- Snack Boy
Snack Boy was a comedy show presented on the
Internet webcast networkThe Sync , from 1998 through 2001. The show starred Terry Crummitt, aWashington, D.C. -area unemployed actor, who presented comic anecdotes concerning his shaky career, his raucous family, and his various misadventures. The show’s title referred to Crummitt’s former work as a snack bar manager. Crummitt created original child-like drawing to illustrate each story, which ran exactly five minutes. The show was webcast live on weekdays at 3:15pm Eastern Time, with older episodes archived for on-demand viewing. [ [http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/1999/02/02-12-99tdc/02-12-99darts-5.asp Web site broadcasts live, offbeat humor ] ]"Snack Boy" was among the first Internet-exclusive programs to gain attention from the mainstream media, and Crummitt was briefly the center of press attention. However, when The Sync closed during the
dot-com industry collapse, his visibility waned. [ [http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/1999/02/02-12-99tdc/02-12-99darts-5.asp Web site broadcasts live, offbeat humor ] ] Several episodes of the program remain online. [ [http://tw.youtube.com/user/TheSyncDotCom YouTube - TheSyncDotCom 的頻道 ] ]Performing under the name Terry McCrea, Crummitt had small roles in films and television shows that were shot in the Washington and
Baltimore areas, including "Gods and Generals " and "Cecil B. Demented ". Crummitt was killed in an automobile accident inLaurel, Maryland , his home town, in May 2004; he was 27 years old. [ [http://www.einsiders.com/features/columns/may04obituaries.php Entertainment Insiders ] ]References
External links
* [http://www.entrepreneur.com/magazine/businessstartupsmagazine/1999/may/17626-2.html Entrepreneur Magazine article on The Sync’s programming]
* [http://baltimore.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/1998/09/07/story4.html Baltimore Business Journal coverage of “Snack Boy”]
* [http://ezekielk.tblog.com/archive/2005/01/ Online tribute to Terry Crummitt and “Snack Boy”]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20061129123535/http://thesync.com/ The Sync Tribute Page]
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