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We've written for the television shows "Allen Gregory" and "Sit Down, Shut Up" on Fox, "Leverage" on TNT, and "Newsreaders" on Adult Swim. We have written pilots for ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and Comedy Central, as well as specials for Comedy Central and VH1. 

We co-wrote the film “The Comebacks" (2007). Current scripts in development include “For Richer or Poorer” at Warner Brothers, “The Bender” and "Puberty" at New Line and “Over My Dead Body” at Ivan Reitman’s Montecito Picture Company.  

For several years during the go-go '00s, we appeared regularly on VH1, making snide but loving jokes about pop culture. Entertainment Weekly called us the “cham-peen deadpan kings” of “Best Week Ever.” We also appeared on “I Love the 70s/80s/90s/Toys/Holidays/New Millennium,” “Black to the Future,” "Undateable," “Gaming Gurus,” and “The Great Decade Debate.” The DVD releases of “Beverly Hills 90210” and “Melrose Place” feature us doing our hilarious/obnoxious schtick. We have been panelists, separately or together, on CNN, Fox News, ABC News, CMT, NPR and NBC’s “The Today Show.” We sometimes perform live at clubs and colleges to tepid acclaim. 

Remember magazines? Our writing has appeared in Esquire, Cosmopolitan, Fortune, TV Guide, Time, New York and Radar. 

During the Writers Guild of America strike of 2007-8, we created AMPTP.com, a parody of the AMPTP’s official website, AMPTP.org. The parody (archived here) was called “must-read” by Advertising Age and “profane” and “inspired” by the Boston Globe. On his blog, Joss Whedon referred to us as “heroes.” Aw. In addition, during the strike Aboud was one of the founders and editors of the influential United Hollywood website.

In Brooklyn, we ran Modern Humorist, which created comedy for film, television, radio, theater and print magazines, and was best known for its award-winning comedy website. (And for this video.) The website earned rave reviews from Time, Newsweek, Entertainment Weekly, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, Salon and other publications around the world. Modern Humorist published three books with Crown Publishing, including the best-selling “My First Presidentiary: A Scrapbook by George W. Bush.” Modern Humorist also helped develop ad campaigns for Microsoft, Time Warner Cable and Amazon. 

Modern Humorist began in 1999 after our first collaboration: a wildly popular online parody of Tina Brown and Harvey Weinstein’s Talk Magazine, using the unclaimed URL TalkMagazine.net. (Archived here.) 

Prior to founding Modern Humorist, Aboud wrote for Mother Jones, Wired, GQ and TV Guide and worked for Grey Advertising, where he won a One Show Interactive Merit award.

Colton was a staff writer for the Washington Post Style section and has also written for the New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, Newsweek, the New York Observer, the Washington City Paper, Brill’s Content and McSweeney’s. While in New York, Colton studied improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. He published an essay in the 2008 anthology, “Rejected” (Random House). In high school, Colton co-wrote the book “Up Your Score: The Underground Guide to the SAT” (Workman).

We're represented by Creative Artists Agency.

This is a video we shot starring Mad Men's Rich Sommer, Big Bang Theory's John Ross Bowie, Parks & Recreation's Alison Becker and L.A. Noire's Nick Hoffa. It's a "concept reel" for a horror-comedy script we wrote called THE BUNGALOW: A team of amateur filmmakers heads into the woods to shoot a "found-footage" haunted house movie... in a house that is actually haunted. Mostly it was a great excuse to haul our friends out to the woods and kill them.