Primetime in No Time

While my buddy Frank Nicotero goes off to get married, you can catch me everyday hosting Primetime in No Time - "the most successful show in the history of the internet"!

Miami Medical

If you freeze frame through the promo for this week's episode, you'll catch me on Miami Medical.

Here's the info if you want to catch my full 4 second performance:

Miami Medical
Friday May 7th
10/9c
CBS

If you just can't get enough, you can catch me and my newest co-host Nikki Boyer every Monday thru Saturday on Yahoo's "What's So Funny?"

Pizza and Pop Culture

The Pizza Whisperer is back with some new spots in case you were worried. You can check them out here.




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Since I'm so fricken hip, I'm a panelist on a new show on Yahoo TV! Called OMG the411. You can check that action out right here.

Konica Minolta Biz Hub

Sometimes you see the breakdown and you know you're the right guy, and sometimes everybody agrees. That was the case with this Milt-Down spot for the Konica Minolta Biz Hub Copier. We shot at the LA Chamber of Commerce. It took about 1/2 a day and I was exhausted at the end of it.

Interesting side note on this project. It premiered during a New Year's bowl game and I was in the Minneapolis airport and I ran into one of my co-stars from this commercial.

Neighborhood Watch

The greatest sketch comedy team I've ever worked with are The Exploding Pajamas and when Will Ferrell wanted to create a funny website, he came to us. We wrote this sketch on Wednesday, shot on Thursday and thanks to the incredible talents of Dan Lindsay, Kyle Roper and JW Wolterman we delivered the finished product on Friday. By Sunday we had over 100K hits.

Time for a Fling

Yes, It's "Naughty but not that naughty." Don't blink or you'll miss me in the new FLING candy bar ad campaign. The audio is me and even I find it disturbing. This spot was done by the very talented team at Smuggler. It was a fun fulfilling day for sure! The fitting for this commercial took longer than shooting. The opening image on this website was taken at the fitting. I had to wait in my boxers while they ran to some boutique to find smaller jeans. They kept trying on smaller and smaller jeans, but never wanted me to get them over my knees. It is on this day that I learned that I could fit into a size 28 jean if I tried hard enough. We ended up going with a ladies size 1.

Fat Cat & Smuggler

We all have our favorites and these are mine. Early in their careers, Renny Maslow and Jake Abraham created these spec spots. Renny and I got to work together on a short film Standard King (AKA "Mr. Fantastic) not too long ago. Later, I had yet another opportunity to work with Smuggler on a recent ad for "Fling" candy bars. I guess it's all about the relationships.

Happy Hour Springs Forward!

There's so much to celebrate, so join us on the balcony at the office (5225 Wilshire Blvd. Ste 625) for Happy Hour Friday March 26th from 5pm - 9pm. Booze, Food and Musical Guests.

NOT that we need a reason but here are a few reasons to celebrate...

What's So Funny? on Yahoo! TV has passed the 100 episode mark!

Dave and I have been out there pitching and they're selling!

The DVD release of Twilight Eclipse!

It's Spring!

The Life and Times of Corey Haim!

Oscar and Edie are kickin' Ass in school and Bea is just kickin' Ass.

Simon is leaving Idol.

Mike broke 500 followers on Twitter! (@thebachmann btw!)

The DVD release of Small Wonder Season One!

OK, some milestones aren't that big, but do you really need a reason to enjoy free drinks under the stars?

See you there!

Mike! What have you been up to lately?

Here are some places you'll be able to catch me in the twenty tens...

"Make It Or Break It" on ABC Family - Episode "California Girls" Tent. Airdate: 2/18/10



"Miami Medical" on CBS - Episode 106 "Calle Cubana" Airdate; TBD - This new Bruckheimer Medical Drama will be announced in Mid January.


You can still see the Konica Minolta Milt-Down commercials all through football season. Search "milt" on this site and you can watch it right now.

New Pizza Whisperer spots are coming your way soon, so stay tuned!

And of course you can catch me every single day on Yahoo! TV distilling the funny from last night's primetime. Check it out at http://whatssofunny.yahoo.com

I'll see you on the facebook or you can follow me on the twitter @thebachmann

So many exciting things are shaping up for 2010 but I'm bound by lots of non-disclosure clauses this year. So as soon as I can, I'll keep you updated.

Wishing you the best in the New Year!

Mike

Help the kid's School

Click the link to become a fan of our school and Chase will donate $1000s of dollars to Edie's school Carpenter Elementary. This program pays for Dance, Science, Music, and Pys Ed... I support 3 out of four of those programs :)

The Shallow End

Alot of people ask me if I've had anything done. I usually dodge the question. I can hide no longer. In the style of classic british documentary humour... here I am in a speedo.

the SHALLOW END - watch more funny videos

What's So Funny?

We have officially launched the show this week. Please CLICK HERE to enjoy or hate. Shows are only up for 7 days and we do a weekend show that announces the funniest of the week.

