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Entries Tagged as 'Press'

Back of the Class admits that there never was a live tour.

June 4th, 2011 · No Comments

We’re pleased to announce that our live tour will not be canceled, as it never existed in the first place!  Our more perceptive readers would’ve presumably realized this already, given the myriad hints hidden in our tour announcement: for example, one of the comedians we claimed to be playing with is deceased, and no fewer [...]

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Tags: Press

Back of the Class cancels our live tour due to creative differences.

May 14th, 2011 · No Comments

We’re sorry to announce that we’re canceling our upcoming live tour. In the planning of this ambitious undertaking, it became clear that too many creative differences existed between members of Back of the Class for the tour to possibly proceed as planned. For example, Max kept insisting that we trash the tour bus, [...]

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Tags: Annoying · Press

Back of the Class announces our first-ever live tour!

May 12th, 2011 · No Comments

After four years spent toiling in the unforgiving, un-lucrative world of web video, Back of the Class is proud to announce our first-ever nationwide comedy tour!  During the upcoming summer months, we’ll be performing at a number of awesome venues, alongside a really impressive lineup of stand-ups and other sketch groups.  Check the schedule below [...]

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Our new video is inspiring infanticidal rants in France

October 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Concerned by the political homogeneity made prevalent by the perpetuation of a two-party system, the four members of Back of the Class decided to run as third-, fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-party candidates in the 2010 race for California’s governorship.  Several minutes later, though, we realized that would be a lot of work, and decided to [...]

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Tags: Press · Scandalous Sketches · Videos

Jesse randomly gets called out as douchy by Gawker

January 26th, 2009 · 8 Comments

Gawker wrote a kind of incoherent post about how finance guys are douchy and drink champagne or something and they randomly used a pic they found of our own Jesse Porter to illustrate their point.  The post is below:

The third best part of this whole situation is the fact that Jesse allowed this photograph to [...]

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Tags: Press

Pete Wince in the news!

August 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Back of the Class’ emo super star Pete Wince is allllllllll up in the news! We’re all pretty excited about it.
Check us out on CNN:

We made a bunch of other blogs beside slate. Here’s the links for the hard core fans to geek out over.
London Times
Barely Political
I Love Politics
Time Magazine Blog
Daily Kos
Daily Tube

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Tags: Jesse's Jingles · Press

We’re on Slate!

August 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Our new video (which can be seen at www.makemeyourvp.com but will be appearing on the main site soon) was recommended by Slate’s daily web picks!
Check it our here: http://www.slatev.com/blog.html
Fourth one down.  Thanks, Austin Keenan!
Edit: Okay, it’s now in the netherworld of “previous entries.”

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Tags: Jesse's Jingles · Press

Back of the Class Fails Epically

June 26th, 2008 · 8 Comments

Recently, we were featured on G4 TV. HOORAY! As worst of the web.
BOO-URNS! Here are the clips so you can see for yourself.

While the girl is just going through the cue card motions, it looks like the dude actually really hated the sketch. Why such anger, G4 dude? I love [...]

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Tags: Brett · Press