Peet Guercio - Flirting on Myspace

Peet Guercio is a 24 year old comic who is most famous for being a prominent comedian on the website “Funny or Die”.  In this bit, he discusses courting rituals on myspace, the reality of who browses the internet, the ridiculousness of profile pictures, and an encounter he had with a homosexual man over the internet.  The purpose of this piece was to make fun of the different characters that one sees while browsing myspace.  Although it does have a subtle warning to stay away from these people, he brings in a comedic aspect to them so that we laugh at them instead.  The audience for this is anyone who has used the social networking site myspace.com.

 

Guercio, Peet.  “Flirting on Myspace”.  September 29, 2007.  Online video clip.  YouTube.  Accessed on March 31, 2009.  < http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6tRFAxbh04>

Jackie Kashian

This video is of Jackie Kashian during her performance on Comedy Time. Comedy Time is one of the first made-for-mobile networks which has become the global market leader in original comedy content created for wireless handsets. This video was filmed at the Found Theater in Long Beach, California. Kashian has made appearances on NBC, VH1, and A&E. She recently had a tour in Australia for 10 weeks for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and ABC Australia said, "the gem of the night was Jackie Kashian. Her droll, perceptive description of her family was hilarious." The Minneapolis Star Tribune wrote, "Jackie Kashian’s comedy is that rare, wonderful combination: smart and funny." She has two CDs, "Cake Is Not My Downfall" and “In A Sweatshop of One”. Her influences include Dana Gould, Maria Bamford, Marc Maron, Greg Proops, Zig Zigler, Johnny Carson, Dick Cavett, Lenny Bruce, and Sam Kinison. Kashian’s comedy covers topics such as dating, marriage, family life, and video games. In this video, Kashian talks about online dating and her relationship with her husband. The point of this piece is to inform the audience of the benefits of online dating. She doesn’t mention it in this video, but other times that she’s performed this bit, she mentions that the guy who she met using an online dating service is the man she married. The audience that this bit is meant for is the whole population of people who can identify with using an online dating service and also those who may have never used one, but are curious to try. The audience would most likely be merely entertained at first by her stereotyping of video game designers and other “geeky” jobs, but it is also likely that after thinking about it, they will discover the true message of the joke which is that online dating helps you meet people.