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Friend of the site Julie Seabaugh put together an oral history on Wet Hot American Summer for this week’s Variety, just in time for the launch of the prequel miniseries this Friday on Netflix. Would you believe they tried to make a Wet Hot TV series way back in 2003? …
How do you pull off a prequel to a cult comedy movie 15 years later? It’s not exactly movie magic, but it’ll be funny. “We thought it was funny that in the original we played a bunch of thirty year olds playing teenagers. Now we’re in our forties and our characters …
How did Netflix not announce this earlier in the week when it already had the full attention of the TV Critics Association? Regardless… Wet Hot American Summer officially is back in production! The cult favorite film from 2001 has found its cast members reunite a few times since, usually either …
Not pictured: Kevin Allison and Todd Holoubek The nine other members of sketch group The State did reunite on the cable TV on Monday night and into the early hours of Tuesday past midnight for Comedy Central’s comedy game show, @midnight (for which Thomas Lennon is an executive producer). Michael Showalter, Kerri …
When you throw a party for a TV show, much less a Web series, you're never quite sure how it will translate as a live experience for audiences to sit and enjoy. No such worries last night at the 92YTribeca, which hosted "Wainy Days Live," a party that not only …
The kids who spawned Reno 911!, Stella, Viva Variety and the upcoming Michael and Michael Have Issues are all grown up now, and they're finally bringing their original 1990s MTV sketch showcase, The State, to DVD. Five discs full of extras, coming July 14, 2009. Here's the trailer!
Comedy Central announced that Reno 911! will return for a sixth season in March 2009 featuring two new cast members with old ties to the fake police force. Ian Roberts and Joe Lo Truglio both had roles in the Reno 911!: Miami movie. But they’ll join the squad in March …
Where did the summer go? One minute, I look up from my computer monitor and find out that several Wainy Days have passed us by, and here it is, episode #26, and David Wain himself is saying, "If my life was a webseries, I would say there is enough episodes …
The funniest thing I’ve seen on Sony’s CSpot just so happens to have been filmed in my neighborhood this summer. Coincidence? Who cares. Just sit back and enjoy the online series, "The Line," featuring the crazed fans of the fictional movie FutureSpace, including Bill Hader, Joe Lo Truglio, Jon Glaser, …
After a week off, Wainy Days returned this week with a new episode, and David Wain has plenty of star casting help, including Lee Majors as his NSFW dad. Also Sarah Clarke and Xander Berkeley. Women continue to fall prey to Wain’s quirky, NSFW charms. This week, it’s "Rebecca." Look …
