ChinaShop partnered with Pop My Culture’s Cole Stratton and Vanessa Ragland to create a new series of webisodes called Culture Pops. Join them in Hollywood at the legendary Roxy Theater. They get the inside scoop on the world of rock directly from Nic Adler, Owner of the Roxy. They also pop over to Montreal to see what TV’s Deanna Russo has to say. Watch it! It’s funny!
“When the guys have to pass a drug test at work, they only have one choice… Bribe middle school kids for clean urine.” Now if this description of an upcoming episode for Comedy Central’s new sorta scripted comedy series “Workaholics” does not pique your interest – Well then Grandma, take yo ass back to bed.
Because there is that special time in one’s life between getting that fancy paper that certifies you educated and actually getting a “real” job. A time filled with beer bongs, bong-bongs, and general debauchery which until this masterwork by Blake Anderson, Adam Devine, Anders Holm, and Kyle Newacheck of the web comedy troupe Mail Order Comedy, had yet to be chronicled properly in the annuls of time.
I was lucky enough recently to be kidnapped, stuffed in the trunk of a Volkswagen Beetle, and driven to the undisclosed party house in the San Fernando Valley where these guys actually live, shoot, and basically just ARE this show. The following was not written under duress… but maybe something else.
If you haven’t been watching Awkward Embraces, you’ve been missing out on one of the best shows to come along in any medium. Yeah, you heard me. It’s that good, and that funny. Awkward Embraces tells the story of three friends – Jessica, Candis, and Lyndsey – and their dating misadventures. It’s a simple concept, but what makes the webseries special is not only the incredible chemistry between the three leads and the sharp writing, but the fact that the lead character is an honest representation of a geek girl.
Awkward, but charming; naive about relationships, but willing to learn; beautiful with a real body, not the anorexic “beauty” too often favored in Hollywood; Jessica is a joy to watch because she feels like a real person. She also feels like a real female geek, dropping Star Trek references as easily as she breathes; feeling the desperate need to explain why her Star Wars t-shirt is funny even when it’s clear the person she’s speaking to won’t get it, or care. When I saw the episode where Jessica loses herself in talking about “Darmok,” her favorite Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, I squealed loudly thinking, “That’s my favorite episode, too!!” What every woman I’ve introduced to Awkward Embraces, geek or not, has said to me after watching is “Oh my God! This sounds like me and my friends!”
In a world where people hide in fear and drop to their knees in terror at the sight of a twister on the horizon…one team of psychotic storm chasers stands tall! Ok, they are totally crazy band-mates in a race for the perfect tornado photo but I like a bit of exaggeration. Check out the fresh new web series, Funnel of Darkness, produced by ChinaShop and IFC here. I like pie.