It happens all the time. The birds leave the nest. The cubs leave the cave. The horses leave the stable. Who knows if all of those euphemisms are correct? We're just happy we know what the word "euphemism" means.
But today's the end of summer internships for a couple of the good ones:
Adam and Katie.
Adam helped us write pithy one-liners and articles for a blog that we might never be able to share with you at the rate we're going.
Katie dutifully sent t-shirts and pens to about five people over the summer, just like we asked her to.
We're not sure if they learned anything useful during their time with us, but we're pretty happy to share
burritos and
taco salads with them on their last day. Nothing quite says, "thank you," like the gift of Mexican cuisine.
So here's to you, sweet summer interns! May your returns to your respective schools and future ventures be as awesome as this past summer, but with a lot less heatpocalypse type stuff.
Maybe our very own Dan Wilburn-- himself a former Professional My Damn Channel Intern-- said it best in his tribute to them on Twitter:
But they were also the BEST kind of mediocre. (And actually, they were awesome all the way through. Not mediocre. Take it back, Dan Wilburn, take it back.)
If you made it here to THE NIGHT FEED blog on MY DAMN CHANNEL even once before, then you've likely made it into more than one of the 9 circles below.
HAPPY 09! The sun is coming up & as we get ready to race around it again with you - here are nods & promises:
To Our Families & Friends:
The work is impossible without your support & meaningless without your love.
To Our Artists:
To those who've been with us, those who remain, & those about to join My Damn Channel in 09...we built this ship for you: a studio, a network, a syndicator & a cash-creator like no other. Freedom reigns - red tape disappears & you're in the driver's seat to reach as large an audience as you can - and to reap the rewards you deserve. We worship your ability to make people smile, dance & think.
To Our Fans:
Thank you for finding us, for spreading our url and our videos - but most importantly - thank you for setting the bar as high as you like. The stats don't lie and we're ready for another 365-day lesson about what you want and what's not worth shit.
We built the site going against the grain where a zillion others put a few needles inside a humungous haystack. Here, we bring you a smaller number of better web series. But there's enough of you coming now on a daily basis to grab more help from sponsors - so you'll get MORE series to watch.
We trust you to keep attacking us with what's right & what's horribly wrong. You know how to find us.
To Our Advertisers:
We found you an experienced and skilled new leader in Suhaila Suhimi. In the first days of 09, we're ready to unveil our new plans. We're going to give you the opportunity to get inside new series with major talent. And we're also ready to co-create more branded entertainment that delivers high-quality, affordable, effective results.
To Our Backers:
Others have fallen trying in 08. They raised too much (or too little), they over-promised, under-delivered, and crashed. Thank you for believing that we could sign pro talent, build big audience, and win the trust of major advertisers to bring us to break-even at break-neck pace. We've proven that our model works, now we prove that it scales.
To Our Syndication partners:
You've given us the promotion and the placement we needed to prove that our videos deliver for your audiences. To potential new partners, we'll continue to offer the best original music & comedy and ask just two things in return: significant promotion and a straight-up rev deal.
To Our Competitors:
Respect to every runner out there who is brave enough to enter the race. There's room for more than a few winners. And there's room for some of the smarter teams to run together.
To Our Staff & Every Human creating My Damn Channel 24/7:
We're a small group of determined punks proving that you don't need a thousand execs to screw in a light bulb. Your brilliance is blinding. Your dedication is inspiring. We're winning the game inside the worst economic crisis of our time because of YOU. You make it fun to get out of bed every morning. 09 will be an even bigger blast for all of us.
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Mark Malkoff on 12/18/2008 2:38:49 AM by Rob Barnett
We started My Damn Channel in the wake of an earlier round of big corporate layoffs as traditional media tried to wrap its arms around the intense insurgency of online video.
Many major media companies took a shot at chasing YouTube's brass ring, but they couldn't ride their horses fast enough to get into the lead ahead of all the upstart brands racing onto the field.
We ran fast in our first year. Some of our best competitors like Super Deluxe didn't make it. We loved their work. We stayed determined to keep costs low, but still bring the best talent - treat them well - and let them deliver quality, original web video which is getting seen by an audience growing faster by the second.
In the past 24 hours, we've had the #1 video on all of YouTube - thanks to Big Fat Brain, creators of "You Suck at Photoshop" and their NEW web series, "Agency of Record."
This week, TIME Magazine honored us in their Top 10 Everything of 2008 - twice! They put YSAP in the Top 10 TV Episodes of the year next to Lost, Mad Men, 30 Rock & Colbert. And they honored Sir Harry Shearer for one of his Katie Couric Open-Mic Moments that we call "Found Objects."
Maria on our team just told me we passed 42 million total views yesterday.
This week, we added Suhaila Suhimi to lead the advertising team bringing more top brands in to sponsor all of our new programming.
