Bikini News

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Bikini News is a series of satirical news videos featuring two comediennes performing in bikinis in a comedic style similar to The Daily Show and Saturday Night Live. It also has sketch comedy elements to it, including plotlines where the main characters marry and have romantic love affairs with ninjas. It is available in podcast and vodcast form, as well as in mov and wmv file formats. As of March, 2007 over 50 episodes have been created.

The show is unique in that each actress, Jen Jackson and Mary Clark have their own, mostly daily, video blogs that chronicle behind the scenes on the show, as well as rants, questions to the audience and comedic sketches.

Views on LiveVideo for the show fluctuate between 20,000 views per episode to 400,000 views per episode. Statistics on other sites not available.


[edit] Notable Episodes

  • "Episode 52: The Ask a Ninja Interview" - Interview with comedian Kent Nichols about the start and development of his popular Ask A Ninja podcast.
  • "Episode 36: SuperBowl Extravatacular!" - "Live" report from the Super Bowl from former Pro Bowl football player Kevin Gogan.
  • "Episode 35: Written By The LiveVideo Community!" - An episode written by fans.
  • "Episode 50: The Wedding!" - The main characters are about to marry each other.

[edit] Trivia

  • Several skits include the main characters pretending to be celebrities, such as Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and Donald Trump.
  • According to the front page of Bittorrent.com on March 21, 2007, the show is the most downloaded on the site.
  • Frequently on the front page of Blip.tv and Bittorrent.com
  • Many episodes include lampoons of internet celebrities, such as Renetto and lonelygirl15.
  • All original episodes and blogs are housed at Livevideo.com. Channel viewed 2.5 million times since November. [1]. Channel plus character video blogs viewed almost 3.5 million times.
  • Several fan videos and parodies have been made, including a contest of who could do their best impression of the hosts [2]
  • The site JenJacksonExposed.com was bought by fans and currently houses a video containing a puppet professing his love to Jen Jackson.
  • Wild 'N Out actress Cameron Goodman appeared in the first 4 episodes as a co-anchor.

[edit] External links

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