(via Variety)
You don’t even have to pay, subscribe, or have cable.
The single season of Ben Stiller’s eponymous sketch show featured the likes of Janeane Garofalo and Bob Odenkirk over 20 years ago.
You’re probably already rewatching Mr. Show ahead of the release of With Bob & David next week, so you can continue you your 90s sketch comedy binge with The Ben Stiller Show in its entirety, courtesy of CW’s The Seed.
With Bob & David have just released this second sketch ahead of their premiere on Netflix next week and it offers great advice on how to not deal with cops, especially if you’re not in any sort of trouble.
With Bob & David is coming in a couple of weeks to Netflix and to combat that itch you’re probably having, here’s an entire sketch where the gang of Bob Odenkirk, David Cross, Jay Johnston, John Ennis, Paul F. Tompkins, and the voice of Scott Aukerman are all together again.
If this doesn’t make your Monday, we don’t know what will.
What more do we need to say than Bob Odenkirk and David Cross’ new series at Netflix, “With Bob and David”, is coming Nov. 13th and this is the long awaited trailer that will somehow further whet your appetite more than it already is.
From a tweet that many folks thought was a straight-up Mr. Show reunion, we have now come all the way around to what is Bob Odenkirk and David Cross’ new sketch series With Bob & David, which is set for release on Netflix on Fri. Nov. 13th.
You’re probably already itching to see any of it at this point, so there’s this teaser to tide you over until a full trailer or clip will be posted to tide you over until the actual release.
Bob Odenkirk would never leave a TV appearance hanging without a bit.
So, when Jimmy Kimmel asked him to play a made-up fun game that’s really popular on talk shows these days, Bob decided that’s not going to fly with him. It’s almost like he’s poking fun of another late night host who does a bunch of games whose name is also Jimmy.
Watch Bob refuse to play ‘Heatherball’ here.
T.J. Miller, Mila Kunis, Bob Odenkirk, Susan Sarandon, Rob Riggle, Danny McBride, and Nick Swardson voice the characters for this stop motion animation romp through the underworld, Hell and Back, where two friends try to rescue their friend from the mistaken clutches of hell.
The writing and directing includes three Robot Chicken alums, Ross Shuman, Hugh Sterbakov, and Zeb Wells as well as Tom Gianas who has written on and directed anything from SNL, Mr. Show, Drunk History, Human Giant.
An R-rated stop motion animated comedy already peaked our interest, but this red band trailer should make Hell and Back all the more intriguing to you when it premieres Oct. 9th.
Many comedians that already built a bright career and also had a stellar future ahead of them were taken away from us all and the art form of comedy way too early.
One of those that was taken tragically way too early was one Chris Farley, who you probably still remember fondly from Saturday Night Live, Beverly Hills Ninja, and more.
The documentary I Am Chris Farley takes a look at the far too short lived life of Farley with interviews with Bob Odenkirk, Lorne Michaels, Adam Sandler, David Spade, and many more.
Watch the trailer here and look for its theatrical realase on July 31st.
(via Deadline)
Plenty of .gifs of both Mr. Show and With Bob and David side by side with the same cast members are going to be made.
Paul F. Tompkins, Brian Posehn, John Ennis, Jay Johnston, Mark Rivers and Dino Stamatopoulos have rejoined Bob Odenkirk and David Cross in their new sketch series With Bob and David at Netflix (that also includes one behind the scenes special).
Going off the idea that Bob and David are ex-Navy SEALs for this new series, it now makes us curious if Paul, Brian, John, Jay, Mark and Dino will also all be ex-Special Forces.
Well, it was only announced this morning, so, of course, all the tickets are pretty much taken.
Now that Netflix has ordered four episodes and a special of “With Bob and David”, Bob Odenkirk and David Cross have moved forward with this new sketch show, which will include segments performed in front of a live audience.
Cross announced free tickets for the tapings that take place throughout this month at Andrita Studios. A short time passed before all the tickets were gone, but there is a waitlist if you want to hold out hope that anyone with a ticket might miss out.
There are tapings for With Bob and David on April 15th, 21st, 25th, and 30th.
Good luck if you don’t already have tickets.
To clarify, we’re not exactly clear on how the waitlist will work here, but all TV tapings do have waitlists/standby lines/etc. as they do not want an empty seat in the house. As soon as we know exactly how they’re going about a waitlist, we’ll let you know.
