New Wave Entertainment

Background
New Wave Entertainment is an employee-owned entertainment marketing company, founded in 1995.

1st Logo (1998-2005)


Logo: We see a TV turning on inside a split-box rectangle (a la Paramount Closet Killer). The first section contains a television set with an eye, with the second section having the text "NWE". Under the rectangle is the text "NEW WAVE ENTERTAINMENT" and underneath that is "TELEVISION" or "DVD". The eye blinks.

Variant: At the end of The Baking of American Pie 2, the logo is shortened to the eye blinking.

Technique: 2D animation.

Music/Sounds: A synth buzzing sound.

Music/Sounds Variant: The Baking of American Pie 2 uses the closing theme.

Availability: Seen on various special features on DVDs from Warner Home Video such as Chasing Liberty, and DVDs from Universal such as Dawn of the Dead, The Interpreter, and the 2006 release of Smokey and the Bandit, as well as the first volume of Star Wars: Clone Wars.

2nd Logo (2006-2007)


Logo: An orange bookcase falls down, with the following contents:


 * Top: A letter "N", a camera, and a lightbulb
 * Middle: A pencil, a letter "W", and a microphone
 * Bottom: A disc, a TV, and a letter "E"

Then the bookcase turns quickly around to reveal an orange square, with which a brown nine-square pattern swings into the frame. The orange text "NWE," with "NEW WAVE ENTERTAINMENT" below, shines.

Variant: There is a still logo. This can be seen on Dane Cook's Tourgasm.

Technique: CGI.

Music/Sounds: A crashing sound, followed by a five-note string flourish.

Availability: This was discovered after the featurette "Poseidon: A Ship on a Soundstage," which can be seen on the 2006 DVD and HD-DVD and 2010 Blu-ray of Poseidon.

3rd Logo (2007-2012?)
Logo: It starts like the previous logo, but the bookcase turns around to reveal nine orange skewed squares. "new wave entertainment" is seen under that.

Variant: There is a still variant.

Technique: CGI.

Music/Sounds: Either the previous logo's music or none.

Availability: Can be seen on special features on DVDs such as Alvin and the Chipmunks, and on stand-up comedy specials such as Dane Cook: Isolated Incident. It also appears at the end of the documentaries Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices and Beware the Moon: Remembering An American Werewolf in London. Some Netflix Comedy specials produced by themselves use in-credit text.

4th Logo (July 5, 2011-January 13, 2015)
Logo: Unblurring itself into view is the print version of the previous logo, with authoring information below it. After several seconds, it blurs itself out.

Variant: On the 2015 DVD of The Two Faces of January, no blurring occurs, and the logo is redesigned.

Technique: 2D animation.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: The first variant appears at the end of the 2011 Magnet Releasing DVD of Hobo with a Shotgun (the Blu-ray has no logo).

5th Logo (2012?-2014)


Logo:
 * Opening: On a brick house with a table, we see a paper with something written in marker. A hand holds a glass of water with the New Wave Entertainment logo from the previous logo in white on it, and takes it to the table. "presents" slides from the glass in white.
 * Closing: On a black bckground, we see the glass, spinning to reveal the New Wave Entertainment logo in white. While the camera zooms in, the glass fades out to show the finished product, with the squares and "entertainment" being orange.

Technique: Live-action.

Music/Sounds: For the opening, a glass-touching sound when the glass hits the table, sometimes followed by the first few seconds of the special. For the closing, none, sometimes with the last split-second of the special.

Availability: Can be seen on stand-up comedy specials by them at the time.

6th Logo (2014-2015?)
Unknown.

(2015-2017)
Logo: Unknown.

Technique: CGI.

Music/Sounds: Unknown.

Availability: Unknown.

Background
Comedy Dynamics (formerly New Wave Dynamics) is a company established by Brian Volk-Weiss in 2008. It produces many comedic content. It was originally owned by New Wave Entertainment until it was spun off to Nacelle in 2017.

(2015- )
Logo: On a black background, a light appears, revealing a yellow microphone, while some yellow outlines draw some text. The camera pans over, and the light reveals the text "COMEDY DYNAMICS" in some sort of futuristic font in yellow. The camera cuts to the entire logo zooming out, and the text is nearly formed, with the microphone as the "I". The byline then draws below. The logo ends with a very quick flash.

Bylines:
 * 2016-2017: "A NEW WAVE COMPANY"
 * 2017-: "A NACELLE COMPANY"

Variants:
 * A short version of the logo exists.
 * The logo is sometimes bylineless.

Technique: CGI.

Music/Sounds: A whoosh, followed by ascending buzzing noises, ending in a whistle, as well as a static sound before the very quick flash.

Availability: Seen on Comedy Dynamics material from the era, like stand-up specials (like Willie Barcena: The Truth Hurts), as well as Spectrum's revival of Mad About You.