iJoke.com and CraveOnline present an exclusive performance by comedian Brian Whitaker! Brian is one of the least PC comedians currently working the LA scene… which isn’t saying much, because for all it’s perceived liberality, California as a whole is actually one of the most puritanical states in the country. Except for maybe Utah. Thankfully, Brian doesn’t care if anyone is offended by his unapologetically dark style of humor, as is illustrated in the following video:
Check back soon for more exclusive live stand-up comedy!
Luke Lockfeld, Jentle Phoenix and Matt Champagne, live!
iJoke.com and CraveOnline present an exclusive performance by Jentle Phoenix and Matt Champagne (both of whom swear that those are their real names…) and 13-year old comic phenom Luke Lockfeld! It’s just like being at the club, except there’s no 2-drink minumum and instead of sitting at a table with a date, you’re sitting in your mom’s basement at your computer by yourself, wearing a dirty pair of briefs and a bathrobe with dinosaurs on it!
Adam on LA, crazy women, texting, blue collar comedy and more!
iJoke.com and CraveOnline present an exclusive performance by Adam Richmond, live at the Hollywood Improv! We were on location for the Adam Richmond Comedy Hour, which, inexplicably, ran an hour and a half long. But you don’t need to be good at math in order to be funny, as is evidenced by the following video!
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Starting last Thursday and continuing on through September 7th, popular gamer lifestyle brand “I Am 8-Bit” will be hosting a gallery of 8-bit inspired art at the World of Wonder Storefront in Hollywood.
I was lucky enough to attend the opening and check out some of the crazy artwork on display this year. While there weren’t any giant-size working controllers or custom chiptune Guitar Hero games or anything at the show this year, the Nerdcore girls were acting as a human exhibit of sorts, lying around glass enclosures in their underwear, playing old school games in front of drooling fanboys disguised as hipsters. Adding to the excitement were DJs playing midi tunes while bartenders served (free!) Colt 45s in custom designed 24 oz. cans.
Donkey Kong, Mario and Paul Frank
Now I’m not much of an art critic but I find the whole 8-bit art thing particularly fascinating because as a kid growing up playing those games, I remember using my imagination to fill in the blanks that the rudimentary graphics were unable to fill. What these artists have done is essentially given physical form to their own imaginary interpretations of subjects that figure very strongly in today’s pop cultural tableau. My camera is a piece of shit so please enjoy these pictures, most of which I cribbed from our friends over at Joysiq.com!
If you’ve ever been on MySpace, you’ve probably at some point heard mention of the “Hollywood Undead”, a band that has over 41 million song plays on the site and sells shit-tons of merch despite the fact that their debut album doesn’t come out until September ‘08 and they just played their first ever live show less than a month ago. In their new video for the song “Undead”, prolific music video director Jonas Akerlund has been employed to produce the most depraved music video any of us may have ever seen, a brilliant marketing ploy that is sure to generate an obscene amount of parental outrage/media attention/astronomical record sales. Check the video out here, but be warned, it’s pretty graphic/awesome!
