Childrens Hospital and Human Giant star Rob Huebel has a new show in development. Deadline reports that Huebel has been cast as one of the two leads, alongside Patrick Warburton, in a new CBS pilot called Jacked Up. Written by Greg Malins (How I Met Your Mother, Friends) and directed by Fred Savage, the pilot follows a recently retired baseball player named Jack (Warburton) who sets out to find a wife with help from his friend Barry (Huebel), who's divorced and owns a sports bar. Huebel also has a potentially-recurring guest spot lined up in ABC's pilot Bad Management. The Warburton/Huebel pairing sounds like a fun one [...]
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Lost Roles is a weekly column exploring “what might have been” in movie and TV comedy as we take a different actor, writer, or comedian each week and examine the parts they turned down, wanted but didn’t get, and the projects that fell apart altogether. This week, I interviewed Rob Huebel, star of beloved comedy shows like Human Giant and Childrens Hospital (currently kicking off its fourth season) and movies like The Descendants and I Love You, Man. Huebel was nice enough to [...]
"Rob Huebel has become the first actor cast in Fox's single-camera comedy pilot Family Album, [which] centers on a headstrong patriarch who, determined to get some quality family time, embarks on a vacation with his extended family. Huebel will play the brother."
