Online comedy site Jungleboys.tv launches with 'The Elegant Gentleman's Guide to Knife Fighting'
A new online comedy site, Jungleboys.tv launches today with an exclusive new sketch show The Elegant Gentleman's Guide to Knife Fighting. Trent O'Donnell, Phil Lloyd and Executive Producer, Jason Burrows (pictured), who also just announced a new comedy series This Christmas for ABC TV, wanted a platform to experiment with new material that doesn't fit with their current slate of TV work and that is free from network approval.
"The great thing about online is that we have a direct connection with
our viewers and we can upload clips very fast and freely", says
O'Donnell who has also directed The Chaser's War on Everything, Laid and
the upcoming Woodley for ABC TV."The Elegant Gentleman's Guide to Knife Fighting is a different kind of sketch comedy to what has been appearing on TV in recent years. We've gone for naturalistic and subtle comedic performances, and not zany," O'Donnell continues.
"We didn't feel that there was a comedy site suitable for this material, so it's great to be producing and curating this site, which allows us to experiment with new material, but also to showcase other material we like," adds Lloyd, who recently played Julia Gillard's husband in ABC TV's 'At Home with Julia'.
They are also holding a Sketch Comedy competition whereby people can contribute ideas and the winning entry will be produced and screened on the site. With the Sketch Competition, viewers can submit their ideas online and the winning entry will be produced by and screened on Jungleboys.tv
"We feel that there is a lot of undiscovered and really funny talent out there who aren't in the industry and we're keen to provide an accessible outlet", says Burrows.
Let's get a knife fight going.