How are you? I know before I’ve said “it’s been a while” but this time really “IT’S BEEN A WHILE.” You’ve probably been wondering where your beloved ThesePeople are. Make no mistake, we are still here, just where “here” is has become a little different as I (Matt) have recently moved to New York City. So that puts me in NYC, Joel and Steve in Chicago and Jeff, Tim, Nick and Aaron back in Detroit. We’re not breaking up, we’re expanding.

But because I have been moving, settling into a new job and drinking a lot there has not been a ton of time to make new stuff, HOWEVER before I left we shot quite a few funny shorts that we will be sharing over the next month or two while I start shooting a bunch of new stuff that all takes place in Times Square.

The first of those shorts? Today’s offering “What’s that Noise?” It’s only a minute long so I won’t bother describing it, but I will say if you’re a fan of our redheaded actress Kim “Kat” Cooper, she’s in it. And for Kat Cooper SUPERFANS listen to her radio talk show “Lansing Next” at http://talklansing.net/

“What’s that Noise?” is also our 100th YouTube upload! HOORAY!!! However it is not technically our 100th sketch as other YouTube uploads include vlogs and “Quickies” that aren’t full fledged sketches like “KITE” or “There’s a Monster in my Sublet” or the 92 other sketches we have done.

Thanks everyone for sticking with us during our little hiatus, we’ll be better about getting new sketches to you more regularly especially now that our editor is done getting engaged (CONGRATS STEVE AND ELIZABETH) and can now get back to what really matters.

So stay tuned, look for lots of fun shorts followed by all new sketches with new faces shot in new places.

And if any of our fans live in the Big Apple please say ‘Hi’ to me on the Subway. I’ll be the guy with headphones in and sunglasses on.

Stay awesome,
MaTT and ThesePeople

How are you?

Anyone else as excited as I am that it’s Baseball season?

Go Tigers!

I’m here today because I wanted to drop a quick blog on you all to let you know ThesePeople are adding a new bit of spice to our normal awesome sketches.

INTRODUCING….ThesePeople QUICKIES!

Because we don’t like the gaps that come in between releasing sketches any more than you do we’ve taken to shooting super short sketches whenever a couple of us can get together. This maximizes our time, and your laughter, and everyone wins.

We have a few of these stored up we’ll be dropping on you in the coming months and wanted to start you off with a little number called “Up Your Butt”. The REAL beauty of these quickies is that I don’t have to write plot synopsis. They’re so short, by the time you’re done reading this you could have watched “Up Your Butt” like 6 times. So please do. Watch it again and again and let us know what you think of the NEW Format. And don’t worry we still have plenty of full size sketch fun coming at you.

Luv u lots,
MaTT and ThesePeople

And again GO TIGERS!

Welcome to Mid-March. The great dull stretch of time before baseball, good weather or anything cool.

Well, we thought we’d do something to help pass the time. Release a sketch. This is a little number called “Hoodward Bound: The Incredible Journey (based on the novel ‘PUSH’ by Sapphire.”) and we’re quite proud of it. In fact, ThesePeople’s Tim says “This could be my new favorite sketch of all time.” And he’s not even in it.

‘Hoodward Bound: The Incredible Journey’ tells the heartwarming and at times terrifying tale of a poor hoodie that gets forgotten in the back seat of a car and must make his way home to his owner.

Some people may notice a strong similarity between the name and plotline of this sketch and the name and plotline of the 1993 family film “Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey”. Let me assure you, that is purely a coincidence. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.

Check out our latest here, or on our YouTube page. And hey, feel free to subscribe on YouTube if you’re not already, tell your friends!

In addition to this new sketch we’ve been hard at work on some other new material, including a new breed of ThesePeople “Quickies”. We’ve stock piled of a few super short comedy masterpieces in hopes of preventing longer wait periods between sketches. This way you guys get MORE comedy, in more consistent doses. And that will leave us ALL smiling.

Thanks a lot for watching and PLEASE keep those pin requests coming! We’ll be doing a mass mailing soon! And don’t forget to pick up a ThesePeople DVD or T-shirt. They make the perfect Easter gift.

Stay awesome,
MaTT and ThesePeople.

As the year winds down so does another thrilling and, at times, hilarious ThesePeople season of comedy.

We leave you with a just (barely) in time for New Year’s Sketch “Midnight Kiss” starring our good friend and founding member Kim “Kat” Cooper.

This year brought a lot of firsts for ThesePeople including our first DVD (on sale on the site now) and our first ever STAGE performance. Not only that, we cranked out 19 more sketches for you to enjoy.

We are looking forward to trying some new things and finally getting around to a pile of scripts we’ve got stored up in 2K10 (spoiler alert some scripts are CAT related) so we hope you’ll stay tuned for more of our general Internet wackiness.

As people sometimes do at the end of a year (or season) we like to look back at the year that has passed and call out our favorite ThesePeople moments. Rather than make a hokey list, we’ll just call out every member’s favorite sketch (luckily there weren’t a lot of repeats)

Matt: Hairy Guyz
Jeff: Help Keep Cat off the Streets
Joel: Guitar Hero for Girls
Nick: Mindblowers
Tim: Matthew and Timothy: Amazing Magicians
Steve: Mindblowers (I guess 2 votes makes “Mindblowers” #1)

So there you have it kids! Go out there for New Year’s, get drunk, be safe, kiss some one, and then blog about it.

