"I once was lost, but now am found. Was blind, but now, I see."
Harry Shearer's "Found Objects: Why Sarah Palin Talks That Way"
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Grace on 9/8/2008 10:47:49 AM by Rob Barnett
This Saturday, 9/13, we'll be at the SoCo Music Experience at the Altamont Fairgrounds in Albany, NY.
10 bands including headliners JUSTICE & MGMT.
All FREE but you have to be 21 or older to get in.
Bring your ID.
Just 150 miles from Times Square
I'm giving personal testimony to the 'experience' being an extremely good time. Music, heat, food, drink, games, and good looking humans.
Grace will be there - with our film crews & the My Damn Channel tent will be set-up handing out more free-ness: including rare YSAP tee-shirts, My Damn Channel pins, tats & more. We're filming you - so be xtra attractive.
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Common,
The Black Keys on 8/19/2008 2:36:56 AM by Rob Barnett
They've got a new blog app in early launch mode. "The Night Feed" is there.
We're also putting all of this week's Southern California, Southern Comfort event details there.
Flying west this week to film "My Damn Channel Music Nights" in LA on the Sunset Strip during the week & down to San Diego this Saturday for the all-day/all-night SoCo Music Experience with Common, The Black Keys & about 10 other bands - our cameras, free tattoos, tee-shirts, Grace, Maria, Paul, Robert, Victoria, our crew, our cameras & your face on new programming we're filming now.
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Daily Grace on 8/12/2008 2:12:33 AM by Rob Barnett
Our twins are 10 months old. This blog was named "The Night Feed" and launched last November at a time when sleep was a nickname for 90-minute naps in the middle of the night, between feedings. We all sleep like humans now, but not tonight.
It's raining hard. A Hard Rain.... Head running. Sleeptalkin. Re-inspired. The second year of My Damn Channel begins.
We're regularly attacking ourselves and creating more reasons for you to get into it, to spread it, or to slap us senseless. emails welcome......rob@MyDamnChannel.com:
- register and customize your own profiles
- sign up for Video Alerts for new premieres
- we're no Facebook...but we've got Friending
- more NEW premieres every week
- new Daily Grace....daily
- new Wainy Days episodes on now & season 3 finale 8/25
- all new YSAP premiering every other Friday - next one 8/22
- all new Harry Shearer videos from Songs of the Bushmen premiering now
- new sports & music series FACETIME presented by Puma (pilot is live now)
- Season 2 of all new music from Don Was on the Wasmopolitan Cavalcade of Recorded Music
- Lapdance with Kurt Loder: Saving the World One Interview at a Time (in production)
- new summer sponsors include: Southern Comfort, Puma, HBO
- email directly if you want to help build the new PILOT CHANNEL (& give it a better name)
- one more thing.....please STOP doing what you're doing:
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The Roots,
The Black Keys on 6/16/2008 3:14:57 AM by Rob Barnett
For Release – Monday, 6/16/08 – 7a et
MY DAMN CHANNEL CLOSES MAJOR BRANDED ENTERTAINMENT DEAL
Southern Comfort Launches Partnership for Summer Music Campaign
New York, NY – June 16, 2008 – My Damn Channel (www.MyDamnChannel.com), the entertainment studio and new media platform today announced a major branded entertainment deal with Southern Comfort. The two companies are partnering to create twelve weeks of “My Damn Channel Music Nights” in music bars and clubs in New York and Los Angeles and on the SoCo Music Experience festival tour this summer. Tour dates feature Gnarls Barkley, Justice, The Roots, The Black Keys and more. Starting in July, original content will be produced for a customized, co-branded channel presented by Grace Helbig, host of My Damn Channel’s “Daily Grace.” Programming will appear on My Damn Channel and across its network of syndication partners.
Founder and CEO of My Damn Channel, Rob Barnett said, “We’ve started building a big audience and turning quality content into significant sponsorships. Southern Comfort made a major commitment to back branded entertainment and to put our channel and our fans together on the road. We love our jobs.”
Southern Comfort U.S. Brand Director Ken Rose said, "Music is a major part of the lives of our consumers. Whether it's at a club or a music festival, they're going out with their friends to see live music. Partnering with My Damn Channel allows us to speak to our consumer in a relevant and meaningful manner, as well as take the SoCo Music Experience to music fans that can't make it out to one of the six festivals."
