Planet Scum, The Online Comedy Collective Started by Chris Gethard, Is Coming to a Close This Month
The landscape of television, especially where people find it, is always mutating and evolving. Routinely, that means a lot of stuff gets canceled, shut down, comes to a final end. Over the last couple of weeks, so many TV series have gotten the ax by the hands of their networks and streaming service. The truly independent and DIY side of things doesn’t seem to be exempt from this latest culling of the TV herd.
Planet Scum, the Chris-Gethard-founded indie comedy collective that saw us through so much of the most intense parts of the pandemic/quarantine, with high grade, weekly live-streams is packing it up on May 25th. Connor Ratliff and his George Lucas Talk Show crew, Gethard himself, Robby Hoffman, Mary Houlihan, Martin Urbano, Will Hines, Christi Chiello, Kenice Mobley, and a delightful handful more brought connection as best as it could be done through a comedy live-stream on Twitch (there were entire communities built around each and every show along with a plethora of fan art).
The final broadcast date for Planet Scum is May 25th, then they’ll hand it over to the fans, but return for Gethard famed annual Sandwich Night. You might want to follow individual shows to see if they’ll find a new home elsewhere in the still new frontier of live-streaming.
If you were looking to get any and all Planet Scum merch, you better get it in the next week before it all disappears here.
Here’s some sweet parting words from Planet Scum. Please, as this message suggests, do hire all the folks behind this wondrous thing that was a Jersey shaped beacon of light in a time of complete and total darkness.
At the end of May, we'll be turning the lights off at ol' #PlanetScum. pic.twitter.com/1Y12vzV3Xs
— Planet Scum (@planetscumlive) May 4, 2022
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