Last night, the boys of Studio 8 were invited to shoot and participate in NBC/Break.com’s Year of Internet Video Event, which was “a celebration of the arrival of the e-lebrity”. NOTE: An “e-lebrity” is a person who is famous on the internet. And now, apparently, the internet is spreading beyond itself, so if you’re famous on the internet, you are legitimately famous. There was even a red carpet, which is…definitely…umm…something…I guess. Oh yes, and free alcoholic beverages and snack foods.
I know your brain is now burning with this question: Which web celebrities, aside from ourselves, were there last night? Who did we meet? And most importantly, who got to meet us???
Oh, this dude.
This dude.
These dudes, who were super nice and funny and actually interviewed us.
This dashing young man.
This girl (the praying mantis is dead and was not there).
These two guys, who have lots of fun things going on.
This fellow, who takes terrific photographs, hopefully none with us in them.
And not this girl, but her creators.
All in all, it was as fun as we expected, but we didn’t sign any autographs or million-dollar contracts. We didn’t even see any million-dollar contracts! But we looked for them, believe you me.
It was weird because a lot of these people weren’t really comedy groups, which is what I consider us to be – they’re more of just accidental internet stars, ordinary people who never sought out the life of an entertainer until YouTube or Break or Google decided to push them in that direction. So talking with some of them was strange because we take a different approach to producing material than most people in cyberland.
Anyway, it was a rather odd and creepy and wonderful event, and we’re grateful to have been involved. Hopefully, we’ll post some nerdy video clips of it on here soon. Until then, we have more things to create.
