Episode Zeta

I would like to remind the world that this web series is inspired by the wonderful help and psychic abilities of James Austin Johnson.  The man I will forever now refer to as “JAG” because I loved that woman on that television show so much.

Also, the comedy world seemingly mourns the loss of one of our brothers and sisters each week and I feel like Ron Shock was very influential to me for various reasons that I hope to detail in a proper tribute blog to him later this week.  I will fucking miss you, Ron.

Can you believe our little comedy shorts festival is going to the big screen?  Well, we are!  I am pleased to announce we are joining forces with the FilmDayton Festival this year, August 24th at the Neon Theater in downtown Dayton.  We are going to be on the big screen and it will be the best incarnation yet.  I am really thrilled that we have teamed up with them and this is getting bigger than I ever really imagined and that is great stuff.  We will screen on Friday night and I’ll have more details as we get closer.

Do you want to have one of your shorts showcased?  Here’s the submission details:

Funny.  Any video that is funny.  Under 5 minutes.  Under 5 minutes and funny.  All submissions must be received by August 6th, 2012.  FREE.  I must have the physical copy or digital copy of your short by 8/6 and NO LATER in the following formats:  .mov or .mp4.  The process of screening and compiling these shorts is time consuming, so I need at least 2 1/2 weeks to be in front of it all.  RECAP:  Under 5 minutes, FUNNY, in my hands by 8/6/12.  The higher quality the better, but remember that if something is funny, that trumps all else.  ALL else.

Those are the only rules.  The time limit is so we can showcase as many videos by as many filmmakers as we can in the 90 minute time frame.  90 minutes is the best length of time for a comedy and much consideration goes into building this 90 minute collective of shorts to build and provide a unique and hilarious viewing experience.

I will accept yousendit.com, dropbox, and other file transfer services at the email:  ryanjsinger@hotmail.com

Or you can mail submissions on Data DVD to:

Ryan Singer
1133 Justin Ave.
Apt. 115
Glendale, CA 91201

Flick My Clip started as an attempt to unite the creative forces and minds of stand up comedians and filmmakers in the Southern Ohio area.  It seemed like a natural fit and has proven to be just that so far.  The number of creative forces and minds in this area is immense and this comedy shorts festival is a great way for these forces to unite and collide.  The local talent is the focus and the outside contributors are a unique way to get introduced to the creative minds working hard outside the local frame of comedic reference.

Just for more clarification about the types of videos we will consider:  anything that you have filmed and edited that you think is funny can be submitted.  Including the pilots of web series, individual episodes of web series that are stand alone funny, music videos, spoofs, sketches, anything.  I am not going to be actively looking for copyright violations, so please try your best to submit only original works.  But, we are not that corporate or mainstream and I can appreciate the guerilla style filmmaker.  Just make people laugh.

Facebook event page if you like to follow along there ==> http://www.facebook.com/events/359307320800768/

I am genuinely excited and looking forward to watching each and every submission for this year’s festival.  So, on behalf of myself and the fine folks at FilmDayton, thanks in advance for sharing your creativity, hard work, and willingness to be a participant.  -  Ryan Singer

Special thanks to Peter Tullio for some camera work and to James Austin Johnson down in beautiful Nashville, Tennessee for helping this series come into existence in the first place.  Well done, James.  Well done, sir.

Episode Beta

Sometimes I miss the old world…it seemed to have every thing that I had wanted.

This is going to happen whether I like it or not.  I will be at Go Bananas Comedy Club Easter weekend (April 5-7) recording my new album, “Comedy Wonder Town.”  I would love it if you came out to all of the shows.  That’s right, not just one of the shows, or two, or three, but all of them.  If you come out Thursday night ESPECIALLY and then at least 2 more of the shows, you’ll get an insane gift bag from me to you.

If you want to announce your intention to go, you can do so by making reservations at link above for the club and on the facebook event page if you’re into that.

I will give you a copy of my first album, a DVD of the pilot I shot in Los Angeles called “Comedy Wonder Town,” your name will be in the liner notes of the new album, and you’ll get free tickets to any show I ever do again.  That’s right – your very own RSVP card “Ryan Singer Very Person” card.  I will honor this card forever.  No bullshit.

I will also give you other things that we can come up with together.  Does it sound like I’m begging?  Good.  Because I am.  In a perfect world, everyone comes out Thursday night and we make magic happen and get the album recorded that night.

This is going to be a comedy show that should be wonderful.  At least, it is my hope that it will be full of wonder.  Since I am recording a new album I will not be doing some of the bits you may know already.  But, fear not, as I hope that some of the bits you have not heard will be equally enjoyable to you and your ear holes.  I think my journey as a stand up comedian is still in the early stages and am glad that if you are reading this you are helping me along my path.  I am encouraged by the direction of my comedy and there are too many people to thank here at this time for that happening.

Amber Preston from Minneapolis will be featuring all the shows that weekend.  She is splendid, funny, awesome, and you’re going to love her.  I am certain of that fact.  Are there some great comics in Cincinnati that could have featured for me?  You bet your sweet ass there are, but you might not have had the chance to discover Amber if we kept it all in-house so to speak.  That is why that is happening and also because I like watching her tell jokes and I am being selfish.

