About

The show
and the
studio

The series

Life With Claude is an original animated comedy short series. It follows Tony, a regular guy, and Claude, his human-sized assistant who turns every basic task into an over-explained, over-eager disaster.

Episodes are designed for vertical mobile viewing, ranging from 30 to 100 seconds in length.

The studio

Vertically Challenged is a vertical-video studio and podcast making short-form comedy for mobile audiences.

The podcast, The Jay & Tony Show Show: Vertically Challenged, has been running for well over a hundred episodes.

How it is made
Human-writtenAI visualsAuto-distributed

Ideas, scripts, direction, and editing come from our team. Visuals are AI generated, and an in-house pipeline handles delivery to each platform. The writing and the comedy judgment are human. The pictures are generated.

The Publisher tool
Life With Claude Publisher

Life With Claude Publisher is our internal content-preparation tool. After an episode is rendered, it places the finished file into our own social drafts for us to review and publish. It never posts publicly on its own.