Shorties Watchin' Shorties Explained

Genre:	Comedy
Creator:	Jim Serpico Eric Brown Tom Sellitti
Starring:	Nick DiPaolo Patrice O'Neal
Country:	United States
Num Episodes:	13
Runtime:	22 minutes
Company:	Apostle World Famous Pictures Animation Augenblick Studios Comedy Partners
Network:	Comedy Central

Shorties Watchin' Shorties is an American adult animated comedy television series that aired on Comedy Central from April 28 to December 16, 2004.^[1] The show is made up of various short animated clips with audio from comedians' stand up routines. It also features two "shorties," a pair of babies voiced by Nick DiPaolo and Patrice O'Neal who watch and comment upon the routines on TV. For many of the episodes, the babies only stayed in the house, but in later episodes, they were shown walking around the city.

The show featured comedians such as Dane Cook, Bill Burr, Brian Regan, Brian Posehn, Chris Hardwick, Mitch Hedberg, Mike Birbiglia, Jim Gaffigan and Lewis Black.

The animation was scripted and produced at World Famous Pictures and Augenblick Studios. The show was not renewed but full episodes are available on DVD. Clips from the show were posted on the Comedy Central website as well as on Hulu and Netflix. 14 episodes were produced and 13 aired.

Plot

The series is set around in Baby Nick's house. Where when Baby Nick's mom is away, his babysitter is there to watch him along with his best friend who always hangout in his house, Baby Patrice. There they get bored and started to watch animated clips about real-life living people from the routine. Whether it's Dane Cook or Lewis Black.

Characters

Main characters

• Baby Nick (voiced by Nick DiPaolo) - He is one of the two main characters in the series. He is the best friend of Baby Patrice who likes to watch and comment upon the routines on TV.
• Baby Patrice (voiced by Patrice O'Neal) - He is one of the two main characters in the series. He is the best friend of Baby Nick who also likes to watch and comment upon the routines on TV too.

Recurring characters

• Babysitter (voiced by Christine Walters) - She is the babysitter to the shorties. She always watches them at home while Baby Nick's mom is away.
• Baby Nick's Mom (voiced by Christine Walters) - She is the mother of Baby Nick. She always leaves for work while calling the babysitter to watch her son and her son's best friend while she's away.

Guest stars

• Nick DiPaolo as himself
• Dane Cook as himself
• Mike Birbiglia as himself
• Bill Burr as himself
• Adam Ferrara as himself
• Richard Jeni as himself
• Jay Mohr as himself
• Ted Alexandro as himself
• Todd Barry as himself
• Greg Behrendt as himself
• Ed Byrne as himself
• Jeremy Hotz as himself
• Patton Oswalt as himself
• Denis Leary as himself
• Lewis Black as himself
• Mitch Hedberg as himself
• Gilbert Gottfried as himself
• Bobcat Goldthwait as himself
• Kathleen Madigan as herself
• Pablo Francisco as himself
• Jeff Ross as himself
• Eddie Gossling as himself
• Pete Correale as himself
• Richard Belzer as himself
• Brian Regan as himself
• Richard Jeni as himself

See also

• • Mr. Baby
• Rugrats

Further reading

• • "Familiar comedians animate 'Shorties'" by Nick A. Zaino, Boston Globe (April 28, 2004)
  • "Looking at Comedy Central’s Weird and Hard-to-Categorize One-Season Shows" by Liam Mathews, New York Magazines Vulture (Sept 8, 2014) -- three paragraphs on Shorties Watchin' Shorties
  • "Shorties Watchin' Shorties review" by Emily Ashby, Common Sense Media (2004)
  • "Shorties Watchin' Shorties Returns on Comedy Central Oct. 28" by Sarah Baisley, Animation World Network (Oct 28, 2004)

External links

• Shorties Watchin' Shorties on the Comedy Central official website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Comedy Central. Shorties Watchin' Shorties. https://web.archive.org/web/20150302112418/http://www.cc.com/shows/shorties-watchin--shorties. dead. March 2, 2015.