Meet "Save The Supers"

We're so proud to premiere Save The Supers the latest series from internet web series superstar Sandeep Parikh, co-star of The Guild and creator/writer/director of The Legend Of Neil.

In Save The Supers, Sandeep stars as "Merman," the leader of a group of superheroes whose superpowers can't shield them from the effects of an economic downturn.

The series will feature guest appearances from Felicia Day, Seth Green and Fiona Gubelmann!

Save The Supers is one of the more than 30 new original comedy series we are creating for you in 2012. Episode one premiered during today's episode of My Damn Channel LIVE which you can watch here.

Here are the full credits for "Issue 1: The Superforce vs. The Bottom Line">:


CAST
The Super Force
Night Knight: Max Bird-Ridnell
Fleet Foot: Jordan Black
World Man: Mickey Hawtrey
Elementra: Mandell Maughan
Merman: Sandeep Parikh
Morphman: As Himself


Jokester: Zack Ward
Tay Zonday: As Himself
Reporter: Brooke Seguin
Interviewer: Ben Benjamin



EXTRAS
Bank Extras Dallas Bloom, Jennifer Chauvin, Emmanuel Lagumbay, Anne Lamsa, Austin Patrick, Jennifer Ramirez, Kevin Rusley, Caitlin Teasdale, Anthony Thompson, Daniel Weinell, Pat Weinell



CREW
Director/Exec Prod: Sandeep Parikh
Executive Producers: Rob Barnett, Warren Chao, Jesse Cowell
Executive Producers: Steven Dengler, Greg Aronowitz
Written By: Ben Benjamin & Sandeep Parikh
Producer: Jeff Winkler
Line Producer: Kimberley Browning
Co-Producer & Story Consultant: Josie Kavadoy
Associate Producer: Ben Benjamin
DP/Co-Director: Bry Thomas Sanders
Casting: Helen Geier


1st AD: Tyler Stratton
2nd AD: Jared Scott Mercier
2nd 2nd AD: Brian Kameoka
Key Set PA: Sam Schweikert
PA: Dave Beaudrie, A. Steen, Chris "Romulus" Winn
PA/Driver: Dave "Mack" MacKenzie


Script Supervisor: Sandy Fleck
Camera Op: John Schmidt, Paul Wojciak, John Beattie
1st AC: Mike Nelson
1st AC: Dave Desio
DIT: Zach Charney Cohen
EPK/Set Photographers: Lan & Vu Bui


Gaffer: Chris Walters
Best Boy Electric: Jason Klinger, Matt Fore
Electric Intern: Christopher Boulos
Key Grip: Brian Taylor
Best Boy Grip: Sarah Shulte, Tim Hogle
Grip Intern: Keiko Saito


Sound Mixer: Leonardo Nasca
Boom Op: Saif Parker, James McCormick


Production Designer: Greg Aronowitz
Art Director: "Red 5" Schripsema
Assistant Art Director: Keri Palmetto
Art Department Coordinator: Sloane Grace
Graphic Design & Titles: Josie Kavadoy
Storyboard Artist:Zack Finfrock
Set Construction: Zachary Helmer,Jason Klinger, Shawn Strider, Louie Lambie, James O'Conner, Will Robertson

Set painters: Christina Holleran, Danielle Bonadona

Prop Builders: Mazin Dajani,Anthony Thompson, Jennifer Chauvin
Costume Designer: Greg Aronowitz
Costumers: Mari Mukai & Samantha Silver

Seamstress: Ginny McQueen, Laura Hoover, Ruby Leigh Young, Ashphord Jacoway

Makeup Coordinator: Jenn Rose
Key Makeup Artist: Sonia Carbrera
Key Makeup Effects: ArtistJo Hollard
SFX Makeup Assistant: Johnny Leftwich


Stunt Consultant: Thom Williams
Stunt Coordinator: Marque Ohmes
Stunts: Marque Ohmes & Samuel Jaye Paul

Craft Services: Ariana Del Rio
Catering Provided by Brad Detanna

Editor: Scott Turner
Original Music by Elon Arbiture
Post Production Sound Design & Mix: William McGuigan
Assistant Editor: Melanie Tomlin
Visual Effects: Mazin Dajani, Sevan Najarian & Lincoln Smith
Opening Credits Designed by Joseph DiLeonardo
Animator: Scott Gordon
Colorist: Brian Barrow


Payroll Services Provided By: ABS Payroll & Production Accounting Services
Payroll Coordinator: Justin Gourlay
Producion Supplies: Atomic Production Supplies


Special Thanks
Nick Quackenbos
Ruby Simpson
Carla Lowry
City of Claremont, CA
Gabe Uhr
Todd Roy
HD Films
Zach Carroll
David Taghioff
Corey Moss
Laxmi Niwas

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How Many Netflix Movies Can Mark Malkoff Watch?

