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PFFR
PFFR is a Brooklyn-based production company and art collective consisting of Vernon Chatman, John Lee, Alyson Levy and formerly Jim Tozzi until 2009. The group has been active since 1998. Work The group's portfolio of work includes two albums, one 7-inch EP and one download-only EP (plus a string of live performances as a band), various art exhibits such as ''An Attack On All Americans or the Tyranny Of Weed'' shown at the LFL Gallery in New York and the script for the film ''Final Flesh''. In 2010, they held an exhibition/video screening of a selection of their work entitled ''PFFR Presents Legacy IIX'' which took place at the Synchronicity Space in Los Angeles, CA between April 3 and May 1. PFFR are also active in television comedy. They wrote, directed, produced and starred in the MTV2 variety show ''Wonder Showzen'' (2005–2006) and the Adult Swim CGI series '' Xavier: Renegade Angel''. For both these shows, Chatman and Lee are the directors and main voice talent, whils ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wonder Showzen
''Wonder Showzen'' is an American adult sketch comedy television series that aired between 2005 and 2006 on MTV2. It was created by Vernon Chatman and John Lee of PFFR. Described as a children's television series for adults, the show's format is a parody of educational PBS children's television shows such as ''Sesame Street'' and ''The Electric Company'' (e.g. use of stock footage, puppetry, and clips of children being interviewed). In addition to general controversial comedy, it satirizes politics, religion, war, sex and culture with black comedy. Development ''Wonder Showzen'' was created by Vernon Chatman and John Lee, who originally made an early concept of it back in 1999, and pitched to the USA Network in 2000, but after a few minutes of viewing, executives there quickly concluded it did not fit the network's programming style. However, Viacom (2005–present), Viacom was re-branding MTV2 and made ''Wonder Showzen'' part of its new programming lineup. It aired as part of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renegade Angel
''Xavier: Renegade Angel'' is an American adult computer-animated television series created by Vernon Chatman and John Lee, who are also the creators of ''Wonder Showzen''. The show was produced by PFFR, with animation by Cinematico. It premiered on November 4, 2007, on Adult Swim and November 1, 2007, on the Adult Swim website. ''Xavier'' features a style characterized by an elaborate and nonlinear plot following the humorous musings of an itinerant humanoid pseudo-shaman and spiritual seeker named Xavier. The show is known for its use of ideologically critical black comedy, surrealist and absurdist humor presented through a psychedelic and satirically New Age lens. Characters * Xavier – A well meaning, yet naive and oblivious faun-like shaman wanderer who speaks in a surfer accent with delusions of grandeur. Xavier is the eponymous main character of the program, often shown to be a deeply insecure, self righteous and childlike individual who can quickly turn against others if ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Problem Solverz
''The Problem Solverz'' is an American animated television series that aired on Cartoon Network. Created by Ben Jones, it follows Alfe, Roba, and Horace; a group of detectives in their troubled town, Farboro. The aforementioned characters were designed while Jones attended college in the 1990s; he later founded the art collective Paper Rad with Jessica and Jacob Ciocci. The characters were featured in Jones' and the collective's animations and comics before the creator pitched a pilot to Adult Swim featuring the trio. The network's executives referred Jones to Cartoon Network, who commissioned a series featuring the same characters. The series was produced in Adobe Flash, with around fifteen animators employed at Cartoon Network Studios and the co-production of Mirari Films. ''The Problem Solverz'' was first aired on April 4, 2011. The first season consisted of eighteen episodes, concluding on September 29, 2011. A second and final season was released exclusively on Netfli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vernon Chatman
Vernon Chatman (born October 31, 1972) is an American television producer, writer, voice actor, stand-up comedian, musician and a member of PFFR, an art collective based in Brooklyn, New York City. He created the television series ''Wonder Showzen'', '' Xavier: Renegade Angel'', ''The Heart, She Holler'' and ''The Shivering Truth''. He also produces and voices characters for ''South Park''. Early life Chatman was born in Brooklyn, New York. He is of mixed race, half Euro-American and half African-American. Chatman attended San Francisco State University, from which he graduated in 1994. Career In 1996 Chatman began his career as a stand-up comedian and eventually a comedy writer, producer, musician, and television creator. Chatman previously wrote for television shows such as ''The Chris Rock Show'' (for which he won an Emmy), ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien'', '' That's My Bush!'' and ''The Downer Channel''. Before ''Wonder Showzen'', he and long-time friend and PFFR collabor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lee (producer)
John Michael Lee (born November 30, 1972) is an American television producer, writer, director, voice actor, and musician best known for his work on the MTV2 comedy series ''Wonder Showzen'' as a member of the rock band/art collective PFFR. Career Lee is long time friends with fellow PFFR member and television producer Vernon Chatman. They met as undergraduates at San Francisco State University. Along with Chatman, Lee is the co-creator, writer, director and star of ''Wonder Showzen''. He voices Wordsworth, one of the main puppet characters and provides various other voices on the show. The pair also co-created Snoop Dogg's 2002 MTV sketch show '' Doggy Fizzle Televizzle''. In addition, Lee is the co-creator of '' Xavier: Renegade Angel'', also with Alyson Levy, Chatman and Jim Tozzi. He also worked as a creative consultant on the Adult Swim series ''Superjail!'' in 2009. In 2011, Lee, Levy and Chatman created the Adult Swim mini-series ''The Heart, She Holler'' starring Patton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Tozzi (PFFR)