See you in the next Decade my loves,

MaTT and ThesePeople

Matt here to share with you the latest ThesePeople creation shot earlier this year in LOVELY Los Angeles in 109 degree weather. This is a sketch we’ve been excited about for a while, but had to wait to get SHOCKTOBERSKETCH IV to be done and buried before its release.

This sketch features our good friend and fellow creator of comedy Dwayne Bartholomew who devotees may remember from “Professor Pals.” This time we took the cameras to his turf and made a little piece of funny we call “Hot Dogs, Anytime.” Once again inspired by a true story… sort of (thanks Ciara). And for “Hot Dogs” we have to throw a huge thanks out to our once again guest editor/special effects guru Joel Slabaugh.

We’re working around the clock to get you one more sketch for 2009, and we’re prepping for 2010 with a mighty fury. So we hope you stay tuned as always.

On the Atom.com/Comedy Central front we’re doing very well in the polls, but voting goes until Friday, so every vote counts. If you haven’t heard or done so already we’d really appreciate you taking a moment to help us out on Twenty-Something Normal Turtle here: http://www.atom.com/showdown. And if you’ve already voted, well thanks! A little bit of that turtle costume belongs to you now.

Also on the ThesePeople Button front we just sent out 70 pins to fans and friends so please keep those requests coming! If you got some of your very own, remember to show them off on our Facebook page.

AND don’t forget!! Nothing makes a better Xmas Gift for the ThesePeople fan in your life than a ThesePeople DVD NOW just $5! Or even better? A ThesePeople T-shirt! Available in most sizes.

Thanks for watching and we’ll talk at ya real soon,
Happy Holidays!
MaTT and ThesePeople

You should probably vote now!

Close enough, right?

Hope you guys had a great Halloween, we didn’t seem to get any pictures of people dressing up as ThesePeople characters! What gives? No one went as “Homemade Porn girl”? All you need are shorts and a bra. I’m sure some one did, and maybe didn’t even realize it.

Actually speaking of Homemade Porn girl… guess who is in our latest sketch. If you guessed Nick! Well… you’re right, but what I was setting up here is that the star of Homemade Porn herself, Lauren is BACK for her third ThesePeople appearance.

Today she stars in “Romance is Undead.” A sketch intended to come out a few weeks back to be Halloween topical, but instead is being released now to keep the Halloween spirit alive a bit longer. This sketch needed a lot of people to help out so I have to give a tremendous shout out once again to Aaron Moring for lending his skills to the audio side of things and a super big thanks to my own brother Paul Cassatta for strutting his editing stuff for the first time on a ThesePeople sketch while Steve was away on business. Great work all around!

“Romance is Undead” tells the story of the strange bedfellows zombie invasions tend to make.

This puts a close to our elongated and very successful SHOCKTOBERSKETCH IV, we hope you enjoyed it! And encourage you to go check out “Mindblowers,” and “Burn Barn” if you’ve not seen them yet or if you want to laugh again.

Lots more fun coming up as the year winds down. So please stay tuned!

And keep those ThesePeople Button Requests coming! We’re going to do a mass mailing soon.

You guys are my favorites and I’m not just saying that,
MaTT and ThesePeople

Halloween is drawing ever closer, and so is another terrifyingly funny sketch from ThesePeople. Enter Shocktobersketch IV sketch number two, “The Burn Barn!” The burn barn is a rickety old barn haunted by the spirit of The Burnmaster! A plucky group of teens try to take him on only to find themselves… BURNED.

Check it out here!

This sketch should be a hit amongst the ThesePeople faithful as it stars original members (rarely seen these days) Aaron and Joel. As well as top notch performances from our friends Nick H. (not Asian Nick), Andrea and Rachel. And HUGE props have to be thrown out to my boys Paul “Lester Stickens” Painter (who is also our voice over on several ThesePeople hits) and Eric for a sweet cut and some amazing special effects, brought together with some wonderful sound design from Aaron (not actor Aaron, sound design Aaron.)

And good news kids! Shocktober is going to become Shock-vember as we have one more sketch that ran into some production snags and therefore will be released a little later than planned, but it’ll be worth that wait because it’ll have zombies. You’re gonna love it.

What’s everyone doing for Halloween? We’ll be partying down in Ann Arbor at the Bang! The most fun dance party around. Come see us and get our autographs (just $20).

Anyone dressing up as a ThesePeople character for All Hallo’s Eve? Send us a picture and get a FREE ThesePeople DVD. That’s right! FREE! Send them to pics [at] thesepeoplecomedy [dot] com.

Oh, speaking of pics at ThesePeopleComedy.com, Homemade Porn is about to break broke 20,000,000 views. God bless perverted YouTubers, and also the Balloon Boy, just because.

See you in a couple weeks!

Happy Halloween!
MaTT and ThesePeople

Happy Halloween!!!

We are halfway through October and our Halloween excitement is at fever pitch! Today I’m taking a quick time out from choosing between being Billy Mays or David Carradine for Halloween to share with you all the FIRST of our Shocktobersketches, a scary little number we call “Mindblowers.”