How many movies can one man watch in one month?

Who hasn't had the fantasy: "I'm going to stay home and watch movies all day. I'm going to catch up on the classics, see all those movies that I never had time to see, hell... I'll maybe I'll even watch a couple of those romantic comedies that my wife is always trying to make me enjoy... just because I CAN. I have Netflix streaming and I have access to a million movies 24 hours a day. WHY CAN'T I JUST STAY HOME AND WATCH MOVIES?"

Verbatim, right? Now you're all, "Get out of my head, My Damn Channel!"

Too late. We're just gonna dig in deeper because Mark Malkoff lived out your Netflix streaming movie watching fantasy and filmed it for us.

For "Netflix Challenge," Mark wanted to see exactly how many movies he could watch for $7.99 per month. Turns out, it's 252.

Before you say, "252? Well that sounds easy as sh*t," think about this: Mark gained 6 pounds by barely moving all month. When he did move, he still had to watch movies on his iPhone and iPad. He started doing bad Jack Nicholson impressions.

Of course, the good parts of this whole thing are that both Andrew McCarthy and Jason London decided to provide him with live commentary of the movies St. Elmo's Fire and Dazed and Confused, respectively.

Make sure you watch the video to see how Mark took movie suggestions from people on Twitter, Facebook -- even Mashable commenters.  Watch it to see Andrew McCarthy cart Mark around in a red wagon. And watch it to see how Mark got through all of these movies (yes, he even devoted an entire day to Razzie winners):

