Two OU students are organizing an effort to bring the host of a cable television Internet clip show to campus.
Daniel Tosh, host of Comedy Central’s “Tosh.0,” bases his show on poking fun at clips gathered from the Internet.
Tosh has been to OU before, when he performed a stand-up comedy show in 2008 in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Meacham Auditorium.
Now University College freshmen Zach Pennington and Max Boyd are determined to get Tosh back by entering a contest for a show’s episode to be filmed on a college campus.
Pennington and Boyd said they are Tosh fans, and Boyd heard about the contest on the show.
Boyd said they contacted 200 people on Facebook to see if they would be interested in helping. There are now 1,600 confirmed guests for the event, Boyd said.
“We had no idea it would get this big this fast,” Pennington said.
Boyd said he has spoken with one of the production assistants of “Tosh.0” about the rules of the contest. There aren’t any time limits for the video and the film has to be turned in by the end of April, Boyd said.
Pennington and Boyd have completed four minutes of a planned 10-minute video.
“The big part of the video we have done so far is pictures of everything on campus: people, sports, parties and the Bizzell Silent Rave,” Boyd said.
The duo have at least 30 people willing to compete in a cinnamon challenge. Boyd said the challenge, in which a person eats a spoonful of cinnamon without drinking any water, was featured on an episode of “Tosh.0.”
“A lot of the other videos [from other colleges] so far are just one or two people saying he should go to their school,” Boyd said. “There’s nothing as complete or as elaborate as what we are trying to do.”
Pennington and Boyd said it hasn’t been announced how the winner of the contest will be chosen, but they think Tosh’s crew will look at the videos sent in.
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wiggin 1 year, 1 month ago
Tosh blows, don't bring him here please.