TruTV brought Bobcat Goldthwait’s tv show Misfits and Monsters to San Diego Comic Con. Bobcat Goldthwait, truTV’s scripted anthology series Bobcat Goldthwait’s Misfits & Monsters mashes up wildly different genres to tell suspenseful stories with funny, imaginative twists. Each distinct episode turns familiar tropes inside out to create a curated and eclectic collection of stories filled with equal parts nostalgia and modern satire. Guest stars throughout the eight-episode first season include Michael Ian Black, Bridget Everett, Dave Foley, Seth Green, Melissa Joan Hart, David Koechner, Danny Pudi and more.
The series runs for thirty minutes and with an eight- episode run for season 1. The series is produced by Left/Right with Goldthwait, Banks Tarver, Ken Druckerman, Olivia Wingate and Michele Armour serving as executive producers.
We had the privilege of sitting down with Bobcat at Sdcc to talk about his new show.
Q: Tell us a little about the show?...
The series runs for thirty minutes and with an eight- episode run for season 1. The series is produced by Left/Right with Goldthwait, Banks Tarver, Ken Druckerman, Olivia Wingate and Michele Armour serving as executive producers.
We had the privilege of sitting down with Bobcat at Sdcc to talk about his new show.
Q: Tell us a little about the show?...
- 7/31/2018
- by Stephen Nepa
- Age of the Nerd
The USA Network is on the search for its next hit, with the announcement today of it’s 2014-15 development slate.
An alien drama from Lost creator Carlton Cuse, a comedy from Amy Poehler, and a single-cam comedy about a ski resort from Jessica Biel’s Iron Ocean Films are among the development projects touted by the network, who released descriptions for more than a dozen in-the-works possible series.
The network — home to Suits and White Collar — also announced the cast-contingent pilot pick-up of hour-long original drama Stanistan. Set in a fictional Middle Eastern country, the show follows the staff...
An alien drama from Lost creator Carlton Cuse, a comedy from Amy Poehler, and a single-cam comedy about a ski resort from Jessica Biel’s Iron Ocean Films are among the development projects touted by the network, who released descriptions for more than a dozen in-the-works possible series.
The network — home to Suits and White Collar — also announced the cast-contingent pilot pick-up of hour-long original drama Stanistan. Set in a fictional Middle Eastern country, the show follows the staff...
- 5/8/2014
- by Sandra Gonzalez
- EW - Inside TV
Heading into its upfront next week, USA Network has ordered comedy presentation Difficult People, executive produced by Amy Poehler. It will be toplined by Billy On The Street star Billy Eichner and head writer/co-executive producer Julie Klausner. Klausner wrote the autobiographical project, which will have Eichner and Klausner play versions of themselves, comedian friends living in New York. Andrew Fleming is directing the pilot for Universal Cable Prods. Poehler is exec producing with 3 Arts’ Dave Becky and Michele Armour of Marobru (Chappelle’s Show). USA ordered its first original comedy series in 15 years, Sirens and Playing House, at its upfront last year. Sirens just finished its run, with no word yet on its future, while Playing House – also featuring two comedians playing versions of themselves, Lennon Parham and Jessica St. Clair – just premiered. Related: 2014 USA Network Pilots...
- 5/6/2014
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Reality-focused truTV is expanding into scripted programming with a green light to its first-ever sketch-comedy series: Friends Of The People, for a launch this summer. It stars comedians Kevin Barnett (Guy Code), Jennifer Bartels (In Living Color reboot), Jermaine Fowler (Comedy Underground With Dave Attell), Lil Rel Howery (In Living Color reboot), The Lucas Bros. (22 Jump Street) and Josh Rabinowitz (I Just Want My Pants Back). The network has ordered 10 episodes, including the pilot, for Friends Of The People scripted sketches and man-on-the-street segments. The sketches in the pilot include a previously-untold story from television history, and the adventures of “Tracy Morgan Freeman.” 3 Arts Entertainment and Marobru Productions (Chappelle’s Show) are producing, with 3 Arts’s Michael Rotenberg and Avi Gilbert and Marobru’s Michele Armour executive producing alongside the series’ and showrunner/director Neil Punsalan (The Pete Holmes Show). The cast members also serve as writers and executive producers,...
- 3/4/2014
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
TORONTO -- Emerging from a mock confessional booth on a purple-draped stage where flower arrangements and heaps of garbage set a mood of sweet decay, John Waters has come not only to pine for vanished decadence but to dream up new transgressions for a world with few remaining taboos. He's doing it for the children -- the college kids, to be precise, who have come to see the entertaining one-man show captured in this performance documentary.
The genre, and the fact that Waters isn't a star on the stand-up circuit, suggests a niche appeal at the boxoffice, but fans will be very pleased. The endearingly louche filmmaker might even win the love of some viewers who can't be bothered with his button-pushing features.