#1. The Graduate
#2. Chinatown
#3. Bonnie and Clyde
#4. A Clockwork Orange
#5. Paper Moon
#6. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
#7. Harold and Maude
#8. Marathon Man
#9. Being John Malkovich
#10. Reservoir Dogs
#11. Swingers
#12. Trainspotting
#13. Clerks
#14. Girl, Interrupted
#15. The Grifters
#16. Sliding Doors
#17. Reality Bites
#18. Office Space
#19. The Big Lebowski
#20. Ghostbusters
#21. Dumb and Dumber
#22. Airplane
#23. The Producers
#24. This is Spinal Tap
#25. Arthur
#26. Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop
#27. Client 9: Rise and Fall of Elliot Spitzer
#28. Rolling Stones: Stones in Exile
#29. Page One: Inside the New York Times
#30. Waiting for Superman
#31. American: The Bill Hicks Story
#32. Classic Albums: U2: The Joshua Tree
#33. The Way We Get By
#34. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
#35. St. Elmo’s Fire
#36. Dirty Dancing
#37. The Lost Boys
#38. Dream a Little Dream
#39. License to Drive
#40. Girls Just Want to Have Fun
#41. Heathers
#42. Weird Science
#43. Duck Soup
#44. A Night in Casablanca
#45. Love Happy
#46. Steamboat Bill, Jr.
#47. College
#48. The Navigator
#49. Seven Chances
#50. Sherlock Jr.
#51. Go West
#52. Our Hospitality
#54. Rocky
#55. Hoosiers
#56. The Hustler
#57. The Longest Yard (original)
#58. The Cutting Edge
#59. Senna
#60. Fever Pitch (original)
#61. The Terminator                    
#62. Die Hard 2                             
#63. Lethal Weapon                        
#64. 13 Assassins                               
#65. Enter the Dragon                        
#66. The Expendables                   
#67. Dillinger                     
#68. Dirty Harry
#69. Donnie Darko
#70. Tiny Furniture
#71. Wet Hot American Summer
#72. World’s Greatest Dad
#73. Punch-Drunk Love
#74. Broken Flowers
#75. Anvil! The Story of Anvil
#76. Winter’s Bone
#77. Insidious
#78. An American Werewolf in London
#79. Paranormal Activity 2
#80. Creature from the Black Lagoon
#81. Saw: The Final Chapter
#82. House on Haunted Hill
#83. Dracula
#84. Audition
#85. Scream 2
#86. Being Elmo
#87. Helvetica
#88. Dazed and Confused
#89. Bill Cunningham New York
#90. This Film is Not Yet Rated
#91. Dear Zachary
#92. Man on a Wire
#93. Cave of Forgotten Dreams
#94. Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story
#95. Dive
#96. Gigli
#97. Battlefield Earth
#98. Xanadu
#99. Cop and a Half
#100. Indecent Proposal
#101. The Last Airbender
#102. Rocky 4
#103. Spy Kids
#104. Cheaper by the Dozen
#105. Fred: The Movie
#106. Dr. Dolittle
#107. Dark Crystal
#108. Babe: Pig in the City
#109. Rango
#110. Labyrinth
#111. True Grit (original)
#112. True Grit (remake)
#113. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
#114. Dead Man
#115. Shane
#116. Two Mules for Sister Sara
#117. The Warrior’s Way
#118. High School Musical
#119. Justin Bieber: Never Say Never
#120. Sense and Sensibility
#121. Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family
#122. Iron Man 2
#123. The Phantom
#124. Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo
#125. Planet of the Apes
#126. They Live
#127. RoboCop
#128. Serenity
#129. Starship Troopers
#130. Dreamscape
#131. The Final Countdown
#132. 1984
#133. Little Shop of Horrors (original)
#134. Annie
#135. Gypsy
#136. How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
#137. Love Me Tender
#138. Camp
#139. Bikini Beach
#140. There’s No Business Like Show Business
#141. Troll 2
#142. Cool as Ice
#143. Birdemic: Shock and Terror
#144. The Garbage Pail Kids Movie
#145. Titanic 2
#146. Ed
#147. Best Worst Movie
#148. Shark Attack 3: Megalondon
#149. The Thing with Two Heads
#150. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
#151. Oldboy                        
#152. Exit Through the Gift Shop
#153. Brick                                                       
#154. Good Will Hunting
#155. Trollhunter                   
#156. Malice in Wonderland                    
#157. 21 Grams                         
#158. Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
#159. Network
#160. Edward Scissorhands
#161. Top Gun
#162. Time Bandits
#163. The Red Balloon
#164. The Wiz
#165. The Karate Kid#
#166. Swimming with Sharks
#167. The People vs. George Lucas
#168. Thirst
#169. Return of the Pink Panther
#170. Buck
#171. The Landlord
#172. One Bright Shinning Moment
#173. The Paper Chase
#174. Reel injun
#175. Tales from the Script
#176. Murder!
#177. Dail M for Murder
#178. The Lady Vanishes
#179. The Manxman
#180. Young and Innocent
#181. Number 17
#182. The Man Who Knew Too Much
#183. The Stranger
#184. Breakfast at Tiffany’s
#185. The Seven Year Itch
#186. The King and Four Queens
#187. The Lady Eve
#188. How to Steal a Million
#189. Anastasia
#190. Father’s Little Dividend
#191. The Raven
#192. Serpico
#193. Smoke Signals
#194. Passion of the Christ
#195. Whale Rider
#196. The Lincoln Lawyers
#197. 8 ½
#198. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
#199. The Outsider
#200. Submarine
#201. Ballerina
#202. The Trip
#203. Gosford Park
#204. Groundhog Day
#205. Me and Orson Welles
#206. The Double
#207. Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows
#208. WWE’s Rivalries: Michaels vs Hart
#209. The Rise & Fall of WCW
#210. The Top 50 Incidents in WWE History
#211.  The Epic Journey of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
#212. Bobby Heenan
#213. Ricky Steamboat: Life Story of the Dragon
#214. Card Subjec to to Change
#215. The American Dream: The Dusty Rhodes Story
#216. Champion
#217. The Man Who Wasn’t There
#218. The Gold Rush
#219. Bad Company
#220. Rubber
#221. Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein
#222.  Bob Dylan: Never Ending Tour Diaries
#223.  Biggie & Tupac
#224.  Ginger Baker in Africa
#225. Moog
#226. Heavy Metal in Baghdad
#227. Kurt Cobain: About a Son
#228. The Art of 16 Bars
#229. The Invisible Man                
#230. The Wolf Man                        
#231. The Mummy’s Curse  
#232. Something to Cheer About
#233. The Invention of Dr. Nakamats
#234. She Done Him Wrong                  
#235. Laurel & Hardy: Flying Deuces          
#236. The Battleship of Potemkin       
#237. The Hornets Nest                 
#238. So This is New York             
#239. It   
#240. Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
#241. Dance with Me Henry
#242. Nothing Sacred
#243. Pulling John
#244. food Matters
#245. Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven
#246. I Need That Record
#247. Road to the Big Leagues
#248. To Live and Ride in LA
#249. Almost Elvis
#250. Dog Day Afternoon
#251.  Into the Abyss
#252. Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade

For Mark's "Netflix Challenge" diary, visit his blog at MarkMalkoff.com.

