Your life is boring and would be dramatically improved by the addition of celebrities, or at least that’s the premise of a new show that NBC is developing for Ed Helms and Randall Park. According to Decider, the two of them will host a new show called True Story (based on an Australian series) where regular non-celebrities share “their most extraordinary and unbelievably true stories” and then sit back and watch as Helms and Park dramatically reenact comically heightened versions of those stories with “a cast of top comedians and actors.” It sounds like a fun setup, and given the premise, it would be very easy to bring in big-name stars for one episode where they could do something with real viral potential—like, “See Brad Pitt reenact some loser’s story about finding a parking spot on Black Friday.” Would you click on that? Somebody would, certainly.
Anyway, both Park and Helms put out nice statements about how they’re excited to do this and how they’re friends with each other. but it seems a little suspicious. “I can’t wait to bring True Story to American audiences with my buddy, Randall Park,” said Helms, while Park added that it combines his three favorite things: “Great stories from real people, my pal Ed Helms, and couches.” So, either these guys are definitely friends in real life or they’re trying very hard to make everyone think they are. Decider points out that Park was in an episode of The Office a long time ago, which would imply that they’ve met, but Helms wasn’t in that scene. How ironic, then, that the two hosts of a show called True Story seem to be lying about how well they know each other. Maybe the first True Story they decided to comedically embellish was the story about them being friends?
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Isn’t this an old Letterman bit?
The thing it reminded me of was a short-lived ‘90s MTV show hosted by Jon Stewart called You Wrote it, You Watch it.
So it’s basically this.
Drunk history with neither the inebriation nor the accounts of significant past events?
Oh man, I hope we get more Ted Nelms after this. Remember that one episode where they… actually, it was just one episode.
So…Sober Cocktail Party Story?
Will Ed be at the Helms as show runner? Surely these two will knock it out of the…stadium.
Drunk History, but not drunk and only technically historical.
Interesting considering how meh the Australian show turned out to be. Really cool concept and the talent involved was awesome, but the show stretched every story out to a half-hour when almost none of the stories deserved to be that long, and it played up every minor piece of drama. It might have gotten better a few episodes in but I bailed on it early.
Speaking only for myself, I am only friends with people I’ve appeared in scenes with on television.
Derek Waters and Jeremy Konner’s Drunk History?
The could spice up my bedroom. Hubba, hubba indeed.
So Drunk History without being drunk?