The Axis of Awesome Launch New Comedy Series

YouTube sensations The Axis of Awesome have released a brand new interactive comedy

series called Axis All Areas that can only be described as Spinal Tap meets an Easter Egg

Hunt. The series gives fans the opportunity to peak behind the curtain of the world’s ‘most

awesomest comedy band’ as they attempt to shoot their latest music videos.

The Axis All Areas series is showing exclusively on the band’s official YouTube channel over the

coming months and the first episode, ‘Why Aren’t Lasers Doing Cool Shit?’ is now live

at www.youtube.com/axisofawesome - with episode two to follow next week. 

Each episode of the series revolves around a brand new music video with a number of

scripted comedy sketches set behind-the-scenes. Plus there’s a series of secret videos that

fans have to track down themselves by finding hidden links inside the music video and the

sketches. Each clip is a standalone piece of comedy content but put together they tell one

giant story. It’s up to the viewer to find the pieces, put them all together and discover that

story.

Axis All Areas marks a joint collaboration between YouTube and Screen Australia and is the

band’s second online series after success with ABC’s iView Fresh Blood. The show further

underlines the band’s commitment to creating original and engaging comedy content for

their online fans.

The Axis of Awesome soared to Internet stardom with their song ‘Four Chords’, which has

received over 60 million hits online. The group is made up of Jordan Raskopoulos, Benny

Davis and Lee Naimo and has been touring the world with their unique brand of musical

comedy since 2006, boasting nearly 200,000 YouTube subscribers.

Last month The Axis of Awesome performed to sold out shows at their 6th Edinburgh

Festival Fringe and are now following this up with their second tours of the UK and Germany,

playing over 50 shows through August and September. Critically acclaimed, The Axis of Awesome

have picked up numerous awards including the recent Time Out Award for Best Australian

Act at the Sydney Comedy Festival and the Moosehead Award at the Melbourne

International Comedy Festival.