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On Saturday, I reported about a widely-viewed YouTube video that includes an anti-Jewish slur. Here's a screenshot from this morning:


A July 11 Huffington Post item about the video -- created by and starring "comedy" duo Jimmy Craig and Justin Parker who run a media production business in Danvers, Mass. -- has since been deleted.

Clicking the link to the original post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/11/universal-studios-intro-in-real-life_n_3579434.html?utm_hp_ref=comedy) leads to a blank page with this explanation:

As a result of an earlier YouTube video that went viral, Craig and Parker were the subject of recent profiles by Glenn Yoder in the Boston Globe and by Sara Gaynes in the Boston Herald.

Here are some screenshots related to the deleted HuffPo item that was uploaded by Senior Comedy Editor Carol Hartsell, who presumably thought it was a hoot. 

 
UPDATE (10:30AM): NextMovie.com, an MTV property, published this July 15 item by Christopher Rosa:

Apparently doing a Winston Smith, NextMovie also disappeared the item, but without an explanation.

Here's what's at http://www.nextmovie.com/blog/universal-logo-funny-video now:

Also see my July 16, 2013 follow-up, Huffington Post scrubs Boston-area "comedy" duo's YouTube containing anti-Jewish slur (UPDATE: MTV site deletes it, too)

Source: Boston Herald, 11/29/12

Via Trying to ride viral videos to wider fame -- Billerica video-making duo aims to take viral success to Hollywood by Glenn Yoder, a January 1, 2013 feature in the Boston Globe:

For a couple of comedians, Jimmy Craig and Justin Parker don’t joke around much. Not, that is, when discussing their craft.

...“This is what we want,” he continues. “This is what we want to do with our lives.”

They’re hoping they get that chance after the recent triumph of “Cat-Friend vs. Dog-Friend”...The clip, shot in their hometown of Billerica and posted in late November, went viral, collecting nearly 7 million YouTube plays in its first month and a segment on the “Today” show.

Clip from their most recent attempt at humor, published July 8, 2013 on YouTube


Move over Paula Deen -- Jimmy Craig and Justin Parker are in the house.

More from the Globe:

...Craig and Parker formed a two-man corporate video production company called Methodloft in January 2011, partnering with McDougall Interactive, a marketing agency that was seeking an in-house video team..."Immediately it was a match made in heaven (says company president John McDougall).

Via McDougall's website:


Screenshots from Methodloft's website, presumably some of their clients:


Finally, from Quick Tips for Making a Corporate Video by Jimmy Craig, October 22, 2012