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Renewals

'The Eric Andre Show' Gets a Season 2

by | April 30th, 2013

Eric Andre's absurd Adult Swim anti-talk show is getting another season. Accompanied by his bored co-host Hannibal Buress, each episode of The Eric Andre Show finds the comedian playing host to a chaotic, nightmarish talk show with a mix of real and fake guests and hidden camera pranks. The second season is set to premiere on Adult Swim this October. Earlier this season, Andre played a supporting role on ABC's now-canceled Don't Trust the B—-. He recently starred in a Greg Daniels-produced sitcom pilot for NBC. Following a group of 20somethings and their dating lives in a big city, the show is in contention for a spot on the [...]

The Holidays

Here's the Complete Eric Andre New Year's Special

by | January 3rd, 2013

Comedian Eric Andre hosted a live New Year's special on Adult Swim earlier this week, dubbed The Eric Andre New Year's Eve Spooktacular. Adult Swim just posted the whole thing online, and you can watch the 45-minute special (27 without commercials) in its entirety via this link. Andre was joined by co-host Hannibal Buress and guests like Demi Lovato, Omarosa, and Kevin Sorbo. It's every bit as insane as you'd expect an Eric Andre Show special to be, and it's worth watching whether you want to have your own private second New Year's while you watch or not.

Legitimate Theater

Waiting for Meatwad: The Samuel Beckett/Adult Swim Connection

by | September 6th, 2012

Trapped and forever stuck with people who annoy you. Trying to entertain one’s self, it’s futile. Never learning a lesson. Repetition. Mundanity. Futility. Guns and poo jokes.  These are common elements in much of the content on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, the network’s popular late-night programming that features both cartoon and real-action sketch comedy. They are also basic elements of Samuel Beckett’s work. And while irritation with idiots around you, stupidity and poo jokes have been staples of comedy for years, it is specifically by examining ennui and using absurdity as tool to comment on the human condition that Beckett has influenced modern comedy. This can be seen in [...]

Acting

Hannibal Buress Is Too Good at Playing a Bum

by | May 9th, 2012

While being one of the most, if not the most, revered emerging standups, Hannibal doesn't have tons of acting experience. Yet, as last week's 30 Rock proved, that hasn't hindered his ability to play one hell of a bum. However, maybe he's a bit too good at it, as the clip above suggests. Last week's 30 Rock was just another part of May 2012 being the month of Hannibal Buress, adding to his Comedy Award and the premiere of his role as co-host of The Eric Andre Show and debut of his hour special Hannibal Buress: Animal Furnace (you can see preview of both, kind of, below) [...]

pilot season

Eric Andre Cast in Greg Daniels's NBC Pilot

by | March 8th, 2013

Eric Andre, star of ABC's now-canceled Don't Trust the B and Adult Swim's The Eric Andre Show, has a booked a regular role on another network sitcom. Deadline reports that Andre has been cast as one of the lead characters in an untitled NBC pilot produced by The Office/Parks and Rec/King of the Hill mastermind Greg Daniels and created by Office writer Robert Padnick. This is one of two pilots Greg Daniels has in contention for fall of 2013; the other stars Craig Robinson.

The pilot follows four 20somethings navigating the dating world in a big city. Andre plays Teddy, "who is crass with zero social [...]

The Holidays

Kick Off 2013 Right with Eric Andre's New Year's Eve Spooktacular

by | December 20th, 2012

Don't have plans for New Year's yet? Why not spend it with Eric Andre on Adult Swim? The Eric Andre New Year's Eve Spooktacular will be airing on Monday, December 31st from 11:30pm to 12:15am on Adult Swim and will obviously feature a ton of unpredictable, crazy Eric Andre behavior. Celebrity guests include Demi Lovato, Sebastian Bach, Omarosa, Kevin Sorbo, Ren & Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi, and of course, Andre's co-host Hannibal Buress. The 45-minute special will feature a classic New Year's countdown and will be broadcast live in front of a studio audience, which is a pretty gutsy move on Adult Swim's part considering how Eric Andre [...]

