Archive for the 'News' Category

Olde English in Entertainment Weekly’s “Must List”

Monday, November 13th, 2006

“One Picture Every Day” is #2 on Entertainment Weekly’s “Must List” for November 10th (the issue with “Heroes” on the cover)! It’s just a brief mention — it would be nice if they mentioned the name of the group, or printed a URL that had the slimmest chance of being typed in by their readers […]

The “Good Morning America” Clip!

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

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Olde English on Good Morning America!

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

Tomorrow morning, our “One Picture Every Day” video will be featured on Good Morning America! First Germany, then Japan, and now America! We’re finally the international sell-outs we’ve always dreamed of being.
In celebration of our major network debut, I thought I’d share some photos Asif took of the shoot.
Many of the 5000 comments on our […]

New Show November 8th at the UCB Theatre

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

Hey there slugger — why so glum? Oh, I see. Your favorite sketch comedy group hasn’t been putting up videos lately? Yeah, that sure can be rough sometimes. Why, I remember my favorite group as a kid — they were called the “Wacky Bananas”, and boy, could they slip on a — oh, right, sorry. […]

Side Shots!

Saturday, October 21st, 2006

Time to highlight some projects from OE affiliates!
Chioke Nassor (who filmed Pizza Delivery) recently went on tour with TV on the Radio as their tour documentarian. He also directed, wrote, and starred in this little gem that stars my sister and a guest shout by myself. It was filmed by Ben and Asif.
Which […]

Posters 4 Sale!

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

Finally, there’s a way for us to get your money without backhacking your IP address and inserting credit card sniffing trojans into our videos. Buy a poster! These are professionally designed by the incredibly talented Spike Press and measure 12.5″x19″. This set of posters is a limited edition of 125, with each […]

We’re going to Toronto!!!!

Friday, September 15th, 2006

Good evening, you leaf-loving hippies.
I have an important announcement to make, but before I make it I’d like to post an excerpt from the last paper I wrote at college:
Canada: America’s Non-Threatening Wingman
by Raphael “Raizin” Bob-Waksberg
Canada is a country in the Western hemisphere.* Canada is the second largest country in the world.** Canada […]

Olde English posters!

Saturday, September 9th, 2006

You asked for ‘em, you got ‘em!

Starting next week, we’ll be selling these amazingly great Olde English posters–designed and printed by the incredibly talented John Solimine of Spike Press.
This poster is the first installment in a series of upcoming, professionally-made Olde English posters–and this printing will be a limited run of 100 posters (minus the […]

A smile and a handshake

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006

So, yesterday we met with Peter Principato of Principato-Young Entertainment, a top-notch agency with a spot-on focus for comedy, and had a great conversation regarding us, him, his company, and comedy; truly an enlightening and invigorating interaction. It was really amazing to talk with someone with such a long history with every comedian I’ve […]

A boring, though informative post about our video format

Sunday, August 13th, 2006

Starting this week, we’ll be using the H.264 compression codec. For most of you, that phrase probably meant absolutely nothing. Others of you, I’m sure, have already stopped reading this–which is a shame, because I was about to explain it using words you know and understand.
H.264 is a super high-res compression codec, used to make […]