Big Mouth has been in the works for over a year and it looks like it all paid off. Nick Kroll and Andrew Goldberg's (Family Guy) series about prepubescent preteens dropping the pre-prefix isn't for the kids it's portraying. The script is very dark -- see the trailer for little boy butt and little girl talking vaginas. But it looks nice. The cast is one of the best on the service with Kroll being joined by Jordan Peele, Jason Mantzoukas, Fred Armisen, Maya Rudolph, Jenny Slate, and Jessi Klein. Big Mouth premieres on Friday, September 29th.
Comedy Central's Colossal Clusterfest keeps adding comedy acts
It's been a little over a month since the announcement of Comedy Central's own stand up comedy festival but those guys have just added more acts to their ranks. And there's going to be music bands too. So the likes of Jerry Seinfeld will be joined by musicians like Ice Cube.
Today, the network announced that additional acts will also be in attendance. Performances from Hasan Minhaj and TJ Miller are among the new lineup. Miller will also be hosting a live version of his new show -- The Gorburger Show -- and special events from Rachel Bloom, the Broad City ladies, and Chris Gethard and more will join in as well. All of this on top of interactive attractions from South Park, Seinfeld, and Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Check out the new fun times below.
- “Wayne’s World” 25th Anniversary: A Live Read with Broad City’s Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer
- Party time! Excellent! Abbi and Ilana along with special guests will be celebrating the 25th Anniversary of “Wayne’s World” by doing a live reading of the screenplay.
- Tainted Love: 1980’s Time Machine Dance Party
- 80’s-themed comedy sets by James Adomian, Rachel Bloom, Chris Gethard and more
- Popular Bay Area 80’s cover band Tainted Love will perform New Wave hits and are joined by guest comedians doing sets as if they’re in the 1980’s
- Theme Park Improv featuring Ian Brennan, John Michael Higgins, Jessica Makinson, Cole Stratton, Janet Varney and special guest monologist Fred Armisen
- The Theme Park Improv Show’s improvisers take a single suggestion of a theme from the audience, and wing an entire set of fast-paced long-form scenes and characters, based on stories from a special guest monologist
- Lunches with Funches: Giggles & Nibbles with Ron Funches & Friends
- Powerless and Undateable star Ron Funches with guest chef, Oakland’s own Food Network star Tanya Holland and special guest comedians for an afternoon of laughs and lunch
Jenny Slate, Jack Black to star in a polka movie while Zoe Lister-Jones, Adam Pally and Fred Armisen rock out
Indie movies are a sure fire way to get niche projects done. Better yet, they can come out exactly the way the creator wanted it to. They're getting made all the time while these other AAA blockbusters soak up all the sun. But the appeal of an indie movie is that Hollywood's top brass get a chance to shine in a more subdued, folk heavy environment.
Jenny Slate and Jack Black are starring together in The Polka King. Variety scooped the story saying that the Black produced movie is based on the 2009 documentary The Man Who Would be Polka King. The movie will follow Pennsylvania polka sensation Jan Lewan who got his fans to invest in a Ponzi scheme. Maya Forbes and Wolodarsky wrote and directed the script. The cast also includes Jason Schwartzman, Jacki Weaver, Vanessa Bayer, and J.B Smoove.
On a more personal front, Zoe Lister-Jones recently finished what Hollywood Reporter is calling her passion project. She did everything from writing to directing and even producing. Oh and she starred in it too. And she wrote the songs? Jeez, calm down girl. The movie is called Band Aid and also stars Adam Pally and Fred Armisen. The story follows a couple on the brink of divorce after a miscarriage but they decide to turn their fights into rock songs, forming a rock band to save the marriage. Casting includes a ton of comedy and television favorites like Hannah Simone, Brookyln Decker, Chris D'Elia, Jesse Williams, Susie Essman, Ravi Patel, Erinn Hayes, Jamie Chung, Jerry O'Connell, Retta, Majandra Delfino, and Angelique Cabral. Wow, Lister-Jones sure did stack this cast.
Nick Kroll will have his very own cartoon series on Netflix
The Netflix train continues to roll as they add another big time comedian with a show to their bulbous slate of comedian based shows. The streaming platform has greenlit Big Mouth from Kroll Show's title character/creator Nick Kroll. Variety says the show will be a 30 minute "edgy, surreal animated comedy," which describes most of what Kroll usually does. It follows teenagers, Nick and Andrew (Kroll's irl bff and Family Guy writer/producer Andrew Goldberg) who are on the cusp of puberty. John Mulaney is said to actually voice the character of Andrew however. Of course, other comedians are joining the voice cast including Maya Rudolph, Jason Mantzoukas, Jordan Peele, Fred Armisen, Jenny Slate and Jessi Klein. Big Mouth will scream its first ten episodes on Netflix in 2017.
Fred Armisen is closing out this seasons's SNL
Saturday Night Live alum Fred Armisen is bringing his weird, alternative comedy back to the SNL stage this weekend. Aussie rocker Courtney Barnett is the musical guest. In these final promos for season 41, Armisen is joined by breakout star Kate McKinnon who reminds Fred of how the show works.