MICHAEL CERA STARS IN
“GREGORY GO BOOM”
Video Available Now on YouTube
JASH founder Daniel Kellison () is producing the first-ever YouTube Comedy Week, which kicked off on Sunday. GREGORY GO BOOM stars and was executive produced by Michael Cera and is directed by Janicza Bravo and also stars Brett Gelman.
In this dark comedic short, Michael Cera takes on what may be his most daring role ever. Cera stars as a paraplegic looking for love in the beautifully impoverished Salton Sea. After a series of dates gone tragically wrong, Michael takes matters into his own hands in a shocking way.
JASH – a new comedy collective on YouTube – launched at the 2013 SXSW Festival. JASH is a HACHACHA production led by comedy producer Daniel Kellison, along with fellow producers Doug DeLuca and Mickey Meyer. JASH features original content created by partners Sarah Silverman, Michael Cera, Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, and Reggie Watts.
JASH gives comedians and artists a platform to create and control their own digital content. JASH is already attracting top-tier talent by providing them with the financing, production resources, editing facilities and personnel to create quality online videos. All collaborating partners will be given complete autonomy to make short films, sketches, series, one-offs, talk-shows, animation and music videos. The goal of JASH is to gather the most distinct and brightest talent to form a comedy artists’ collective
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ABOUT COMEDY WEEK:
The first ever YouTube Comedy Week, a special event from May 19 through May 25, will showcase the best of comedy with live events, video premieres and creative collaborations from the world’s funniest people. YouTube Comedy Week will bring together the biggest names in comedy on YouTube and beyond, including Vince Vaughn, Rainn Wilson, Ryan Higa, Smosh, Sarah Silverman and Michael Cera of JASH, The Lonely Island, Seth Rogen, Tim and Eric, Nerdist, Ed Helms, Ken Jeong, Norm Macdonald, Craig Robinson, The Gregory Brothers, The Onion, CollegeHumor, Epic Meal Time, Rhett & Link, Epic Rap Battles of History, Funny or Die and more, to create a one of a kind experience for comedy fans. A live, all-star comedy variety show kicks off YouTube Comedy Week with a global livestream on Sunday, May 19 at 5pm PT/8pm ET. Featured comedians will do a mix of standup, sketches and musical performances and there will be a special preshow at 4pm PT/7pm ET. This event will be followed by a week of dedicated programming that includes live performances, new episodes from popular YouTube comedy channels, curated top ten lists from comedy stars and more. Follow along with the hashtag #ComedyWeek on Twitter and Google+ and on YouTube at http://yt.be/comedyweek.
