RedLetterMedia

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Red Letter Media is a movie review YouTube channel belonging to and operated by American movie reviewers actors and independent filmmakers Mike Stoklasa and Jay Bauman.
==Hosts==
=== Mike Stoklasa ===
Mike Stoklasa is a director, writer, and actor as well as the founder of Red Letter Media which he co-operates along with Jay Bauman. Mike's personal history is mostly kept private but available information states that he made many home videos and short films with childhood friend, Rich Evans and that he graduated from Columbia College Chicago in 2002 and moved to Milwaukee after meeting Jay Bauman who resided there. Mike is a self proclaimed fan of science fiction, most notably Star Trek: The Next Generation which he mentions in many videos the channel has produced. He also frequently mentions his near obsession with ghosts and ghost hunting television programs most notably Ghost Adventures hosted by Zak Baggins.
=== Jay Bauman ===
Jay Bauman is a writer, director, and actor as well as the co-operator of Red Letter Media. Jay was an indie filmmaker in his early years and met Mike Stoklasa at a filmmakers forum in 2001. They began collaborating on multiple theatrical length films in which Jay often directed, edited, and wrote. Jay has expressed a love of horror films especially those of John Carpenter and David Lynch. Jay is a frequent editor of the videos produced by the channel and often implements visual and editing based jokes.
=== Rich Evans ===
Rich Evans is an actor and employee of Red Letter Media. Rich began by making short films with longtime friend Mike Stoklasa with whom he moved to Milwaukee and frequently appears in productions by the channel. Rich is a fan of comics and is frequently brought on to review based shows produced by the channel to discuss comic book properties. He is also a fan of video games and started the channel Previously Recorded alongside Jack Packard. Rich Evans is widely known as the "meme" of Red Letter Media. Most famously a picture of him at a young age having a birthday party at Showbiz Pizza was spread throughout the internet and wound up appearing briefly on an episode of The Ellen Show. Since then, numerous jokes by both the channels hosts and fans have been made about Rich appearing on the show.
Red Letter Media has hosted many other guests on its various shows most commonly, friends Mike, Jay, and Rich. Jack Packard and Josh Davis are mostly featured with Packard co-creating Previously Recorded with Evans. Alongside Packard and Davis, Jim Maxwell and various other have appeared. 
== Series ==
===Best of the Worst ===
Best of the Worst is one of the channels many review series in which three to four of the channels host select and discuss various 80s and 90s B-movies and instructional videos. The series is the channel's most popular out of the channels primary shows. The series features over 90 episodes and averages a runtime of just over an hour. The series premiered in January of 2013 and is currently being produced. The series also features special spotlight episodes in which the hosts discuss a singular film or video and many episodes feature a gimmick to select the films most notably the Wheel of the Worst. 
===Half in the Bag===
Half in the Bag is a review series hosted by Jay Bauman and Mike Stoklasa. The two play fictional versions of themselves whom are VCR repairmen and Rich Evans appears frequently throughout the series as Mr. Plinkett. In the series, the two are hired to fix the VCR of Harry S. Plinkett, an elderly man who hired them to fix his VCR so he could watch the TV series Night Court. Mike and Jay manipulate Plinkett into paying them thousands of dollars over the course of years as they talk about movies and drink beer instead of actually fixing the VCR. The show features mostly recent films unlike Re:View and Best of the Worst which feature older films. The show also contains various storylines, running gags, and characters. 
===Re:View===
Re:View is also a review series however it features a more laid back and thorough discussion. The films featured are mostly the favorites of the channels hosts including Ghostbusters, Ed Wood, and Gremlins 2: The New Batch. The show is one of the more recent of the channel and has included a revolving door of hosts, the host largely depends on the movie being discussed.
===The Plinkett Reviews===
Mr. Plinkett was a character created by Stoklasa and Evans (originally portrayed by Evans) for use in a short film in their early years of filmmaking. Stoklasa decided to use the character for use in a Star Trek Generations review he produced in 2008. He decided to use the character and create the voice because he thought that his voice was to boring and mundane for such a long video essay. The Plinkett reviews are the most popular and viewed videos on the channel, most notably the review of Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace in 2009. It was widely praised and spread throughout the internet becoming known as the most thorough, in-depth, and funny review of the film and many points made in the video were used in other channels reviews of the film. Despite being the most popular videos produced by the channel they are the most irregularly uploaded to to the immense time and takes to produce them and Stoklasa only creates them when he feels strong enough about a film to do so. The films reviewed by Plinkett include all the Star Trek: The Next Generation films, the Star Wars Prequels, and the Star Wars Sequels. Other reviews include Star Trek: Picard and Ghostbusters (2016). The Plinkett Reviews are largely to credit for the channel's viewership.
==Collaborations==
Red Letter Media most frequently collaborates with members of the entertainment industry. The most common appearance of a "celebrity" on the channel is Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin. Patton Oswalt has also appeared in an episode of their review series Best of the Worst as well as their direct-to-video film, Space Cop. Comic artist Freddie Williams has also appeared on Best of the Worst as well as screenwriters Max Landis and Simon Barrett. Jay Bauman and Mike Stoklasa also appeared in an episode of the Screen Junkies webseries Honest Trailers.
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