An evil terror is on the loose blowing minds and only one rookie renegade cop can bring him to justice… or can he?

You can check it out on BooTube, or right here on our homepage.

This is our first entry in our FOURTH year of Shocktobersketches, we have two more to come before October is out, and we’re very excited for all of them.

Today’s sketch “Mindblowers” is full of surprises, including one very big one in particular. Long time ThesePeople fans will notice the triumphant return of our good friend and original ThesePeople member, Aaron. “Mindblowers” also features our good friends Ciara, Rachel and a mindblowing cameo from our perennial corpse actress Birgit.

Speaking of Shocktobersketches, we’ve been getting a lot of emails and texts lately about Richard Kelly ripping off last year’s runaway hit, “The Killing Button” in his new movie “The Box.” And yes, he absolutely did, tell your friends. (Some lines from the trailer are a DIRECT lift.) But in fairness we ripped off the sketch from a 1980s Twilight Zone episode that ripped it off from an old ghost story. Although I have no idea how they’re going to stretch what we did in 5 minutes into an hour and a half, I’m probably going to see it anyway out of curiosity.

See you guys next week for Shocktobersketch Part 2 featuring the star of “Homemade Porn” and “Killing Button,” Lauren AND some Zombies! You won’t want to miss that!

Happy Hauntings,
MaTT and ThesePeople

Featuring an amazing song recorded by our good friend Matt Raetzel, and featuring the vocal stylings of “ThesePeople.” TSNT tells the story of the 5th lesser known and under-appreciated mutated turtle from the mid-80s whose life without Master Splinter’s guidance turned out less than splendid.

This sketch is a big deal for us (mostly because it justified us buying a full body turtle costume) because it’s been a bit since our last sketch and this sketch was truly a team effort that we’re VERY proud of.

More good news is that this is sketch 1 of 4 all-new sketches we are in post production on and we’ve only got ONE more Shocktobersketch to shoot for this year’s amazing 3 sketch series featuring our favorite type of comedy… HORROR comedy. So if you’ve been hungry for some new material, we are going to bombard you with stuff over the next month and a half.

And don’t forget to keep those pins request coming, we’re going to spend a whole ThesePeople meeting answering fan mail soon.

Our next release will kick off Shocktobersketch IV, as we all get ready for the Halloween season, but for now, please to enjoy “Twenty-Something Normal Turtle” right here on our site or on our beloved YouTube page.

Tell your friends.

Stay awesome, and good luck picking out a Halloween costume! If anyone out there is a ThesePeople character for Halloween send us a picture and we’ll send YOU a ThesePeople prize pack. “Slutty versions” of ThesePeople characters get the deluxe prize pack.

Enjoy!

See you in a couple weeks,
MaTT and ThesePeople

We’ll pass them shortly…

How is everyone? Can I get you anything? No? Perhaps a ThesePeople pin that I still haven’t sent? I’m on it. Believe me.

But I’ve got better news than even getting TWO pins in the mail, it’s A NEW SKETCH!

TA-DAA!

And “Ta-daa” is right as this sketch highlights to world of magicians for hire, it’s “Matthew and Timothy: Amazing Magicians.”

This sketch was a true collaborative effort featuring all sorts of ThesePeople regulars and most of my nieces and nephews. We even got our editor Steve on camera in this one, as well as his girlfriend Elizabeth (the winner of the live show raffle prize a “Walk on Role n a ThesePeople sketch”)! Don’t blink or you’ll miss them both.

Be amazed here:

Things have been insane with ThesePeople lately, we’ve been writing and shooting as fast as our schedules allow us to (which sadly isn’t as much as we’d like), and we’re buckling down for SHOCKTOBERSKETCH 4! Our latest Shocktobersketch to date! So I hope you like horror-comedy because it’s gonna be flying at your face soon!

One last thing, if you’re at work or school wishing you had music to listen to Tuesday afternoons from 2-4 you can listen to ThesePeople’s own JEFF @ http://whfr.fm/ It’s really good music. I promise.

In the meantime we hope you enjoy “Matthew and Timothy: Amazing Magicians.”

Stay tuned for our next sketch in the coming weeks, it’s gonna be totally tubular!

Stay cool,
MaTT

Miss us? We missed you!

Hope you’ve been enjoying watching and re-watching “Hairy Guyz” for the last few weeks, and by the looks of the views I think some of you have been. If for nothing else at least than the ads YouTube put next to it promoting “Gay Cowboy Central.com.” There really are sites out there to help anyone to meet anyone.

This week’s offering is something a little different, a little “out there,” a little “against the grain,” and a lot “ThesePeople.”

It’s called “The Self-Deprecating Bachelorette” and it’s based on a true story… well the first 30-45 seconds really happened, and we made the rest up.

It’s about a young lady on the verge of a wedding who deems herself SO unlovable she must set all males everywhere at ease by letting them know they’ll never have to date her.

You can check the sketch out right here:

For anyone out there who has requested pins, we are ON TOP OF IT, and by “on top of it” I mean, “really running behind” BUT we will get them to you. It is always our concern that as many people out there as possible be explaining to people what the totally awesome pin on their backpack means. Thanks for your patience!