Directed by Curb Your Enthusiasm's Jeff Garlin, the high-def pic is shot and edited conventionally, which suits it fine. Waters' anecdotes are so colorful, conjuring such outrageous imagery, that it's a relief the filmmakers aren't trying to compete.
There's the image, for instance, of this man-of-the-world as a young child who counts Captain Hook among his top three heroes: Lacking the villain's curly locks, he tapes a mass of his father's ties to his head, sticks a coat hanger out one sleeve and scares off the family housekeeper for good.
Or of the ceremony he staged when protege Traci Lords decided to tie the knot, and he needed to be baptized to qualify for a church wedding. At a stolen altar, with a clergy license obtained for Waters by Johnny Depp's people, The Pope of Trash cleansed the porn legend's sins and (from the sound of it) threw in a little therapy for free.
That episode is one of the monologue's occasional hints that Waters is a good deal less jaded than some would think. Cracks in his ironic facade appear momentarily when a subject like capital punishment comes up, though that doesn't keep him from getting some laughs. And while his suggestions for would-be-rebel teens are deliberately silly, they seem to spring from a genuine sympathy for today's youth, for whom garden-variety transgressions would hardly raise a parent's eyebrow.
His most inspired cultural commentary comes, not surprisingly, on the subject of art. Drawing connections between art house cinema and schlockmeister sensationalists like Kroger Babb, he imagines how university film programs might again become something special.
None of which is to suggest that This Filthy World is an agenda-driven film. While ostensibly a micro-memoir touching on every point in Waters' bad-taste oeuvre (paying particular attention, naturally, to his late friend Divine), he'd rather you call it vaudeville than a lecture. The term doesn't quite fit -- he hasn't yet booked the freaks and low-rent strippers to open for him onstage, and the monologue as it is dips in rare moments to the feel of straightforward stand-up comedy -- but even if he's never able to mount a full-scale return to the happy depravity of his youth, Waters is one of bad behavior's most likable champions.
THIS FILTHY WORLD
Filthy World Llc./Red Envelope Entertainment
Credits:
Director: Jeff Garlin
Screenwriter: John Waters
Producers: Michele Armour, Jeff Garlin
Executive producer: Ted Sarandos
Director of photography: Dan Shulman
Production designer: Vince Peranio
Editor: Rob Naylor
Performer: John Waters
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 90 minutes...
The genre, and the fact that Waters isn't a star on the stand-up circuit, suggests a niche appeal at the boxoffice, but fans will be very pleased. The endearingly louche filmmaker might even win the love of some viewers who can't be bothered with his button-pushing features.
Directed by Curb Your Enthusiasm's Jeff Garlin, the high-def pic is shot and edited conventionally, which suits it fine. Waters' anecdotes are so colorful, conjuring such outrageous imagery, that it's a relief the filmmakers aren't trying to compete.
There's the image, for instance, of this man-of-the-world as a young child who counts Captain Hook among his top three heroes: Lacking the villain's curly locks, he tapes a mass of his father's ties to his head, sticks a coat hanger out one sleeve and scares off the family housekeeper for good.
Or of the ceremony he staged when protege Traci Lords decided to tie the knot, and he needed to be baptized to qualify for a church wedding. At a stolen altar, with a clergy license obtained for Waters by Johnny Depp's people, The Pope of Trash cleansed the porn legend's sins and (from the sound of it) threw in a little therapy for free.
That episode is one of the monologue's occasional hints that Waters is a good deal less jaded than some would think. Cracks in his ironic facade appear momentarily when a subject like capital punishment comes up, though that doesn't keep him from getting some laughs. And while his suggestions for would-be-rebel teens are deliberately silly, they seem to spring from a genuine sympathy for today's youth, for whom garden-variety transgressions would hardly raise a parent's eyebrow.
His most inspired cultural commentary comes, not surprisingly, on the subject of art. Drawing connections between art house cinema and schlockmeister sensationalists like Kroger Babb, he imagines how university film programs might again become something special.
None of which is to suggest that This Filthy World is an agenda-driven film. While ostensibly a micro-memoir touching on every point in Waters' bad-taste oeuvre (paying particular attention, naturally, to his late friend Divine), he'd rather you call it vaudeville than a lecture. The term doesn't quite fit -- he hasn't yet booked the freaks and low-rent strippers to open for him onstage, and the monologue as it is dips in rare moments to the feel of straightforward stand-up comedy -- but even if he's never able to mount a full-scale return to the happy depravity of his youth, Waters is one of bad behavior's most likable champions.
THIS FILTHY WORLD
Filthy World Llc./Red Envelope Entertainment
Credits:
Director: Jeff Garlin
Screenwriter: John Waters
Producers: Michele Armour, Jeff Garlin
Executive producer: Ted Sarandos
Director of photography: Dan Shulman
Production designer: Vince Peranio
Editor: Rob Naylor
Performer: John Waters
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 90 minutes...
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