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WHAT’S CONSIDERED CUTTING EDGE ON DEMAND: PART 2April 15, 2010

On Demand Weekly's contributing writer Jon Shurkin looks into the popular Cutting Edge On Demand folder in a multi-part series. Let us know what your favorite Cutting Edge series @ mailbag@ondemandweekly.com.

PART 2

After being called dead hundreds of times over the years, it could be said that TV comedies are not, in fact, dead yet. Network TV right now is churning out some pretty decent comedies and thanks to the CUTTING EDGE folder on Comcast On Demand, you can see some of the best comedies in history and some of the edgiest comedies of today all at your finger tips.

If you just go to the CUTTING EDGE folder, you’ll be able to find some of the best there was and some of the best there is.

Comcast On Demand > Cutting Edge

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Who Made Your Favorite TIM AND ERIC’S BILLION DOLLAR MOVIE Pledge?February 01, 2012

Magnolia Pictures

If you haven't heard by now, Tim and Eric are taking their act from the small screen to the silver screen with their movie TIM AND ERIC'S BILLION DOLLAR MOVIE (Magnolia). It is available in theaters on March 2nd, but is available on demand now.

In an effort to make as many people know, Tim and Eric are asking people to take the following pledge.

They're asking people to:

- see the film with a family member or friend.

- in a theater within 50 miles of their location, or on demand if can't be seen in theater (BTW - it's not in theaters until 3/2/12, but on demand now!).

- tell a minimum of four people about B$M.

- not to Bit Torrent B$M

- and don't see THE LORAX.

Kudos to Tim and Eric for a clever way to spread word about the film and has resulted in positives pledges from some notable actors & personalities. Tweet or Facebook us which you like the most.

Ben Stiller

Paul Rudd

Natasha Leggero

Elijah Wood

Andy Samberg and Rashida Jones

Al Yankovic

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Tim & Eric’s Tim Heidecker In THE COMEDY - On Demand TodayOctober 24, 2012

Tribeca Film

On Demand Weekly provides new movie reviews of hot movies on demand and from the POV of watching from the comfort of your home. Today’s review: THE COMEDY (Tribeca Film).

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THE COMEDY

By Chris Claro

THE COMEDY, directed by Rick Alverson, who co-wrote the script with Robert Donne and Colm O’Leary, is the odd and unappealing story of a guy who contrives increasingly cringeworthy situations as a way – I think – of coming to grips with the impending death of his father.

Tim Heidecker (TIM AND ERIC AWESOME SHOW, GREAT JOB) plays Swanson, who makes vicious sport of everything from co-workers to foreign cab drivers to organized religion. Alverson doesn’t shy away from making his protagonist a loathsome layabout with virtually no redeeming characteristics, as Swanson seduces his sister-in-law, makes a mockery of the Catholic church, and taunts a bar full of presumably real patrons.

THE COMEDY recalls both the Dogme 95 films of Lars Von Trier and the mumblecore work of newbies like Joe Swanberg, and it deserves credit, I suppose, for it’s raw granularity and willingness to risk alienating its audience. But the film’s audacity does just that, sacrificing storytelling for shock. (In fact, as I researched what the thinking was behind the creation of THE COMEDY, I came to find out that it was the film that generated the most walkouts at this year’s Sundance Festival. Not surprising, based on the coarse and contemptuous tone of the film.)