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Here’s a taste of my latest article for CultureMap, Houston’s online magazine. Houston’s Internet Comedy Trio Lampoons TMZ & Lost: Meet Team Tiger Awesome (you’ll laugh).

How did this Los Angeles based comedy team form? They met by way of Texas.

Let’s flashback to 1992. Nick Mundy, age 11, and Clint Gage, age 10, live on the same block in Spring. They aren’t friends. Mundy invites Gage to participate in a neighborhood game of football. Gage, sensible even at the age of 10, politely declines; tackle football on cement doesn’t interest him. Eventually, after weeks of Mundy’s badgering, Gage caves in and agrees to play.

The game ends when a kid gets tackled into a mailbox and breaks his collarbone. As a result, Gage spends his wonder years terrified of Mundy. In the summer of 2001, Gage walks into CompUSA as a printer representative and reconnects with Mundy, who happens to work there. The guys bond over a common interest: Filmmaking. Mundy graduates from University of St. Thomas. Gage studies at Texas Christian University where he collaborates with Michael Truly on his senior film project. Mundy parties with the guys at TCU on the weekends. The Texas stars align and you have Team Tiger Awesome. Well, not exactly…

READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE HERE.