Whois & Analysis for rifftrax.com

RiffTrax is an American company that produces humorous audio commentary tracks intended to be played in unison with particular television programs and films, featuring comedians Michael J.

Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett.

The three comedians' seemingly-improvised commentating style originated from their earlier television series, Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K), in which they would similarly mock (or "riff") films aloud while watching them.

RiffTrax products are sold online and delivered by app, streaming video, and download.

Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) is an American television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson and produced by Best Brains, Inc. The show premiered on KTMA in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 24, 1988.

It later aired on The Comedy Channel/Comedy Central for another six seasons until its cancellation in 1997.

Thereafter, it was picked up by The Sci-Fi Channel and aired for another three seasons until another cancellation in August 1999.

Over the series' ten seasons, 197 episodes and a were produced.

In 1995, there was also The Mystery Science Theater Hour (a sixty-episode syndication package).

In 2015, Hodgson led a crowd funded revival of the series with at least fourteen episodes in its first season, to initially broadcast on Netflix in April 2017.

An audio commentary is an additional audio track, usually digital, consisting of a lecture or comments by one or more speakers, that plays in real time with a video.

Commentaries can be serious or entertaining in nature, and can add information which otherwise would not be disclosed to audience members.

A film, also called a movie, motion picture, theatrical film or photoplay, is a series of still images which, when shown on a screen, creates the illusion of moving images due to the phi phenomenon.

This optical illusion causes the audience to perceive continuous motion between separate objects viewed rapidly in succession.

The process of filmmaking is both an art and an industry.

A film is created by photographing actual scenes with a motion picture camera; by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques; by means of CGI and computer animation; or by a combination of some or all of these techniques and other visual effects.

Celebrity refers to the fame and public attention accorded by the mass media to individuals or groups or, occasionally, animals, but is usually applied to the persons or groups of people (celebrity couples, families, etc) themselves who receive such a status of fame and attention.

Celebrity status is often associated with wealth (commonly referred to as fame and fortune), while fame often provides opportunities to make money.