Olde English (sketch comedy)
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Olde English is a sketch comedy troupe formed in 2002, after Ben Popik decided to quit the liquor business, and since then the group has published more than 100 slightly amusing films on the Internet. In recent years, the group toured nationally; in 2007 the group performed at the US Comedy Arts Festival. However, due to a poor, and somewhat violent reception, have never left NY since. The group's work is posted on the comedy Web site Super Deluxe, who, after buying out Olde English, now control over 98% of Internet comedy.
[edit] History
Olde English formed at Bard College, after Ben Popik paid several of his "friends" to film a video with him, and in 2004 the video Gym Class was released to the Internet, which depicts a gym class engaged in a mock firefight. After the relative success of this video, the other members were persuaded to stay with the promise of more money from Ben. Starting in late August 2006, Olde English began to upload a new video to its Web site every Monday. In 2004, Olde English released its first self-produced DVD, Gorilla Warfare.
The group currently consists of Adam Conover, Ben Popik, Raizin Bob-Waksberg, Dave Segal, and Caleb Bark, who, despite being told repeatedly by the other members to go, still refuses to leave. During Summer 2006, the group made new sketches on an average of four per week, after their new masters Super Deluxe demanded that their new production quotas were met.
In 2006, Olde English released a sketch called "One Picture Every Day" set to an original song by former member Jesse Novak, who was banished from the group after the unfortunate giraffe incident. This sketch was a take-off of an internet phenomenon popularized by Noah Kalina and Jonathan Keller, and Olde English's parody rapidly gained popularity after being featured on YouTube, having been viewed over two million times. The comments left under the video, in the tradition of Youtube comments, were appropriately in-depth, intelligent and thought-provoking. The video was eventually featured on Good Morning America, and appeared in a Mountain Dew ad campaign. With all this mainstream activity, Olde English fans are given plenty of opportunity to twirl their mustaches and argue about the meaning of art.
After realizing that they had so many fans, Olde English decided to create a message board to accommodate them all. However, the waterfowl at the head of the board has given rise to some controversy, and a wave of spammers now descend upon the good denizens who dwell there. On the subject of spammers, one user, Iain, said "Spammers? Yeah, I should know, I'm a robot." Iain, we salute you.
