We didn’t really think about it too much until now, but this show will really let Bill Hader play a bunch of different personalities all in one very conflicted character.
See for yourself in the latest trailer.
HBO’s latest comedy offering will be coming in spring 2018 and indeed feature Bill Hader as a world class assassin who delves into acting.
Here’s a teaser.
So, we’re getting hints of Grosse Point Blank, except it revolves around an acting class as opposed to a high school reunion. We hope that Hader uses the platform to get as off beat as he can.
The awarding of The Mark Twain Prize for Humor to Bill Murray has already happened. However, it was shot and edited into a special that will air on PBS tonight at 9PM.
You can watch how David Letterman, Steve Martin, Aziz Ansari, Emma Stone, Jimmy Kimmel, Bill Hader, and more pay tribute to Murray and his comedy legacy later this evening.
As there is a seemingly endless canon of documentaries, there’s a similarly endless source for material for Bill Hader, Fred Armisen, Seth Meyers to lovingly parody said documentaries.
Let’s not forget that esteemed actress Helen Mirren is still hosting the whole thing.
For the second or, as the show dictates, season 51 of Documentary Now! on IFC, Hader and Armisen will be doing their take on Stop Making Sense, Jiro Dreams of Sushi, and more.
Get a taste of what’s to come on Wednesday, September 10th at 10PM here.
It’s trips to Comic Con that brings out bits like this on Conan and we’re glad that we’re getting more of it.
(via Deadline)
This will be the first time that Hader stars, executive produces, writes, and directs.
Bill Hader will star in HBO’s latest comedy series that comes from both Alec Berg (who’s worked on many of your favorite comedies between Seinfeld to Silicon Valley).
Called Barry, Hader will be a hitman who has grown weary of the hitman life and finds his way into theater and becoming an actor.
Comedy where a hitman is trying to transition into a new life sounds like rich territory for Bill and the supporting cast of Stephen Root and Henry Winkler should be icing on the cake here.
(via Deadline)
Bill Hader as a lonely hitman finding himself amongst theater folk in LA might just be good enough for a greenlight as far as we’re concerned.
While Veep and Girls are getting into their latter seasons, HBO is readying itself for its next few comedy series in the years to come. The Duplass Brothers’ Animals is set to premiere at the end of the month and adding a pilot of Hader starring in a hitman comedy sounds like a pretty great addition to their development slate.
The project, Barry, was co-written by Hader and Alec Berg, who we hope you know from Silicon Valley and Curb Your Enthusiasm, and we sincerely hope that it makes it air just to see what the two have cooking.
The likeliness that this will happen beyond MST3K creator Joel Hodgson getting interest from the names above probably will be greater if you donate in the final 30 hours of their Kickstarter campaign.
On top of the amazing cast and guest writers that Hodgson has announced, Joel has played what will is, we’re guessing, his final card before the Kickstarter campaign to revive Mystery Science Theater 3000 finishes.
Indeed, Jack Black, Mark Hamill, Neil Patrick Harris, Bill Hader, Joel McHale, and Jerry Seinfeld have expressed interest and Joel has even called out to the likes of Amy Poehler, Amy Schumer, Lily Tomlin, and Tina Fey to come on the show if they’d like.
We’ll all have a better picture of what the status of the guest star list will be for MST3K when the Kickstarter ends. By the way, they have reached their 9 episode goal and are shooting for their final stretch goal of $5.5 million. As of this post, they’re at $4,524,412 with less than a day and half to go.
Help them reach 12 full episodes here.
(via The Wrap)
Could you be more full of indie film buzzwords?
David Foster Wallace’s story “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again” following a father and son on a cruise bonding on several levels with has inspired a feature length film that will star Bill Hader with Me and Earl and the Dying Girl writer Jesse Andrews’ directorial debut.
Called “The Empress of Serenity”, we’re pretty sure that, if everything goes well, this is the sort of movie that will dominate the festival circuit and make it into limited release sooner rather than later.
(via The Hollywood Reporter)
It seems fitting that the stars of Documentary Now! would get an award from The Smithsonian.
The Smithsonian Institution has their own eponymous magazine that annual gives out awards in several categories, many which line up with a corresponding Smithsonian museum in Washington D.C.
Both Fred Armisen and Bill Hader will be receiving the honor of the American Ingenuity Award for Documentary Now!, which is definitely one of the most innovative, high concept shows to come around in some time.
Hopefully, Armisen and Hader will attend and do some sort of Documentary Now! bit.
Mike O’Brien may have stepped away from SNL full time, but he’s still making sketches a plenty as he is putting an entire sketch comedy album.
Entitled Tasty Radio, O’Brien gets to get as weird as he wants along with the voices of Scarlett Johansson, Fred Armisen, Vanessa Bayer, Neil Casey, Bill Hader, Nasim Pedrad, Cecily Strong, Jason Sudeikis, Jorma Taccone, and way more.
It comes out from Comedy Dynamics on Oct. 30th, but you can preview this “Fun Girls” track right here right now.
