Posts with tag paul scheer
Posted Mar 10th 2008 11:02AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, TV on DVD, Interviews

Considering that MTV seems to cater to nothing but teenagers, how did two thirtysomethings and a very mature 25 year-old end up making one of the network's most popular shows?
By being funny. Damn funny, in fact.
Rob Huebel, Aziz Ansari, and Paul Scheer (l-r), otherwise known as
Human Giant, are entering
their second season on the cable network, starting tomorrow night at 11 PM ET. I spoke to the guys by telephone last week as they were doing a round of promotion for their second season, as well as
the DVD of the first season, which was released on March 4.
Tidbits from the interview, and audio clips, are after the jump.
Continue reading Human Giant: The TV Squad Interview - AUDIO
Posted Aug 8th 2007 1:02PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Celebrities, Pickups and Renewals
We knew it was coming back, we just didn't know when. Well, we still don't know officially, but Paul Scheer, one-third of the sketch comedy trio Human Giant along with Aziz Ansari and Rob Huebel, blogged yesterday that the series would likely return in January 2008. Paul's exact words were: "we are looking towards an air date of Jan 2008," which is not the same as "you will definitely see new episodes in January," but I'm not going to complain. It's coming back, that's all that matters.
Continue reading Human Giant returns in January (probably)
Posted May 22nd 2007 8:02AM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Music and Variety, Celebrities, Pickups and Renewals
It shouldn't come as too much of a surprise to anyone that Human Giant, the new sketch comedy series for MTV, has been granted a second season.
In order to drum up more interest in the show, MTV turned the network over to the Human Giant men: Aziz Ansari, Rob Huebel, Paul Scheer for 24 hours and told them they had to garner one million hits on their Web site if they wanted a second season. Of course, taking into consideration lines from the press release like, "fans can also show up in Times Square to deliver a pizza counting for 80 hits, or carving Paul Scheer's face into Mount Rushmore for the entire million hits" it's obvious the series was going to be renewed all along. Still, it's nice to hear an official announcement.
Continue reading Human Giant gets a second season
Posted Apr 15th 2007 12:02PM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Programming, OpEd, Web
Welcome to TV Squad Lists (formerly 'The Five'), a feature where each blogger has a chance to list his or her own rundown of things in television that stand out from the rest, both good and bad.It seems like we're experiencing a renaissance of decent sketch comedy programming or maybe we're just reaching an Upright Citizens Brigade alumni saturation point in popular media. (Seriously, move over Second City, and
SNL, your days are numbered.) It could be the internet's doing - between the amateurs on YouTube, Super Deluxe and VBS, there's no shortage of comedy gold out there in accessible, bite-sized nuggets. Rather than try to pin down how and why our airwaves are awash in sketch-length comedy goodness, I'd like to draw your attention to MTV's most recent offering -
Human Giant.
Continue reading Ten easy steps to sketch comedy greatness
Posted Oct 5th 2006 12:04PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, MTV, Pickups and Renewals

I think MTV is going after the YouTube generation with its latest programming decisions. Earlier this week, the network announced it had picked up eight episodes of a sketch comedy show called
Nick Cannon: Short Circuitz. Now, it has also picked up a sketch/short film comedy series by internet viral video creators,
Human Giant. The comedy group produces short films that MTV describes as "recklessly hilarious". Some of the group's most popular clips include
Shutterbugs and
The Illusionators. The comedy troupe also has a big following in New York where they do live shows at the Upright Citizens Brigade theatre. I checked out the videos and I recognize one of the cast members, Rob Huebel, as the Inconsiderate Cell Phone Guy shown before movies who says, "It's pronounced kah-rah-tay." The first eight episodes are scheduled to air in early 2007.