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The Comedy Bureau Field Report Ep. 150: Bill Oakley & Bringing Back Mission Hill

February 8, 2023
News, The Comedy Bureau Field Report
adult animation, ai seinfeld, bill oakley, mission hill, rick and morty, simpsons

Renowned comedic mind and self-made food celebrity Bill Oakley (Simpsons, Futurama, Portlandia, Steamed Ham Society) joins TCB’s Jake Kroeger for this week’s TCB Field Report to talk through the changing decades of satire, especially when it comes to adult animation. More importantly, Bill is revisiting Mission Hill, his unfortunately short lived series co-created with Josh Weinstein after their time at The Simpsons, and currently touring it throughout theaters in the U.S. with an entirely new 4K restoration.

Also, “hot” takes on Simpsons episode being dropped in Hong Kong, AI Seinfeld going dark, and the future of Rick and Morty.

Follow Bill @thatbilloakley on IG and join in at The Steamed Ham Society at patreon.com/steamedhamssociety

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Produced by Jake Kroeger
Music by Brian Granillo
Artwork by Andrew Delman and KT

The Comedy Bureau Field Report Ep. 57: Babs Romen & What Comedy Is Supposed To Do

April 28, 2021
News, The Comedy Bureau Field Report
adult animation, another round, anti vaxxers, babs romen, flintstones, joe rogan, leonardo dicaprio

Babs Romen has been anything from Mitzi Shore’s right hand to a big time network development executive to a producer of the improvised stand-up international phenomenon Set List and everything in between. She knows the business and the art of comedy in and out and that made for a great, deep chat on the purpose of comedy and what she seeks to do with it, specifically Set List, as the world aims to open again. Also “hot” takes on an English remake of the Oscar winning Another Round, an adult animated spin-off of The Flintstones, and, yep, Joe Rogan’s nonchalant anti-vaxxer stance.

Follow Babs Romen on FB here & on Twitter @babsromen. Keep up to date on Set List @setlistshow on Twitter and IG.

The Comedy Bureau @thecomedybureau across platforms and please, please support TCB via GoFundMe, Patreon, or on Venmo (@jakekroeger).

Produced by Jake Kroeger
Music by Brian Granillo
Artwork by Andrew Delman and KT

Fox’s Latest Animated Comedy Will Be Set in Mythical Ancient Greece from Dan Harmon & Bento Box

February 8, 2021
News
adult animation, bento box entertainment, dan harmon, fox

(via Deadline)

With Dan Harmon’s track record at this point, odds are that you’ll catch whatever animated comedy that’s he putting out. The sheer domination of Rick & Morty across television is enough hold up this claim.

So, Fox is betting big on this notion as they have given a series order to a Harmon series that will be produced by acclaimed animation studio Bento Box Entertainment (the folks behind Bob’s Burgers). You can see that Harmon has built quite the sandbox to play with (and alternatively destroy and reframe) with the show’s setting in mythical Ancient Greece following mortals, gods, and monsters trying desperately to not ruin one of civilization’s first attempts at a city.

We can already imagine the whipsmart writing and the sort of play within and outside of the tomes of Greek Mythology. If you can think of Rick Sanchez as a flawed god, Harmon ought to have a field day with a whole crew of them.

An interesting tidbit to this series order is that Fox will own the whole series and thus broadcast it on their channels as well as funnel it through on the streaming end through their very own streaming service, Tubi. If you have followed the rise and fall of streaming of services in recent years, they do seem to depend on marquee shows (i.e. what would Disney Plus be without The Mandalorian and conversely, look what happened to Quibi).

Sure, you’ll be able to watch it on linear TV, but are you going to go in on another streaming service w/Tubi? We’ll just have to wait and see how fervent Harmon’s fans are in the next year and how good of a trailer they cut for the show.

“Teenage Euthanasia” Will Be Adult Swim’s Latest Series, Set for 2021 Premiere

December 3, 2020
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adult animation, adult swim, alissa nutting, bebe neuwirth, jo firestone, maria bamford, teenage euthanasia, tim robinson

With Adult Swim’s reputation of unabashedly trippy, absurd, dark, edgy shows, especially when it comes to comedy (i.e. Mr. Pickles, The Heart, She Holler), it’s honestly surprising that they haven’t had a series set in a funeral home.

That’s all changing with Alissa Nutting and Alyson Levy’s Teenage Euthanasia, which is an animated family sitcom centered on a mother that had ran away from the family business, the Tender Endings Funeral Home, but has finally come home (though as a recently reanimated corpse). Somehow, that seems ridiculously morbid enough for the times that we’re living in. You might have your curiosity peaked even further by the cast including the voices of Maria Bamford, Jo Firestone, Tim Robinson, and Bebe Neuwirth.

Already, we’re conjuring an image of Six Feet Under run through the Adult Swim grinder and set in Florida for this series, which sounds pretty swell to us. We’ll have to wait and truly see when it premieres in 2021. Hopefully, by the premiere date, we can only hope that the show will be darker than real life.

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