Here's a list of what's NEW & what's coming for the year ahead with immeasurable thanks for every second you've stopped your world to take a look at www.MyDamnChannel.com:
Flight of the Conchords HBO premiere episode next week on My Damn Channel - 3 weeks before it airs on HBO !
STELLA - new channel just launched
GraceNMichelle - new channel just launched
Agency of Record - new episode tmrw/Fri
Heather Fink channel
new episodes of LAPDANCE with KURT LODER
new videos from atom.com
new episodes of BACK ON TOPPS - every Tuesday
new episodes of FACETIME
and a lil tease of more/new magic wonderments:
ED HELMS
KERRI KENNEY-SILVER
SAM SEDER
SARAH SILVERMAN
DAVID CROSS
ANDY DICK
ISLA FISHER
A.D. MILES
MARK MALKOFF
and....
S P I N A L T A P 2 0 0 9
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Donnie Hoyle on 5/6/2008 12:14:58 AM by Rob Barnett
We're totally blown away!
THANK YOU to the WEBBY AWARDS judges
and to all of YOU who voted for My Damn Channel.
7 Honors in All from the "Oscars of the Web."
We were stunned to be in any of these categories with all the nominees and we're shocked to have won so many.
Congrats to all the winners & nominees in the WEBBY AWARDS.
We're sharing MANHUGS with Big Fat Brain, David Wain, Harry Shearer & all the producers, crew and artists who make My Damn Channel's original videos.
Our business was built to respect the best talent in music & in comedy. We're incredibly honored and proud to support their work...
& now....cue the music:
Webby Award Winner:
Best Comedy Series - Wainy Days (David Wain)
People's Voice Winner:
Best Comedy Series - You Suck at Photoshop (Big Fat Brain)
Webby Award Winner:
Best How-To & DIY - You Suck at Photoshop (Big Fat Brain)
People's Voice Winner:
Best How-To & DIY - You Suck at Photoshop (Big Fat Brain)
3 Honorees:
Official Honoree / Humor:
My Damn Channel
Official Honoree / Comedy: individual short or episode: Wainy Days - Season 1 - Episode #10 - The Future (guest starring: Rob Corddry, Zandy Hartig, A.D. Miles)
Official Honoree / Viral:
Harry Shearer's "Found Objects" - Katie Couric #1
Harry Shearer's "Waterboardin', USA" was nominated for Best Music Video and we congratulate Freestyle 101 from G4TV.com on their win - as well as Minilogue from Blink Productions as the People's Voice Winner for Music Video.
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You Suck at Photoshop on 4/8/2008 9:24:00 PM by Rob Barnett
The NY Times calls the WEBBY AWARDS "the Oscars of the web."
Over 10,000 entries from over 60 countries & today's WEBBY announcements blew us away today with 7 honors in all.
4 nominations & 3 Honors. Only 5 others have more nominations.
Here's the list:
1. My Damn Channel (Honoree for Best Humor Site)
2. Harry Shearer - Found Objects / Katie Couric (Honoree for Best Viral Video)
3. Wainy Days - Episode 10 - The Future (Honoree for Best Indiv. Comedy Episode)
4. Wainy Days (Nominated for Best Comedy Series)
5. Big Fat Brain's You Suck At Photoshop (Nominated for Best Comedy Series)
6. Big Fat Brain's You Suck at Photoshop (Nominated for Best How-To / DIY Series)
7. Harry Shearer - "Waterboardin', USA" (Nominated for Best Music Video)
Nominations are decided by judges....and by you - so please vote!
A bit of a bitch - but it only takes a minute - here's how:
Click here - then register
Go to Online Film & Video
Find COMEDY LONG FORM OR SERIES (& vote for WAINY DAYS or YSAP)
Find MUSIC (& vote for HARRY SHEARER)
Find HOW-TO/DIY (& vote for YSAP)
Kristen Schaal stars as Margaret in 'HORRIBLE PEOPLE' - the evil soap opera created by A.D. Miles for My Damn Channel.
