Fyre Festival's extremely "dedicated" Andy King might be getting his own reality show
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Although debate is still raging about which of last month’s high-profile documentaries about the disastrous Fyre Festival was better—with Netflix’s Fyre offering a better narrative, while Hulu’s Fyre Fraud attempted to be a more comprehensive explanation of how this clusterfuck went down—pretty much everyone who’s seen Netflix’s offering on the topic can agree on one point: That Andy King story is fucked up.
You know the one: It’s where future prison tenant Billy McFarland essentially orders King, a veteran event producer who McFarland dubbed the festival’s “wonderful gay leader” to drive across an island and, quote, “suck dick” to get a huge shipment of bottled water released from customs. And while it didn’t end up coming to that, King’s delivery of the absurd anecdote—slightly bashful, mostly deadpan—in the Netflix doc has become an irresistible moment for people talking about the whole debacle. It’s produced online jokes, memes, and now—because this is 2019, and nothing can just be fun—at least a few reality show pitches for the 58-year-old King.
This is per Vanity Fair, which did an interview with King, a behind-the-scenes guy who mostly just seems bemused by his newfound 15 minutes of fame. So far, he’s mostly used his celebrity to point people toward a GoFundMe created to help pay a bunch of people in the Bahamas who got stiffed when the festival collapsed, or to push people in the direction of his efforts to create zero-waste events to replace the massive piles of plastic and paper that concerts and festivals currently produce. But he’s also been approached with TV offers from “major networks,” and seems to be taking them seriously (for a fun value of seriously, at least). His pitch: “You’re too young to remember this, but in the old world of TV it was The Carol Burnett Show and these fun, light-hearted shows that weren’t all crime-related. You see the attractiveness of HGTV today. People love Flip or Flop or Fixer Upper. Let’s just say it’s going to be a show about hosting crazy events—what it takes to make them happen. There will be cliff-hangers, and you’ll get to follow me around and see how I pull them off.”
Which, you know: Wink.
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He’ll prep for each episode much the same way he prepared before he drove across the island–mouthwash and all that–except without the part about agreeing to suck a dude’s dick.
Wouldn’t he want to save the mouthwash for after??
Maybe he would have gargled some after, too, but I mean it’s just common courtesy, I’d imagine, to use Listerine before as well, or whatever it was that drove him to use it before.
You know, dedicated is often one of those empty terms for me as what does it really mean or how do you measure it, but with Andy King I don’t really know what other term to use.Also awesome of him to try to use the attention to get some compensation for the people screwed over by McFarland.
Network Execubot 1: Andy, loved you in the Fyre Festival Doc.AK: Thank you.Network Execubot 2: I’m here with my colleague to pitch you a show.AK: Uh, okay.NE1: We would like to call it “What Would You Do For a Klondike Bar?” and we want you to be the host.
AK: I’m listening.
Can I just mention I found it oddly fitting that the Ken Burns’ Vietnam War soundtrack is what they used for this documentary…
I hope every episode revolve around a mishap where Andy King needs to perform sexual favors for products needed. “Andy sucks America Dick” coming this fall to …..The History Channel, sure why the fuck not. If he sucks bigfoots dick they’d probably put it on Animal Planet though
Ice Road Blowie.
I prefer Nice Load Suckers.
Actually, the DIY network already has a show.
Please let Nathan Fielder get involved in this.
I’m pretty sure this would’ve made me laugh out loud if I wasn’t currently strung out on speed and, at best, only nominally capable of feeling and behaving as a normal human would. So yeah… take this not-quite-sure +1
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Nothing on TV should have “Andy” and “Dick” together in 2019.
When I watched the doc, I assumed that this confession would ruin his career. That is – whatever kind of career this dude managed to keep after trusting an idiotic narcissist. I should have known better.
Murica.
Yeah but what mouthwash will he be using?
Listerine needs to hire him as a spokesman.
Gotta hand it to him, it’s pretty bold to come out as one of the event coordinators behind one of the most disastrous non-events of all time and then follow that up with “but yeah, how about we do a show where I help people plan events?”It’s like making a reality show where Tommy Wiseau comes and helps young filmmakers out.
I would watch that Tommy Wiseau show. Especially if he got to pick who he thought had talent.
For real though, he absolutely sucked dick for the water.
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When I first saw him in the documentary, there was this brief moment where I genuinely thought he was a slightly heavier Steve Martin.
There’s an Andy Dick joke to be made here somewhere…
push people in the direction of his efforts to create zero-waste events to replace the massive piles of plastic
Nothing better than to promote the use of bottled water then!
I do not believe the blow job story.