So, ideal guest? Ricky Gervais would be amazing. Because, again, the strength of this show is that people failing at it is as funny as people succeeding at it. It would be hysterical to see Adele doing it. Well the cool thing about the guests is that they don’t have to be comedians at all.
So this show can travel around the world for sure. Voyeurism, watching people go about their daily lives, is universally funny, no matter the culture, no matter the anything, it’s just always funny to watch people. You get local comedians and their local brand of humour. Speaking from a development point of view, this show can translate into any culture, any country. That’s the strength of the show, for my mind. In September, I came out two weeks before the pilot to film all the footage of British people going about their daily life and then brought it back and that’s what we dubbed over.ĭo you see this as something that could work differently in different countries? Because there are cultural differences in what people find funny and of course people act differently. The guys and I from Jokers, we are a comedy troupe called The Tenderloins, so we’ve got a lot of improv background, and I used to teach improv for a long, long time, so coming up with the games to play over clips is really easy. We came out to Comedy Central back in May or June and pitched them the idea of this gameshow kind of format based on the idea of dubbing over people in real conversations. I know you’ve said you came up with the idea a while ago, but how long has the development been? How long have you actively been trying to make this a show? Why are we talking if the characters on screen aren’t talking? That kind of feel is just like Jokers. Sal at one point even calls one of us out, like “there’s nobody talking right now”. So I think there’s enough tonal connection to Jokers, camaraderie and friendship and screwing with each other. Even watching us stumble through things is funny, just like Jokers. We make mistakes, sometimes we succeed, but it’s always funny. And you see we’re screwing around with each other. The pilot has this loose feel to it where anything can happen. And as you can see… did you see the pilot? It’s people being silly with their friends. It seems like it’s likely to hit with Jokers fans, because it’s a similar thing.
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Some people turn the volume down on their TV and dub over the characters on screen. I think everybody does it, you’re sitting in a restaurant and you watch a couple be all lovey dovey and really into each other, and you’re like ‘What are they talking about?’ or you see a guy arguing with someone and you’re like ‘What is he complaining about?’ and you start to double their voices. It’s a show that’s near and dear to our hearts, the guys and I from Jokers, and I think it’s kind of universally funny. Fast forward to 2017 I sold that idea to Comedy Central and we just shot the pilot for it. The story is this Joe and I from Jokers were having lunch in Rockefeller Centre together, in New York City, and as tourists were walking by Joe and I started dubbing over their conversations and we were crying laughing at what we were creating for these people, these strangers walking by. Say Whaaat? is actually the first TV show I ever created, in 2001. And we love working with Comedy Central in the UK in particular. Obviously we’ve been on tour to the UK twice this year, our fan base is so strong. ‘Say What?!’ I can’t do a very good British accent, as you can see in the pilot of Say Whaaat?.
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