne
Sept. 1, 2011
This Week’s Web Series You Need to Watch: Be a Celebutante Few things make me laugh harder than arrogant, narcissistic lead characters, and I don’t think I’m alone. The assholes always get the best […]
By Luke Kelly Clyne
Aug. 23, 2011
This Week’s Web Series You Need to Watch: Noah and Dru’s Novel Abbot and Costello. Farley and Spade. David and Green. Galifiiniakis and Downey, Jr., I guess. Sort of.
Despite its ubiquity, the two-man, […]
By Luke Kelly Clyne
Aug. 16, 2011
This Week’s Web Series You Need to Watch: Stay At Home Dad Did he really just say that? But, he’s surrounded by moms…and kids!
There’s a simple recipe behind it, this thing we call comedy. Breaks in […]
By Luke Kelly Clyne
Aug. 2, 2011
This Week’s Web Series You Need To Watch: Tiny Apartment There are two kinds of web series: those you nod along with while your least funny friend giggles and points at his dumb computer screen, and […]
By Luke Kelly Clyne