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All We Can Think About This Week

(This is really us. Well, most of us.)

Appropriate, right?

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Marc Maron and My Damn Channel: WTF

I started my career in radio and I started My Damn Channel as a response to getting tossed out of radio in 2006.

Podcasts are not new, but in the past few years, a number of brilliantly talented people with brains and balls decided to head to their garages and go punk - bringing new shows to the masses on the Internet - without any of the soul-killing, corporate execs able to stop these brave rebels from creating completely original "radio" that puts the "F" back in Freedom.

I created Free FM back in 2004 to give awesome talent like Adam Carolla a radio show that harkened back to the earliest days of freeform radio....a form never done better than the way it's still being done today by Howard Stern.

When I got "shit-canned" as Adam loves to say - and could no longer protect him from the devils - he got "shit-canned" too. Adam took to his garage to build a monster audience for his podcast and My Damn Channel continues to put our cash where our heart is as a paid sponsor.

Today, we pony up again to become a proud sponsor of WTF with Marc Maron. If you know this show, then you simply need to know that I could no longer sit back and cheer for Marc without jumping in to support him. If you're uninitiated, then his words will be better than mine and I encourage you to watch the video of Marc's recent keynote speech given at the premiere comedy festival, Just for Laughs in Montreal.

Like with Adam Carolla, you'll hear My Damn Channel artists and comedians on WTF with Marc Maron. From time to time, Marc will tell you about the good shit we're doing here to premiere original series with great talent and without any of the corporate red tape that used to get in our way.

And we've now got a whole new Marc Maron channel to check out regularly when you're on My Damn Channel, featuring his podcasts, videos, extras and excerpts with a link to subscribe and donate like we did to a rare talent taking the truth by the horns.

Rob Barnett
Founder/CEO, www.MyDamnChannel.com

www.MyDamnChannel.com/WTF

www.MyDamnChannel.com

www.MyDamnChannel.com/SizzleReel

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Here Comes the Bride

If you woke up this morning with an extra spring in your step and a little bit of a glow about you, fear not.  It's not a brain tumor (probably)—you're just basking in the glorious psychic afterglow of the Royal Wedding!  I mean, like, OMG, right?

Yes, there's nothing more romantic than a photogenic young commoner being hand-selected by the Illuminati and served up on a silver platter for review and approval by the future king's cadre of clucking, hunchbacked toadies as they strum lutes and swill peasants' blood from pewter goblets.  At least that's how I presume it works.  I don't know.  I'm an American.

But regardless, My Damn Channel is using this opportunity to "say yes to the dress" and provide you with one each of the following:

Something old...

The first ever episode of 'You Suck at Photoshop.'

Something new...

The latest trailer for the new series 'Versailles,' starring Patricia Heaton.

Something borrowed...

Not ours, but still hilarious: a break dancer kicks a baby in the face.

And something blue...

Andy Milonakis's 'Red Blue.'  That works, I guess.

So say "I do" to these videos or forever hold your peace.  Also, don't forget to send the happy young couple something nice.  I'm pretty sure they're registered at Pottery Barn.

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Super Bowl

For the serious sports fan, this weekend is arguably the biggest weekend of the year. The Super Bowl is perhaps our biggest unofficial holiday, providing slobs and stats nerds of every race, religion, and economic background an opportunity to F up some seven-layer dip and blow their paycheck on ridiculous prop bets. But not everyone's into football. And that's fine, because for these people a whole cottage-industry of nonathletic "Bowls" have sprung up to service almost every niche and fetish. There's the Bud Bowl, the Puppy Bowl, the Lingerie Bowl. But why stop there? Here are our ideas for some additions to the pantheon of esoteric specialty bowls...

 

The Condiment Bowl

Watch as Catsup and Ketchup go head to head to determine, once and for all time, which spelling is correct. Don't be alarmed if, at the end of the grudge match, the field is smeared in gooey red liquid from goal post to goal post. That's just, you know, delicious ketchup. Go ahead. Dip your curly fries in there. 

The Soup Art Bowl

Okay, this one's a bit of a stretch, but what about a knock down drag out fight between Andy Warhol's iconic Campbells soup can paintings? Maybe like, I don't know, hot dog bean vs. New England Clam Chowder? Yeah, that works. 

The Sharktocopter Bowl

Just because. Who cares if it's Photoshopped? This picture is rad.

