The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Is a new generation ready for Beavis and Butt-Head? It won’t be the MTV Generation, but whomever is watching Comedy Central these days. Comedy Central announced a deal with Mike Judge to reimagine Beavis and Butt-Head. The deal also calls for additional spin-offs and specials. From the press release: Launched …
Just a month before Election Day 2016, the Alamo Drafthouse movie chain is giving Idiocracy a bigger 10-year anniversary screening party than the movie’s studio did when it first came out in 2006. As they put it: Ten years ago, satirist Mike Judge told of an impossible future in which …
Enough people have compared the state of our 2016 presidential campaign with the 2006 film Idiocracy that its filmmakers decided to write some new copy for future “President Camacho,” but all of your advance spin on it scared off both the actor who’d star in the videos and the studio …
Pied Piper returned to Austin for SXSW 2016, with billboards and T-shirts boasting how the app at the heart of HBO’s Silicon Valley is “Helping Humanity Thrive.” The app might be a joke. But so, too, seem the actual tech people at both the massive March festival in Texas as …
South By Southwest has filled out its 2016 feature film slate for SXSW, and a Robert Klein documentary directed by Klein himself will round out a comedy bill that’s quite meta. Last year, hit flicks Trainwreck and Spy both made their world premieres in Austin for SXSW. For 2016, the comedy movies …
HBO unveiled a trailer and behind-the-scenes footage for its upcoming eight-episode first season of Silicon Valley, which stars Thomas Middleditch as a computer programmer living with his friends (Josh Brener, Martin Starr and Kumail Nanjiani) in the home of another dot.com millionaire played by T.J. Miller, as they all seek …
HBO’s current original comedy stable revolves around Girls and Veep. They’ll be rejoined by a double dose of guys by 2014. The pay-cable network has announced pickups of two new comedy series, both set in and around the Bay Area of Northern California. Today came word of an HBO series …
Holy animation domination crossovers! In another blink-and-you-missed-it, and yet slightly longer than that, moments on Family Guy, the animation legend behind Beavis and Butt-Head and King of the Hill brought a little bit of the latter to FOX’s current hit series. Mike Judge voiced King of the Hill‘s Hank in a …
A few days ago, actor Terry Crews popped up in a new series of videos on Funny or Die in character as President Camacho. Not President Barack Obama, but Camacho, a role Crews had played in Mike Judge’s 2006 film, Idiocracy. Why Idiocracy? And why now? Judge’s directorial big-screen follow-up …
