Groundlings Improv gets on Sony's bandwagon

The Groundlings, L.A.'s marquee improv troupe and incubator of luminaries including Phil Hartman, Pee-wee Herman, Elvira and Will Ferrell, is teaming with Sony Pictures Television to start their own slate of 50 webisodes. 

Groundling Mitch Silpa got the viral ball rolling (ignore mixed metaphor) last year with "David Blaine Street Magic," an amusing series in which Silpa-Blaine harasses a pair of boy towners by constantly performing weird magic tricks on them (one instance of the unlinkable video scored 16M views on YouTube).

Sony launched its own web comedy channel, C-Spot, last month.