Britethorn is a collective of like-minded indvidiuals creating satirical comedy videos for internet distribution. The first full series of videos that have become extremely popular on YouTube are political parodies of the famous PC/Mac ads. They star Aaron Sjoholm as the Democrat and Shawn Girvan as the Republican. John Tolley appears in "Halloween" as a Southern Republican. Sherman Edwards appears as African American Voter in the film, "Country."

Britethorn: A Comedic Revolt

The crew of Britethorn are all employees of The Second City Theater in Chicago -- all working behind the scenes.

On the evening of the 2006 midterm elections, the crew of Britethorn produced five additional videos as part of their Election Night Coverage. These were directed by Jeff Hadick and written by Britethorn Creator/Writer/Producer John T. Kramer-- with improvisation by actors Shawn Girvan (Republican Clark Bachman) and Adam Yencho (Skippy.)

Britethorn has been featured on sites such as The New York Times and the Blog site Daily Kos. The Democrat/Republican series of vidoes were directed by Johnny Bruder and Jeff Hadick. Many of the later videos have been directed by Aaron Sjoholm.

Britethorn's single most successful video in terms of internet traffic, Britethorn Responds!, was featured on the front page of YouTube on January 7, 2007. The video is a response to a user comment for one of Britethorn's older videos, Country.

Videography (post-Democrat/Republican):

Johnny Bruder returned to direct the most produced Britethorn video to date, Hit Men, a bold, comedic interrogation of the perfectly average Democratic voter, which has been featured on numerous websites and continues to make the rounds in various film festivals.

Black Kramer, entirely recorded on cellphone cameras, features Sherman Edwards in Britethorn's comedic take on the famed Michael Richards incident.

A Welcome to Britethorn message, created in February when Britethorn was one of YouTube's featured channels, gained attention from all over the world and the blogosphere.

From "Republican" Shawn Girvan and friend to Britethorn, Adam Yencho, The Break-Up was posted to the Britethorn channel on YouTube.

Briefly, from Britethorn's friends at "FatCo", a St. Patrick's Day PSA regarding overconsumption of Shamrock shakes (directed by Aaron Sjoholm) was posted to the channel.

Very recently, John Kramer & Aaron Sjoholm were the subjects of a video interview by graduate students at Northwestern University while they filmed their low-budget take on The One Thing President Bush Has Gotten Right.

Currently, the Clinton/Obama: The Debate for the Black Vote" video, Britethorn's longest to date, is being released in parts around the internet after the first part's exclusive release on the Capitol Hill Broadcast Network website.

See also

The Second City

External links

Official website

Youtube channel

Myspace page