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New NBC sitcom pilot: John Mulaney as a game show writer
« on: April 25, 2013, 11:38:08 AM »

http://splitsider.com/2013/04/john-mulaneys-pilot-taping-was-last-night-and-it-was-great/


 


The pilot taped a couple of days ago, with John playing a game show writer and Martin Short playing his game show host boss. Apparently the taping went incredibly well...John Mulaney is a really funny guy (I love him with Nick Kroll). I hope this goes somewhere!


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« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2013, 12:10:11 PM »
.John Mulaney is a really funny guy

 


I loved him as Frasier\'s dad.


 


Wait...what?


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New NBC sitcom pilot: John Mulaney as a game show writer
« Reply #2 on: April 25, 2013, 02:35:15 PM »

Interesting that there\'s been sitcoms about employees in fake newsrooms, fake radio stations, fake talk shows, and fake sketch comedy shows, but none about game shows. Not strictly about a game show, but something like this concept...the personal life of a guy who just happens to work on a game show.


 


/Though I do have an idea for a possible show in the back of my head


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« Reply #3 on: April 25, 2013, 03:00:28 PM »

Well, there was Burt Luddin.

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New NBC sitcom pilot: John Mulaney as a game show writer
« Reply #4 on: April 25, 2013, 03:20:59 PM »
Well, there was Burt Luddin.

 


Which would certainly explain why it hasn\'t happened since.

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« Reply #5 on: April 25, 2013, 10:40:13 PM »
From the review: \"Short is perfectly cast as a bigheaded game show host; there hasn\'t been a role better suited for him in decades – or possibly ever.\"

I assume that\'s supposed to mean roles created for Short, as opposed to roles he created himself -- it\'s hard to argue that he wasn\'t perfectly suited for the role of Ed Grimley, for example.

Or, you know, that time one of his characters appeared as a bigheaded game show host.
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« Reply #6 on: April 27, 2013, 12:11:00 AM »

Considering that the fictional show in that sketch was explicitly based on Pyramid, it\'s mildly interesting that it had $100,000 as the titular prize a year before Pyramid did.


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New NBC sitcom pilot: John Mulaney as a game show writer
« Reply #7 on: April 27, 2013, 12:14:37 PM »

Or, you know, that time one of his characters appeared as a bigheaded game show host.


Random thing, but I love hearing Don Pardo do what he does best -- being a game show announcer, making even the strangest parodies sound like the most exciting thing ever (and the opening of The $10,000 Sweep sound remarkably like a parody sketch).


 


/how was Wheel of Fortune not parodied by SNL for its first 30 years?


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« Reply #8 on: April 27, 2013, 01:28:56 PM »
/how was Wheel of Fortune not parodied by SNL for its first 30 years?

 


Here\'s a hint: slashy-ing in a \"look what I know!\" just comes off as tremendously lame.

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« Reply #9 on: April 28, 2013, 11:07:17 AM »

how was Wheel of Fortune not parodied by SNL for its first 30 years?



Until recently, there wasn\'t much that lent itself to parody. Jeopardy 1999 and Celebrity Jeopardy got their humor from making jokes about the future and stupid celebrities, respectively. Family Feud sketches were all, at some level, character-based. It was a reference point several times, though. Ed Grimley, Jr., mentioned above, was a huge fan of WoF. We saw him audition for the show, and we saw him on a trip that he won in his appearance. After that, he fought off the Devil with a picture of Pat. The Devil, played by Jon Lovitz, said, \"No, not Pat Sajak! I couldn\'t find a more perfect fellow, I must say!\" Later, when some underwear ads that Vanna had done before WoF appeared in Playboy, Dennis Miller showed the letters \"T_TS\" and \"_SS\" and added, \"For $250, you can buy a vowel.\"

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« Reply #10 on: April 30, 2013, 01:44:22 PM »
/how was Wheel of Fortune not parodied by SNL for its first 30 years?

 


Here\'s a hint: slashy-ing in a \"look what I know!\" just comes off as tremendously lame.


 


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« Reply #11 on: May 10, 2013, 05:57:24 PM »

According to Deadline, the Mulaney project\'s not going to air.



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« Reply #12 on: July 06, 2013, 08:43:58 PM »

Bumping to note that last week, http://www.deadline.com/2013/06/john-mulaneys-nbc-comedy-pilot-eyes-series-pickup-at-fox-with-script-order/\'>Deadline reported that since NBC passed on it, Fox has ordered a revised script that could lead to a small episode order.



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« Reply #13 on: October 02, 2013, 04:12:30 PM »

Fox http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/10/02/john-mulaney-sitcom-fox/\'>has ordered Mulaney to series with a reported six episodes.



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« Reply #14 on: October 02, 2013, 06:11:09 PM »

\"Samarai Wheel of Fortune\" would\'ve been interesting. Perhaps Emily Litella could\'ve been a contestant and missolve the puzzle in the same manner that she gave commentaries in the Weekend Update segments. I can see either Chevy Chase or Bill Murray as Chuck Woolery, maybe Jane Curtin as Susan Stafford. Since Buck Henry was in all of the Samarai sketches, he too could\'ve been one of the contestants.