Train of Thought is a sketch comedy

Sketch comedy

A sketch comedy consists of a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches," commonly between one and ten minutes long. Such sketches are performed by a group of comic actors or comedians, either on stage or through an audio and/or visual medium such as broadcasting...

 group located in Seattle, Washington. Made up of John Boyle and Ryan Miller, a feature of their stage revues is basing the show around a single word or phrase. http://www.trainofthought.info/

Together since 2003, they have created four original shows: Train of Thought > Airport – about the airline industry, Train of Thought > New York – about NYC, Train of Thought > Laid Off – about office life and unemployment, Train of Thought > Breaking Up – about love, dating and getting rid of that very special someone and The Best of Train of Thought in November 2006.

They have been featured on local NBC

NBC

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 affiliate King 5  http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_102006WABjibjabcompetitionLJ.584705b7.html and have been recommended by weekly papers Seattle Weekly

Seattle Weekly

Seattle Weekly is a freely distributed newspaper in Seattle, Washington, United States. It was founded by Darrell Oldham and David Brewster as The Weekly...

 ("The funniest threesome on [the Seattle] stage") http://www.seattleweekly.com/arts/0606/perf-picks.php, The Stranger

The Stranger (newspaper)

The Stranger is an alternative weekly newspaper in Seattle, Washington, USA. It runs a blog known as Slog.-History:The Stranger was founded by Tim Keck, who had previously co-founded the satirical newspaper The Onion, and cartoonist James Sturm. Its first issue came out on September 23, 1991...

 ("Good jokes peppered with pockets of awesome") http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Listings?oid=22116 and "one of the most talented and funny sketch comedy groups you'll ever see in your life" by Metroblogging Seattle http://seattle.metblogs.com/archives/2006/11/train_of_though.phtml.

They were also selected to perform at the 2006 Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival. http://chicagoist.com/2006/01/06/sketchfest_part_deux_from_the_stage_to_the_desktop.php

The troupe has created a strong video presence on sites such as YouTube

YouTube

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 and others. They've created viral video

Viral video

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s such as Promiscuous by Nelly Furtado

Promiscuous (song)

"Promiscuous" is a dance-pop/R&B song by Canadian recording artist Nelly Furtado, from the album, Loose . It was written by Furtado, Timothy "Attitude" Clayton, Timbaland and Nate "Danja" Hills, with the latter pair handling production of the song...

 featuring troupe member Kaci and Puppet Timbaland

Timbaland

Timothy Zachery Mosley , better known by his stage name Timbaland, is an American record producer, songwriter and rapper....

 http://www.trainofthought.info/video_promiscuous.html, Facebook News Network http://www.trainofthought.info/video_facebook_news_network.html, Spelling Bee http://www.trainofthought.info/video_spellingbee.html and others. Their videos have been featured on CollegeHumor

CollegeHumor

CollegeHumor is a comedy website owned by InterActiveCorp and based in New York City. The site features daily original comedy videos and articles created by its in-house writing and production team, in addition to user-submitted videos, pictures, articles and links. In early 2009, CollegeHumor's...

 http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1787501, iFilm

IFilm

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 http://www.ifilm.com/video/2910361, Yahoo!

Yahoo!

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 Video http://video.yahoo.com/watch/276329, Veoh

Veoh

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 http://www.veoh.com/videos/v12129737r2fZWcR, Crackle

Crackle

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 http://www.crackle.com/c/Moving_Targets/Facebook_News_Network/2074623 and many others.

They have also built viral web sites such as RandomYouTubeInsult.com http://www.randomyoutubeinsult.com and People Sleeping On Planes http://www.peoplesleepingonplanes.com which have been featured on Buzzfeed

BuzzFeed

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, MetaFilter

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 and others..

The group was also a finalist in The Great Sketch Experiment put on by JibJab

JibJab

JibJab is a digital entertainment studio based in Venice, California. Founded in 1999 by Evan and Gregg Spiridellis, it was noticed during the 2004 US presidential election when their video of George W. Bush and John Kerry singing "This Land is Your Land" became a hit. The company creates,...

. Over 100 independent comedy groups were invited to submit a sketch based on a police theme. Six were chosen and flown to Los Angeles to have their sketch filmed by legendary comedy director John Landis

John Landis

John David Landis is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and producer. He is known for his comedies, his horror films, and his music videos with singer Michael Jackson.-Early life and career:...

. Train of Thought was the only participating group not from Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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 or New York City

New York City

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. Their sketch, Tom & Tina, was featured on TechCrunch

TechCrunch

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http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/20/jibjabs-great-sketch-experiment/ among other sites.