Updates

Sorry for radio silence, but we've had exciting weeks here at AtTheMike.com! Which will be a division of AtTheMike.com, Inc after the first of the year. Yeah - I'm going corporate. Here's a lame update on the bidness...
Last week I played a tiny part on Make it or Break it on ABC Family and this week I played an even tinier part on Jerry Bruckheimer's untitled ER style medical drama. All this happens while we're perfecting my new show on Yahoo TV called "What's so Funny?" where me and my co-host, Shira Lazar, pick the funniest clips from last night's TV and you vote on which one you like better. Should be really cool after we work out all the techie type stuff. Still out pitching film and TV as well as working on an animated reality hybrid we sold recently. I'll come back and clean up this post with proper links and photos later, but wanted to keep you abreast. If you really care, you can follow along on twitter - link on the right or just search @thebachmann and I'm Facebooking like a 13 year old girl. Thanks for checking in and Happy Holidays in case I don't update before then!
Best,
Mike

What's So Funny?

The show starts very soon...new shows EVERY DAY!

Yahoo!

The guest appearances on Yahoo! might be turning into a show of my own... stay tuned...

CareerRuiner - NEEDS YOUR VOTE!

I tried to unplug for family vacation but when the uber-talented Kirven Blount sent me this link to vote for our CareerBuilder commercial, I had to spread the love. Kirven and I have collaborated on lots of stuff, and I'd love to see him get some more cred. Check out the video and be sure to click on the hearts or stars below the video to spread the love.

Pizza Whisperer

He's back! Check out the NEW Round Table Pizza Whisperer Commercials HERE.

A Film in 48 Hours

My buddy Jason Fitzpatrick dragged me into helping him write and produce this film. Yesterday it screened as part of the 48 Hour Film Fest Los Angeles. The result was HYSTERICAL! Jason did an incredible job writing, directing and editing - if you need those types of things, you should call him. For those of you who don’t know, what a 48 film festival entails, here are the details. You pick a genre out of a hat and incorporate three elements to make a complete short film over a weekend. This year we drew Mockumentary out of the hat. These are the three elements we had to use.

Character: Alex Filbert (Champion)
Prop: Junk Mail
Line: “How Was I Supposed to Know”

You can watch it by clicking here:

The Cellar Project

We just wrapped shooting for "The Cellar" - a pilot trailer that takes a look at life in the unconventional, ageless, superficial world of retail. Over the next few weeks we'll be editing a 7ish minute project that included a cast of over 50, a crew with the talented Mr. David Garrett in the directing chair, The Grainey Pix team behind the camera, the support of super hip store LASC in West Hollywood, and Sets in the City in Santa Clarita. We'll be taking it out to a few promised networks first but our powerhouse team over at Innovative Artists with Michael Pio at the helm are ready to take it to a few hungry friends all over town. If you want to see pics, let's be friends on facebook and you'll see about 625,000 photos. In a completely unrelated topic, check out retail snobs APPLEMOUTH & COX

The Pizza Whisperer

My friends at Y&R in San Fran and my friends at Round Table pizza thought I'd be a good spokesman for their super awesome delicious pizza pies. Now, I'll admit that many times I'm in it for the paycheck, but I gotta say, this is GREAT fricken pizza. We'll be shooting some more spots in June, but check out our latest below:


Now go get you some. If you recognize me on the street, I'll give you a free pizza coupon. That's how I show the love. There are about 500 stores, but they're only on the West Coast. Sorry Easties. But that doesn't mean you can't be part of the Round Table experience. Here's how:
You can watch the commercials on Roundtable's Website - Click on the ingredients for more PW fun.

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You can become a fan on Facebook
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You can follow the Pizza Whisperer's updates on Twitter.

Smarte Bidness

So Dave and I were hosting a happy hour at the office a few weeks ago and the number one question (behind "who's your agent?") was "Where's the bathroom key." For some unknown reason, our building, which often allows homeless people to mill about the lobby is very protective of the toilet. Our buddy Josh Weinroth was in the house and Dave suggested we attach the key to him. Then, Dave decided we needed to shoot that. We did. It may end up as a series about two inept business consultants and you can keep up with their adventures here. Since Josh was there from the beginning, we cast him as the annoying neighbor who keeps stealing the key, and since Ron Jeremy needs to break out of porn, we cast him as the key. Here's how it turned out.

Smarte Bidness with Ron Jeremy - watch more funny videos

Primetime in No Time

Last year, on my birthday, I got a call from Corey Moss who produces the original content on Yahoo! He was looking for someone to write on their new show, Primetime in No Time. It's a daily show that highlights the best moments in last night's primetime. Now, since I love sweet, sweet TV, it was a perfect fit and I started writing on the show that very night. Since then I've produced a few episodes, hosted a few episodes and written several hundred episodes. The show is hosted by comic Frank Nicotero, who brings it every single day and as it turns out is my neighbor in Studio City. Nick Paschal (Nick the PA) is our version of Chris Eliot and does a great job managing the day to day while Jason Fitzpatrick shoots, directs and edits it all together. Kyle Moss just joined the team to pick up the slack on the days when me and Corey can't or won't write and the Moss Sequel is kicking some cyber ass himself these days.