In other ThesePeople news, we have recently finished shooting TWO new shorts that we think will make your next few weeks a lot funnier. Also, the most perfectly named and marketed sketch EVER “Homemade Porn” continues it’s reign of awesomeness, it has broken the 14 MILLION view mark and is now the 73rd MOST WATCHED Comedy video on YouTube of ALL TIME! Not too shabby for some kids from the D.

Well until next time my summer loves, enjoy the “Self-Deprecating Bachelorette” and keep your eyes peeled for the sequel, the “Self-Defecating Bachelorette.”

Your pal 4-Ever,
MaTT

Matt here to bring you some summer fun and a hot new sketch that will turn you on as much as it makes you laugh… if you’re a very specific type of female.

You see, sometimes people have accused ThesePeople of objectifying women, most recently, Bill O’Reilly. (True story.) So we wanted to flip the script, turn the tables, spin the bottle and turn everything you thought you knew upside down by giving the fellas a chance to strut their stuff.

Introducing “Hairy Guyz,” a chat line for girls who like to run their fingers through their man’s chest hair while they spoon. (In this scenario the girl would have to be the big spoon.)

Check it out herez:

In other ThesePeople news, we have recently passed 10,000 subscribers on the YouTube and 12,000,000 views for “Homemade Porn,” and speaking of “Homemade Porn” it is the 92nd89th most viewed Comedy video on YouTube of ALL TIME! So, we’d like to take a moment to thank all of our fans for helping us be an actual YouTube presence in the endless void of Internet video.

We’d like to thank you by sending you a pin OR selling you a DVD or T-shirt! Details for all are available on the site!

We’ll see you in July! Have a great 4th. Don’t blow your fingers off, you need those.

MaTT and ThesePeople

I know, right? It’s been a while. We do a live show and then fall off the face of the Earth. Well, believe you me, we have some really great excuses.

First off, after the live show we were hungover for like three weeks, and we had to take like a dozen paternity tests (you know how THAT goes). THEN right when we were going to focus on videos again I (Matt) got sent to LA for two weeks, our editor Steve got sent to Dubai (no joke, he’s there right now), and our sound editor Andrew’s car caught fire! So even though we shot “Tim’s Idea” a while ago, it took us a while to get it on the interweb, which is fine, because I really wanted “Keep Cats Off the Streets” to linger for a while.

So that brings us to where we are now… “Tim’s Idea” one of our more bizarre sketches to date, but I love it. It’s a true ensemble sketch, and if you love self-reflexive insanity and explosions, you will love “Tim’s Idea.”

AND while you’re here, why not pick up a ThesePeople DVD!? Just $10 and THAT includes shipping! There is order info on the site. They were made with A LOT of love and care and are LOADED with special features. Definitely worth the $10! Plus you get stickers and pins and stuff when you order, so why the hell not, right?

We’ve got T-shirts for sale too! All new Dark blue with the Orange face! You’ll love them!

We’ll see you in a couple of weeks with a little something for the ladies!

Thursday this week our first ever DVD went on sale right here on the site. If you were at our live show you already got one (or three) for yourself, but now everyone else (in the United States, for now) has a chance. Here are the details and order information! Support your indie sketch comedians, and together we can rule the galaxy as father and son. At the very least you’d be helping us pay for that human-sized turtle costume.

In other post-live show news, Matt held up our end of the bargain and delivered the proceeds of our 50/50 raffle to the Michigan Humane Society. The woman at the office was extremely happy with the donation and seemed very interested in our work. Hopefully she never watches the end of Help Keep Cats Off The Streets.

If you can’t afford a DVD, we’ll still send you some pins if you just ask. España, Portugal, Sweden and Indonesia have been added to our great map.

Finally, this week ThesePeople received one of the Internet’s highest honors… being remixed by a random YouTube user. It’s weird and wonderful, see for yourself…

Weekends don’t get much bigger than this past one.

The first ever LIVE ThesePeople event. I really don’t think it could have gone any better. We packed the Belmont, we projected some classic sketches, we remembered all of our lines… it was great. PLUS we had amazing support from Elle and the Fonts, Lightning Love, and Millions of Brazilians. Then just as predicted DJ Grand Dad Crunk played “Pogo” by Digitalism (my most played song on my iTunes) I shouted the words like a drunken idiot and it was fantastic. Oh yeah, and there was confetti EVERYWHERE.

For those of you who made it out, thank you SO MUCH, it’d of been nothing without you and we hope to do it again real soon. For those of you who couldn’t be there, get some folks together, secure a venue and we’ll come to your town. We have a box of DVDs to sell and there are still lots of states I haven’t Karaoked in.

In the next couple weeks we’ll be posting pictures and some of the live material from the show so it can feel like you were there, and TODAY we’re sharing with you the NEW SKETCH we debuted on that special night.

“Keep Cats Off the Streets.” This sketch was made because we donated the results of the raffle we had at the live show to the Michigan Humane Society, however we feel the sketch stands up pretty good in any context, and is my favorite thing we’ve made in a while. I hope you love it.

