Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous walks a fine line. Co-created by and starring YouTube sensation turned comedy wunderkind Bo Burnham, the mockumentary-style show follows a new high school graduate who hires a film crew to make a reality show about his life. “You’re watching exclusive, behind-the-scenes footage of a pre-celebrity,” Zach Stone says in the first minute of the pilot. He’s spending his life savings, and foregoing college, to follow his dream of fame at all costs.
Mocking reality shows has existed almost as long as reality shows themselves and become almost a genre unto itself, with recent examples like spoof web series Burning Love and Bobcat Goldthwait’s [...]
MTV is set to debut Zach Stone Is Gonne Be Famous, a new sitcom co-created by and starring comedian Bo Burnham, on May 2nd, and here's a trailer for the show the network just put out. The show also stars Tom F. Wilson, Armen Weitzman, Kari Coleman, Cameron Palatas, and Caitlin Gerard. Zach Stone follows Burnham as a recent high school grad who, instead of going to college, hires a camera crew to film a reality show about his life, which I'm told is just as common a choice as attending college with today's teens.
MTV has provided plenty of laughs over the last 10 or so years, but rarely have they been intentional. Nikki Glaser and Sara Schaefer are about to change that.
Tonight at 11 EST the duo will debut Nikki & Sara Live, a weekly half-hour comedy show set in front of a live studio audience. It's MTV’s first late-night talk show since The Jon Stewart Show went off the air in 1995.
Glaser and Schaefer are both accomplished stand-up comics and writers. Glaser has appeared on Conan and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and is a regular performer at The Comedy Cellar in New York. Schaefer has appeared on [...]
"I don't believe in nostalgia, so I would say it's more like that sprinklings of the past are good. It's not about the good old days. It's like, 'I want that back on my pizza.' And when you see Kurt [Loder], Tabitha [Soren], and Matt [Pinfield] together, they're like our superheroes. It's our superhero story."
-Fred Armisen to Vulture on reuniting an MTV VJ dream team for the new season of Portlandia.
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First, I don't think Kevin Hart knows how to play the tuba. Though, the two notes he did play were oddly in tune, so maybe Green Day just didn't get his art. Second, isn't it funny that Green Day is still a thing? It's been awhile, shouldn't they've been named Green Two Decades? Green Century? Or maybe just Green, a name unencumbered by time?
