Parody can be a useful tool for exposing bad people without coming across as preachy, but zeroing in on one funny thing about a bad person also raises the chances of turning them into a cartoon and diminishing any real dangers they pose. That being said, it sure is fun to laugh at Donald Trump. He’s orange! He says dumb things! He made college athletes eat cold fast food! Ha ha ha. He’s also a racist motherfucker and a generally terrible human being, but it’s not super funny to talk about stuff like that or the seven-year-old girl from Guatemala who died while in the custody of border patrol agents back in December. What is funny, though, is Space Force.
Remember Space Force? It was the new military branch that Trump proposed back in March for some reason, and now Steve Carell and Greg Daniels from The Office are going to turn the idea into a workplace comedy for Netflix. According to Deadline and the very lazy teaser that Netflix dropped today, the series will be about the group of people tasked with creating the Space Force rather than about the brave soldiers who will actually be… fighting aliens, collecting valuable moon cheese, or whatever the fuck Trump had in mind when the words “Space Force” oozed out of his mouth.
This project reportedly will not interfere with Carell’s work on Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon’s Apple show, but he will star and executive produce under a deal that The Hollywood Reporter says will most likely grant him more than $1 million per episode. That’s a nice payday for the former Michael Scott, so hopefully the Space Force show will be good enough to make up for every second of misery that mankind has endured since Donald Trump was elected. It would be a disappointment otherwise.
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So, this show is Space Farce?
Make it Space Faris and I’m in!
This is the kind of prestige television Netflix’s price hike is paying for?
“Put it on my tab.”—Dan in Real Life
holy shit i’m so tired all of a sudden
That’s a nice pay day
sure is
Everyone wants a bigger payday
Is Seth MacFarlane upset that his crappy space show has competition?
PEW PEW!
Wow! I didn’t even know he was behind Star Trek Discovery.
There can be more than one crappy space show.
I’m really over Trump impersonations, when people quote him in his voice it’s ok, but cartoons and people dressing up like him is just annoying. We see him every day I get it he’s awful and stupid. So please none of that.
Space Force will completely consist of clones of the ultimate warrior: Donald J. Trump.
So none of them will be able to serve because they have bone spurs?
Oh, they will, but it will be like Hogan’s Heroes or McHale’s Navy…but in space.
You’re forgetting Top Cat. And the fact that this is gonna be like 60 Minutes…on acid.
https://giphy.com/gifs/trump-eagle-sense-seVzLT3Xoiufm
I’m still on board with Anthony Atamunik’s version, but I would be okay never seeing a single other one again. (I find the “Cartoon President” version peculiarly unfunny.)
I can never get enough of Atamanuik. GOTTA HAVE MORE ATAMANUIK, BABY!!!!
As if shitting all over “Marwencol” wasn’t bad enough, Steve?Pass.
Fingers crossed for bits about pooping in zero gravity.
“Oh no! The zero-gravity toilet is broken and now there’s poop floating all around the spaceship!”
A tv show lampooning Trump? We finally know how to bring him down. Tell the world![begins sending message on a telegraph]
[SENDS SMOKE SIGNALS]
Waves semaphore flags.
Sends carrier pigeon.
Weeps quietly.
*sends Lassie because Timmy is in the f*cking well again. Oh, and because “space show.”*
An entire paragraph getting in your reminder that you hate trump, lest anyone forget. You’re a hack, Barsanti. You’re the kind of dude who spends first dates telling the girl you’re a feminist, then gets pissed when she doesn’t sleep with you.
WTF ever happened with Graham Linehan’s space comedy show? Basically supposed to be IT Crowd in space? Read about it couple years ago then nothing.
This is the type of quality well planned out idea that is just forcing netflix to put up their pricesHow could they live without making this labour of love
Forceballs.
This is Netflix getting ready for the day when NBC/Universal pulls The Office. They just announced a streaming service, and there’s no way they’re going to let one of their biggest hits sit on Netflix.I . . . I don’t think this will get as many views.
How can they NOT call it “Donald Trump’s Space Force”?
Avoiding space herpes was my personal space Vietnam.
How does Carell still have a career? He’s been in endless flops as of late, plus, he reeks of booty farts.
Come on, Rainn. Just be happy for the guy.
Man Netflix must be throwing obscene amounts of money at people, because you’d think Daniels and Carell in a new show would go on NBC, no questions asked.
This is sooo stupid. Trump sucks but everyone is aware there is an actual branch of the armed forces called the air force right? I understand people think this name is really funny but it’s like a chuckle at best if you’re a complete simpleton. I heard the government is testing having a manned space craft alter the orbit of an asteroid in a few years. With the goal of testing our ability to protect the Earth in case there is an actual need for such a thing in the future. It’s not ridiculous for there to be a branch of the military that would be specialized for working in space. So it’s not really a ridiculous idea and it’s not really a ridiculous name but because Trump mentioned it I have to hear about it from every media source and now a show based on the not funny joke about the not funny words Trump said once.
“Who put my spacestapler in spacejello?”
“I feel Space God in this Space Chilis tonight.”
This premise could be hilarious or could be as meh as Final Space.
It’s actually a drama where Carell plays a dad whose son is at risk to succumbing to dreaded space force disease.