you mean the idea where i rule the country as the awesomest motherfucker ever?

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Oh.
My.
God.

I should have realized that Wil Wheaton pitched the idea already.

And DAMN! Comedy Central. Damn them to hell.

So, uh, I wonder when that pilot's going to find it's way onto the net...?

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Surely former Star Trek actors reading your journal is some sort of sign of the apocolypse...

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Jesus H. Chrysler, how do I always miss the good shit?

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This image is the height of the Internet. It does not get any better than that.

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I dunno, I think adding lightsabres ratchets it up a notch.

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Maybe it's worth a letter-writing campaign. When I think of all the unmitigated crap that has made it to Comedy Central... I'd be willing to round up 10 gamer friends and make them beg CC for the Best Show Ever.

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The fax for MTV Networks is 212-846-1804 and/or 212-258-6175, not (212) 767-8592 which is the Comedy Central fax. No big deal, I guess.

When encouraging corporation with resolutions involving shareholder action, my feeling is that it helps to get each node in the orgchart from inovlved, but perhaps in this case including an anonymous fax to MTV Networks is perhaps too much.

In any case, we must not fail in this endeavor.

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Also, venues associated with the members of these other organizations:

• National Association of Broadcasters
  
• National Association of TV Program Executives
  
• National Broadcasting Society/Alpha Epsilon Rho
  
• National Cable Television Association
  
• Society of Broadcast Engineers
  
• Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
  
• International Webcasting Association
  
• ABC
  
• CBS
  
• NBC
  
• Fox
  
• PBS
  
• UPN
  
• WB
  
• A&E
  
• Bravo!
  
• Cinemax
  
• E!
  
• HBO
  
• MTV
  
• Showtime
  
• TNT
  
• USA
  
• VH1

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Got the National Broadcasting Society (Alpha Epsilon Rho) link wrong; corrected here in this comment. The few replies I've managed to solicit suggest that advocacy could be the wrong approach.

The best suggestion is to try to get the rights to webcast the pilot(s), with some way to sell or broker those rights later on. That then becomes an investment by which the market can recognize the value.

I fear that if far beyond my means, although I have no idea how much something like that might cost.

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I see you've engaged in this type of campaign before. This letter should be part of the opening credits for every Celebrity D&D episode.

All hail to the new DM!

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"Which forces me to ask... why does Comedy Central hate America?"

why? because somebody would watch it. and that, in itself, deserves some punishment. (not that they'd be a rocket scientist... or have a pulse, or anything...)

-=T=-

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Wow...
We should petition them to release it.

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do you really think that gaining celebrity as the "Liberator of Celebrity D&D" will lead to happier times than the celebrity status gained as "that Xemacs guy who fueded with RMS", or as "That freaky netscape guy with the mennequins" or "that computer guy who owns a nightclub" or as "that lazyweb addict guy"?

tread caefully, for this could bring on legions of fanboys, with even worse hygene and interpersonal skills than the computer industry fanboys.

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I'm pretty sure he's already at the bottom of the barrel in terms of fans - there's nowhere lower to go.

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If Jamie wanted an even lower class of fanboy, I think he could do better... maybe he could start drawing hentai?

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Okay, maybe furry hentai.

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Not sure where JWZ fanboys fit into the chart, but I wouldn't go as far as to label them anything below "Furries".

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We need to send some troops in to oust that regime. It's repressing free-thinking peace-loving peoples.

They suckered me into buying the first season DVDs of Upright Citizens Brigade, gleefully trashing my TVrips, only to completely fail to release the other seasons.

Thanks a fucking lot.

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Um, why doesn't Wil just get a few of his celebrity buddies together for a home game, record it and distribute it over the Internet? Sounds ideal for IPTV and this would be a way to do it at close-to-zero budget. Perhaps celebrities don't want to appear on IPTV at zero budget, but they might. I dunno, perhaps Celebrity D&D could start with a very special episode for charity, or something.

If I were convinced that the players were imaginitive and entertaining enough - which would have to be bloody so - I'd watch Non-Celebrity D&D over the Internet, but the bar would be set extremely high for me to want to watch more than five minutes, let alone episode two.

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Make it a video podcast! Downloadable via itunes and watchable on the upcoming video iPod!

...or is that going too far?

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Hey, as long as somebody edits it, I'll watch. I really don't need to watch oily nerds chowing down on chips while they wait for the rest of their friends to show up for the game.

Note that I was one of those oily nerds (well, not too oily) in high school. ;-)

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All the great ideas have already been taken or tried, that's what this obviously means.

Ask him if he can get the tape or if he'd be willing to do it again. We have HD cameras and an editor.

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is the tape still out there? on the net anywhere? I'd love to see it, lol.

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