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Watching videos online will soon become far more annoying, thanks to a company called Keystream. They're launching a new “SmartAd” service that will allow businesses to place logos and ads in the “empty spaces” of Web videos - the grass or the sky or anywhere there isn't action happening. Presumably they're doing this because they hate us and want us to suffer.
Comedian Mitch Magee’s wonderfully bizarre web series is absurdist comedy at its finest. From the disturbing opening theme music to the creepily slow close-ups, “Welcome To My Study” is essentially like watching Mr. Rogers on ‘ludes and house arrest.
Tech Buzz David Rees clip-art comic strip now has an animated version. Brought to you by 236.com, it mines the same deadpan absurdity for yuks about terrorism.
Culture Buzz Kerri Kenney-Silver — of The State and Reno 911 fame — debuts a new character who owns the classiest “fantasy ranch” Winnemucca, Nevada, may have ever seen. Delilah’s fictional brothel offers a “menu” of services — including an act called “Underpants Parade” — that makes us kind of wish Dame Delilah were real. If whorehouses were this entertaining, we’d already be in Nevada!
TV Buzz The third season of this web series about the sex lives of young urbanites living in Chicago has been picked up by IFC. There’s sex! And full-frontal nudity! It’s pretty much hipster porn, complete with awkward fumbling and poignant pillow talks. You’ll be aroused and cringing at the same time.
TV Buzz Actor Craig Bierko from Fox’s Unhitched has a new webseries where he interviews celebrities in a bathtub. Someone needs to make a full-length feature called Bathing John Malkovich.
Tech Buzz The people who brought you The ‘Burg deliver a new web comedy about a fictional indie rock band. Slated to perform at South By Southwest, The All-For-Nots shouldn’t fare too poorly (especially with former Disney honcho Michael Eisner voraciously backing them). We would have given pretty much anything to have seen Zack Attack back in the day.
TV Buzz The College Humor duo are rumored to be getting their own MTV show. In the “Hardly Working” clips on College Humor and their own sporadic web series, Jake and Amir have shown they’ve got what it takes to make funny videos. Let’s hope MTV doesn’t muck it all up.