The Burg plays "Hip or Dangerous"

If ever there were a hipster sitcom, you know it wouldn't air on regular tv. Hipsters are, like, totally against watching television, at least that's what they say under "tv interests" in their MySpace profiles. So this Sunday when the first "hipster-com", The Burg, airs - it'll be online (at TheBurg.tv). Above is a preview on YouTube.

The description on the site totally sold us:

The Burg: the hipster world capital where trust fund kids pretend to be starving artists, starving artists pretend to be able to live completely off of credit cards, and everybody pretends not to notice. Who says gentrification isn't funny?

The comedy troupe behind The Burg will also feature local bands on the show. We can't wait!

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By Jen Carlson in Arts & Entertainment on June 23, 2006 3:03 PM

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Diorsuks

Yeah, the hipster movement is like, older than me posting this blog a month after the last person.

But seriously, the fact that hipsters can make a show making fun of themselves as part of the hipster movement, is the most interesting fact about hipsters.

hipster hater

As long as there are still hipsters that take themselves seriously, making fun of them will never get old!

carl

As long as "hipsters" exist, as is nauseatingly obvious in Williamsburg, making fun of them doesn't get old. I think I'll like this show.

ADMN

The last guy in the video with the long beard is Jimmy, who holds court at Mugs at Bedford and N10 almost daily. He runs a craft beer distributorship and is one of the least dangerous people I've ever met.

thanks for the tip

nathan barley is pretty hilarious. i guess something good did come out of a post about hipsters

kay eye

nathan barley!! yeah. look it up on youtube. that's the name of the brit show that did the same. and it was genius.

anonymass

Props to Opal Mehta for the best post/name sync.

Funnier Than You

It would have been funnier if hip or dangerous were decided solely based on race. Making fun of hipsters is old, but making fun of white people for their racism is classic.

opal mehta

or they're totally familiar with british TV, which did all the work for them

nathan

obviously these people aren't familiar with british tv, where a certain sitcom about hipsters aired last year to much critical acclaim.

move this

yeah, the kids should outgrow the hip hop "movement" any day now too, genius

old

then move to philly, B-log

B-log

This whole city is getting old.

dingo

making fun of hipsters is really getting old

[4] Posted by: tired | June 23, 2006 05:10 PM

Amen, brother!

The hipster joke is about ten years old now, at least.