The other night we invited a few friends over to play trivial pursuit and eat pizza. It was a little different then our usual hang out agenda of playing dmb songs and quoting SNL, and things quickly got a little out of hand…
Well, it’s been about a year since Pauly Shore kicked us out of Hollywood and we decided we should maybe get some new jackets. Here’s what happened next:
Special thanks to our favorite actor (other than Tom Cruise) Julian Boyd who played the billionaire (and let us use his printer to print pictures of Pamela Anderson’s bazoombas). Also, our old friend Frankie Tedesco was nice enough to let us use an old commercial that he produced in his parents’ family room. We’re lucky he still had that poster lying around. I guess no one ever bought it.
Please let us know what you think in the comments below!
And finally, this sketch release coincides with the 25th Anniversary of the release of Top Gun, so… that’s cool, right?
After a bit of a hiatus, we put the letter jackets back on this last weekend to shoot some new sketches. Two new sketches in fact. Hopefully we’ll get them edited real quick-like. But we couldn’t have done it on our own. Just wanted to say thanks to a few of our hipster friends, Julian Boyd, and even Bob and Harry (pictured below) who showed up to play a few parts and help move lights around.
It was a long weekend, but we think the new episodes should be some of the best yet! Or at least one of them will be. The other one might just confuse a lot of people. We’ll let you decide which is which!
- Matt & Ross
Based on a true story, this sketch marks the last of our “LA” series. Special guest appearance by Pauly Shore.
Thank you to our friend Andy Mogren for filming the opening office scene.
A lot of you have been wondering where we’ve been.
Last May we moved to L.A. to develop a tv show based on our web series.
While we WERE successful at ding-dong ditching Kato Kaelin, purchasing Universal Studios, starting our own winery, and shooting the “longest world’s basketball shot” we just found out last week that we were NOT successful at selling our show.
(Even more depressing, we still haven’t found a single sponsor for our fishing show. What are we doing wrong here?).
At the moment we’re super excited to be headed back to Bloomington to create the videos that you’ve been missing. Expect the return of Goggles Guy, Terri Nuessle, “the kid,” and more (as well as an incredibly famous guest star in our next video).
We also plan on bringing you:
-Many more food reviews on our new series “The Skinny.”
-A possible Bloomington Bros. movie.
-A rock opera based on the music of Poison.
Even though this end result wasn’t what we set out to achieve, we still consider our last year in Hollywood a huge success. We were super lucky just to have this opportunity which has opened countless doors for future opportunities. For that we’d like to thank:
Robb Buzzini for discovering us online two years ago and paving the way for the wildest ride of our lives.
Molly Mandel for believing in us and also being the person to finally push this project through, saving us from development purgatory. If she hadn’t come along, we’d probably still be in a conference room right now starting from scratch again. This chick was a miracle.
Sam Hansen for sticking with us this whole time and always pushing us to make things better.
Wendy Willis for sticking up for us (and for Prince) when need be. One of us has a crush on you.
Rob Cohen for teaching us more about tv writing in one week than film school taught us in four years. Consider us massively-humbled, sir.
John Elliott for taking a chance on two no-names from Bloomington, MN with only one semi-viral video.
Seth Morris, Kate Micucci, Paul Rust, Chad Carter, James Adomian, Rick Overton and ESPECIALLY Jake Szymanski for their time and talents.
Mike Farah and FunnyOrDie.com
Sarah Schneider and CollegeHumor.com
Christie Smith and Michael Lasker.
Our parents and Meredith.
Natalie Kane.
Chris Bruss, Charlyne Yi, Dave Horwitz, Ryan Jones, Dayna McTavish, Thuy-Van Nguyen, and Sarah Peters.
Swardson, Kato, Pauly, Lupita, and Jimmy Fucking Miller.
And finally, you, for continuing to watch and share our videos. You’ve proven that there is an audience for our brand of humor and made the last year a possibility for us.
Sincerely,
Matt and Ross
We took off our letter jackets recently to produce a series of food review videos called “The Skinny.” Let’s face it, there are a lot of different foods to eat out there. We hope that this series helps you make wise eating decisions.
Here is our review of the food: Gravy.
For more, click on the following reviews:
EGGS GRAPES MUSTARD SPAGHETTI ICE CREAM SANDWICHES
Are there any foods that you’ve been thinking of trying but would like us to try first? Please leave a comment on this post or email matt@bloomingtonbros.com or ross@bloomingtonbros.com
What would the Bloomington Bros. do if they lived in Hollywood? Oh right — obviously this:
CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE OUTTAKES!
We’re getting a ton of hits thanks to break.com featuring our basketbal video — so if you’ve never seen us before:
WATCH THIS VIDEO TO LEARN OUR STORY:
(then click on “BEST VIDEOS” above (or here) for more!)
This is a must see for any sports fan! INCREDIBLE, DUDE! DUDE, PERFECT!
Shot at Pan Pacific Park in L.A., CA.
Ross’ feature length movie “Cold Feet” is finally available for purchase on Amazon.com
It stars Halsey Lindquist, Meisha Johnson, Jake Szymanski, and MATT HOUCHIN! Written and directed by Ross McNamara.