Showing posts with label Parody. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Parody. Show all posts

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Ground Charlie - Shampoo


Nicki Toma and Tatyana Zaytseva collaborated on what they often called an acoustic Tenacious D tribute duo. I always thought they beat Jack and Kyle in the clever lyrics department, but that's just my hip, disaffected "Tenacious D is too popular to be cool" side talking.

Get the latest video podcast here: Ground Charlie - Shampoo (live)

Monday, March 2, 2009

Lashes


Nicki T made this make-up commercial parody with Jihad Qutub at the camera and edit with her best performing compatriot Tatyana Zayseva. It features not one, but two rubber masks of former presidents. Which is creepy.

Get the latest video podcast here: Lashes

Friday, February 27, 2009

Two Minutes to Midnight


What Phantom Hillbilly could accomplish with a couple of industrial lamps from Home Depot and iMovie always impressed me. Here he manages to spin a yarn about protagonist Sage Negadeth going to hell, precisely where he's always thought he'd go when he dies. Why? Because he's so metal!

Get the latest video podcast here: Sage: Two Minutes to Midnight

Monday, December 22, 2008

Punk'd Lite


It's like MTV's practical joke show, only with safer, risk-free pranks. Danny Norton's first foray into editing with Final Cut Pro @ Portland State University saw him working up an idea of Star Can't Dead's Jihad Qutub into a digital short for their multimedia comedy showcase at nearby Jasmine Tree tiki lounge.

Get the latest video podcast here: Punk'd Lite

Saturday, December 6, 2008

James Bond: Cookiepussy


The final cast of our multimedia sketch show included Adam Higgins, who traveled East to study with Second City in Chicago and teach improv. He was reticent to play a "mentally different" character until it became clear it could be pulled off a a simple goon. Masterfully written by Nathaniel "Hub" Hubbard, who also stars as James Bond a la Connery brogue.

Get the latest video podcast here: Cookiepussy

Sunday, November 2, 2008

The Polls Part 3


We know it's SO November 2, 2004, but this series of videos was shown on election night 4 years ago to cheer people up. We anticipated that every vote "would count" and that the election would have a happy ending.
Get the latest video podcast here: The Polls Pt.3

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Escape from USA


November 2, 2004 was a dark day for liberal-minded Americans anxious for John Kerry to turn the political future around. And he should have, too. Diebold delivered an empty victory as promised, so this short follows a disgruntled ex-pat who immigrates as a mail order husband.

Get the latest video podcast here: Escape from USA

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Plastic Culture


OK. This is probably the strangest film collaboration in my recollection. Portland, OR's Bear Deluxe Magazine and parent environment watch organization ORLO host a yearly film competition. What possessed us to spin the theme "plastic culture" into the story of rock monolith Ted Nugent losing his hunting bow is anyone's guess.
Get the latest video podcast here: Max Gross

Saturday, September 6, 2008

Vader Vacation


Another great Animation Schmanimation short courtesy of Cinema Queso's John C. Meyer, shown at Extra Medium's multimedia comedy showcase near the final installment (we hope) of George Lucas' prequel trilogy, Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith.
Get the latest video podcast here: Vader Vacation

Monday, August 25, 2008

Blind leading the Blind


About all I can say to introduce this short is that my blind roommate pretty much suggested the direction of this storyline, offering to do as many falling and rolling stunts as possible. I couldn't see much in the Scruffers costume either, so it was up to cameraman/director/conspirator Crispin "Credible" Rosenkranz to guide us across busy streets via his voice. So it's about a half-man half-dog/guy in a fuzzy car seat cover who is a terrible assistant animal. Don't get too offended. We had a lot of fun making it.
Get the latest video podcast here: Seeing Eye Scruffers

Monday, July 28, 2008

Off-Off Broadway


Three-part sketch filmed live at Portland's historic now-defunct Jasmine Tree tiki lounge. Man wants to do "something special" for his girlfriend on Valentine's Day, but can't afford Broadway or even Off-Broadway theatre tickets. An unscrupulous dealer in eclectic knock-offs of Blue Man Group, Cirque du Soliel and Shakespeare tries to recommend a budget alternative. Written by Tom Wolcott and Danny Norton, with Steve Libbey, Scott "Hecktow" Klatt, Adam Higgins and Laura Patterson. Ends in typical sound cue snafu, to awkward effect.
Get the latest video podcast here: Off-Off Broadway

Friday, March 14, 2008

Verizon Masturbation Minutes


Parody ad for vibrating cell phone ringers, put to inappropriate use as sexual stimulant. With Nicki Toma, Dax Jordan, D Emanuel, Lauren Sands and Danny Norton.
Get the latest video podcast here: Verizon Masturbation Minutes

Saturday, March 8, 2008

Improv


Scott "Hecktow" Klatt stuck with Extra Medium as wiriter, sketch and stand-up performer perhaps longer than anyone else. His oddball takes on troubled entertainers with problem material included a Russian Hawaiian singer, his Ken & Barbie "Jack & Diane" puppet theater and this imagination-challenged improvisational comic. Hilarious reactions to his audience's suggestions are a fond alternative to "Who's Line Is It" smug, competent professionals.
Get the latest video podcast here: Improv

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Original Gags


Painfully corny document follows two aspiring short filmmakers through writer's block to rolling on the floor laughing at their own mediocre ideas. First and probably best collaboration between The Phantom Hillbilly and Extra Medium's Danny Norton, guest directed by Crispin Rosenkranz with cameos by Eric Brockman, Wes Dilling and Jihad Qutub.
Get the latest video podcast here: Original Gags

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Cannes Film Festival Documentary


Extra Medium cofounder Danny Norton once fancied himself quite the aspiring filmmaker, so much so that he jumped at the opportunity to intern at the world's premiere film showcase in 1999. That's him behind Roger Ebert, seated, eating lunch. What a goof. As part of the American Pavilion and Kodak's student program, interns served coffee, delivered newspapers, and in his case, care package courier.
Danny says, "Sure, we saw red carpet and stood next to celebrities at cocktail parties. The stars had nothing much else to do but stand next to the likes of us. If we weren't trying to photograph them or hand them a script, we were practically buddies."
Get the latest video podcast here: The Wrath of Cannes

Sunday, November 18, 2007

Two Guys and a Drunk Girl


Extra Medium cofounders Nicki Toma and Danny Norton are joined by Portland stand-up comic Dax Jordan for a tale of excess and undress. One-half arty stills-film and the other half performed live on stage at historic, now-defunct Jasmine Tree tiki lounge.
Get the latest video podcast here: Drunk Date

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Drawing the Figure


Featuring stand-up comic phenomenons Dax Jordan, Richard Bain and Tom Wolcott, Danny Norton embellishes his life drawing class experience at Portland State University by appearing as his professor and coaching the class to draw the ENTIRE body. Weird entendres abound, and Nicki Toma and Tatyana Zaytseva made some really strange drawings.
Get the latest video podcast here: Drawing the Figure