To get you guys excited about the new show, we’ve encoded a video that brief you on waht happened at the last P! Company Show. Check it out below.

Laterz gatorz (I’m [too cool {for school}]).

Andrew Lee, Andy Petruzzo, Nick Ramirez, and Kyle Sweeney travel from Austin, TX to Tucson, Arizona to perform a long form improv show as the Fantastic FourCo (a part of Coldtowne TourCo). It was a fun trip and we thought we’d post a video of the show for your viewing pleasure.

We have a little treat for the fans of the P! Company. As most may know, the P! Company has a unique way of “writing” the sketches you see up on this website. More specifically how we don’t write them, and we sort of organically discover the sketch when shooting.

But time after time, we leave so much funny material on the cutting room floor. For example, the original cut of The Adventures of Mario Master & Solid Snake was closer to 12 minutes and it included a completely different ending. We also cut two entire shot scenes from the sketch. I figured since most of these scenes that we cut are already edited together and polished to a degree that there would be no harm in showing them. The website has essentially become like a DVD with special features. So below are two missing scenes from The Adventures of Mario Master & Solid Snake…

Deleted Scene #1 takes place just after the initial “Toys R Us” scene. The scene itself was fuel to a missing sub-plot about a strange and convenient Nintendo tournament that the guys would enter in order to win a SNES.

Deleted Scene #2 takes place just after Deleted Scene #1. In the scene, Mario Master and Solid Snake find a pay phone to register for the mysterious tournament.

Anyway, enjoy these clips and we’ll be working hard on some new material for the website and also the live show next month.

A unique creature…

After much deliberation with the higher ups, Andy and I have managed to convince the studio that we deserve another season of “P! Company: Sketch Comedy for Nerds”. I made it a point that since we don’t actually drain the corporate budget with inflated salaries and our “show” only airs on the internet [world wide web], we are essentially “free advertising” for our parent organization [Pyramid of Pain Inc.]

BUT, nothing in life is free. In order to continue providing the occasional humor to the masses, we would need to pay for another year of hosting on the server. This is where we hit our first snag. Andy pulled out the big-guns for this one. He had provided a “Demo tape” that highlighted the best and brightest moments of what we affectionately called season one. We laughed- we cried; however the suits seemed unamused, as if they had just watched a series of boring forwarded YouTube videos.

Finally, the compromise. We would be allowed to continue if and only if 1) Andy and I assumed all the costs of production and 2) if we spread into some alternate “new media”-esque venues. We reluctantly agreed because we knew that they still maintained the rights to the name. So the good news is the P! Company is back for Season 2 and there is the promise of an Austin-based Live Show is on the horizon [maybe as soon as August]. More details on that as it develops.

SO, for your viewing pleasure, here is the demo video that won over the hearts of a nation. [Click on the above cassette tape to view]