Over the past few years, DT has followed the great journey Brian Yanish (C’95, Mask and Wig) has been taking with his his Scrap Kins childrens property. What started out as a few sketches from Brian’s childhood has turned into a NYC-based Creativity program for kids based on the adventures of a group of monsters […]
DT Favorite Aaron Karo’s (W’01, Pennfest 2006 performer, Penn in Pictures 2010 panelist) hates when bridesmaids conclude their speeches about how the bride and groom met with the tired phrase “and the rest is history”. Tonight, Aaron’s first one-hour Comedy Central special kicks off with this complaint and then runs the gamut from drunken friends […]
After his short film was nominated for an Oscar in 2006, Rob Pearlstein (C’95, DP) went on to create another funny film that caught our attention. Now, Rob has created what seems to be a sure viral video sensation called “She Gotta Bump”, a song as he says, “for all you beautiful pregnant ladies”. Watch […]
Back in the day I remember passing Sigma Chi and the guys would always be playing some sort of Volleyball game with beer cups in their hands. Well Sigma Chi alum Brent Wagner (C’04) decided to turn those days into a business for which he is now in the running to win $50,000 …and he […]
Did you catch Adam Tsekhman (W’02, Teatron) on last Thursday night’s hot new ABC show “FlashForward”? In the clip above he played “Vlad Petrov”, a drug dealing Russian thug. (and this isn’t the first time a Penn alum played a Russian thug on an ABC show!) This is getting funny. There definitely seems to be […]
After working in children’s television for nearly 10 years, most notably creating, producing and writing for: an award-winning series of animated shorts for “Sesame Street” Bill Cosby’s Emmy-winning Nick Jr. series “Little Bill,” and “Whoopi’s Littleburg,” (as lyricist) a series of specials also seen on Nick Jr., last month …Eric Weil (C’97. UTV-13 News, The […]