The new season of Brooklyn Nine-Nine has a new captain in the precinct played by Bill Hader.
So, it’ll be unusual business as usual, right?
Here’s a brief preview of what’s going down with Hader in charge.
Season 3 of Brooklyn Nine-Nine premieres Sun. Sept 27th on Fox.
(via EW)
As it’s season 4, you have to wonder if people will start answering Billy’s questions, subjective as they are, right more often.
Bill Hader, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jason Sudeikis, Will Ferrell, Anna Kendrick, Julianne Moore, and Chris Pratt will all be guest stars, and likely pulled along whatever street Eichner happens to be patrolling, on this latest season of Billy on the Street premiering on Oct. 8th at 10:30PM on truTV.
We hope Will Ferrell and Billy get into some sort of shouting match over whatever game or obstacle course they’re doing.
Like many funny folks, Bill Hader can’t help doing bits all the time no matter where he is.
Just hear him talk about giving a birthday cake to one of his kids that was less what they wanted and more on brand for Bill as well as what pranks he pulls at the airport, then do a “spot-on” impression of Conan O’Brien.
10PM on IFC.
If you’ve always thought that documentaries besides Ken Burns needed their send-up, Seth Meyers, Fred Armisen, and Bill Hader have got you covered with their parody docu-series Documentary Now!
The series premiere is tonight at the aforementioned time 10PM on IFC.
The triumvirate of IFC’s Documentary Now!, Seth Meyers, Bill Hader, and Fred Armisen all met this week on Late Night with Seth Meyers and announced that IFC had ordered seasons 2 and 3 of the parody docu-series.
Upon hearing the news for “the first time”, Hader “exclaimed” surprise and joy during his interview.
Any takers on what documentaries, doc styles they’ll parody in the coming seasons? Michael Moore, Alex Gibney, Act of Killing?
You can now see more of the hijinks inspired by several actually famous documentaries that Bill Hader and Fred Armisen got themselves into.
IFC was nice enough to put this full episode of Documentary Now! for your convenient viewing pleasure/”nostalgia of this classic documentary series” online leading up to the premiere next week on Thurs. Aug. 20th at 10PM.
Watch the full episode here.
From the costumes, the voices, the film style, the type of film they were using, having Helen Mirren as a host, and more, you can tell that Bill Hader, Fred Armisen, and Seth Meyers really went all out for the documentary parody series, Documentary Now!
Just see for yourself in this new trailer, then look out for the premiere Thurs. Aug. 20th at 10PM on IFC.
(via The Wrap)
Looks like season 3 of Brooklyn Nine-Nine might go off the rails in the best way possible.
Spoiler alert for those who haven’t been watching Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Andre Braugher’s captain on the show took a different NYPD position and the precinct will now have a new captain in none other than Bill Hader.
Apparently, his stint there might not last the whole season, but having Bill to just kick the third season off is pretty great.
IFC’s upcoming Documentary Now! from Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, and Seth Meyers got the perfect cherry on top of their fictional parody docu-series when they landed Dame Helen Mirren as a host.
Get your first look of how pitch perfect this series is going to be here then mark down Thurs. Aug. 20th 10PM for the premiere on IFC.
Bill Hader and Fred Armisen seemingly get to live out a fantasy of playing characters throughout real life inspired fake historical documentary shorts in the series Documentary Now! that they developed with Seth Meyers.
Watch the trailer featuring Hader and Armisen dressed up in plenty of wonderfully outlandish costumes as wonderfully outlandish characters, then tune into the premiere on IFC on Aug. 20th at 10PM.
Bill Hader, Charlyne Yi, Matt Walsh, Danny Pudi, and way more comedy folks showed up in this big opening sketch for the 2015 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference.
It’s a pretty great explanation for not having a tech conference be like an awards show.
(via EW)
We can’t wait to see what Hader, Armisen, and Meyers get a former Queen Elizabeth to say.
Helen Mirren is set to host the parody documentary series created by Bill Hader, Fred Armisen, and Seth Meyers called Documentary Now! coming to IFC on Aug. 20th.
We wonder if this will take her down more comedic roads, more roles like she’s had in Red, if this really clicks.
As you saw with Tina Fey and the last fancy dress she’ll ever wear on Letterman, many women that make an appearance on a late night talk show go through a bunch of hoops, specifically in regards to their looks and what they’re wearing, in order to promote their movie, tv show, etc.
Inside Amy Schumer’s latest sketch summarizes the phenomenon with a little NSFW exaggeration pretty well.
Also, seeing Bill Hader as late night talk show host caricature is pretty great too.
An Al Capone Festival in Iceland, the first documentary about the Inuit, drug cartels, a band called Blue Jean Committee, are just a few “subjects” they’ll be covering.
The minds of Armisen, Hader, and Meyers have banded together to make up fake history of which to do documentaries about. The series, which has been ordered for six episodes at IFC, is appropriately called Documentary Now!
Fred and Bill will star in the series donning a plethora of costumes and accents.
Look for Documentary Now! on IFC starting Thurs. Aug. 20th at 10PM.