She's also on 'Flight of the Conchords' on HBO - and now.....Kristen is a new correspondent on 'The Daily Show'
Here's Kristen with Jon presenting her future time capsule for the future first female President:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=164044&title=dear-madame-president
Here's Kristen in 'Horrible People' - we premiere a new episode every Monday at My Damn Channel:
Here are some of the people that deserve credit for the baddest ass soap opera on earth:
Created by
A.D. MILES
Written & Directed by
A.D. MILES
Producer
JOE LO TRUGLIO
JONATHAN STERN
Director of Photography
TIM SMITH
Production Designer & Costume Designer
KATIE THARPE
Editor
ROBERT NASSAU
Casting Directors
BETH BOWLING
NADIA LUBBE
KIM MISCIA
Featuring
Carter
MATHER ZICKEL
Michael
A.D. MILES
Mother
JOY FRANZ
Margaret
KRISTEN SCHAAL
Billy
JOE LO TRUGLIO
Rex
ED GENEST
Arturro
ISRAEL HERNANDEZ
Josephine Dupont
SYLVIANNE CHEBANCE
Leon Landouille
JEAN BRASSARD
Amanda
RACHEL ROBBINS
Danielle
GINGER KROLL
Tom
KURT BRAUNOULER
Excited Blonde Woman
LIBBY BRADLEY
Line Producers
DAN KEEZER
LAURA MAXFIELDHair & Makeup
NICOLE WODOWSKICamera Operators
VWODECK RUCEWICZ
LELAND KRANEStill Photographer
ANYA GARRETT
Assistant Editor
TOM FISHMAN
Art Assistant
KATE BROWN
Gaffer
BERNARD HUNT
Key Grip
ALEXANDER ENGLE
Swing Grip/Electric
GEOFF KNIGHT
SEBASTIAN NICOLAT
MEGAN NOLE
Sound Mixer
GABRIEL SANDERS
Boom Operator
TOM JORDAN
Utlities
ROB HUNTOON
SEAN MARTIN
JOSH SIMMONS
STEVE STERNICK
MARK WYNEGAR
Production Assistants
DANA HAN-KLEIN
ERIC HOLLERBACH
RICHARD JONES
TIM KANE
Location
SAM HAMADEH LOFT
Artwork Compliments of:
ALLY HILFIGER
LA2
KIPTONART
Additional Writing
JOE LO TRUGLIO
MORGAN MURPHY
© 2008 Jank Productions. All rights reserved.
Pictures worth a thousand words.
"Nicorette: It's not just for liberals any more!" (thanks Al)
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall - Who's O'Reilly After All?
(we still love Katie)
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Monday 2/25:
HORRIBLE PEOPLE - episode 3 - the evil soap opera continues
Tuesday 2/26:
HARRY SHEARER's FOUND OBJECTS - BILL O'REILLY / ANN COULTER / KATIE COURIC.
(O'Reilly is too beautiful for words. Coulter has an ugly addiction. We still love Katie.)
Wednesday 2/27: COOKIN' with COOLIO - episode 3
ANDY MILONAKIS presents ANDY MILONAKIS
Thursday 2/28:
CARNIVAL of STUFF presents INVASION - episode 3
DON WAS presents NEW MUSIC from the LA SKA BAND, COMMON SENSE
Friday 2/29:
BIG FAT BRAIN presents "YOU SUCK AT PHOTOSHOP" - episode 8 (it's comin - it's comin)
| KATIE WARNS WEB WEENIE Post staff writer |
February 4, 2008 -- KATIE Couric is vowing revenge on the Internet joker who posted unflattering videos of her on YouTube. CBS News started a new YouTube chan nel over the weekend for its primary election coverage.But the CBS anchorwoman used the debut to get a little personal with those who make fun of her on the Internet video site."Hello YouTube viewers," she begins. "You know, it's nice to be on YouTube for a change when I know the cameras are rolling."Then, smiling and shaking her finger at the camera she adds: "Harry Shearer, I'm going to get you!"Shearer, a former "Saturday Night Live" cast member and voice on "The Simpsons," is one of the originators of "My Damn Channel," another Internet site that last year posted two videos of Couric talking when she thought the cameras were off. On one tape, she makes fun of her predecessor Dan Rather.
On the most recent one, posted last month, she is seen at the anchor desk on the night of the New Hampshire primary complaining about her clip-on microphone, cursing and joking with her crew about how Rudolph Giuliani's campaign was dead.
http://www.mydamnchannel.com/channel.aspx?episode=367
Both tapes were presumably intercepted from satellite transmissions between CBS and its affiliates and never intended to air on TV.
Couric's retort to Shearer appears to put him on notice that she is watching him - and may try a prank of her own in the future.
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Photoshop on 1/18/2008 11:18:00 AM by Rob Barnett
Happy weekend from the My Damn Channel boys and girls. We’ve got 5 artist channels with new videos premiering every day. This February, we’re adding 3 new channels, plus new site features & ways to interact. Here are 3 new clips to take the “weak” out of your weekend:
WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS... SHOULD BE FILMED.
Perez Hilton on My Damn Channel
Andy Milonakis on the mic, Don Was on bass, David Wain on drums, and Perez....hosting our CES Party at the Palms in Vegas.
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WE LOVE KATIE.
Behind the Scenes in New Hampshire
Harry Shearer’s “Found Objects” strikes again. This week’s episode went viral with over a million views in one day to break the My Damn Channel record. You’ll never look at Cindy McCain the same way again.
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YOU STILL SUCK AT PHOTOSHOP.
Part 3 Premieres on the Big Fat Brain Channel
If you watch Donnie Hoyle’s latest tutorial, you might suck a little less. Then again…
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