James Michael Tozzi (born October 19, 1967) is an American artist, commercial director, producer, voice actor and musician best known for his work on the MTV2 comedy series ''Wonder Showzen'' and the Adult Swim show '' Xavier: Renegade Angel'' and as a member of the rock band/art collective PFFR. Bio Jim Tozzi grew up in Everett, a city to the north of Boston. The most distinctive thing about this town was the smell of freshly roasted peanuts due to the Teddie Peanut Butter factory. The factory's emblem, a grinning cartoon bear with a bucket, would be one of the first influences of advertising on Jim. He went to Everett public school: always an outsider, he preferred drawing weird cartoons and watching monster movies to playing sports. In his early teens, Jim borrowed a super 8 camera from his Aunt and began experimenting. Lacking a tripod, he would tape the camera down onto the kitchen table and animate various toys, Star Wars figures and clay monsters. He also created a li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delocated
''Delocated'' (or known in the title card as ''Delocated New York'') is an American television series that premiered February 12, 2009 on Adult Swim. The original pilot for the show was aired on April 1, 2008. Jon Glaser plays a man in the Witness Protection Program who moves his family to New York City. The family exploits the situation by starring in a reality TV show about being in the Witness Protection Program (in which, initially, they all wear disguises for their faces and voices; later, only "Jon" does). Eugene Mirman co-stars in all seasons as Yvgeny, a Russian mafia associate and aspiring stand-up comic hired to kill "Jon." This series is produced by '' Wonder Showzen'' and '' Xavier: Renegade Angel'' creators and rock band PFFR. It leans decidedly towards deadpan humor while still reflecting the black humor typical of their other shows. It is presented as if it were the fictional reality show which it portrays. In the first seven episodes, ''Delocated'' had an eleven-m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Shivering Truth
''The Shivering Truth'' is an American adult stop-motion animated anthology horror comedy television series created by Vernon Chatman and directed by Chatman and Cat Solen. The show is produced by Solen with PFFR and ShadowMachine, and features a wide range of voice talents besides Chatman, including Janeane Garofalo, Jonah Hill, Trey Parker, David Cross, Jordan Peele, Kyle Mooney, Julia Davis, Tierra Whack, Will Forte, and Josh Gad, amongst others. ''The Shivering Truth'' premiered on December 10, 2018 on Adult Swim, with the pilot episode having been released online on May 22, 2018 on the Adult Swim website. In November 2019, Adult Swim renewed the series for a second season, which premiered on May 10, 2020. Style and content When announced in a press release by Adult Swim in May 2017, ''The Shivering Truth'' was described as "a delicately crafted, darkly surreal anthology comedy, a miniature propulsive omnibus cluster bomb of painfully riotous daymares all dripping with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doggy Fizzle Televizzle
''Doggy Fizzle Televizzle'' was a sketch comedy show that was produced by and starred rapper Snoop Dogg. It aired on MTV in 2002 until 2003. Snoop Dogg stated that according to the contract, the show was to air six times, but was later extended to eight episodes. The second season was canceled due to payment negotiation issues, since Snoop Dogg asked for $1 million for his role, which MTV refused to pay him.The Guardian'' guardian.co.uk © Guardian News and Media Limited 2008. Retrieved on April 25, 2008. In the beginning of every show Snoop is seen sitting bored in a leather armchair in an empty room while switching channels from Jerry Springer to a cart race then to black and white burlesque figure skating after that to a strip show and finally to a Richard Marx music video when he decides to change the situation and the idea of ''Doggy Fizzle Televizzle'' comes to his mind. This ends the intro and the main theme follows with Snoop rapping. Episodes Here are the episodes w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FloriDada
"FloriDada" is a song by Animal Collective, released as the first single from their 2016 album ''Painting With''. It was released on November 30, 2015 by Domino Records. Avey Tare explained that the song was "sort of inspired by hating on people from Florida. I was driving in L.A. and flipping through the radio dial and came across a morning radio show where they're just talking all the time. They had a segment called, like, 'Dumb Things People Are Doing In Florida.' It kind of bothered me. ... Everybody—they kind of agree that Florida's such a weird place, know what I mean? But in a way, that's part of the charm of it." Music video A music video was released on January 8, 2016. It was produced and directed by the Brooklyn, New York artist collective PFFR. The video had its television premiere on Adult Swim's Toonami Toonami ( ) is an American late night television programming block that primarily broadcasts Japanese animation and occasionally American action animation. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birdman Records
Birdman Records is an independent record label based in South San Francisco, California, that was founded in 2000 by David Katznelson, former A&R vice president of Warner Bros. Records. History Birdman Records is the flagship label of the Birdman Recording Group, which includes Sepia Tone Records, Tornado Records, and Tariff Records. The label was founded in 2000 after the departure of David Katznelson from Warner Bros. Records. In addition to its focus on particular artists, the label produced '' More Oar: A Tribute to the Skip Spence Album'', a 1999 tribute album to the late Skip Spence, featuring contributions from Robert Plant, Beck and Tom Waits, among others, with the objective at the time of funding Spence's medical care. Spence died shortly before the release of the record, but is reported to have heard some or all of it prior to his death. Katznelson was the executive producer of the album. Roster * A.D A.K.A Club V.I.P * Apache * The Apes * Boredoms * Brother JT * R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
They Might Be Giants
They Might Be Giants (often abbreviated as TMBG) is an American alternative rock band formed in 1982 by John Flansburgh and John Linnell. During TMBG's early years, Flansburgh and Linnell frequently performed as a duo, often accompanied by a drum machine. In the early 1990s, TMBG expanded to include a backing band. The duo has been credited as vital in the creation and growth of the prolific DIY music scene in Brooklyn in the mid-1980s; the duo's current backing band consists of Marty Beller, Dan Miller and Danny Weinkauf. The group have been noted for their unique style of alternative music, typically using surreal, humorous lyrics, experimental styles and unconventional instruments in their songs. Over their career, they have found success on the modern rock and college radio charts. They have also found success in children's music with several educational albums, and in theme music for television programs and films. TMBG have released 23 studio albums. ''Flood'' has been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
