04/04/2007: "Watch This Show - HUMAN GIANT"

music: The Latest Toughs - Okkervil River

MTV's new sketch comedy show The Human Giant premieres tomorrow, Thursday at 10:30 pm. If that's past your bedtime, you're in luck as iTunes is giving the first epsiode away for free. Yes, free. 20 minutes of pure comedy gold with cameos by my personal favorites Ghostface Killah and Linda Cardellini (rrrrrr). The Human Giant is Aziz Ansari, Paul Scheer, Rob Huebel and Jason Woliner (director).

The Human Giant was in LA a few months ago performing weekly shows at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater and I happened to catch 2 of them. They mostly showed rough cuts, had a few standup comedians and did some "inbetween song banter" but it was still very enjoyable. These guys are fucking funny, better than The State back in the day (tho I blame MTV for messing that up) and better than 70% of what you see on SNL. Let's hope MTV doesn't fuck it up for them.

Here are some links for your enjoyment:

Aziz Ansari- http://azizisbored.com/

The Human Giant Myspace - http://www.myspace.com/humangiant

If one episode is not enough for you, you can find a ton of clips on Youtube that they've done back in the day. I highly suggest you check out their more music-oriented shorts - Clell Tickle (1st clip) and a Standup Routine where he disses Kanye West (2nd clip). There used to be short on Youtube called Indie Store Music Clerks, but it looks like it got taken down. Barring Patton Oswalt, Aziz Ansari may be the best young stand-up comic out there right now, but he also works well in the sketch comedy arena. It's great to see Aziz addressing the things I'm familiar with, things like Pitchfork, blogging, and Ted Leo. Just don't call him the Indian hipster comic, please.