The Alex Duffy Show
Back in 2003, I teamed up with my friend Alex to create a live webcast called The Alex Duffy Show. The show's format was simple - Alex interviewed guests and I was the off-camera Paul Shaffer-esque sidekick. Alex's guests were up and coming standup comedians from the Los Angeles area, and the show was served up live(!) on the internet with an archive posted afterward.
We had a pretty good formula down by the time we got to our 100th show... which was our last. Our audience was growing at the end - only 5-8 people would tune into the live show (Wednesdays at 8!), but some of the archives would get 200+ viewers in the week after the live airing. And we were just starting to get good guests, too - comics who were on Comedy Central, a woman who did a few episodes of Seinfeld, a member of the MadTV cast, you get the idea.
Anyway, I'm really proud of the work Alex and I put into the show, so I'm starting to put the old archives up on YouTube - starting with show #100. I'll work backwards from there and skip the shows that sucked - we had a bunch of those.
We had a pretty good formula down by the time we got to our 100th show... which was our last. Our audience was growing at the end - only 5-8 people would tune into the live show (Wednesdays at 8!), but some of the archives would get 200+ viewers in the week after the live airing. And we were just starting to get good guests, too - comics who were on Comedy Central, a woman who did a few episodes of Seinfeld, a member of the MadTV cast, you get the idea.
Anyway, I'm really proud of the work Alex and I put into the show, so I'm starting to put the old archives up on YouTube - starting with show #100. I'll work backwards from there and skip the shows that sucked - we had a bunch of those.
posted by steve at 7:51 PM
1 Comments:
I heard a rumor that the coolest greyhound EVER was on your show. Is it true? Can we see her on YouTube soon? I mean, comedians are cool and all but a GREYHOUND, now that's a show.
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