Rudy Povich
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And they were looking to find talent cheap.
So it was like $1,000 a week.
They would give you a topic.
And you'd have to film like a sketch, a short video based on that topic.
And we started doing them.
It was like audience vote, internet vote.
And we'd win $1,000.
We won it like 11 times.
We had broke.
So we were like, oh, my God.
And we started calling all these videos.
And so when YouTube and MySpace started, we had like 30 videos to dump on there.
And when we dumped that much content on it, they started featuring us on their homepage.
And so we started getting a lot of views back then.
Anyway, it turns out that NBC, what they were doing was they chose the top five winners on that, and they filmed a pilot for television hosted by Carson Daly.
Yeah.
It was the battle of sketch comedy, the best sketch comedy troupe.
And they took everyone's number one video and put it up against each other.
And the winner would get $100,000.
They shot this in a studio and everything.