It’s San Diego Comic-Con week, which means superhero news is the hottest thing in town (especially if that town is San Diego), but NBC is putting together a new dynamic duo of its own. As reported by Variety, the network has given a straight-to-series order to a new project from Tina Fey and Ted Danson, which is basically one Steve Carell short of being an NBC Justice League. Fey will write the series alongside regular collaborator Robert Carlock, with Variety saying that the series will star Danson as a rich guy who runs for mayor of Los Angeles “for all the wrong reasons.” After winning, he has to “figure out what he stands for, gain the respect of his staff, and connect with his teenage daughter, all while controlling the coyote population.” In other words, it’s Tina Fey and Ted Danson doing political jokes, L.A. jokes, and rich guy jokes, which sounds like a promising combination.
In a statement, Fey and Carlock talked how “thrilled” they are to be “writing for one of the network’s greatest stars of all time, Mary Steenburgen’s husband, Ted.” That’s pretty funny.
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Can’t wait for more of fey’s 2001 vintage “trans people are weird and gross” jokes!
Im sure she hasn’t changed at all in nearly twenty years.
She definitely hasn’t, considering the quantity of punching down jokes at the expense of trans people in both 30 rock and kimmy schmidt.Do you think people just change automatically? They have to try. And successful people rarely see the need.
Lmao but youre a sunny fan so i dont really care what you have to say on the subject, g-g-get dismissed.
That’s.. shameful for you.
I’m excited as a good-hearted demon for this show!
This is great and all, but I’d just assume watch Ted and Mary do Anything together. Ted’s character from The Good Place and Mary’s Character from The Last Man on Earth in a Road Trip series is all I really need.
I’m rewatching Kimmy right now and the bit about Titus doing bgv’s for conspiracy theory pop songs makes me laugh every time
“all while controlling the coyote population.” – SOLD. Also reminds me of this Weird Al Disney cartoon clip:
I dunno, on the one hand I’m definitely going to watch this. But on the other hand, given Fey’s poorly concealed contempt for everywhere that’s not New York, I’m hesitant to think she’ll do a good job with the LA-specific stuff.
Exactly.Now, this being said, she does seem to have contempt for basically anywhere that isn’t on the Atlantic coast.
Yep! The next bit is where they all laugh at the LA people on the video call.
Yeah, but she’s not wrong.
↑ THIS ↑ Fey is Upper Darby all the way biatches
concealed contempt for everywhere that’s not New Yorkbut she also has contempt for NYC
She also really loves Cleveland.
she likes chicago. as does every comedian.
Tina Fey is one of the few modern comedians I actually like, so this sounds good on paper.Plus, I’ve been watching a lot of Becker on Antenna TV so the more I can get of snarky Ted Danson, the better.
a rich guy who runs for mayor of Los Angeles “for all the wrong reasons.”Hmmm… now who does that remind me of…
def couldn’t do NYC as Bloomberg already been there/done that
I’m really looking forward to this.
So this is basically The Mayor but for wealthy people?
Well Ted Danson, “Becker”, that Gulliver miniseries and his movies aside, is golden. As for Tina Fey, I think time has long ago proven that empress has no clothes.
the fuck you say …
Well, she’s a SNL alum, and SNL alums historically don’t have much staying power, Eddie Murphy and Robert Downy Jr. not withstanding.
Why is everyone so OLD these days? The cast of the new Top Gun sequel are all old folks. The cast of the new Brad Pitt space movie are all old folks, and now we have Fey and Danson whose combined age is 120.
This just in. Time is linear.