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TCB Debriefing 10/6/23: Welcome to Flatch, Dave Ross and Ismael Loutfi’s Mostly Trains Tour, She Came to Me, Rooster Teeth

October 6, 2023

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1. Jenny Bicks and Paul Feig’s Welcome to Flatch canceled following its second season (TV Line). Is it possible that TV mockumentaries have reached their limit?

2. Dave Ross and Ismael Loutfi could just go on a stand-up tour and we’d tell you that it would be worth your hard earned money and sparing free time to go see them, but they’re upping the ante by going on tour almost entirely by train across North America with the aptly named Mostly Trains Tour. So, they’re probably lowering their carbon footprint and will undoubtedly have the best material on trains that anyone has heard in decades. Go see dates and get tickets at mostlytrains.davetotheross.com.

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3. She Came to Me, a comedy about an opera composer who gets out of a creative rut by starting an affair with a tugboat captain, is playing in limited release starting this weekend. If Peter Dinklage, Anne Hathaway, Marisa Tomei, and director Rebecca Miller aren’t enough of sell, that premise should peak your curiosity plenty.

4. One of the biggest YouTube channels out there, Rooster Teeth is opting to depart the online video giant in favor of creating their own exclusive video platform/streaming service (Deadline). If you thought the proliferation of streaming services would stop with just international media conglomerates, you better get ready for boutique streaming services like Rooster Teeth to start popping up more and more.

5. We’ll leave you with this: How much longer before all they hecklers are “destroyed” so the art of live comedy can be enjoyed as intended? Or are they REALLY being “destroyed”?

TCB Debriefing 8/17/23: She Came To Me, Nathan Fielder/Benny Safdie Reality Show, Scrapper, Dumb Money

August 17, 2023

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1. This She Came To Me trailer had us pretty much hooked at Peter Dinklage as a frustrated composer married to Anne Hathaway, but had us completely with Marisa Tomei as a tugboat captain (the most enchanting tugboat captain of all time?). Please enjoy this delightful trailer for a promising rom com from Rebecca Miller, due out Sept. 29th.

2. OK, so Nathan Fielder’s next reality show is co-created with Benny Safdie of the Safdie Brothers, co-starring Emma Stone, and takes the Nathan For You bit about selling haunted reality to the nth degree (Indiewire). If The Rehearsal left you oscillating between having your mouth agape and laughing hard out of sheer disbelief, we kind of won’t be shocked if Fielder and company have figured out a way to up the ante.

3. The latest highly anticipated, star studded satire of recent corporate America, Craig Gillespie’s Dumb Money (i.e. the Game Stop stock movie) is going to push back its wide release date to Oct. 6th with a limited release in LA & NYC on Sept. 15th have having to change release date (Deadline). So, hopefully, this means the double strike will end before Halloween?

4. What was “Kitchen Sink Realism” has arguably evolved into “Coming of Kitchen Age Dramedy”, a niche that the UK is particularly very, very good at. See the latest, upcoming example with the trailer for Charlotte Regan’s Scrapper, following the unlikely reunion of prodigal father and daughter. Look for it in limited release come Aug. 25th.

5. Christopher Nolan calls Talladega Nights one of the great comedies. Does anyone think that Tenet makes more sense than this claim?