So here's the 2log!

After many sleepless hours of coding on Gerrit's part, we finally have a place to put up the kind of material that we always thought would be neat to work on, but didn't really fit on the main Ao2 site.

Like everyone else with a blog, we secretly think that we're the most interesting people on the Internet, so I thought it might be fun to to actually explain who the hell we are, and why Ao2 even exists. So here ya go-- the Audience of Two timeline:


Fall 2000: Sam, Gerrit, Ben and Mac begin freshman year at Swarthmore College in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Sam and Gerrit are randomly assigned to each other as roommates. Mac lives down the hall. Ben is randomly assigned to a roommate who is arrested 18 months later for possession of kiddy porn. Ben spends as much time away from his room as possible.

Spring 2001: Sam and Gerrit decide to host a sketch comedy show on WSRN, Swarthmore's anemic campus radio station. They consider naming it "Wobblin' Butt Cheeks," but instead go with "Audience of Two."  This is possibly the worst creative decision they will ever make. Mac, Ben and Lea Denil (currently retired from the comedy game in 2007) tag along.

Fall 2001: Sam-- exhausted from hours of classes, play rehearsals, and sleepless nights writing papers-- frequently passes out at his desk and mumbles to himself. Gerrit has the presence of mind to take notes. Pages and pages of new material for Ao2 are generated. Also, Ben says a bad word on the air while Gerrit's mother is listening. He's very sorry.

Spring 2002: Gerrit goes to Australia for a semester. Ben pinch-hits as Sam's co-host. They write a sketch about an evil eggroll filled not with meat, but a tiny civilization of angry warriors who attack anyone who tries to eat their crunchy home. They begin to wonder if College is actually teaching them anything.

Fall 2002: While playing Super Smash Brothers Melee in Ben's Room, Mac is randomly assigned the nickname "Flav." It sticks.

Fall 2003: After three years, Audience of Two finally gets a fan! After years of broadcasting unnoticed (even the Ao2 girlfriends don't usually listen) a high school student named Josh Breit calls in to WSRN during an Ao2 broadcast, and insists he's actually been listening. The Ao2 cast suspects he might actually be a deranged 40-year-old man, but they choose to say nothing out of politeness. Josh turns out to be real, and currently graces the top of the Ao2 main page. His forehead tattoo is arresting, but tasteful.

Fall 2004: Sam and Ben move to Ben's hometown of NYC. Gerrit follows them six months later and sleeps on their couch. Without a radio station, they turn to the Internet, and begin poisoning the minds of America's youth. Mac continues holdin' down the fort in Philly.

Summer 2007: Ben Sam and Gerrit realize they haven't done a live show together in more than three years. They write Would They Kill You? and perform it at the The PIT. The next live show, a musical set in the old west (seriously), is currently in the works, as is a video series for the PIT's web channel, PITtv.

October 2007: 2log launched. Civilization destroyed by tremendous ants (pending).