Ask A Ninja Award Winning Series Of Comedy Videos

Launched in November 2005, Ask A Ninja is an award winning series of comedy videos. These videos are based on the images of ninjas in popular culture. These videos are available in podcast and vodcast form and also in mov and wmv file formats. The role of the ninja in the videos is being played by one of the co-creators, Douglas Sarine.

The series Ask A Ninja was created by Los Angeles improvisational comedian Kent Nicholas and Douglas Sarine. The videos feature a ninja who answers various emails from the viewers. The shows creator was influenced by a similarly formatted show called Ask Zorbak and Strong Bad Email. The show was originally envisioned as an animated show about 2 ninjas residing in Orange County.

The show, Ask A Ninja is hilariously comic. Most of the episodes starting from1-16 feature ninja, answering in front of a featureless blue background. The show sometimes also takes place inside a car or any other house. A special episode of the show was shot in a warehouse with Jamie and Adams.

In the show, Ask A Ninja, only the eyes of the ninja are visible as rest of him is covered in traditional black ninja clothes. The ninja is very famous for his emphatic declarations and his extremely expansive, spontaneous and exaggerated hand gestures, which are quite helpful in communicating his comic intentions. The host very regularly uses many linguistic blends in his speech, which involve the word ninja like: ninjelephant; ninternship; ninjas etc.

In the show Ask A Ninja, special video editing is used regularly to lay emphasis on showing the host doing the same thing 3 times. The editing is also used to put focus on the ninjas mysterious powers like the ability to adopt impenetrable disguise and turning microscopically small or simply vanish. The new episodes of the show are being released bi-weekly. The episodes are normally of 4-7 minutes of duration and ends with a signature remark of the ninja, I look forward to killing you soon.

Ask A Ninjas older episodes ended with the advertisements of Ninja-Mart Store, which enabled the viewers to purchase any ninja merchandise related with the show. The show has also advertised The Simpsons Game and Doritos. The show has also begun hosting its videos with the Cast Fires video hosting service.

The popularity of the show, Ask A Ninja can be gauged from the fact that Douglas Sarine was once asked to report as a guest film critic on National Public Radios show called, All Things Considered. In a classified special delivery episode, his review of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Mans Chest was shown. He also interviewed, Blades of Glory, stars Will Fernell and Jon Heder. The show made its live stage debut at the El Rey Theatre on 5th December, 2007, with Patton Oswatt and Hardn Phirm. The creators of the show have also announced of an under production Ask A Ninja book, which will be released next year. Wikipedia

Ask A Ninja Award Winning Series Of Comedy Videos