Check it out here:

Speaking of DVDs… we have them for sale now! Right here on the site! $10 a piece for a DVD loaded with our favorite sketches, commentary, outtakes, interviews, all sorts of cool crap!!! And every DVD order comes with a FREE ThesePeople sticker which is also totally awesome.

And we’ve got Tshirts for sale too! Soon we’ll have pictures of all these things up on the site so you know what you’re buying. The DVD artwork is super sexy though, you’re going to love it.

Enjoy the new sketch and thanks for making us want to make videos.

Happy Mother’s Day,
MaTT and ThesePeople

If you couldn’t make it out we’ll have pictures and video posted soon to give you a taste of how it all went down, and our “Best of… Volume 1″ DVD will be on sale here on the site tomorrow.

Hey Every-Body!

Hope you’ve all been enjoying our latest sketch, “Joel’s Addiction,” but we’re here today with a BIGGER message…

We’ve been talking about it, but now the time has come to invite you to it.

The first ever, live ThesePeople event! The ThesePeople DVD Release party.

On May 2nd ThesePeople will be releasing their Best Of… Vol. 1 DVD upon the world (loaded with extras), and we wanted to do it in style.

At 9pm, May 2nd, we are taking over The Belmont bar in Hamtramck, MI, and we’re bringing our favorite Detroit Bands and DJ with us.

ThesePeople will be doing live comedy throughout the night while you’re treated to live performances from:

• Elle and the Fonts
• Lightning Love
• and our good friends Millions of Brazilians

When the bands stop the music doesn’t.

DJ Grand Dad Crunk will be spinning indie rock awesomeness ’til they kick us out of the bar, so bring your dancing shoes.

PLUS we’ll be having a 50/50 raffle throughout the night with your chance to win some fabulous ThesePeople prizes. (All proceeds from the raffle will be going to the Humane Society.)

This is a HUGE deal for us and we’re planning a lot of fun surprises so I hope you all can make it. For our out of state fans, start driving now! This could be your only chance to meet/assassinate us!

Cover is $5 for 21+, $7 for 18 and up

DVDs will be on sale at the show for $5! Get them there before we jack the price up to $10 on the site starting May 4th.

May 2nd. 2009
The Belmont Bar in Hamtramck, MI
Doors @ 9pm.

See you on the Dance Floor.
MaTT and ThesePeople

What is up Puppet People?

Happy April Fool’s Day! This year the joke is on/for you, five hilarious minutes of something a little bit different from ThesePeople. Presenting our first outing with the latest ThesePeople investment, four wonderful Muppet-like puppets.

Watch as they star in “There’s a Monster in my Sublet,” a story that could easily be the premise for a DreamWorks animated film, but instead is a ThesePeople sketch.

Hit by these hard economic times Scotty’s parents sublet the space under his bed… to a real MONSTER! Hijinx ensue. And keep this one from the kids, there’s some naughty language.

You can watch all the puppet magic here or of course on our YouTube page where it’d be super cool if you subscribed to us! We’re almost to 10,000 subscribers. I think YouTube sends you a hat if you break that barrier.

And don’t forget! We’re giving out free pins like crazy! Just send us your address and we’ll send you some pins, no matter where you live! We’ve got cool pins for our cool fans and we’ll do what it takes to get them to you. We even bought a ThesePeople return address stamp. THAT’S HOW SERIOUS WE ARE!

BUT now it’s time for the biggest most official-est news of all, and NO this is not an April Fool’s Joke!

SATURDAY MAY 2nd! At the BELMONT in HAMTRAMCK, MI is your chance to see ThesePeople LIVE! (Just like Sesame Street LIVE, but better.)

YES to celebrate the release of our first ever THESEPEOPLE DVD we will be doing some live sketches and showing some of our favorites to a real live audience for the first time ever!

Also, you will be treated to live sets from some of Detroit’s best rock bands like Millions of Brazilians AND when the bands stop we’ll be closing the Belmont down with a dance party featuring DJ Grand Dad Crunk, and he’s promised to play “Pogo” by Digitalism so I am stoked.

So to recap: May 2nd. Belmont. Hamtramck, MI. Meet ThesePeople. See ThesePeople. Be among the FIRST to get the ThesePeople DVD, and most importantly have your FACE ROCKED OFF!

More details as we get them.

Enjoy the Puppets! And Enjoy life!

See you in a couple weeks,
MaTT and ThesePeople

Hope those of you over 21 are recovering from bathing in green beer last night and are ready to get your laugh on. For you kids out there, I hope you wore plenty of green and no one pinched you.

Today ThesePeople are happy to share with you our latest sketch. A little gem we call “Fun Gus.” “Fun Gus” takes place at a party of suspiciously good looking people all abuzz over the arrival of a VERY special guest, everyone’s best friend, Fun Gus.

This sketch has one of our biggest casts to date, and features a lot of familiar ThesePeople faces as well as some new ones. A huge thanks to all of our friends who came to help out. They are too many to list, but we very much appreciate your help. As well as the help of our fabulous post production team, Editor Steve, Sound Engineer Andrew, and Matt R. on the background music.

Please join the party and watch the sketch on our beloved Website OR our equally beloved YouTube page. For every thousand views YouTube gives us a shiny 50-cent piece!

