Melge

melge magazine is a collective of comedians, writers, musicians, and visual artists living in New York. We create original content.

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Our short film "Hot As Fuck" is now online!

A man goes on a journey. To find an air-conditioner.

Written & Directed by Kevin Mead  Starring Darren Miller  Featuring Dylan Silver, Halle Keifer, Mike Antonucci, Kirk Larsen, Katy DiSavino & Kevin Mead

Produced by  Katy DiSavino  Kevin Mead  Darren Miller  Kirk Larsen

Director of Photography Kirk Larsen  Edited by Kevin Mead

Music by Ethan Cypress Kevin Macleod

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Fuck death

Check out this video wherein I kiss a woman who is NOT MY WIFE

big up kirk larsen big up darren miller big up tim jansen big up halle kiefer

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Check out the new video we made with Nerve.com written by and starring the one and only Halle Kiefer! Also starring Joe Stanton and Mary Lordes! Sound and EVERYTHING by Tim "I Can Do Literally Anything" Jansen! Directed by Kirk Larsen! Produced by Darren Miller!

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Commercial For Roommates: Toilet Paper

Here is another 30 second commercial for roommates!

If you currently have an adequate amount of toilet paper, perhaps a roommate is right for you. Consult your friends for more information. Shot by Kirk Larsen Directed by Darren Miller Starring Kevin Mead

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Commercial for Roommates: They Eat Your Pizza

Starring Darren Miller, Taylor Moore, & A Piece of Pizza

Do you like watching movies? Do you like eating Pzza? Great! So do roommates! If you currently enjoy your privacy and eating meals that you earned the money to pay for, perhaps a roommate is right for you! Consult your friends or Craigslist for more information.

Directed by Kevin Mead

We shot this a while back and are finally getting it online. Hope you like it because if not, you're ugly/stupid/childish.

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Check out this 30 second commercial we made! For sunglasses!

Directed by Kirk Larsen Starring Ryan Williams 

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Hey everyone! Check out this teaser for our new short, "Hot As Fuck."  Written and Directed by Kevin Mead Shot by Kirk Larsen Staring Darren Miller, Michael Antonucci, Halle Kiefer, and Dana Lev-Matthews Produced by Melge and Katy DiSavino. Coming soon as fuck!

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darrenmiller:

WHAT’S IT LIKE PLANNING THE LAST BBQ OF THE SUMMER!?  FIND OUT IN THIS BRAND NEW COMEDY RAP MUSIC VIDEO STARRING KANYE WEST!

OKAY so I totally lied about Kanye West.  But I hope you watch this video.  I produced it and I wrote it with Kevin Mead and Kirk Larsen.  Kirk directed and edited it and Kevin starred in it, alongside Emily Axford, myself, and many wonderfully helpful and awesome extras.

Andrew Ford was the Assistant Director! Steve Levine shot it!  Justin Matthew produced the music! Sam Fox-Hartin PA’d!

Everybody had fun!

If you like it, please share it with your friends!

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kirklarsen:

hallekiefer:

ryanxilliams:

Don’t let some stupid earthquake keep you from watching me in this video! I play a human man in it! 

The baby I got to work with, Haaziq, is the best baby actor in town. A consummate actor, exceedingly professional, plus his little shoes matched his shorts and Surf! shirt.

Need a baby? Call Zip Baby. THIS IS A SKETCH ABOUT A BABY RENTAL SERVICE

Kevin, Darren, and I wrote this; Kevin directed, Darren produced, & I shot/edited it.

Travis, Halle, Jaime, Ryan, Allison, Emily, & Taylor all did a great job, so did Haaziq, Brooklyn, & Violet (the babies).

Shout out to 2nd Ryan & Sam for helping out on production.

A Melge Original

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Melge is shooting a comedy rap music video about a the last BBQ of the summer, and we NEED EXTRAS! If you can help us out by being an extra, you can help yourself to FREE BBQ AND BEER. There will be plenty. MAYBE IT WILL REALLY BE THE LAST BBQ OF THE SUMMER OH NO!

All we ask is that you help us get the shots we need of the large group (you) by following some simple direction here and there throughout the day, and bear with us playing this one song on some speakers. Basically, getting all the shots we need and being organized for this video will have to be first priority, but having a great time with your friends and getting DRUNK and FULL can be a very close 2nd priority.

PLEASE help spread the word if you can and bring as many people as you'd like!

Comment here if you have any questions. Also if you know you and/or friends are coming please RSVP on here, to help us get some idea of numbers. FOR BEER. AND FOOD!

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I drew Bert. Maybe I'll draw more Muppets later on. ALRIGHT!

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kirklarsen:

Hey, Everyone!  My album is out! You can hear it here

Long after the fall of organic life, four robot best friends lose contact with the psychic robot mainframe.

Pharmocalypse’s The Unknowable tracks their pan-universal quest to discover what has happened.

LISTEN TO IT WITH YOUR EARS.

