Comments on: A Comedy Troupe That Actually Translates to Web

By: mamamoore

mamamoore — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:18:43 +0000

Loved their vids! “Cigarette Cop” was classic!

By: somecallmejim

somecallmejim — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:17:38 +0000

@16. Me either. You’d think marriage would have helped with that, but not so much as you’d think.

Wait, are we talking about the same thing?

By: sukatra

sukatra — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:49:11 +0000

I don’t get it.

By: Peter Coffin

Peter Coffin — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:59:27 +0000

@NutCheese – Yeah, the video is pretty fucking sweet.

@marquis – I should be on the front page every day. And not even with videos, like just a picture of me. I’m that good.

By: NutCheese

NutCheese — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:50:13 +0000

My favorite part was where Hitler said “Look out fuckheads!” Bawhahaha! OMG… I have watched this video over and over!

By: marquisdejolie

marquisdejolie — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:12:52 +0000

@12 Flexstone
It’s the YouTube editors, I tell you. The YouTube editors. They’re choking out the uneconomically viable stuff like crabgrass in an urban vacant lot.

No wait. It’s the advertisers. They can’t sell Pampers on a Hitler video.

By: Flexstone45

Flexstone45 — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:55:16 +0000

@ Peter Coffin & marquisjolie – Nalts does make a good point though. Considering these guys are getting some attention, quality is finding a way to the top although slowly. The real problem in this equation is YouTube. Great creators like this should hit the homepage regularly. “Hitler Trick Bike” is better than anything on there right now. You can look.

By: marquisdejolie

marquisdejolie — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:34:13 +0000

It’s the vloggers, I tell ya. The vloggers. They’re choking out the good stuff like Kudzu on Caddo Lake.

By: Peter Coffin

Peter Coffin — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:34:34 +0000

@Jim – That is the difference between today and 10-20 years ago, too. “The Stars” all had a mystique to them that YT people do not. We know everything we want to about the people we watch on YT, and if there is something we want to know a great deal of them are quite accessible and will tell you.

The last generation benefited from said mystique as when new info came out, people crapped. It still works for Axl Rose, who makes headlines when he goes outside.

People want to know their famous people nowadays, and YT is something that makes that very possible and therefore a good place to get yourself out there if you want to do this kind of stuff.

By: somecallmejim

somecallmejim — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:15:18 +0000

I like their stuff. It’s really well put together. It’s always nice to see a comedy team that does well on YT.

I think you hit the nail on the head with the self-promotion part. Take for example, my good friends at 88improv (I’ve linked to one of their more recent videos (only a year old). Now, I’ve seen these guys live. Heck, I’ve MC’ed for them in the past, and they always have me busting at the seams, giggling like a little schoolgirl. (Wait, did I say that out loud?) But on YouTube, their stuff isn’t watched much, and even they seem to have lost interest in the medium. And I think it’s all owed to the involvement in the “community” factor.

Posting messages, sending out emails, and chatting with others is how you get noticed on YouTube. I chatted with folks on the site for a few weeks before I uploaded my first video, and right off the bat I got a handful of subscribers, who are still close friends.

YouTube can be used as nothing more than a video hosting site. You can upload the videos here, and use embed codes to put them on your site. But I think if you want to become someone online, you have to step down into YouTube and make yourself known.