It seems like only October of 2006 that Chris, Jess and Mike sat down (while only a little bit tipsy) and recorded some barely coherent ramblings about Nerf Guns, Lou Gosset, Jr. and something about "Fanny-bandits." Had they known then that their inane banter would turn into a full out comedy troupe (Is that what we are?!) with almost a dozen members, hours upon hours of audio podcasts and an ever increasing number of video sketches, they probably would have stayed at the bar.

Now, almost a year and a half later, Chris, Mike, Pat and Jess have yet to figure out that they're wasting their time (as well as their supposed "audience's" time) by continuing to provide New York's Capital District with their own blend of humor, wit, and bad writing. Now if only people would start listening...

The podcast was named for the music department of "a small private college in Upstate New York," that, out of tradition, we have yet to reveal on the podcast. The following clip does a good job of explaining how we arrived on that title for the department. |Download|

As we were all born in the early 1980’s, it only makes sense that we have a strange obsession with shows like SNL and SCTV, both of which debuted and were at their most popular when we were either too young to watch them or had yet to be born. (Please email us if you’re familiar with SCTV because Jess is under the impression that everyone is. Never heard of it, you say? Yeah, we didn’t think so.) Shows like these make use of “the corkboard,” which simply goes to show the order of sketches. Does this seem trivial? Clearly, you’ve never written a sketch comedy production.

For months, (mostly as a result of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip) Jess and Mike joked about the need for a corkboard. “It would help so much!” declared Jess. “Get a life!” Mike retorted. “I think that the absence of a corkboard has, in the grand scheme of things, little impact on our ‘lack of funny.’” Despite his best efforts at verbally tearing down Jessica at every opportunity, she got a corkboard. Mike, reluctant at first, became its biggest proponent. Again, this may seem pretty dumb, but Mike and Jess have literally spent hours staring at the thing, trying to best determine the order of the podcast. (And just for the record…Mike was right. It doesn’t impact the “lack of funny.” It just helps keep us on task…but not really.)