Interviews

Talking with Eric Andre, Kitao Sakurai, and Andrew Barchilon about 'The Eric Andre Show', 311, Kombucha, and More!

by | July 9th, 2012

Every episode of The Eric Andre Show, which airs on Adult Swim on Sunday nights at 12:30, begins with Eric Andre frantically destroying his set and it doesn't really ever let up. The show is simply completely nuts: Bruce Vilanch plays Arnold Schwarzenegger, a roast duck fills in for Joe Biden, Eric goes to a strip club dressed as Thomas Jefferson, Eric puts himself in physical danger almost once a minute, also Sinbad was there once. It's just who Eric is. Beyond being funny, Eric's mind has a tendency to wildly wonder between subjects. In his show this translates to what might be the most hyper 15 minutes on [...]

Hannibal

May 20th = Hannibal Buress Day!

by | May 1st, 2012

Start eating your pickles so you have your jars of pickle juice ready for May 20th, Hannibal Buress Day! At 12:30am, on Adult Swim, Hannibal will debut in his role as the apathetic co-host to the "bipolar" Eric Andre on The Eric Andre Show and then less than 24-hours later his perfectly-titled hour special, “Hannibal Buress: Animal Furnace," is premiering on Comedy Central at 11:00pm. Considering that also this Sunday he will win the Best Club Comic award at the Comedy Awards, May seems likely to be a big month for HB. Let's kick a few pigeons in celebration.

Music

Eric Andre's List of Band Names Is Spectacular

by | January 31st, 2013

Comedian Eric Andre has a website — ericsbandnames.com — where he's listed 300+ really funny band names he's come up with. I looked through the list to try to pick a favorite, but it's a three-way tie between "Alien vs Predator vs Brown vs The Board of Education," "World War 33 1/3," and "Some of the Best White People You've Ever Met."

guests

Eric Andre Secures His 2013 "Most Unpredictable Talk Show Guest" Nomination

by | December 6th, 2012

Don't Trust the B—- and The Eric Andre Show star Eric Andre got a little out-of-control on G4's Attack of the Show! yesterday, disrobing without any warning. But the show's cancelled, so it's fine, right? Everything's allowed. That's how that works, I'm pretty sure. If there were an award for "Most Unpredictable Talk Show Guest," Andre would be the frontrunner right now, until somebody tries to one-up him by pulling a similar stunt live on The Today Show.

Interviews

Talking with Hannibal Buress About His Hour Special, 'The Eric Andre Show', and Enjoying the Moment

by | May 17th, 2012

This Sunday, May 20th, is going to be big for Hannibal Buress. At 11:00pm, his hour special, Hannibal Buress: Animal Furnace, premieres on Comedy Central and then 30 minutes after it finishes, at 12:30am, The Eric Andre Show, for which he is the co-host, premieres on Adult Swim. After years of being the most buzzed about comedian by everyone from Chris Rock to Eugene Mirman to many powerful people in show business to any fan of comedy, the buzz is finally going to reach an unavoidable volume. I don't know Hannibal personally but my first reaction is pride.

That's because with one off-hand joke, Hannibal changed my life. I [...]

New Shows

Adult Swim Has Started Production on a Groundbreakingly Zany Talk Show

by | January 27th, 2012

Adult Swim has started production on what they're calling "he most manic and unorthodox late night talk show ever made." The Eric Andre Show will be hosted by…comic Eric Andre, along with his co-host Mr. Hannibal Burress. Here's a description:

Taking place on a dingy public-access TV channel within an alternate reality, The Eric Andre Show creates its own distorted pop culture universe by conducting interviews with an unpredictable mix of actual celebrities, “fake” celebrities and extreme real-life weirdos. These interviews are broken up with deranged man-on-the-street segments, surreal flashes of inexplicable studio chaos, talk show desk-pieces and the general deconstruction of late night's most beloved tropes in every [...]

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