So I used to be in a sketch comedy group called War Heroes. We did a ton of stuff and were lucky enough to score a gig at Lollapalooza with our mentors, Schadenfreude (a really popular Chicago based comedy troupe) and a few auditions for Disney executives. It was a blast. We even did some sketches for the radio which aired on 89.5 FM Vocalo. I’ll post some of those up here as well.
Anyway, the group broke up, but we all stay in contact. We did some really cool video sketches with my long time friend, Karl Rutherford as the director.
This video is called “Bro Down: The Game For Bros”. It came from an idea that my fiancee and I had that started out as imagining some meat heads glued to a shitty sofa watching a show that’s just called “Sports” and all that happens on sports is a cartoon football bounces across the screen and numbers on the side of the screen go up and down. And they watch it for hours. And they don’t move and they try as hard as possible to not act excited.
Then we started talking about how funny it would be if there was a board game that these guys could play. So we made up this board game that’s basically like monopoly meets sorry with all this frat guy bullshit on it. Then we invited over some improv friends of ours, got a bunch of beer, dressed my fiancee up as a dude and played Bro Down!
You’re gonna have to follow the link because I can’t get the HTML to post Funny or Die videos right now…some one email me if you know how.
Until then this link: BRO DOWN!
Tags: Andrew DeWitt, Awesome, Ben Compton, Board Games, Bro Down, Chris Sanders, Frat Guys, Funny, Funny or Die, Hot Babes, Richard Anderson, Sketch Comedy, Tammy Connors, War Heroes
February 3, 2010 at 11:40 am |
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