I am Wichita, Kansas, right now as I write this and had a great weekend.  The last time I worked here I did not have the same experience.  I was a bit skeptical that these audiences were going to go along for some of the journeys we would take, but they did for the most part.  I am off to Tulsa, Oklahoma, in two days to do one more weekend of shows tuning up for the recording weekend.  If these jokes can work out here where Rick Santorum wins, they should be just fine in a club that I am deeply in love with and always have been.

I’d be lying if I said I was not nervous.  I feel like this guy. But, trust that I will overcome because its Amore!

April 4th I will be performing at the University of Kentucky with Sam Evans and I am certain that it will be glorious.  If you live close by and want to hear what my new album might sound like it will be the last time I am able to run it before I can record it.

In other news, if I have seemed a bit detached from it all lately it is because I have immersed myself into Comedy Wonder Town once again, but the album not the pilot this time.  One must work to find their peace.  My peace has been anywhere but of my mind lately and Comedy Wonder Town just might save the day yet again.  Come join me and let us go on this journey towards trying to make quality art together.  I need you.  Yea, you.  I am talking directly to you.  I really fucking need you.  Thanks.

The short season has come to an end and with it comes the finality that all great series bring. In the third installment of Season Two the darkest corners of our minds are explored and the redemption of a new and brighter day has its whisperings heard on the streets of our hearts. What will unfold in this anti-Hollywood tome?

Episode Three – “Portend”

Season Two continues with “Manifest” and many answers are revealed.  Many people are not ready for the things that are to be known and the things that have been already known.  Please enjoy the unraveling of the mind.

Episode Two – “Manifest”

Created by Ryan Singer

Wow.  I know you can’t believe it.  Studebaker Pie has returned just when you thought there was no chance it could ever happen again.  I know I feel like the wife of Tom Hanks’ character in Castaway when he showed up at her house.  You probably have already married another web series.  I guess you just never know what the tide is going to bring in.

Season Two brings us the return and is sure to answer all of those unanswered questions still lingering from Season One.  Only time will tell what other-worldly things will be revealed and what truths uncovered in the new season.  Please sit back, possibly do whatever it is you feel necessary to truly appreciate all that is Studebaker Pie, and enjoy.

Episode 1 – “The Return”

Created by Ryan Singer

Here is a video I recently participated in for a good cause.  I hope you like it and can pass it around.  This was filmed, edited, and produced by my buddy and roommate Jeff Hutchinson.  One of my other roommates stars in it with me, Peter Tullio.  I am certain there will be more videos like this but totally different coming out in the future when all of us are home for an afternoon with nothing else to do.

Stop the Hate

Me & My Dolls is an exploration of manhood and the ever-changing world in which we all live.  Follow with us as we see if Carmine can overcome adversity–both inside himself and from external forces on his journey towards self-actualization.

Episode Four explores the age old question of whether or not human life can ever be truly measured by its counterparts.

Cast & Crew:

Starring – Mike Cronin, Butch Wesley & Ryan Singer

Shot by – Greg Nichols

Score by – Parris Graves

Created & Edited by- Ryan Singer

Tuesday 8/23 at Go Bananas Comedy Club!  Festival begins at 8 pm sharp and doors open at 7 pm.  This is going to be awesome, fun, and babies might be made.

THE LINEUP: (this list is subject to change)

Rent’s Due – Mike Canestaro
Various Entries – Women
Me & My Dolls (episodes) – Ryan Singer
I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant – Sketch By Number
Ned (episodes) – Mike Shelton
Lobster Boy – Left of Center
Jasper vs. the Woofman – Jasper t. Colbaire
The Adventures of Larry Bird and Michael Jordan In Space – Dean Maiorana & Brian McCabe
We Got That B-Roll – Cream
Connected – Cream
Ballet Drop Out – Left of Center
Axe Body Wash – WATBIT
High On You – The Chronic State
Gay Zombies – Vincent Holliday
Heist – Andy Gaspar
Old Diapers & Hot Soup – Wayne Memmot & Dean Maiorana
Magic 8 Ball – The Asbestos Crew
Henry’s Kitchen – Henry Phillips
The Way To Go – Nick Andrews
The Aggressive Bee – MC Mr. Napkins
Episode #1 of Web Series – Alex Stone & Mike Cronin (tentative)
Parent Teacher Night – The Suburban Housewife
Mo Money Mo Problems – Sumukh Torgalkar & Justin Golak

I’ll be peforming at Woodlands Tavern in Columbus, Ohio on Monday, then off to the Downtown Crackers Wed – Sat of next week.  I’m doing an awesome show put on my buddy Ryan Remmington at the Sinking Ship in Indianapolis, Indiana on Sunday 8/28.  Let’s us all get together and feel all right!

I miss you all very much.  Very, very, very much.  I love you all.  Very, very, very much.

Ryan