(via Deadline)
Netflix scores, as far as we’re concerned, big again.
Already, Netflix has brought back Arrested Development, Wet Hot American Summer, and more and will now add to that list the likes of Bob Odenkirk and David Cross doing episodic television for their new show With Bob and David.
As Odenkirk has stated, it’s not going to be Mr. Show, but rather a new and improved sketch show with a lot of the same folks involved.
With Bob and David is currently in production and let’s hope we get to see it sometime later this year.
(via Uproxx/Rolling Stone)
There’s has been plenty of chatter around what could have been a reincarnation of Mr. Show with Bob and David for the last couple of a months now, but, in a recent Rolling Stone interview, Odenkirk offers some clarification in order to simultaneously quell rumors about Mr. Show coming back, but also keep us all excited.
Basically, there will be the same writers, as seen here, and Bob Odenkirk and David Cross will be the stars, but the show itself, as it would seem, will be something brand new and, by our estimation, something potentially even better.
The gathering of the moving parts of Mr. Show now looks like a comedy super group with such likes of Paul F. Tompkins, Scott Aukerman, Brian Posehn, and more all coming back.
Odenkirk himself says, “Better Call Saul is not Breaking Bad, but it’s written by the same writers and you can see connections, right? It hopefully will be quite the same as far as the relationship between the two shows.”
Still, with all of this being said, there are no details as to exactly where this new show will end up or when we can see it. Given Cross’ experiment with Hits, they’re probably exploring every single option online and on TV and maybe even elsewhere before they move forward.
In any case, you still should be excited for what’s happening here.
In seeing Michael Ian Black this year, not only do we have the Wet Hot American Summer series at Netflix to look forward to, but now there’s a new podcast/audio show/online audiobook where Black interviews remarkable people and how they do their remarkable things.
It’s called How To Be Amazing and already has episodes up at Audible.com for free with Tavi Gevison and Bob Odenkirk. This will probably be the closest will get to see what it was like when Michael Ian Black was on a short list as potential host of The Late Late Show before it went to Craig Ferguson.
Sure, plenty of you will be wanting to sincerely or ironically watch The Grammys tonight, but we’re sure there’s plenty of you that will want to watch the premiere of Better Call Saul on AMC and the return of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on HBO.
Luckily, Better Call Saul is at 10PM and Last Week Tonight is at 11PM if you were planning to watch it live or set your DVR.
Otherwise, you can check Twitter to see who won/did something weird at The Grammys.
(via The AV Club)
Instagrams of the old Mr. Show crew writing together again and Kickstarter prizes from David Cross’ Hits have set the Internet ablaze with the possibility of a Mr. Show reunion happening this year. However, it’s not as simple as a cut and dried one-off reunion according to Bob Odenkirk in a recent interview with The AV Club.
On the subject of a new Mr. Show, Bob says:
“However, we are working on new sketches and a new show together. And we want to do multiple episodes of it. And yet we’re limited. [Cross has] sold two series in England and I have Better Call Saul to attend to. So we have limited time, but we do want to do a new series of sketch comedy that’s new sketches and new energy, and we are laughing our asses off writing it.”
Odenkirk continues:
So right now we don’t know where it’s going to play. We just don’t know. But we’re trying to nail it down quick. We’re talking to people now and everybody knows how fast we have to move on this. Because people have jobs and they have to know what they’re going to do in February and March.
So, networks and streaming services alike, you have been put on notice to make the new Mr. Show happen ASAP.
Despite Bob Odenkirk playing the titular role of Saul Goodman in AMC’s upcoming Better Call Saul, Bob is still in shock, apparently, that he is indeed the star of this series.
While on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night, he could hardly express himself in words and, well, found another way to express it. Watch it here.
Bob Odenkirk has had stacks of old stand-up jokes for years and years and before he goes on forward with Better Call Saul and other non-stand-up pursuits, he wanted to get them recorded live.
The result is the comedy album “Amateur Hour”, a really fun meta ride through Bob reading his old jokes, often crumpling ones that he doesn’t want to do along with the enthusiastic, very young Brandon Wardell to contrast. There’s, very much in the spirit of Mr. Show, also an “old instructional” track on how to do stand-up from decades past.
It should be a fun thing to listen to while you’re enduing the marathon of food and family that is Thanksgiving. Get it from AST Records now.
Bob Odenkirk is currently on a book tour for his new book A Load of Hooey and if you want a little preview of what you might see at one of the tour stops, just watch Odenkirk do a reading on Conan.
