Comedy Central hit Workaholics premieres Wednesday night

<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/bpgQSbwnWD0?feature=player_embedded" width="640"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.75em;">Season four of the <a href="http://mashable.com/category/comedy-central/" style="color: #0c74a6; text-decoration: initial;">Comedy Central</a> hit <em>Workaholics</em> premieres Wednesday night, marking the return of ne'er-do-wells Adam, Blake and Ders to college living rooms across the country.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.75em;">The sitcom follows the three twenty-somethings as they party, get into mischief and generally screw off at their lame telemarketing job in Southern California. Its offbeat humor, clever dialogue and irreverent take on post-grad life have made <em><a href="http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/workaholics" style="color: #0c74a6; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">Workaholics</a></em> a cult favorite beyond just the college set, and an <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/16ku5h/we_are_blake_anderson_anders_holm_and_adam_devine/" style="color: #0c74a6; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">AMA the co-stars</a> did on Tuesday was up-voted to <a href="http://mashable.com/category/reddit/" style="color: #0c74a6; text-decoration: initial;">Reddit</a>'s top spot.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.75em;">Comedy Central has posted <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8CE46F72D4FE9E45" style="color: #0c74a6; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">more than 50</a> <em>Workaholics</em> clips to YouTube, but the trio likely would have never made it to TV in the first place if not for the video sharing network.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.75em;">Comedy Central picked up the show in 2010 based on the humor and popularity of Adam DeVine, Blake Anderson and Anders Holm's <a href="http://mashable.com/category/youtube/" style="color: #0c74a6; text-decoration: initial;">YouTube</a> channel Mail Order Comedy and their online series <em>5th Year</em>. The rest, as they say, is history — but their path from web to broadcast reflects an increasingly common method of making it big and the wider range of possibilities facilitated by the social web.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.75em;">"The way this show evolved from a <em>5th Year</em> and <em>Mail Order Comedy</em> webisode concept into a Comedy Central series is an example of how creative talent can use these two complimentary media platforms,” David Pritchard, head of the production company Gigapix Studios, said in a press release when <em>Workaholics</em> was <a href="http://www.comedycentral.com/press/press_releases/2010/030210_workaholics-greenlight.jhtml" style="color: #0c74a6; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">picked up</a>.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.75em;">The gallery above includes a handful of <em>Mail Order Comedy</em>'s funniest throwback videos, all uploaded between three and six years ago. Check it out to see what the flakiest workaholics around were up to before they became superstars</div><br /><br />

Comedy Central hit Workaholics premieres Wednesday night

Season four of the  Comedy Central  hit  Workaholics  premieres Wednesday night, marking the return of ne'er-do-wells Adam, Blake and De...

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