Our little webseries now has 100s of millions of viewers and peaks with around 9mm streams on a single day. Not bad for a bunch of TV junkies. Expect great things as Primetime expands the empire.


I'll post a clip of one of my hosting gigs shortly, but it's tricky because I think there are rules about Fair Use that prevent me from posting other people's work in certain forums but I gotta read up on all that.

Allied Steel Erections

A little while ago, Allied Steel Buildings came to The Exploding Pajamas for a funny, viral spot they could pass around to clients and vendors. They also wanted something to show at those boring conferences about roof pitch and I-beams. When we sat down with the team at Allied Steel, they said that their erections were fast and easy - yeah - we said, "Excuse me? Did you just say..." That's all the info we needed and the meeting was ended immediately. Here's the finished project.

The Bio - Dave and Mike

David Garrett/Mike Bachmann (Writer/Producers)

David Garrett & Mike Bachmann first teamed up in 2008 to write two indie comedies, "The Big Meet" and "National Lampoon's Rock Hard", both of which are scheduled for production in 2009. In March, the musical web series "Private High Musical" (which Garrett Executive Produced) was sold to MTV.

Previously, Garrett co-wrote "Foreign Exchange" for MTV Films and the musical comedy "Do That To Me One More Time" for Touchstone Pictures, with Jack Black attached to star and produce. In 2005, Garrett co-wrote "Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo". In addition to co-writing "First Pet" and "Corky Romano" for Disney, Dave has written screenplays for directors Ivan Reitman at Dreamworks, Tom Shadyac at Universal ("Haunting Darryl") and Peter Segal ("Garden of Steven").

In 2008, David sold the half hour reality show "I've Never" to Reveille and the one-hour dramedy "Citizen's Arrest" to the USA Network. Previously, he co-wrote the half hour pilot "Central" for CW. In 2006, NBC bought the half-hour comedy pilot "The Dysfunctionals". which was based on David's life. WB's "Living with Fran", which Garrett co-created and Executive Produced, was also based on his life and ran for 2 years. He sold the half-hour comedy "Model Family" to Fox with Jamie Kennedy in 2007.

Mike Bachmann is a writer and Guest Host for "Primetime in No Time" (PiNT) on Yahoo TV. With over 250mm streams, CBS Marketwatch dubbed PiNT "one of the most successful original programs in the history of the internet." Bachmann co-wrote Overture Film's upcoming Peter Farrelly/Charles Wessler sketch comedy film slated for production in 2010. Previously Mike was a writer for Nick@Nite's original hit "Hi-Jinks" and is a member of LA based sketch comedy troupe The Exploding Pajamas.

Bachmann/Garrett have also written/produced/directed several award winning short films including "Sunday's Game" (multiple festival awards), "Hott4Hill" (Top Political Video of the Year - CNN) and "Neighborhood Watch", which was used to launch Will Farrell's "FunnyOrDie".

In addition to other collaborative projects, Garrett sold and co-wrote "The Hatfields & McCoys", a dramatic mini-series for the USA Network. He has written and produced nearly two dozen pilots, series & specials for ABC, NBC, CBS, UPN, Comedy Central, Showtime and Fox, including the animated series "Da Mob" for Fox Family. He's had development deals with Fox Television Studios, Paramount TV, and Touchstone.

David is an attorney, a member of the California State Bar and graduate of UCLA Law School. As an actor and stand up comedian, Michael can be seen on several hit television shows, films, and commercials. He currently resides with his wife and 3 small children in Studio City, CA.

Untitled Kwan Project

Recently I spent the day at the East West Ice Palace in Artesia California which is run by the friendly and accommodating Kwan family, as in Olympic skater Michelle Kwan. I apologize for the photo quality. It was a camera phone and we were very busy that day and didn't have much time for pics. I can't give too much away as my buddies Brian Sawyer and Gregg Rossen are still polishing it up for the studios, but I can tell you that Michelle and I had several great scenes together and I learned how to drive a Zamboni. Facebookers can see about 10,000 pics of me driving the Zamboni.

Writer's Strike Supporting Actor

Days before the writer's strike, I was about to sign a deal for a feature film. When the strike began, I was worried, and when the strike was over my worries were confirmed. No development money. No Deal. Dang. If I wasn't just a pup, I'd be concerned, but of course I supported my WGA bros with some face acting.

Prilosec Commercial

This all day shoot was a blast. They trusted me enough to say, "Hey Mike, just annoy the guys on the couch however you want. Rolling. Action" There's several versions. This is the short one.