As I mentioned in my post about Harmontown, Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab host one of my favorite things in LA - Channel 101.  It’s a digital film festival…only the “films” are actually 5 minute TV pilots.  On the last Saturday of each month, 10 are screened at the Downtown Independent.  The audience votes American Idol style, and the top five vote-getters win the right to show another episode the following month.

They are almost uniformly funny as hell and incredibly well-produced, especially considering these are shorts that no one is paying the participants to make.

This past Saturday I went to my third Channel 101 show in a row, and the image above - courtesy of the (unofficial) channel101tumblr blog - is of this months winners.

I voted for Intimate Indiscretions, Commercial Break, Sex Teenagers, Oh, Shit! and Switcher, so I’ll get to see 3 out of the 5 I voted for next month.  Gumbel is also deserving, but I’m really bummed out about Switcher not making it.  I just found out Switcher creator Aaron Moles has a tumblr account, so I’m going to reblog the first two brilliant episodes here soon.

In the meantime, you can check out all the videos at Channel 101’s official site here.