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TCB Debriefing 4/8-4/13/24: Conan O’Brien/Hot Ones, Matt Stone/Trey Parker, I Used to Be Funny, Monopoly/Margot Robbie, The Contestant, Netflix Is a Joke Fest, Packfest

April 13, 2024

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1. Conan O’Brien vs. Hot Ones. Point Conan (and then some). We’d almost put money that no other late night host would put on a better show on Hot Ones. Please enjoy this in all its hilarious, disgusting glory (complete with Jose Arroyo as some sort of MD) here.

2. Matt Stone and Trey Parker are partnering with Kendrick Lamar and Dave Free‘s pgLang to make live action movie musical (Deadline), which, based off the successes of Book of Mormon and Kendrick being, well, Kendrick, we’re going to guess this project might be pretty good.

3. Red hot off a blazed trail of Bottoms from last year, the astounding Rachel Sennott is coming to screens this year with a role much more close to home as she will be playing a stand-up really going through a heavy bout of grieving with the (very probably) aptly named i used to be funny from the amazing hands, vision, and mind of one, Ally Pankiw (director of probably one of your new favorite Black Mirror eps.). Take a gander at i used to be funny with the trailer here, then look for an indie rollout beginning in June.

4. Since Margot Robbie, with the help of Greta Gerwig, conquered with Barbie, she is now being tapped to adapt the cruel board game classic Monopoly into a feature length film (BBC News). No matter the take that Robbie chooses to go with in making a Monopoly movie, get ready for an entire boatload of think pieces about late stage capitalism.

5. Right before The Truman Show, Japanese television had a much more alarming, very real version of it that starred an up and coming comedian. See what they hath wrought in the upcoming Hulu documentary, The Contestant. See for yourself in the trailer here, then look for it on Hulu starting May 2nd.

6. Netflix Is a Joke Fest is only a few weeks away and you can feel the streaming giant going full press with their entire comedy roster now stretching from Mulaney doing a docu-series of Los Angeles called Everybody’s in LA (since Mulaney’s a voice for LA now?) and Netflix’s rising star from around the heart of TX, Ralph Barbosa, hosting Netflix’s Introducing series (the NIAJF’s version of New Faces).

7. Speaking of festivals, the small, but mighty Pack Theater is throwing their own festival this Summer, PackFest, and they’re taking submissions for comedy of all kinds RIGHT NOW.

8. We’ll leave you with this: Sorry for the delay on this latest debriefing, our laptop died and we had to buy a new one. If you’d like, you can help us recoup the cost via Venmo @jakekroeger or at patreon.com/thecomedybureau.

Kendrick Lamar’s pgLang, Trey Parker/Matt Stone, and Vernon Chatman Are Teaming Up for Dark Race Relations Comedy

January 14, 2022

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(via Deadline)

The names of Kendrick Lamar, South Park’s Matt Stone and Trey Parker, or Vernon Chatman are enough to spark a great deal of interest of whatever imaginative project very likely to have a pointed perspective just on their own. Together, it’s a boundless curiosity as to what they’ll come up with.

What Lamar long with pgLang partner Dave Free, Stone and Parker, and Vernon Chatman are developing is something that very well might be in the vein of I’m Sorry To Bother You or an episode of Atlanta, which is pretty damn enticing.

A script by Chatman follows a black-and-white interracial couple that has a black man working as a slave reenactor and his white girlfriend discovering she’s descended from slave owners. Other than it’ll be released by Paramount and it’s the first feature project from the mysterious creative agency pgLang, there are no other details, but we bet your wheels are spinning to wonder just how wild and subversive this project could possibly get.

South Park x pgLang x Vernon Chatman (who boasts several major award wins and carries credits ranging from Wonder Showzen to Conan to The Shivering Truth) ought to be something to behold whenever it comes out. That’s just one more thing to look forward to while the Omicron flavor of COVID-19 continues to do its dance.

“South Park” Renewed Through 2020 By Comedy Central; Makes Big Deal with Hulu

July 8, 2015

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(via The Hollywood Reporter)

That translates to 23 seasons and well over 300 episodes of the now living legend that is South Park.

For now, Comedy Central has made good on South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s desire to keep the show going as long as they can. They had two seasons to go under their current deal and just got three more ordered, which will roll out over the next 5 years.

Also, over the next 5 years, Hulu will get to stream all of South Park paying the hefty price tag of $192 million throughout that duration.

Off the top of our head, only The Simpsons and SNL have longer on-going runs as comedy series than South Park.

Matt Stone and Trey Parker Want To Keep “South Park” Going For as Long as They Can

June 29, 2015

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(via Uproxx/IGN)

Well, looks like both The Simpsons and South Park will stick around a little longer.

Amidst doing press for their follow-up game to Stick of Truth, Matt Stone and Trey Parker touched on where they stand with the entire South Park franchise and if they want to keep the show going.

They’ve been around for a landmark 18 years, still love doing South Park, and managed to do other projects as well, so Stone and Parker are going to keep following the wonderfully absurd lives of a few foul mouthed kids in South Park, CO until Comedy Central cancels the show.

Potentially, this means South Park could be the longest running animated series ever and definitely deserves its own gigantic TV marathon and app/streaming site.

Trey Parker Has Adapted His 1993 Film “Cannibal! The Musical” Into an Actual Musical

July 30, 2014

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(via Playbill)

In 1993 before South Park, Trey Parker made a film based on a man actually convicted of cannibalism in America delightfully called Cannibal! The Musical.

Over 20 years and a Tony award winning musical later in Book of Mormon, Parker is on to actually making it a stage musical set to premiere at Toronto’s Randolph Theatre.

So, could Parker and Stone be on their way to being the new Rodgers and Hammerstein?

‘Book of Mormon’ Sets Ticket Sales Record in Beginning of Run in London.

March 24, 2013

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‘Book of Mormon’ Sets Ticket Sales Record in Beginning of Run in London.

International audiences agree that a musical satirizing Mormonism by the creators of South Park is something definitely worth seeing. We can’t wait to see the possible movie adaptation from Matt and Trey.