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This White House Plumbers Trailer Promises a Dramedy Miniseries of One of America’s Biggest Blunders

March 31, 2023
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The historic American debacle that has forever been known as “Watergate” (so infamous that it would be the go-to reference to name so many public scandals that followed it) has been and will very likely continue to be reenacted in TV and movies due to how truly incredulous and botched the whole affair was.

Thus, HBO, Veep’s David Mandel, Woody Harrelson, and Justin Theroux have assembled to do a mini-series, White House Plumbers, following E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy, the bad actors that were caught at the Watergate Hotel tampering on behalf of Nixon’s re-election campaign. It’s fitting that Mandel is at the helm here as there is plenty of Veep-style humor baked into Watergate as one can see in the trailer that dropped this week. White House Plumbers will very likely enter awards consideration as a dramatic mini-series, but probably much in the sam spirit that Succession is a drama.

Take a gander at the utter ridiculousness that spiraled into Watergate with this trailer for White House Plumbers here. Then, look for its premiere on HBO starting Mon. May 1st.

Watch Samantha Bee Roast Presidents Throughout Decades in Past and in Alternate Futures for Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

May 1, 2017
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Though the administrations of Nixon, FDR, Clinton, Reagan, Wilson, JFK, Truman, and more didn’t get the barbs of a White House Correspondents Dinner of the 21st century, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee made sure to dream up what that might be like for the #NotTheWHCD event this weekend. Bee was in proper period comedian attire and had plenty of references we hope you don’t have to look up.

Also, looking to the future, Bee and co. imagined, at the end of that segment, what a White House Correspondents Dinner would be with Pence as the POTUS (assuming Trump is out of office soon) or what an alternate future WHCD would be had Hillary Clinton won last year’s election.

Overall, Bee made good on having an alternative to the WHCD, though Hasan Minhaj did an amazing job as WHCD host, and, additionally, raised over $200K for the Committee to Protect Journalists. Perhaps, a new annual tradition has been born?

“The Lucas Brothers: On Drugs” Is Now Streaming on Netflix

April 19, 2017
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The Lucas Brothers get really political, specifically taking on Richard Nixon and the aftermath of his presidency in their Netflix special, “The Lucas Brothers: On Drugs”. 

Well, they do that in addition to touching on Deion Sanders’ music career amongst other things all in their confidently laid back, slightly meta comedic style. 

It’s now streaming on Netflix and actually comes in under an hour and has a great animation at the end too. 

See The Lucas Brothers Do a Special in Front of a Backdrop of Nixons in Trailer for Their Upcoming Netflix Special

April 11, 2017
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Yep, “Lucas Brothers: On Drugs”, coming to Netflix on Tuesday, April 18th, not only features the amazing twin comedy do doing stand-up, trippy accompanying animation, but it also has a fabulous and timely backdrop of repeating portraits Richard Nixon. 

See for yourself in the trailer then make sure to catch the special when it starts streaming next week.

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