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Viral video stars headed to NBC -- VIDEO

by Anna Johns, posted Sep 28th 2006 1:04PM

cubicle warsViral video stars Luke Barats and Joe Bereta were just the subject of a bidding war that ended with a victory for NBC. The two fellas are recent graduates from Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington and now they have a one year production deal with NBC, with an option for a second year. No pressure, boys!

The two met in an improv class in 2003, which is when they started creating comedy skits, improv, and music videos for the internet. NBC, and the rest of the world, found them on YouTube and CollegeHumor.com. Their most popular sketches are Mother's Day and Cubicle War, which is embedded after the jump.

I'm going to go ahead and predict an ironic future ala Andy Samburg for these two. Something they do on NBC will become popular on YouTube, but NBC will insist the video gets taken down

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DJ

i wish that clip were funny. let's try to give someone who actually has proven talent a development deal. well, tim minear just got hired by fox again. that means he'll be available in a month or two. why not just wait for him?

September 28 2006 at 8:26 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Nicholas Quixote

Lee Gomes of the WSJ reported on YouTube statistics recently. In this article, using numerous examples, http://www.rabbitbites.com/misc/youtube.html , I demonstrate how YouTube statistics are potentially flawed on many levels: viewership, demographics, bandwidth. The implications for this are quite big.

September 28 2006 at 6:41 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Alan

I think we're looking at the next internet crash. The "a bunch of people watched it on YouTube developement deal crash." Get your developement deals now, because in a few months when all the YouTubers developement turns out to suck I think that well will go dry.

September 28 2006 at 2:08 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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