About My Damn Channel
My Damn Channel is an entertainment studio and new media platform created to empower filmmakers, actors, comedians and musicians to co-produce, distribute and monetize original, episodic video. Artists create programming for the My Damn Channel site and for syndication on today’s most heavily-trafficked online communities and social networks. Co-conspirators include Big Fat Brain, Coolio, Grace Helbig, Steve Kerper, A.D. Miles, Andy Milonakis, Harry Shearer, David Wain and Don Was. The company is supported by advertising revenue and by licensing the studio’s entire portfolio of content across all forms of digital distribution.
About Southern Comfort
Southern Comfort®, a fruit, spice, and whiskey flavored liqueur, was founded in New Orleans by bartender M.W. Heron in 1874. Today, it is sold in over 90 countries around the world and continues to grow as an icon brand. Please visit us at www.SouthernComfort.com. For Southern Comfort press information, please visit www.socopressroom.com.
From Sound Check to Encore, Play It Safe. Please Drink Responsibly.
Liqueur, 21-50% Alc. by Volume, Southern Comfort Company, Louisville, KY ©2008
Media Contact:
Maria Diokno
866.424.8864
Maria@MyDamnChannel.com
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Daily Grace on 6/13/2008 4:15:38 AM by Rob Barnett
Getting ready to announce details next week on a major sponsorship to put "DAILY GRACE" on the road - with YOU - in LA, NY - and on a summer music festival.
GOD WE LOVE THIS JOB!
Big Fat Brains Matt & Troy prepare to spoon on the red carpet.
David Wain waxes philosophic with Josh Cohen from Tilzy.TV
I suck at Webby photography. Grace Helbig, Jon Stern, David Wain, Troy Hitch, Matt Bledsoe.
Big Fat Brain Matt Bledsoe & David Wain.
David's Wainy Days wins Best Comedy Series.
"The cat" wins 3 awards for You Suck at Photoshop.
Troy Hitch, Matt Bledsoe, Rob Barnett, Jon Stern for My Damn Channel at the Webby Awards.
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Grace Helbig,
Lee Majors,
Saffron Burrows on 6/9/2008 2:41:53 AM by Rob Barnett
In a world of too much stupid, the best thing you can usually do in my job is give in to the WILL OF THE PEOPLE.
My Damn Channel makes three major announcements today.
BRING BACK DONNIE!
There's been virtual chaos since the disappearance of Donnie Hoyle - master mockutorian - king of YOU SUCK AT PHOTOSHOP. Winner of 3 Webby Awards tonight & creator/maker/magician of 9 MILLION VIEWS.
After months of searching, Donnie Hoyle has been found...inside the body...of a cat.
Donnie?
Keep watching, SNATCHBUCKER's SECOND CHANCE.
The truth is in there and will be further revealed.
YOU SUCK AT PHOTOSHOP shall return!
MAKE IT WAIN!
David Wain picks up the WEBBY AWARD tonight for Best Comedy Series for WAINY DAYS. We launched My Damn Channel with this awesome auteur and David's grabbed your eyeballs 5 MILLION TIMES. We're lucky bastards to announce the premiere of Season 3 of WAINY DAYS starting one week from NOW: Monday, 6/16.
David Wain, Saffron Burrows ("Boston Legal," "The Bank Job") in Wainy Days on My Damn Channel.
David Wain, Lee Majors ("The Six Million Dollar Man") in Wainy Days on My Damn Channel.
SAY GRACE!
Last & never least....we're proud to announce a new fulltime gig for Grace Helbig! You met her in "Bedtime Stories" - you created a mega community of fans in "Daily Grace."
Grace's morning vlogs have been seen hundreds of thousands of times. This summer, Grace escapes Gracie Mansion. My Damn Channel goes on the streets, in the clubs, and on tour. More o dat later.
Here's all the news o' the day with jagoonda thanks from making life great & simple by telling us what to do!
rob
FOR RELEASE MONDAY, JUNE 9, 2008 – 7a ET
MY DAMN CHANNEL GIVES IN TO IRRATIONAL FANS
Donnie Hoyle Returns With “You Suck at Photoshop”
Plus Season 3 of “Wainy Days” and a New Daily Show
NEW YORK, June 9, 2008 - My Damn Channel (www.MyDamnChannel.com), the entertainment studio and new media platform, today announced the return of two of the most popular, original series on the web.
Tonight, the Webby Awards will honor My Damn Channel seven times with accolades including Best Comedy series for “Wainy Days,” plus Best How-To series and People’s Voice wins for “You Suck at Photoshop.”
