New rule.

Listen up Hollywood,

From now on if you're going to make a movie about the Holocaust in which the characters are German and repeatedly talk about being German....

THE ACTORS HAVE TO AT LEAST BE TRYING TO DO A GERMAN ACCENT!!





I'm for serious Hollywood, if I hear another character say "I'm German" in an American or British accent...Ich schlage Ihre Gesichter!!!

-nicholas

p.s. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

animation stuff

So, Brian showed me this site where you can make your own little animated movies.

It will be the sole reason I don't get anything done in 2009. Here's the first one I just did.



Here's my favorite one that Brian's done.



Turns out, Donald Glover (of Derrick Comedy) has gone even crazier with these things. Here's my favorite of his, you can see more here.




Expect more.

-nicholas

Stuck in an airport

Me, losing my mind.

So thanks to an unnecessary amount of snow, my flight from New York to Atlanta got delayed and I missed my connecting flight to Colorado.

I was told there would be a 7 hour wait until the next flight.

At first, I was somewhat excited and viewed the situation as an adventure.

Now, at about hour 4 of the layover, I'm amazed at how many things I can find to HATE about an overweight, whiny child and a leather-clad Hispanic guy whispering dirty talk into his cellphone.

It's getting ridiculous.
The Hispanic guy said "I'll be like Maximus Decimus Meridius in bed."
Apparently the lucky girl didn't hear him though, because he just repeated it three times, each time growing louder and sterner in delivery.

Some woman a few seats away from me just burst into loud, grief-filled sobbing.

I'm done. I'm done for today.

Today has cashed its check with me.

-nicholas

Congratulations!

Huge congrats to CollegeHumor who just got themselves a TV show on MTV!!

Let us now pray that other networks start thinking it's a good idea to hand out TV shows to people who make short, silly, internet videos.

-nicholas

We're number 4!

Cracked.com just published an article ranking and profiling the top 8 internet sketch troupes.

We come in at number 4!!! (even though it's clearly stated that the specific rankings are arbitrary)

You can read the article here

Michael Swaim, the fella who wrote the article, is going to receive a hearty handshake from me should we ever meet.
Promptly after this, he will receive a stern lecture for not including 'Barats and Bereta', 'Joey and David', "Elephant Larry', and 'Picnicface' in this list.

-nicholas

Movie-ness

So early this summer both Brian and I acted in a short film our friends Jeff and Andrew wrote, produced and directed.

It's called 'Suckerpunch'

Now I will gush.

We filmed it over possibly the funnest 14 days of my life.
Jeff was a great director, Andrew was an awesome producer, and the script they wrote was truly hilarious.
They ran a professional set with a great crew that made me laugh almost constantly.
The rest of the cast was a combination of my current best friends and awesome new people that very quickly became my chums.

Enough gushing, here's the trailer
(which they did a fuck-off awesome job with)



Let's everybody cross our fingers and pray that wealthy people give Jeff and Andrew the means to produce a feature length version of this story.

• Also, it turns out Brian McElhaney is really fuck-off terrific at stand-up. Seriously, I was blown away by this person I thought I knew everything about.

-nicholas

p.s. I can't believe I'm awake this early. I'm going back to bed.

Cool beans

If you're gonna be in New York on Monday, December 8th you should head over to The Broadway Comedy Club at 8pm to check out the 'Bri' part of BriTANicK doing his first ever stand-up set.

I'm psyched Brian is doing this for a couple of reasons. 

Ready for a list? 

Good, because here comes a motherfucker of one.

1) I think he's going to be really good at it. I don't know any of his specific bits but I've talked to him about it some and he seems to have a very good attitude and philosophy about it heading in. Also, I've know some of the stories he's going to tell and they have yet to not make me chuckle.

2)He's doing this during a time when I am started to get excited about stand-up again. Stand-up used to be my dream job. I spent many years of my life imagining what it would be like to spend many years of my life performing stand-up. This love of stand-up got weakened by two things.

a) Stumbling across sketch comedy
b) Seeing a lot of really piss-poor stand-up over a short period of time.

• Recently though, I have started to break out of this stand-up love slump because of mainly one reason.
  

A)I've seen a trunkful of really really good stand-up lately. Here are highlights.

i)Robin Ince - I caught his show at UCB this week and he's great. He's got this crazy conversational style that's like a bi-polar person with a.d.d. being really smart and hilarious.

ii)The Derrick Comedy Boys - These guys have yet to tackle a genre and not quickly master it. Their sketch videos are hilarious. Their improv is fucking terrific (I think I saw and enjoyed almost every show they did last year). Their movie is great (it's premiering at Sundance in January, I saw a test screening last month and loved it). Their latest venture is stand-up. I saw it for the first time a couple weeks ago and greatly enjoyed it. It's very original, hilarious and overall just really really fun to watch. The way I often measure how much I like something is by how much it energizes and inspires me. I'm pretty sure I started doing that after becoming aware of Derrick Comedy.

To summarize,

• Go see Brian perform Monday, December 8th at 8pm at Broadway Comedy Club
• Stand-up is good.

-nicholas

BriTANicK review

An online magazine/blog thing wrote some very nice things about BriTANicK recently.
It's pretty much our first official review, not counting the one Treborf69 wrote of our video 'Brainteasers'

"...it's not that abominably terrible all the way through."

You can read the more official review here

-nicholas

A secret

There is absolutely no rhyme or reason as to how often I update this blog.

That being said, I will now make 3 posts.

Brace yourself.