The Whitest Kids U' Know
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| Format | Independent sketch comedy |
| Created by | Sam Brown Zach Cregger Trevor Moore Darren Trumeter Timmy Williams |
| Starring | Sam Brown Zach Cregger Trevor Moore Darren Trumeter Timmy Williams |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 10 |
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| Running time | 20-24 min (Fuse)/30 min (IFC) |
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| Original channel | Fuse TV- Season 1, IFC- Season 2-? |
| Original airing | March 20, 2007 |
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The Whitest Kids U'Know is an American sketch comedy troupe based in New York City. The group consists of Trevor Moore, Sam Brown, Zach Cregger, Timmy Williams, and Darren Trumeter, though other actors occasionally appear in their sketches. Some of their sketches can be downloaded from their official website [1]. They were accepted into the HBO U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in 2006 and won for "Best Sketch Group" by the Jury. They continue to do weekly shows at Pianos on Sunday nights at 8pm for free.
The Fuse network began airing a TV show of the same name starring the Whitest Kids U'Know on March 20, 2007. Jim Biederman (producer of The Kids In The Hall) is the executive producer. It aired Tuesdays at 11:30pm on Fuse. Much of the content had been heavily edited, some skits even re-shot entirely, for television. Audible bleeps took the place of vulgar obscenities.
On July 12, 2007, Trevor Moore posted a message on the Whitest Kids U'Know's official website stating that the second season of the Whitest Kids TV show will move to the Independent Film Channel. According to Moore, they are excited about the channel switch because this allows for no commercial breaks, vulgarities and obscene content uncensored (with no bleeps or blurs), and "If you get the FUSE network - odds are you get IFC. So everyone who already watches the show, still can!"[2]. Season 2 will premiere on IFC on Sunday, February 10th, 2008 at 11 PM ET/PT.
Popular sketches include "Pizza Bagels," "Abe Lincoln," and "ipod shuffle." Recently, their sketch "Hitler Rap" has received a great deal of distribution online. Their video for "Hey There, Kids" (aka "Get A New Daddy") got airplay on comedy music stations and video airplay on Fuse. The popular sketches were remade due to product placements, quality and content.
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[edit] History
The Whitest Kids began in 2000 when Trevor Moore, a young comedian from Virginia, transferred to New York's School of Visual Arts film program. Having previously produced a locally popular TV sketch-comedy show, The Trevor Moore Show, back in Virginia, Trevor decided to start a comedy troupe with the eventual goal of replicating his earlier success on a national level.
After making the rounds at local New York City comedy clubs, he eventually met fellow SVA film student Sam Brown[3] from Massachusetts and SVA Graphic Design student/actor Zach Cregger, also from Virginia. By chance, all three attended the school, and they also all lived in the same dormitory.
Much of The Whitest Kids' early history was spent as an officially sanctioned club at School of Visual Arts, which meant they had to accept, more or less, any SVA student that wanted to join. Timmy Williams also joined in late 2001 and was the only member at the time who didn't attend SVA. Unofficially, however, the core trio of Moore, Brown and Cregger tried to keep the group as lean as possible. At its peak, the group had ten members, however almost all sketches were written by one of these three.
For over two years, The Whitest Kids held near-monthly free shows at SVA's amphitheater, which would frequently fill to capacity. Finally, in 2003, as Moore approached graduation, the group separated officially from the school, and all but Moore, Brown, Cregger and Williams were removed from the troupe. Darren Trumeter, an actor and filmmaker who had worked previously with Cregger, was then added that same year.
Starting in 2003, the reinvented troupe started touring the various comedy venues in New York City, concluding in early 2005 with a well-attended show at Caroline's, the famous club in Times Square. The group still regularly performs at Pianos in the Lower East Side and Rififi's in the East Village.
[edit] Film and television
The troupe currently works on their eponymous television program. It is produced by Jim Biederman, who produced The Kids In The Hall. Unlike most mainstream sketch comedy shows, this one is independently-produced and it is shown in a cinematic format most of the time. The show does not use a studio audience or a laugh track, because the troupe objected the use of it. But at rare times, the troupe would add it as a key point for some sketches.
The series premiered on March 20, 2007. In late May of 2007, Timmy Williams confirmed on FUSE's The Sauce, that the Whitest Kids U Know have been renewed for a second season. Although the second season won't be airing on Fuse, instead it will air on the Independent Film Channel where there will be no commercials during the show and they will not have to bleep out profanity.
Shooting for season two of the show started August 13th 2007 and will debut on IFC February 10, 2008.
Season One DVD will be released on February 5, 2008. It was stated several times in the show that the season will be the first to be released uncensored on DVD. However, IFC has started to air uncensored episodes of Season One, just 2 months before the DVD release.
[edit] Live performances
The troupe's live performances nearly always include the display of several video sketches. The video sketches often stand out as being very cinematic in style, no doubt due to the members' extensive film background. Most of these sketches have been made available on their website, as well as on CollegeHumor, Google Video and YouTube.
The group's shows at Pianos often involve at least two "warm up" acts, performed by friends of the troupe, which are usually stand-up and occasionally musical in nature.
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Whitestkids.com
- Whitest Kids U Know page on Collegehumor.com
- Whitest Kids U Know Myspace Page
- Whitest Kids U Know page on IFC.com: All of the WKUK Season 1 sketches and episodes are being shown online on the Independent Film Channel website, plus previews of Season 2.
- The Whitest Kids U Know at the Internet Movie Database
