Whitest Kids U'Know Promote Their New Movie "Miss March" With Hilarious Failed Audition Videos

By: Adam Quigley Posted: January 24, 2009 Filed under: Pics / Vids, Trailers

I'm starting to notice a trend here. It first started with The Lonely Island, the hilarious internet sketch comedy group that soon found its way on the writing staff of Saturday Night Live (with star Andy Samberg also becoming a series regular). A couple of years after hitting it big on TV with their brilliant Digital Shorts (i.e., the only consistently funny thing that can still be found on SNL), they wrote, directed and starred in the hilarious and completely underrated Hot Rod. Unless I'm mistaken, this made them the first sketch comedy group to start off on the internet and use their success to slowly move up to the world of cinema.

Now though, we have two other popular internet entities doing the very same thing. Just last week, Derrick Comedy debuted their independent film Mystery Team to a very positive response at Sundance. [Check out the trailer.] And now there's The Whitest Kids U'Know, who after finding success as a TV sketch show on IFC, have a movie of their own coming out: Miss March. Well, kind of. It's written, directed and starring two of the sketch comedy group players, Zach Cregger and Trevor Moore. [Check out the trailer.]

I'll be honest, this movie looks a little lame. I find myself really wanting to like it, since, after all, the guys behind the project are funny as hell, and it's refreshing to see people who started as a bunch of internet nobodies become successful Hollywood players, but so far the laughs just don't seem there. The trailer literally has just three funny moments: the wheelchair/ramp bit, the firetrucks trying to turn around, and the girl bouncing out of the motorhome. I'm still remaining hopeful though, because due to the movie's R-rating, it's possible they were just unable to show much of the good stuff. This has been a recurring problem with the recent resurgence of R-rated comedy, so if we're lucky, they'll release a red-band trailer on the net to potentially ease our woes. (Except replace "our" with "my." ...And "woes" with "pathetic whining.")

In the meantime though, check out these clever "failed audition" viral video sketches with two of the other Whitest Kids.

I'm not sure whether this is a jab at the film or a compliment to the vids, but these are way funnier than the actual Miss March trailer. But hey, even if the movie sucks, at least we got a few good laughs from the viral marketing campaign, right?