Update: Chester French and New Sunday Night Lineup on MTV

I was just surfing on the "interwebs" and decided to check out MTV.com to see the new sunday lineup of shows which include, "Fantasy Factory," "The College Humor Show," "Nitro Circus," and, "How's Your News?" all playing Sunday night in that order starting at 9. I know that I'm going to be watching all of the shows! In any case, while on the site, I noticed on the front page, there was a headline showing the new Chester French video for "She Loves Everybody." Very clever video. You think it's one of those normal cliche "guy loves girl" music videos from the 80's, but with a sado-masochistic twist! Let me give you a rundown on the other shows (sans College Humor since I already did a post on it):

Fantasy Factory - I couldn't find much information about this except for the fact that it's a show based on Rob Dyrdek of skateboarding and "Rob and Big" fame. The only information I could gather is that is that it's a reality show based around his new bulldog and him and a huge warehouse with a basketball facility and skate park.

Nitro Circus - Based more on the MTV orignal hit, "Jackass," it's apparantly pretty much the same show except jacked up on steroids, with more death-defying stunts and involvement in extreme sports. One of the cast members of the show is Travis Pastrana, who's a multiple winning X Games contestant in motorsports, hence his involvement in the show.

How's Your News? - Get ready for this: a show about people with Down Syndrome and other mentally disabled people interviewing celebrities like John Stamos and everyday folk about all things in life, with all of this being the demented and offensive brainchild of Matt Stone and Trey Parker of "South Park" fame. Sounds pretty messed up on all levels, right? Knowing Matt and Trey, chances are they're doing all of this to prove a point or show some message. If we're lucky, it'll be taken lightly like the Johnny Knoxville movie, "The Ringer."

P.S. As promising as these shows are, I really hope for more music and less TV on MTV. I'm starting to believe that the acronym actually stands for, "More TeleVision". Wasn't that the reason behind the creation of MTV2? Any thoughts?


Below I posted videos for both the music video and a trailer promoting the four shows.

Chester French - New Music - More Music Videos

MTV Shows

College Humor on MTV

I've been a fan of College Humor for years now but I've never expected this to happen in a million years! It just goes to show you how popular the fan base of their original videos are, such as the famed original "Jake and Amir" and "Hardly Working" videos that the site is known for. The writing always stays fresh and original, with surprisingly great editing in part with the writing. These videos have become so popular that I've started to hear some of these videos quoted by everyday people as if it's a popular movie or TV show (or rather soon to be). The show was picked up by MTV, which could either take a turn for good or bad. Unfortunately, MTV is infamous for having very inadequate, but entertaining television shows that have a short life span. My guess is that College Humor will last one season, but will soon change to another channel to have more freedom from the censors with what they can write and show. A similar transition happened to the hilarious comedy troupe "Whitest Kids U Know" who had a variety of funny internet videos and were then shortly picked up by Fuse. They too had limits to what they could show and then soon switched to IFC where they had freedom to say and show what they wanted. Speaking of which, "Whitest Kids U Know: Season 3" will premiere this coming Tuesday, January 27 @ 10 pm Eastern on IFC and the "College Humor Show" will premiere February 8 @ 9:30 pm Eastern on MTV. I'll speak more of WKUK in my next blog but hope you tune in to both of those shows! Let me know what you guys think!

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

24 Japanese Theme Song

During the winter break, I went with my friends Matt L and Matt F to Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York City to see internet celebs Derrick Comedy. I'll write my next blog on them so you have a better understanding. One of the things they talked about was how they all went to Japan to film part of their movie "Mystery Team". One of the things they mentioned was how the show "24" has a different theme song in Japan than it does in American. In America, it's just a ticking noise with Jack Bauer saying "This is between the hours of 7 and 8 pm" or something along those lines. In Japan however, has it's own theme song with and 80's guitar solo in the middle and everything! When they showed it to us, the audience was dying and it became and inside joke for the rest of the night. Sure enough, when I got home, Matt L left me a link to the song on my facebook. After watching it, I figured nobody else had seen it so I posted it on Collegehumor.com . Now, I've uploaded tons of stuff to the site, but nothing ever becomes national, so I didn't think twice about it. Sure enough, it becomes national and College Humor offers me one free shirt from Bustedtees.com ! Right now I'm thinking of getting the Skeeter Valentine Lightening Bolt shirt, but time will tell what I choose. I have the video at the bottom is you guys wanna check it out. It's not the funniest thing in the universe, but it will definitely get stuck in your head!

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.