Copy. Content. Comedy.
My first and best-known online comedy short, which received praise from NBC, the Bay Area Guardian, NEW YORK Magazine, 7x7 Magazine, and a variety of other media outlets, including, curiously, GigaOm. Coffee snobs, as it turns out, can take a joke.
I wrote this Ken Burns-style mockumentary, produced it, and composed & played guitar on the two songs featured in the film.
A comedy short for Killing My Lobster that explores the question, "What if Major Tom worked for NASA?" I co-wrote this piece with Miriam Wild-Smith, co-designed with Gregory Wild-Smith, and animated, edited, and recorded the VO myself. As seen in iO9, Laughing Squid, and a variety of other sci-fi & geek blogs.
A half-million views and counting! Starring Calum Grant and written and directed by me, this video has fun at the expense of a sci-fi classic. Because if you can't take the piss out of a hysterical Charlton Heston, what can you take it out of?
I'm particularly proud of the color matching Jon Burton did between old & new footage, and of the final shocking moment. And of its 500,000+ views. Enjoy!
A promotional spot I wrote and directed for nearly-30-year-old SF sketch comedy group (and nonprofit theater company) Killing My Lobster, for their annual fundraising drive. After all, balls cost money.
Extra kudos to Joshua Sitron for donating the unexpectedly moving music behind the ad.
An ad parody written & directed by me for the Killing My Lobster show KILLING MY LOBSTER LEARNS A LESSON, this ad treats art schools with the same respect that technical school ads have for their subjects--which is to say, very little. And yes, I have plenty of talented friends who graduated from art schools, and they all love this video.
In addition to writing the piece and co-producing it with the ever-able-and-talented Jon Burton (who also edited), I make a cameo as the Advertising instructor.
This bit of gorgeous oddness comes from two partnerships. First, the one I helped midwife between a San Francisco comedy company and a 100-year-old Jewish Community organization, resulting in a series of sold-out live Purim-themed comedy events.
The second partnership was struck when I brought my rough storyboard, script, and character designs for LUCHA LIBRE PURIM to The Bardi Twins, a husband-and-wife comedy-writing team, one of whom is also a crazily adept digital animator/AfterEffects whiz. We pressed talented voiceover man Jon Wolanske into service and the legend of “La Charo Mysteriosa” yet lingers on.
Not for the squeamish! But not particularly graphic, either. Honest.
Created for a Christmas sketch comedy show. I concepted the idea, engineered the audio, and even animated the piece, Terry-Gilliam-style. Days after its release, it was rated "Video of the week" on G4TV's ATTACK OF THE SHOW.
You may know Ally Johnson from KROQ 106.7’s Klein/Ally Show, LA’s top morning drive-time radio show. Long before that, she was the star of Playboy Radio's The Real Ally Show. And even before that, I wrote a pair of comedy videos that (sort of) helped her get there.
Both vids were written for a risqué Playboy audience and ably directed & produced by my partner from The Coffee Wars, filmmaker Rand Courtney.
Even before radio fame, Ally was an exceptional performer and awesome person who I had the privilege of writing for at SF’s Killing My Lobster. Some years back, she discovered a far less exceptional namesake, a Playboy playmate whose soft-core intro video was getting more YouTube views than our Ally. So we made a video that parodied the “other” Ally’s promo. Playboy spotted it and liked it so much they offered her a radio show on their network.
Once Ally and Rand had the Playboy radio show up and running, we made this promo for it. Definitely risqué but perfect for a Playboy audience.
