HBO has a short Internet series called Runaway Joke of the Day. The show can be found here on HBO's Runawaybox website. Reuters reports that the very short web show is a project from HBOlabs.
Want to hear two short jokes and a long joke?" he asks as his co-star in the scene, Paul Gulyas, pedals past him on a tricycle that he's about 20 years too old for.
"Joke," Tondorf says. "Joke. Jooooooooke."
Welcome to the set of HBO's newest series effort, "Runaway Joke of the Day." Only don't expect the episode to actually run on the network; it is meant strictly for the Internet. And it may be a stretch to call "Joke" an episode, given that it's over in about 30 seconds.
Absurd riffs like "Joke" are a staple of HBOlab, an unlikely off-the-radar experiment under way for nearly a year now at Time Warner's prize programmer. With an 11-member unit willing to try just about anything online, the TV industry's prime mover is finding its footing in the amorphous world of digital media. And if you mistake any of them for the rabble on YouTube, you're excused -- that's where some of the HBOlab staffers were recruited.
There is likely to be a lot more of this very short comedy coming from major studios in the future. Even with professionally produced comedy content they may still find it hard to compete with the overwhelming amount of funny content submitted by individuals to video sharing websites like YouTube.com.
HBO has a short Internet series called Runaway Joke of the Day. The show can be found 