As you guys know we always strive to keep you up to date with ALL of our goings on, so I’d like to mention once again how good our “Operation Give Pins to EVERYONE” is going. As you can see from the map on our homepage, we are in well over half the states, but certain states are driving me nuts because they create big glaring holes in an otherwise coated countryside.

So this week we call out YOU Iowa and Louisiana. Iowa, for shame, you are our Midwestern brethren, you’re telling me no one in that whole state is watching “Full Throttle Douche Bottle” over and over? And Louisiana!? You’re like party town USA and the most haunted state in America (right?) you’re telling me no one like “Dead Girls Gone Wild” and “Ghostel” enough to get some free pins? Come on you guys, step up and be counted. Make your country proud.

And now on to the HUGEST news… EVER… this very weekend those ThesePeople members NOT in Chicago are heading to Chicago to do commentaries for the ALL NEW THESEPEOPLE DVD! Cover art for the DVD is currently in production, and bonus features are being put together. It’s going to be large and in charge.

When can you get this DVD you ask?

Why May 2nd at The Belmont in Hamtramck, MI. The first ever LIVE ThesePeople event featuring support from some of our favorite Detroit musicians including Millions of Brazilians. It will be a night of live comedy, rock and roll, old sketches, new sketches AND a dance party. Plus, your chance to be in a ThesePeople sketch. What more could you ask for!?

DVDs will be available on the site the day AFTER the show for you non-Metro-Detroiters.

Stay tuned to ThesePeopleComedy.com for more details. Questions or comments? Contact us on our website.

Next sketch drops April 1st… why, that’s April Fool’s Day! What a coincidence.

Your pals,
MaTT and ThesePeople

Hope everyone enjoyed being outraged by our last release “Guitar Hero for Girls” which quickly became one of our most discussed sketches on YouTube of all time. To avoid getting any panties in any bunches we are back this week, with a much “safer” offering. BEHOLD!

GHOSTEL is in many ways a companion piece to “Buddy Escorts” and in many other ways, it is not. Pretty much the only thing it has in common with Buddy Escorts is that it was shot in November of 2008 while I was working in Los Angeles and was edited by our friend, guest editor, and cameo appearance maker Joel Slabaugh.

This sketch stars, and was co-written by, our good friend Sean Cameron who you no doubt all remember from last year’s “The Englishman.” Sean visited the States from London and we took a day between nights of tearing up dance floors, drinking heavily, and confusing each other with slang terms we were unfamiliar with to shoot “Ghostel,” the touching story of a British ghost trapped on Earth until he can finish his special business.

We hope it makes you laugh so hard you spit out your tea.

In all other things ThesePeople our merch is getting cooler and cooler. Soon we’ll have sweet ass vinyl stickers available to the masses, and Operation: Give Pins to EVERYONE is going along swimmingly. On the world scale the UK and Australia have requested pins, along with another Lithuanian fan. As for the US we are holding steady at 24 25 states. Almost halfway there, everyone!

This week we’d like to challenge our fans in North and South Dakota as no one in either Dakota has requested any pins yet. So the first person in the first Dakota we hear from will get EXTRA pins and maybe an extra treat, like a lock of Joel’s hair, or maybe something less creepy. Come on Dakotas! Let’s get to it!

ALSO we have an update on the first ever ThesePeople Live Show/DVD Release party. That’s right DVD Release, and yes… party: Saturday May 2nd, 2009. Update your calendars and stay tuned for details.

Large it up!
MaTT and ThesePeople

Hope you had a weekend full of the truest love and the safest sex. Sorry we’re a little late with your present, but we like to drop the new hotness at the front of the week, and this way if you didn’t get everything you wanted for the most Hallmark of holidays, you get a little something to bring a smile to your face now.

Presenting, ThesePeople’s “Guitar Hero… for Girls.” Though this is our third release of the year, it’s the first thing we actually shot in ’09 and to pull this off we called up some of our best lady friends Kat, Molly, Andrea, and Katy for a ThesePeople sketch almost completely devoid of ThesePeople. Also, I need to give some shout outs to Steve’s hip, edgy, “MTV-esque” editing and our friend Aaron’s sweet and sultry audio mix.

If you love foxy ladies and music simulation video games, this sketch is for you.

Check it (but don’t wreck it)

In other ThesePeople news, keep those button requests pouring in! Some one has to keep the US Postal Service in business, why not us? As we discover where our fans are from we hope to send pins to every state (and country), so if you live in Idaho and are reading this, why not stand up and be counted? You could represent our entire Idaho fan base.

We’ve got a lot more fun to come in the next few weeks, and some serious surprises. Let me be the first to plant a couple of very big seeds. 1.) The long overdue ThesePeople DVD is finally going to happen. B.) ThesePeople…live and on stage? Stay glued to the Interweb for details.

Did you know that it was 3 years ago when we had our first ever ThesePeople meeting? Ahhh I remember it like it was yesterday. Like 12 people showed up, and I remember thinking to myself, this is WAY too many people. If I’m going to put myself in every sketch, I need to get rid of at least 8 of them.

