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| URL | http://www.loadingreadyrun.com |
| Type of site | Comedy |
| Created by | Graham Stark and Paul Saunders |
| Launched | October 13, 2003 |
LoadingReadyRun, often abbreviated to LRR, is a Canadian sketch comedy website, based in Victoria, British Columbia, founded by Graham Stark and Paul Saunders. Since its launch in October 2003, a new video has been posted to the site every week, without fail; all of them are written, performed and edited by members of the "LoadingReadyRun crew", which consists of Graham, Paul, six of their friends, and guests.
The theme of the website is based on the Commodore 64 and its humour is often video game related.[1] Some of their videos have been featured in film festivals such as the Comic-Con International Film Festival[2] in San Diego, and shown on major television networks, including G4 Canada [3] and CNN.[1][4] They are currently in their seventh season.
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The core LRR crew consists of:[1]
In addition, others have been featured in a number of videos:
A parody of MTV's Pimp My Ride.[5]
Part of a fictional 1970s-style language-learning series, this video teaches the nuances of pirate speech.[6] It was released for International Talk Like a Pirate Day, 2006.
Posted around the release of the comparatively scarce and expensive PlayStation 3, this video features Paul brazenly claiming to own "three PS3s". The video spread quickly, and it caused controversy on YouTube because some viewers didn't realize it was a joke, and posted incensed comments. In truth, the entire crew owned zero PS3s; they borrowed two of them and the third was a hollow display model.[7]
This computer-animated video suggested several minigames that "didn't make it" into Nintendo's WiiPlay.[8]
A fond "look back" on the immense global impact of the Halo series of video games, set in the future.[9] The video was immensely popular online, and as of December 2009 is the most viewed video on LoadingReadyRun.[10]
One in a series of videos poking fun at the public antics of German director Uwe Boll, which compares the then-recent Anti-Boll Petition to the US presidential election.[11]
The final video to reference Uwe Boll. Graham interviewed Boll in person in May 2008, and edited the footage down to below twenty minutes. The crew were so surprised by Boll's candor and sanity in this interview that they chose to stop attacking Boll, focusing instead on Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer.[12]
Loading Ready Run is perhaps best known for their Annual "Desert Bus For Hope" event. On November 23, 2007, the group started a marathon game session of Desert Bus (a minigame from Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors) called Desert Bus for Hope to raise money for the charity Child's Play. The four-man team took turns playing the game continuously, with more hours added as more donations were made. The event was broadcast live via webcam, and garnered attention both from the media, and Penn & Teller, who called in, sent pizza, and made donations. By the end of the event, $22,805 had been raised, including donations from Penn and Teller themselves.[13][14][15]
On November 18, 2008, LoadingReadyRun officially announced that they planned a second marathon run of Desert Bus which on November 28.[16] The second Desert Bus lasted slightly more than five days and raised over $70,000.[17]
On August 25, 2009, the third marathon run was announced, set to start on November 20, 2009.[18] At 18:42 GMT-0 on November 26, 2009 the marathon completed, raising over $140,000 (after all e-cheques had cleared) for Child's Play.[19] One notable donor, going by the alias "Octopimp", donated nearly $10,000 alone, becoming a mascot of sorts in the event's live chatroom and in turn inspiring many other high-number donations and auction bids.
In December 2008 Graham and Paul tied for first place in The Escapist's Second Annual Film Festival with Unskippable, a Mystery Science Theatre 3000 style take of the introduction cinematic to Lost Planet.[20] For winning the contest they were rewarded with a contract to produce a weekly video for The Escapist. The series airs every Monday and has satirized cinematics to games like Eternal Sonata, Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII and The Darkness. It has received heavy promotion on the site, including crossovers with Zero Punctuation where Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw joined the Star Ocean episode and Graham produced a ZP-style review of X-Blades. The two also appeared in episode 21 of Doomsday Arcade as themselves.
In September 2009 the LoadingReadyRun crew began a second series for The Escapist the Escapist News Network, a parody newscast about video games similar to This Hour Has 22 Minutes. ENN is Written and produced by Kathleen De Vere, Jeremy Petter, Paul Saunders, and Graham Stark, who also form the backbone of its cast.
| Video | Organisation | Award |
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| Right to the Source | Vancouver Island Short Film Festival 2009 | Best writing [21] |
| Eyewitness Accounts | Vancouver Island Short Film Festival 2008 | Best writing [21] |
| How to Talk Like a Pirate | Vancouver Island Short Film Festival 2007 | Best writing [21] |
| Suspend Your Disbelief | Vancouver Island Short Film Festival 2006 University of Victoria Student Film Festival 2005 |
Audience Choice [21] Best Male Performance (Andrew Cownden) [21] Audience Choice [22] |
| 30 Minutes or Less | Vancouver Island Short Film Festival 2006 | Best writing [21] |
LoadingReadyRun is a Canadian sketch comedy website based in Victoria, British Columbia founded by Graham Stark and Paul Saunders.
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Morgan and James are playing video games. Graham has a PS2 controller, James has a Guitar Hero controller.
Morgan wants haikus
Well this one is pretty nice
Funny, not so much
Praise the Commodore
It's words inspire laughter
Loading Ready Run
  | LoadingReadyRun Wiki - Main Page - LoadingReadyWiki |
| | Three PS3s on LoadingReadyWiki - Three PS3s - LoadingReadyWiki |
| | History of LoadingReadyRun - History of LoadingReadyRun - LoadingReadyWiki |
| | Vancouver Isaland Short Film Festival Award Winners - Award Winners | Vancouver Island Short Film Festival |
| | Magicians conjure up cash for deadly fundraiser - Magicians conjure up cash for deadly fundraiser |
| | LRR in the News - YouTube - LRR in the News |
| | Announcing The Escapist Film Festival Winners! - The Escapist : Announcing The Escapist Film Festival Winners! |
| | How to Talk Like a Pirate - LoadingReadyRun - How to Talk like a Pirate |
| | Pimp My Chair - LoadingReadyRun - Pimp My Chair |
| | University of Victoria Short Film Festival Awards - UV Sunscreen::Awards |
| | LoadingReadyRun website - LoadingReadyRun - New hilarious sketch comedy every Monday |
| | We did it! $70,000! - Desert Bus for Hope » We did it! $70,000! |
| | Twenty Thousand Dollars - Desert Bus for Hope » TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS |
| | The Finale - Desert Bus for Hope » The Finale |
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