Serious Lunch is a sketch comedy group based in Greenpoint, Brooklyn composed of Tim Bierbaum, Billy Keenly, John Milhiser, Anthony Miale, and Bob Officer. Together they run the website SeriousLunch.com and its related blog to showcase the group's material. Their videos have been featured on Cracked, CollegeHumor and Break.com. Serious Lunch has performed live at venues such as the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater and The People's Improv Theater.
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Group member John Milhiser joined the cast of Saturday Night Live in 2013.
The first Serious Lunch short, House of Fairfax, was produced for the 2007 New York 48 Hour Film Project. The short won Best Writing, Best Graphics, Best Use of Character and the Audience Award. The group has subsequently written and produced over 100 sketches.
The group members were profiled on G4 Network's Attack of the Show as part of their recurring "Kings of Dot Comedy" segment, and were guests on MTV's It's On with Alexa Chung.
The Serious Lunch blog received over two million hits when it was featured on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, after posting images they created comparing his new set to Super Mario Bros. graphics.
Serious Lunch members John Milhiser and Bob Officer appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Thursday, March 18 (s.1 : ep.211) to set the world record for touching noses. The total amount of time was 10 hours 34 minutes and 55 seconds touching noses without interruption, the current high standing on The Universal Record database. During the attempt a live stream of the record in progress was broadcast from The URDB website via webcam in Fallon's greenroom, with 6,000 people logged on at one point.
Serious Lunch was awarded "Best Sketch Comedy Group" at the 2011 ECNY Awards.