Since then the ThesePeople line up has gone through several changes, friends moving on, new friends stepping up, lots of foxy ladies always willing to help, but we never stopped being almost funny.

So, why am I being so nostalgic today? Well, because our latest sketch isn’t so much of a “sketch” as it is a WONDERFUL walk down memory lane.

Presenting the “Every Sketch” Sketch! We figured since last year was such a big one, and since it’s our anniversary, we would put together a giant sketch comprised of favorite moments from all of our sketches as a nice retrospective for old fans and to possibly a way to get newer fans to go back and watch the old stuff. (Cough “Make Us a Sandwich” Cough)

We hope you enjoy this look back at three years and 80 sketches of Hi-larious Internet sketch comedy.

Check out EVERY. SKETCH. EVER.

Oh and please keep those pin requests coming. We have been getting requests from everywhere from literally the next city over from me, to Lithuania. It’s kind of nuts, PLUS every request for a FREE pin comes with a FREE Temporary Tattoo, so what do you have to lose? NOTHING. Literally NOTHING.

We’ll be back in a couple weeks with a new sketch that will rock your face off!

Keep it tight,
MaTT and ThesePeople

Today is a very historic day for the world as the United States has sworn in Barack Obama as our new president, ushering in an era of hope and dignity for the U.S. In slightly less huge news, ThesePeople have launched our 4th season with the premiere of our inaugural sketch of 2009.

We proudly present to you, Buddy Escorts.

Shot in November 2008 while I was traveling for work to Los Angeles, this sketch brought me back together with Ryan Mason and Joel Slabaugh, reuniting the same creative team behind last year’s My, Robot. In this all-new adventure, a lonely business traveler finds a best friend in the back of the classifieds.

Check it out at ThesePeople World Headquarters where you can comment on the video and request FREE ThesePeople pins! That’s right! Free! And we’ll send bonus fun stuff, too!

Also watch it a second time at YouTube and leave comments and stuff there, too. You know we looooove feedback.

All of us here at ThesePeople are excited to report that THIS year we have dodged the beginning-of-the-year lull. As you have seen, we have already dropped “Buddy Escorts” on ya and we have THREE more super sexy, side-splittingly hilarious sketches already in the can that we’ll be releasing in the coming weeks. Keep an eye out for the return of our friend from London, Sean Cameron, and in the future, a band of sexy ladies.

GObama!

MaTT and ThesePeople

There’s no disagreeing with the science behind ranking our very own material. We first assigned each sketch released this year an arbitrary point value (1-999), then put all the names in a hat, and then drew for their spot. If you’ve got a problem with that, then tell us what’s missing in the comments!

10) Weredouche
Nick says “I love comedy and hate d-bags. It’s the perfect sketch.”

9) Super Lucky Sweepstakes
Joel says “I feel like this was a nice bit of writing from the three of us (pre-Tim and Jeff). A lot of little jokes crammed in with help from Steve’s Photoshop, and Nick delivered his best Daniel Plainview impression.”

#8 Please Do Not Use
Joel says “I’m not sure how this one is so high up. My ranking algorithm must be off. Also, turns out there are a ton of people searching for videos about urinals on YouTube.”

7) Homemade Porn
Matt says “5 and a half MILLION views. Sure it’s easy to say that the thumbnail and the title get it views, BUT it has also maintained a 4-star rating AND has a ton of positive comments, because it’s funny and it’s actually about what it says it’s about… there’s just no porn. Oh, and I can see the towel she’s wearing at 1:33.”

6) Potato Buddy
Tim says “I do love ‘lame, old people humor.’ My favorite, hash brown! I mean, hands down.”

5) The Englishman
Matt says “I could barely stand when we shot this, but this little two shot masterpiece filmed on location in LONDON with our good friend Sean really turned into a sleeper hit for us. Plus I love the comments calling either his or our accents fake.”

4) Zack Braff vs. Seth Rogen
Matt says “Like many sketches, this one was based on something that really happened to Jeff and I one night, and since the release of the sketch Jeff and I now regularly inform each other of when we have either been ‘Braffed’ or ‘Rogened.’”
Nick says “So much crazy, hilarious stuff happened behind the scenes on this sketch. It just added to the magic of this video.”
Joel says “Oh do tell Nick…”

3) Killing Button
Matt says “When YouTube chose to put this on their front page I was delighted, as this could be my favorite LOOKING sketch of ours of all time, and the now famous “sandwich” ending (which was literally thought up the morning of the shoot) made the sketch. Another great performance from Lauren, a wonderful job by Joel, and I’m wearing my duck T-shirt. The only problem was when we put it online we didn’t realize Joel actually says “dollars” at the beginning. Oops.”

2) JOLCats
Tim says “This video can haz my #2 spot.”
Joel sez “When this leaked at work it definitely changed the way my co-workers looked at me.”

1) Stick-It-In Burger
Matt says “‘I thought of that!’ Choking kids, adorable animated burgers, and a blockbuster performance from Paul “Lester Stickens” Painter made this a YouTube hit when they put it in their comedy spotlight.”
Joel says “I still remember how much we were cracking ourselves up when we thought of the idea at Shield’s. Sometimes it’s hard for the finished sketch to live up to those initial laughs but this one did, and Nick’s wave at the end still kills me everytime.”

