Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, and Amy Sedaris?

[James]

They just showed Comic Remix, and one of the clips was from an old show that had Stephen and Paul playing schoolboys in an elementary school, and Amy was a girl who didn't say anything.

What the fuck?

It was funny, by the way.

[Mockery]

There was an old show they did together before Strangers With Candy called "Exit 57". Perhaps it was a clip from that.

[James]

I wanna see. It looked like it was funny.

[Jixby Phillips]

it IS from exit 57. I have every episode; only 2 six-episode seasons were made (12 episodes in all). there's also a bunch of unaired sketches made for a third season that got cancelled prematurlely. I have those too. I also have the unaired pilot.

My favorite part of that sketch is this:

Kid: Hey, maybe you know... what does this mean? (flips off the other kid).
Other Kid: I don't know... but I like it.

Exit 57 was pretty great. Sometimes it could be more hit-and-miss, but there were some hysterical things on there. There are few jokes on it that you see they reused on Strangers With Candy, and you can see a few characters that are very Jerri-Blankesque. There's also a sketch that very closely resembles the characters from the Hospital that Jerri works at in the Strangers With Candy pilot.

I first saw the show when a guy I trade MST3K episodes with accidentaly sent me an episode at the end of one of the MST3K tapes. I asked if he had more and he had 4 other episodes. I traded those episodes with SWC fans all over the internet, and now tons of VCDs and shit are being made from those episodes. This regenerated tons of interest in the show, and somebody uncovered all the episodes and promos and unaired sketches and put them on DVD. That's what I have now. Maybe with the new interest in the show, Comedy Central will show them on TV again or they'll release them on DVD. Yeah right

[James]

Jixby, I want to trace the wrinkles of your asshole with my tongue.

Thank you for all that info. It just makes me want to see this show even more.

But the sad thing is: The boy who pulled his pants all the way down to pee? THAT WAS ME. I did that once in the third grade. Never used a urinal ever again (or any school bathrooms).

[Jixby Phillips]

http://www.geocities.com/brutallo2002/NewExit.html

That's what I bought. Yeah yeah, it's expensive, and he's not lying when he says the quality is B/C quality. The episodes I had on tape looked better, but they were copies from 1st generation copies taped from cable. Still having a completely uncut, no-network-logo, complete collection is worth it I think. If money's an issue buy the VCDs. The guy I bought them from is a good guy.

[whoreable]

I remeber hearing about that show but i still havent seen it.
Seems wierd that cc would air something that old that they havent showed in years...perhaps they are planning on showing it again?

[Jixby Phillips]

http://www.jerriblank.com/exit57.html

More info and pictures (most taken from the same DVDs I bought).

Comic Remix sucks it. Most of it is garbage, but when they DO show something great, it makes me wish they would just show the whole show or whatever it game from. Anybody remember the Bert Fershners? They were pretty funny and were pretty active doing various things on Comedy Central. They had one one-hour special and I remember Craig Kilborn always referencing them on the Daily Show as if they were going to get their own series.

[Black Flag]

I don't remember anything about the show really, but I remember I loved it so much when it was on.

[mburbank]

Comedy Centrqal killed Exit 57, which had some great stuff in it, by only buying six episodes at a time, and then running those six episodes over and over so many damn times no one would tune in because there was no reason to believe it wouldn't be anything you hadn't already seen so often you had it friggin' memorized. I swear to GOD, do ANY comedians work in the administration of that network?