Then make sure you catch Bob reading it around the country including here in Los Angeles at Skylight Books tonight.
Two books that need to be on your shelves by the end of the year are Bob Odenkirk’s “A Load of Hooey”, which is out now, and Megan Amram’s “Science… For Her!”, which comes out Nov. 4th.
On top of that, Odenkirk and Amram are touring the country for their respective books. Bob’s tour is already under way and will visit San Francisco tonight, then go to Pasadena, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Chicago, and NYC through Nov. 9th. Brandon Wardell, who is on Odenkirk’s upcoming stand-up album Amateur Hour, and special guests will be coming along too.
Amram’s tour stretches from Nov. 5th-Nov. 15th and has stops in Los Angeles, Portland, Toronto, Cambridge, NYC, and Brooklyn.
So, get both books and catch both Bob and Megan read live or whatever awesome, crazy thing they choose to do at these book tour events.
Taking advantage of the endless wealth of comedy genius that resides in and around NYC as well as bringing plenty of the funniest people in the land, The NY Comedy Festival for 2014 isn’t something you should miss.
In the line-up thus far:
Bill Cosby, Comedy Underground with Dave Attell, Louis C.K., John Oliver, Jim Gaffigan, Jon Stewart, Schtick or Treat, Kyle Kinane, Amy Poehler, Friends of the People, Seth Herzog, Tig Notaro, This Is Not Happening, Brian McCann, Dave Hill, Pete Holmes, Keith and the Girl, Sara Schaefer, Kabin, Nate Bargatze, Big Jay Oakerson, Letterman writers, Hannibal Buress, Marc Maron, Aparna Nancherla, James Adomian, Cameron Esposito, Deer Prom, Monroe Martin, Brent Morin, Nick Vatterott, Sean O’Connor, Eric Andre, Emily Heller, Maria Bamford, Nick Offerman, Jeff Ross, Murderfist, Guy Branum, Bob Odenkirk, Rachel Feinstein, and more.
It’ll be a mix of headlining shows, showcases, benefits, album recordings, special shows, and more.
So clear out your calendar for Wed. Nov. 5th-Sun. Nov. 9th if you can, in any way, go to any/all of these shows.
Bob Odenkirk is ready to get going on a roll for these next months as he has Better Call Saul coming up on AMC, releasing a stand-up album, Amateur Hour, in Nov., and also, just this week, has released a book A Load of Hooey.
It’s a compilation of written pieces from the mind of Odenkirk, so you need it’ll be one hell of a read. Pick A Load of Hooey here and make sure to go to the release party at Largo on Oct. 28th.
It might just be a coincidence that Keegan Michael-Key and Jordan Peele started were tapped to guest edit this latest issue of Entertainment Weekly that just so happens to be their Comedy Issue. It might also be perfect timing with the season premiere of Key & Peele coming tonight on Comedy Central.
Either way, it sounds like they’ve rustled up plenty of great stuff like an interview with Bob Odenkirk and David Cross as well as a blind date with Chelsea Peretti and Ike Barinholtz.
Before you go to pick this up, this issue hits newsstands on Fri.
For those of you wondering what’s going on with Bob Odenkirk’s upcoming album, mark down Nov. 25th as the release date of Amateur Hour from Bob Odenkirk featuring Brandon Wardell off of AST Records.
There will be a bonus track as an added incentive to all, but especially to those handful of people that got to go to the taping at Meltdown.
If you were lucky enough to actually get to go Bob Odenkirk’s album taping for AST Records months ago, you might have noticed Brandon Wardell opening the show, which is pretty standard for a comedy album taping.
However, having the opener also on your album is sort of unprecedented. Leave it to Odenkirk to keep us all guessing, but we’re happy to hear that not only will Wardell be on the album Amateur Hour, but he will be going on tour with Odenkirk in October.
That’s right Bob Odenkirk is going on tour in October. More details will be coming soon.
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Bob Odenkirk Might Be Taping an Hour of Stand Up for AST Records
Next Thursday at Nerdmelt, Bob Odenkirk “…performs all the material he can print out or remember. Possible album recording? Fingers crossed!” A Special Thing Records will be putting the evening on and will make the comedy album if, indeed, there will be one.
The best way to find out (and probably ensure a Bob Odenkirk album happens) is to go next Thurs. at 7PM.