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VILLAGE VOICE
Here Are Three of the Best New York Comedy Sketches You'll See This Week

Matt Moskovciak is on a roll. Over the last month, the Astoria-based comedy writer for online network Above Average, an offshoot of Lorne Michaels's Broadway Video, has written and produced three of the smartest comedy sketches about New York life that we've seen in a long time.

WASHINGTON POST
This video perfectly describes your upstairs neighbors

Chances are what’s causing the movements of humans above you to sound like a giant’s conga line is a thin or poorly-insulated ceiling. But when the thumping begins at all the wrong times, you know you can’t help but wonder: are they doing that on purpose? The experience is universal enough that when comedy writer Matt Moskovciak pretended the answer was yes, it’s on purpose, he created the most successful online video of his career. Meet “Everyone’s Upstairs Neighbors.”

RUNNER'S WORLD
Comedy Sketch Exposes How Runners Overshare

The phenomenon of runners sharing (and oversharing) details about their racing is one the team at Above Average, a website that creates original comedy videos, hoped to capture in their latest sketch, “First Person To Run A Marathon Without Talking About It.”  

PASTE
The 5 Best Original Shows on Seeso

It’s a biting and funny take on Silicon Valley’s delusions, as well as the vacuity of modern marketing.

DECIDER
The 8 Best Shows And Movies To Watch When You’re Feeling That Startup Life

Get ready to fall in love with this hidden Seeso gem. Thingstarter is a comedy about a startup company not unlike Kickstarter, but what sets it apart is that Thingstarter is willing and able to make any bad idea. [...] Jesus on a Shelf, a $50 fork, a bed made out of dirt, and an app gamifies not being racist just to name a few. Thingstarter does a great job of parodying the confusing amounts of energy and excitement that characterize most startups, and it’s hilarious.

HUFFINGTON POST
Talking Focus Groups And Dirt Beds With The Creators Of Seeso’s ‘Thingstarter’

If you take anything away from this article, let it be the fact the minds behind “Thingstarter” are so good at their jobs, they convinced a group of strangers to get excited about laying in a pile of dirt — or “Terra Firma,” a prehistoric bed for people looking to sleep like our ancestors did.

THE MARY SUE
Thingstarter Is the Show You’re Not Watching but Need to Be Right Now

What makes Thingstarter truly unique is that the creators [...] incorporated real people into the show’s focus group scenes. The inventors and moderators of the focus groups are played by actors who guide them along as they discuss, say, the benefits of an app called iNotRacist that gives players points for doing “not racist” things in real life, like being in an interracial relationship. 

THE CAPITAL TIMES
Bingeworthy: Seeso's 'Thingstarter' kickstarts satire of tech culture

THE DAILY DOT
How a sketch comedy team resurrected 'Seinfeld' for one more episode

If you’re a fan of Seinfeld, good things are coming your way, courtesy of the Internet. The canonical sitcom hits Hulu on June 24, and if you can’t wait for that, an Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre sketch comedy team called Bellevue has just the thing to tide you over: a whole new episode. The episode, “The Leaning Susan,” is replete with excellent impressions, '90s commercials, and a brilliantly bleak plot.

CHARLESTON CITY PAPER
Improvised Seinfeld reinvents the classic sitcom for the stage

IFC
Some Comedy Geniuses Made A Brand-New Episode Of Seinfeld

AV CLUB
UCB comedy group brings back Seinfeld for a new episode

SPLITSIDER
The 11 Best Video Sketch Groups on the Internet

TIME OUT NY
Review: This Is Not a Sketch Show: A Sketch Show

The big cast is universally good—especially Jones as the smarmy Andy—but the real star here is the writing. The intricate structure gives the impression that the show might collapse like a house of cards at any moment; watching the young writers and their cast navigate this is part of the fun. Barriers erected between the onstage worlds are less walls than membranes through which jokes can freely drift. And all of the postmodern cleverness on display serves the show's comedy; when the original couple realizes being onstage changes their behavior, transforming what might be a standard argument into a performance la The Honeymooners, it's funny and it adroitly furthers the story.