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Hello, Nick here. Jared and I cannot agree on the merits of Axe. Disappointing, because when he’s not around I’ve been dousing his bedsheets in it.

This is the first episode of Nick Douglas’s new sketch show. Generally speaking, I find most sketch shows disappointing; they rely on cheap laughs and easy gags — and that’s not really a complaint, more a comment on the inherent limitations of sketch comedy — and that’s not my thing. That’s not to say they have to be like that, just that they usually are.

But anyway, I’m not a comedy critic. This is well made, even if it isn’t my kind of comedy. That alone makes it worth sharing. There’s so much utter trash masquerading as comedy (how you doing over there, College Humor? How about you, Jake and Amir?), thanks to the ease of entry provided by sites like Vimeo and Youtube, and this seems to be aiming a little higher.