Awesome and animated album art by the dudliest of dudes, Diego Garcia (@radstronomical)

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“HOT PIECE OF ASSASSIN” of the day

(special thanks to Natalie Lewis for the suggestion)

Sante Geronimo Caserio

Target: Marie François Sadi Carnot, President of the French Third Republic (via stabbing to avenge his two Anarchist friends).

Jury’s Verdict: Very guilty. Sentenced to beheading in 1894.

Our Verdict: thank god a guillotine doesn’t cut the face lengthwise.

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kevinmead:

paulbriganti:

darrenmiller:

Three years ago, Paul Briganti, Kevin Mead, and I made this 22 minute short film, starring TJ Miller.

Over time, we recut it, and decided recently to release it on the internet to the public.

This was by far the hardest thing I’d ever done in my entire life.  I was a junior in college and knew nothing about how to make a film; all I knew is that I wanted to.  So I worked my ass off.  And Paul and Kevin did even more so - they co-directed this, and it’s something I’m very proud of.

I know it’s not the kind of thing you can watch while you’re doing 8 other things, so if you happen to find a free 20 minutes and want to watch, I hope you like it.

Trying to release this online and make it successful without approaching traditional distribution channels is a bit of an experiment, so if you’re able to help out at all by passing this video around, we would love you.  Passionately.  It would last forever until we die together at the same time while making out at the age of 6000.

CHARLIE ON PAROLE (official website)

Starring TJ Miller, Molly Ryman, Joe Wengert, Lynn Laurence, Mitch Wissick, and Bobby Moynihan.

Written by Kevin Mead, Paul Briganti, and Darren Miller.

Directed by Paul Briganti and Kevin Mead

Produced by Darren Miller, Kevin Mead, and Paul Briganti

Music by Emily Axford, Plushgun, and Jukebox The Ghost.

Thanks for the well written description of passion, Darren!

We made this film a few years ago and were lucky enough to have a bunch of friends and very talented people be in it. 

I’m really happy people can see it. It is a very long watch for the internet, but if you have nothing to do on your lunch break, tune in!!

Yea, thanks Darren! And thanks Paul! And thanks to every person who helped us make this happen. 

For a short, this film has changed so many times since the initial cut, and I am really happy with where it ended up. Pretty much everything I’ve learned about writing and filmmaking can be tracked according to the progress of this film, and I owe that to all the incredibly talented people who helped us make this. Thanks everyone! And if you haven’t seen it, check it out, yo!

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Visit Original Link

Songs That Make Me Want To Walk Down a Hallway in Slow Motion

Time Period: early 80’s

Hallway: high school

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“HOT PIECE OF ASSASSIN” of the day (thanks to Pete D’Amato for the suggestion)

Mike Danton

Target: His gay lover. I think. But he might not be gay. But here at “Hot Piece of Assassins,” that’s fine if he’s gay. Really, we’re totally fine with it.

Jury’s Verdict: Pled guilty to a murder conspiracy. Might get an excess of 10 years.

Our Verdict: Offsides! Icing! Is he gay, really? Hat Trick! Power Play! Cross-Checking! God, that’s so upsetting. Hooking! Interference! I wonder if he’d switch teams for me. Slashing! Zamboni! Sudden Death! Penalty Shot!

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An Open Letter to Mt. Everest

I write this as I finish, well as Akun (my Sherpa,) finishes the final check on our equipment. Moments from now, we will begin our ascent to the Day 1 base camp, our first step in conquering your peak and thus, defeating you.

You have been the center of my nightmares for years now, ever since you claimed the life of my father in early 1997, and now you are about to pay dearly. My father was trying to punish you for killing his father on one of the initial attempts at scaling you in 1936. My grandfather was a good family man, and you decided to blow him off the south face of the mountain without hesitation. Then, in some horrible déjà vu, you decided to cut my father off from rescue with snow storm after snow storm, slowly freezing him to death. Why must you single out my linage in your violent outbursts? What did we ever do to you?

I am not some blood crazed maniac. I have spent days on end considering how to deal with my father’s death. My decision to climb you came after much deliberation. Many of my friends suggested I file a civil suit against you, to try and hurt you financially… but I passed on such a passive aggressive approach. One friend suggested releasing large amounts of CFCs into the atmosphere in order to slowly shift the climate, reducing the snow cover on your hollowed peaks and rendering you weak. I don’t have time for such methods.

I will climb you because that is the only way to destroy you once and for all, and to bring the souls of my family back to sea level. Our family crest, sewn onto an American flag, will pierce your heart, which Akun tells me is at the very top of the mountain. I hope you will understand that you brought this onto yourself. You choose to make yourself the tallest and most dangerous mountain in the world. You choose to have radical weather patterns and consistently freezing conditions. You choose this life.

And just so you know, I have an 8 year old son who has already pledged to continue our fight if you should find a way to kill me as well. So why not just let me end you now?