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Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:20:06 +0000

[...] SXSW: The week long festival celebrating Music, Film and Interactive takes place during Spring Break every year. What makes “South By” (as it’s referred to by those in the know) so unique is that as opposed to being localized to one central location, this festival literally takes over the entire city. Different venues all over town host public and private events, featuring media icons such as Perez Hilton, Kanye West, and the folks from CollegeHumor. [...]

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By: Video Humor - Web Comedy Vs. TV Comedy: The SXSW Showdown! - Newteevee.com « Video Humor

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:46:09 +0000

[...] Web Comedy Vs. TV Comedy: The SXSW Showdown! - Newteevee.comTo launch his SXSW panel, “ Comedy on Television and the Web ,” moderator Ricky Van Veen of CollegeHumor.com opened with a provocative but arguable point: Unlike previous technologies, humor and not porn is driving the adoption of online video [...]

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Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:02:44 +0000

[...] A panel including The Colbert Report’s Meredith Scardino, College Humor’s Ricky Van Veen, and The Office’s B.J. Novak talks about online comedy videos. [New TeeVee] [...]

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By: John Boyle

John Boyle — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:39:51 +0000

Hey Wagner,

Great post. This was the panel I wanted to see had I been able to go. Really interesting stuff.

I think another big difference as to why the Web does so well with comedy is that there are no rules online. No executives water down a concept or rewrite the scripts. Execs don't make everything bad on TV - but they make it harder for new voices to be heard and unique ideas to make to TV. The web doesn't have these problems.

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Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:29:46 +0000

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gbabitts — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:08:19 +0000

College Humor & Break have won online because they have been at it for a while (10 years is a lifetime online) and because they initially worked at only serving the online audience and culture and working with talent not used to the and not part of the TV world. They worked their way up to being larger than just online instead of working their way from TV into online. The difference is important.