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The Adventures of Jesus #3

July 20th, 2011

A child’s life hangs in the balance! Will Jesus be able to make him “well” again?

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Oh goodness. Where have we Studio 8 boys been for the past year? Few new videos, sparse website updatings, hundreds of self-involved Tweets. Sheesh, do we suck!

Well, ever since Comedy Central aired our short film/TV pilot “The House That Drips Blood on Alex” last October, it’s afforded us with some cool opportunities and we’ve been super busy with some bigger projects that I’m going to briefly talk about here. Some of them are ongoing, some of them are up in the air. And all of them are awesome. Here we go!

 

The House That Drips Blood on Alex

Whoo boy, this has been one fun ongoing project. It’s definitely our most ambitious thing we’ve ever done and we have high hopes for it. Even though we initially wrote it as a one-off short film, we’ve been treating THTDBOA as a pilot presentation for an anthology horror series, starring Tommy Wiseau and lots of other fun actors from TV, the internet, and some people who just plain don’t belong on camera. So for the past few months, we’ve been pitching the show to lots of companies, and I can’t really say much more about the project except that we have written more episodes, and if you like what we did with the first one, wait until you see what we’ve got cooking for future episodes…

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Studio 8′s comedy clubs/improv training centers, The New Movement, are putting together a super-sweet comedy festival called Hell Yes Fest in Austin, TX, this week and you better know about it before you don’t know anything else.

Here’s the slick poster graphic for it, which you can click on to see all the details and buy tickets and get laid and stuff!

Studio 8 has had the enviable pleasure of working with standup comedian Sean Patton for many years now.

We’ve shot videos with him, we’ve written TV pilots with him, we’ve even performed onstage with him in various standup, sketch, and improv shows. Hell, next month, Terp is going on tour with Sean Patton and Kyle Kinane (view details of that HERE). Anyway, you may recognize Sean’s name and/or cute face as one of the brightest up-and-coming standup comedy dudes on the planet. I won’t delve into his impressive resume…that’s what his narcissistic website up above is for.

What I do want to talk about is the sad fact that you can’t watch most of the stuff we’ve produced with Sean over the years. Mostly that’s because many of the videos we’ve done with him were sold to websites like Break.com and we can’t use their video code in our website except as simple embeddings within posts. In other words, if you click on “Videos” up on our menu, all of what you see has been uploaded to YouTube and then integrated into the inner workings of our website (we love YouTube!). And since Break won’t allow us to upload the videos they bought from us onto other sites, they have to live forever in their old, shitty non-HD forms on sites like Break.

Until now. I went ahead and uploaded the videos in question to Vimeo and below you will find them embedded in slightly higher quality, along with all the other videos that we’ve put up on YouTube (which are also not really in great HD form because many of the videos weren’t shot in HD).
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Studio 8′s head writer, Brock LaBorde, has finished writing his second book! It’s called “You Are the Messiah,” and after talking to lots of publishing companies about it, he’s decided to strike out on his own and self-publish it (just like he did with his first book).

Basically, his new book is a funny, irreverent take on the popular “Choose You Own Adventure” book series, only in Brock’s book, you get to play the part of Jesus Christ back in the Bible days and you get to take Jesus and his disciples on all sorts of fantastic adventures by reading pages, being presented with different paths to choose, and then turning to different pages based on those choices. There are tons of good and bad endings and many unexpected twists and turns that definitely were not in the Bible.

By self-publishing his book, Brock doesn’t have to worry about sacrificing any of the funny stuff. And he gets to use the dozens of fantastic illustrations from the talented artist Carla Tome, who filled the book with lots of great drawings that look just like all the dorky CYOA books of times past.

Doesn’t that sound like a cool book? You bet it does! So if you want to have that book in your hands within the next month or so, all you have to do is help get that mug printed up by clicking on the above Kickstarter widget (and sending it along to your friends!).

So aside from being able to reserve your very own copy of the book, you’ll also get the chance to purchase some really fun rewards with each and every donation! Don’t believe us? Then click on that link up there, watch the silly video, and read all the prizes for yourself, you goof!

And be sure to check back often as Brock will be releasing more videos, more prizes to win, and more toxic gases into the atmosphere.

Thanks for all of your support and let us know what you think!