![]() How do you feel about the move to prime time and MTV's interspersing videos with the show's skits? Last season we had reverse messages mixed into our show and people actually found those as well. L: We throw their names in there just to give them a shout-out because they're a supportive group. Some of your fans on the Sockhead e-mail list claim to have seen or heard their names slipped into the show. And we're not funny like comedian funny, we're funny the way friends are funny with each other. L: It has nothing to do with sock puppets it has to do with personalities. The show has a very different sense of humor than most comedy shows. It's just whether or not you're willing to be weird. It's kind of like saying, "Who are Monty Python's fans?" I get equal amount of e-mail from doctors and lawyers and professors at Harvard as I do from 10-year-old skate punk kids. Sifl can get pretty dirty without anyone noticing. every weekday, and its subtle humor and low-tech look are quickly putting sock puppets on the map, leaving the bucket industry to lament what could have been. Now entering its second season, Sifl & Olly has moved from its 1 a.m. ![]() Sometimes Sifl and Olly do interviews (last season they chatted up Death and a supermarket checkout scanner), or pitch products for a home shopping network, and they end each show with a song. MTV America caught on this summer, airing half-hour-length shows. As he explains, "It could have easily been buckets." They sent the tape to MTV Europe, who signed up the socks for 30-second blurbs. and the only materials he could come up with were socks. In 1996, Liam decided to make a video of one of their skits as a Christmas present for Matt, but it was 3 a.m. ![]() The show's creators, Matt Crocco (the voice of Sifl, the black dress sock) and Liam Lynch (Olly, the whitish tube sock), are two 27-year-old friends who amused each other with silly skits and songs growing up in Memphis. ![]() Sock Tease: Sifl (left) and Olly are MTV's prime time sock puppets.ġ999 might be remembered as the year of the sock puppet, thanks to MTV's oddball comedy show, Sifl &Olly. The last edition was published on October 8, 2015.Ģ0 questions Sifl & Olly's Matt Crocco and Liam Lynch Philadelphia City Paper was an alternative weekly newspaper in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. My City Paper is not affiliated with Philadelphia City Paper. Please note: This article is published as an archive copy from Philadelphia City Paper. ![]()
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