JibJab Teams With Verizon For Comedy Sketch Competition

Verizon Wireless and JibJab have teamed up with John Landis (director of the legendary Blues Brothers, as well as Animal House and Trading Places) in the Great Sketch Experiment, which is basically a competition of "six laugh-out-loud short films featuring the best up-and-coming sketch comedians in the country". Each film was directed by Landis and the winner will receive a $10,000 development deal with JibJab and have their performance featured on Verizon Wireless' V CAST service. The six videos are available as of today for free at JibJab.com or on Verizon Wireless' V CAST service in the V CAST Showcase channel. Aside from original content, Verizon is probably banking on getting some reflected cool from JibJab, which became famous with a viral hit video lampooning the elections.
The finalists are:
–Karla – Marion Austin Oberle and Megan Kellie (Los Angeles)
–Elephant Larry – Alexander Zalben, Stefan Lawrence, Chris Principe, Jeff Solomon and Geoff Haggerty (New York)
–Riegel & Blatt – Sam Riegel and Rob Blatt (New York)
–Mark & Ari – Mark Sarian and Ari Voukydis (New York)
–Famous Last Nerds – Erik Weiner and Jordan Allen Dutton (San Francisco)
–Train of Thought – John Boyle, Ryan Miller and Kaci Aitchison (Seattle)

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