“You Suck at Photoshop” is produced by the creative duo Big Fat Brain. The series has been viewed over 9 million times. Donnie Hoyle, the mysterious lead character for these “mockutorials” vanished after episode 10.
Deluged by fan requests for Hoyle’s return, My Damn Channel successfully negotiated a follow-up season with the emotionally unstable screencaster. The series will reboot with all new episodes Friday, June 27.
David Wain is the creator, writer and director of “Wainy Days.” This hit web series follows one man’s absurd quest for love and sex in the big city. The first 2 seasons have been viewed over 5 million times. Guest stars have included Paul Rudd, Jonah Hill, Elizabeth Banks, Rob Corddry, Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter.
Wain is a founding member of the comedy troupes The State and Stella. He is a successful film director whose credits include “Wet Hot American Summer” and “The Ten.” Wain is currently filming a new comedy starring Seann William Scott, Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks and Christopher Mintz-Plasse.
The third season of “Wainy Days” premieres Monday, June 16th, with a long list of guest stars from top Hollywood films and hit television series including Elizabeth Banks, Lee Majors (“The Six Million Dollar Man”), Janeane Garofalo, Jeffrey Ross, Ed Helms, Alicia Witt, Saffron Burrows, Elizabeth Reaser, A.D. Miles, Mather Zickel, Zandy Hartig, Lucy Punch, Matt Ballard, Christine Lakin, Xander Berkeley, Sarah Clarke, Jorma Taccone and Joe Lo Truglio. “Wainy Days” is produced by Jonathan Stern.
Finally, My Damn Channel announces a new, daily show. Grace Helbig is the star of “Daily Grace,” premiering weekday mornings. Grace hosts a daily, freeform vlog delivering unfiltered commentary on new video premieres, featured clips and life behind the scenes at My Damn Channel. “Daily Grace” features two-way communication with the website’s growing community of music and comedy fans. Grace is a writer, improv artist, actress and comedian. She was previously featured on My Damn Channel’s “Bedtime Stories.”
Founder and CEO of My Damn Channel, Rob Barnett says, “In ten months, we’ve captured over 24 million views for our original videos. We’ll never be able to see the beach this summer now that advertisers are signing up to be associated with our quality content. Later this month, we’ll announce a major, mid-six figure deal for branded entertainment. Better than a sun tan.”
About My Damn Channel
My Damn Channel is an entertainment studio and new media platform created to empower filmmakers, actors, comedians and musicians to co-produce, distribute and monetize original, episodic video. Artists create programming for the My Damn Channel site and for syndication on today's most heavily-trafficked online communities and social networks. My Damn Channel delivers creative control, funding, distribution, and revenue sharing. Co-conspirators include Big Fat Brain, Coolio, Grace Helbig, Steve Kerper, A.D. Miles, Andy Milonakis, Harry Shearer, David Wain and Don Was. The company is supported by an advertising revenue model, and by licensing the studio's entire portfolio of content across all forms of digital distribution.
Media Contact:
Maria Diokno
866.424.8864
Maria@MyDamnChannel.com
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Was (Not Was),
Don Was,
Daily Grace,
Grace Helbig on 5/1/2008 4:25:08 AM by Rob Barnett
The blog is 6 months old with a slightly new look - leaving Wordpress - now living inside My Damn Channel world.
Here's a quick hitlist of insider info:
VOTE: Webby Award People's Voting ends at 9p pt / Midnight et - Tonight.
Help your brothers & sisters out. Will ya? We've got 4 nominations & 3 honors. Winners will be announced this coming Tuesday.
You Suck at Photoshop leads people's voting in Best Comedy Series. Wainy Days is not far behind. We have 2 of the 5 nominees in Best Comedy!
Harry Shearer needs your vote NOW in the MUSIC category for "Waterboardin' USA."
You Suck at Photoshop is kicking ass in the HOW-TO category.
Go to http://pv.webbyawards.com/ - register - then go to ONLINE FILM & VIDEO - where you find our 3 categories above: COMEDY, MUSIC, HOW-TO.
- DAILY GRACE is gaining steam. It's week 3 with our newest family member, Grace Helbig + we're sharing the love by auctioning off Grace's PJs worn in the "Bedtime Stories" series.
- DON WAS and WAS (NOT WAS) play NYC tonight at Blender Theatre at Gramercy. We'll be there to see one of America's best bands from the Motor City do it oh so fine and funky. There's a very hot rumor about certain rock royalty stopping by to catch this show tonight!!!