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2010 Streamy Awards Experienced

Rob Barnett (My Damn Channel Founder/CEO); Illeana Douglas

The My Damn Channel family of artists took home 4 Streamy Awards Sunday night:

- Illeana Douglas won 2 Streamy Awards for EASY TO ASSEMBLE. Best Ensemble Cast and Best Product Integration for IKEA.

- Jason and Randy Sklar won a Streamy Award for Best Branded Entertainment Web Series for BACK ON TOPPS sponsored by Dick's Sporting Goods.

- David Wain won a Streamy Award for Best Writing for a Comedy Web Series for WAINY DAYS.

HUGE THANKS to every artist, active fan, and advertiser for saying YES to "the good shit."

Here's the new news:
 
A 3rd Season of IKEA's EASY TO ASSEMBLE will debut this year on My Damn Channel. Illeana and IKEA will deliver the details in the coming days. This is a tremendous sign of support for everyone who co-creates Branded Entertainment.

David Wain told Grace on the red carpet that more WAINY DAYS is on its way to My Damn Channel. Cameras will roll on episode 32 next weekend!

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Going LIVE from LA

Tonight's the night web television's best are honored by the Streamy Awards.

We hit the red carpet with all the web couture we got.

Grace Helbig, Michelle Vargas, and Virginia Reiff bring you My Damn Channel coverage on our home page and our new www.MyDamnChannel.tumblr.com.

And My Damn Channel goes LIVE for the first time ever. The ceremony starts at 5:30p PST. 

Look for David Wain, Illeana Douglas, Jason Sklar, Randy Sklar, Sparhusen, Todd Spahr, Rob Mailhouse, Justine Bateman, Douglas NINJA Sarine, and all our fellow nominees and nerds.

My Damn Channel BIG announcements coming from here at the Streamys too on what's new.

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Make a Streamy Awards Promo

The 2010 Streamy Awards honor excellence in original web television and those who create it.

The annual ceremony will be live online from LA on Sunday, April 11. The official red carpet live stream starts at 4p pst.

It's a HOT NIGHT for NERDS.
 
We're feeling guilty about getting too many nominations (14). Time to put the spotlight on ALL good humans making the best in original video online. Magnanimus, huh?

We're asking all talented humans to make short promos for the Streamy Awards - to inspire more people to seek out the best original video on the web.

Two requests only. Keep your film in the :30-2:00 zone and include a graphic that says:

Watch the Streamy Awards LIVE
Sunday, April 11 at 5:30p PST
www.Streamys.org

We need your videos ASAP - NO later than Thursday, April 1 (yes - that day).

We'll feature many/most on My Damn Channel for 11 days leading up to the Streamys, 4/11.

If we ROFLOL, and experience deep, emotional sensations, you'll be all over the My Damn Channel home page and on our other syndication partners.

Get tech specs and learn how to send us your videos by emailing DAN here.

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GraceNMichelle: 2 Girls 1 CUPid

On Valentine's Day, a bunch of folks from the My Damn Channel family went on a special date with our favorite gal pals, GraceNMichelle.

Pictured above left: (L-R) Kevin Flynn ("Puca"), Joshua Nicholson ("MRJOTZ"), Anthony Willingham ("Calvin Bentington"), KT Pierce ("Harvey Potato"/"ktgilead"), and James Dunne ("smokybanjo").

All other pictures: Grace Helbig (from My Damn Channel's Daily Grace) and Michelle Vargas nerding it up at The People's Imrpov Theater during their Valentine's Day comedy sketch show: 2 Girls 1 CUPid.

Not pictured, our twitter/facebook lady, Armeni Kamciyan, also came down to watch the girls shake their booties and put on a performance to steal (and eventually melt) all of our evil/cold hearts.

Just in case you missed the news, Puca and Smokybanjo flew all the way from Ireland to meet everyone and they had no idea what they were in for at Sunday night's show. 

They sat in their seats, innocently watching while the girls paraded around on stage drooling over their fictitious love interests, "Ross and Ryan" - who, consequently, ended up being the lucky Puca & Smokybanjo. They didn't even have to worry about memorizing any lines to play the part - they were handed tiny pieces of paper (shaped like little red hearts).  It went something like this:

Grace:     Do you love us?

Ross & Ryan:     No.

Michelle:    Why don't you love us?

Ross & Ryan:    Because we love each other!

(The crowd roars with laughter)

That was a tough one to make the boys say out loud...

Keep up with GraceNMichelle, and maybe you'll bump into one of us at their next show...

gracenmichelle.tumblr.com

twitter.com/gracenmichelle

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