Live Hot Puppet Chat

Live Hot Puppet Chat

Infobox television
show_name = Live Hot Puppet Chat


caption = Barry Bible
format = Independent/College show
runtime =
starring = Tristan Newcomb (all the puppets), Jesse Chapo (as various Jesses), Brian Ugia (as Blinky the Robot), and Huong Ly (as Carmen)
country = USA
network = SRTV (local broadcast cable channel) and worldwide via live online streaming
first_aired = Sept. 2005
last_aired = Nov. 2005
num_episodes = Six (plus several test & cameo segments). In broadcast order: Skiddles, Prickle, Al the Slug, Reducey-Risk Reindeer, Barry Bible, Dobo Disty
producer = Tristan Newcomb
related =
website = http://www.decovo.com
imdb_id =
tv_com_id =

Live Hot Puppet Chat gained its initial popularity on a student-run college television station (SRTV) in the Fall of 2005 at the University of California, San Diego, with a series of shows they titled "Season 2" (never having really had a first season). The puppet characters were created and performed by Tristan Newcomb, and each episode had a different host: they were, in episode order, Skiddles, Prickle, Al the Slug, Reducey-Risk Reindeer, Barry Bible, and Dobo Disty (aka Nintendobo).

The theme of the show was that, in-between the scripted moments of puppet monologue, the students would telephone from their dorms and try to shock the puppets with as controversial a question as they could manage. The puppets would have varying reactions based upon their uncooperative or incompetent personalities, [ [http://decovo.com/live-hot-puppet-chat-the-tv-show/skiddles/ Sample clip: Episode one, Skiddles] ] then lead the callers into conversations that ranged from adult themes to surreal Kafkaesque confrontations, depending on the episode. Some students began to issue complaints with college officials. After episode six, the student-run television station was shut down upon charges of "obscenity", stemming from (it is believed) the blasphemous content of the Barry Bible episode, though there is also evidence that the administration was unhappy with a couple of scattered porn broadcasts on the student channel. This debate between what got the station shut down is now roughly equally divided among those who say it was the porn, which is what the press articles focused upon, and those who say it was the Barry Bible episode, which is the claim of several student council members who dealt directly with the school administration on the controversy. [ [http://www.10news.com/news/4254882/detail.html UCSD Pulls Plug On 'Koala TV'] ] [ [http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20051111-9999-1m11koala.html Students at UCSD say it's censorship] ] The episodes are available [ [http://decovo.com/video-store/live-hot-puppet-chat-on-dvd/ Live Hot Puppet Chat: Season 2] ] from [http://www.decovo.com Decovo] , a media label for the distribution of student properties.

Afterwards, the puppet characters appeared in many clips around the web, often in spin-off series such as "Executive Inbox", "Carpe Diem in Fur" and "Nintendobo". The videos stopped being produced once the puppeteer, Tristan Newcomb, began doing GRRF, a series of performance art pieces that simulated catastrophic software demonstrations.

References

External links

* [http://www.decovo.com Decovo]


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