ThesePeople have checked their list (that’s a Santa Claus reference) and it doesn’t matter if you’ve been naughty or nice, (though naughty is ok sometimes, ladies) we have a new CHRISTMAS sketch for you all!

We worked extra hard on this to get it to all of you in time for the Holidays and more importantly in time for you to feature it on your video webpage or blog should you own or operate one.

Presenting: CARL THE CHRISTMAS CLOWN! This sketch was a huge undertaking. Elaborate costumes, green screens, freezing cold shoots in back alleys, adorable nieces and nephews, and some more original rockin music from our good buddy Matt Raetzel, but thanks to the sticktoitiveness of ThesePeople and our amazing editor Steve Immer we pulled it off.

Carl the Christmas Clown tells the heartwarming tale of well, Carl the Christmas Clown and what happens to him when the residents of Christmas Town tire of his clowny antics.

This is our second foray into Christmas territory following up last year’s hit “Christmas is a Time.” CtCC also serves as our SEASON THREE Season Finale. That’s right, Dec 2008 wraps up the 3rd year of the ThesePeople experience. We’ll be back in mid January of ‘09 for the start of Season 4 packed with more of the side-splitting hilarity you’ve come to expect from ThesePeople.

For now, laugh along with Carl here:

2008 has been a banner year for ThesePeople. We made 20 new sketches, were on TV in Canada, featured on CollegeHumor.com, YouTube put us in the comedy spotlight several times, “Homemade Porn” got over 5,000,000 views and most importantly we finally got that much sought after Front Page YouTube feature with “Killing Button.” Not too mention we got some great new cast members in Tim, Jeff, Lauren, Matt, Katy, Mason, Paul and Shannon. PLUS there were those unforgettable video crossovers with SixFingerFist, Average Betty and our great friend from across the pond Sean Cameron.

Whew, what a year! So where do we go from here? Let’s find out together in 2009.

Happy Holidays! If you want to get us something we’ll cherish forever, have your friends subscribe to our YouTube channel OR follow our antics on Twitter.

Have a great rest of 08, and we’ll see you in 09.

Your pals always,
Matt and ThesePeopleComedy.com

It has been an INCREDIBLE couple of weeks for ThesePeople and we are currently smoking a cigarette and basking in the afterglow of a hot and sexy YouTube front-page feature for our Shocktobersketch Smash hit “Killing Button.” (just kidding we don’t smoke cigarettes, smoking stinks! Yuck!) But seriously, being on the front page of YouTube was the epitome of our hard work as sketch comedians, so Thank You, YouTube. You made our year. Another great side effect of the front page exposure is that a lot of our other videos got some SERIOUS views, our latest “Potato Buddy” quadrupled in views, and we are about to pass the 5,000,000 view mark on “Homemade Porn.” So now that we have a bunch of new fans we thought it’d be the perfect time to hook them for life with our latest release, “Outdressed.”

“Outdressed” stars Tim, the ThesePeople member who looks most like an actor in the movie “Twilight” and Nick the ThesePeople member most likely to SEE the movie “Twilight.” It tells the heartwarming tale of two guys trying to get the right look nailed down to attend a wake. Just in time for the Holidays!

Lots more Holiday fun is coming up soon from ThesePeople as the 2008 season comes to a close, but worry not, we have lots of awesome in store for 2009!

Stay tuned, and get us something awesome for Christmas!

I know it’s been a little while since you’ve heard from us, but we’ve been very busy cleaning off all the fake blood and picking up all the severed body parts left over from ANOTHER highly successful SHOCKTOBERSKETCH. Also, I was in LA for two weeks.

As is the tradition with ThesePeople the sketch following Shocktobersketch should always be super weird. To that end we’ve decided to release the weirdest thing we’ve done since “Talent Show” (with possibly the exception of “JOLCats”). PRESENTING “Potato Buddy!” A strange tuber tale starring the newest people in ThesePeople Jeff and Tim along with a plucky little Potato and a hit music track from our good friend Matt Raetzel. Plus, we had some serious help from our friends Marian and an exotic dancer who prefers to remain nameless. I think. Actually, I’m not sure if she DID want to remain nameless, but I think it’s better to err on the side of caution on this one.

Check out all the SPUD-tacular action here:

While I was on the aforementioned trip to L.A. ThesePeople stayed VERY busy. FIRST OFF, our good friend Sean “The Englishman” Cameron and I did a crossover with Internet cooking sensation AVERAGE BETTY! You can catch that delicious crossover here.

Sean and I also found the time to shoot a sketch of our own with the help of another friend of ours Joel Slabaugh, who later in the week helped shoot yet ANOTHER sketch with Ryan “My, Robot” Mason. It was like the West Coast Avengers of ThesePeople!

So to recap…there are TWO new sketches in the can. ONE new Internet crossover NOW ONLINE. ONE brand new ThesePeople sketch about a potato. Not bad for Thanksgiving week.

Enjoy your time off and spend it right there in front of the Internet with the people you really love, THESEPEOPLE.

You can watch it below, and check out Average Betty’s site for more great recipes!

It’s lunch time on the east coast. Bring back some chicken fingers for me, will ya?