Watching this reminds how much I couldn't stand the high school drama and radio club. It does not make me want to spend $100 and 2 hours of my life seeing it in person. Edit: I just Googled the play, it's getting some weirdly positive buzz.
All I remember was Tucker saying Gosling would have been perfect, but he wanted somebody not as established so they could become the Tucker character.
Well, it didn't hurt Matt Czuchry's career to play Tucker since The Good Wife will make syndication and he'll make about a gajillion dollars. I was wondering if they left the sound off the play rehearsal so "regular"theatre goers weren't turned off by the offensive jokes without setup and the Tucker fans wouldn't care since they'd be saying "Ha, I don't remember a story about carrots! That's hilarious! I have to see this!" Although, it looked like instead of a midget, that girl was just walking around on her knees or something.
Re: Re: IHTSBIH on Broadway Seconded, the motion passes, I could give a shit about this play. That's 2 shitty trailers Tucker has had.
Re: Re: IHTSBIH on Broadway I think we have an answer as to if that long post the director wrote about it to Jezebel was a joke or not. Seems to be dead fucking serious after watching that trailer.
...That was the trailer? Wow, yeah Ill pass. How fucking stupid is it going to be have some fullsize butch chick walking on her knees? They couldn't find a real dwarf for the part? I'd rather pay $200 to watch Harry Potter whip his penis out and pretend he's a horse (or whatever that play was) than $50 for this.
And didn't Tucker agree to see basically every single showing of this for like a month straight? Oh man. If only Biscuits was around to comment on the play version!
That trailer was completely pointless bullshit, void of any interest whatsoever. It only leads me to believe it has shitty lines and/or writing. And why is Jason Segal starring in it?
You fags wouldn't know what a revolutionary trailer looked like if Che Guevara came back to life and cock slapped you in the mouth.
Shit. I'm shallow, bro. All I got out of it was a bunch of people looking like schmucks while a record skipped.
I didn't even know they made trailers for musicals. It doesn't make much sense to have closeup videos of everything that's going on, when best case you're at least 10 feet away from the actors, and more than likely somewhere between 30-40 (at least based on most smaller Broadway theaters). And it's a fucking comedy, anything that isn't the words doesn't matter. Who thought that trailer was a good idea? Either way, if a date opens up and I can get tickets for cheapish I might take a peek and see how it is.
I don't know how you'd really make a trailer for a play. Honestly, try making a trailer for a stage production of Macbeth. Or No Exit. Or Our Town. It just doesn't work because it's a different medium. I'm casually optimistic about the play, if only because there are plenty of times that a play's premise sounds fucking retarded and actually ends up being pretty good. For example, Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead. Take two of the most minor characters from Hamlet and make them the bewildered protagonists in a comedy about fate, determinism, and death. If I saw a trailer for that, I'd pass on it it. But it's absolutely hilarious and is brilliant in pretty much everything it does. So hey, I have no idea how it'll turn out. Maybe it'll be great, maybe it'll be complete dogshit. I think that the fact that there's a self-absorbed pretentious twat doing it instead of Tucker is a good thing. If it's complete shit, I'll chuckle at the fact that Tucker has to watch every production of it. If it's golden, I'll marvel at how Tucker's material has gotten into a new medium and prospered. I don't even think the premise is too shitty. If done right, it might even be worth watching.
The Carrots are from the story of the girl who he couldn't seem to humiliate. She gave him a blumpy, he choked her out with belts that were cushioned with washcloths so the marks wouldn't show, he stuck carrots in her ass... She broke up with him because it was unseemly that he was seeing other people at the same time.
This reminds me of an infomercial for some reason. Or maybe a commercial for a late-night Comedy Central "ironically unfunny" show that gets canceled after 2 weeks.
It's ironically funny (I guess) that a lot of the comments are negative, but we're at 18 pages and the first block of shows sold out. I think it's funny that in this interview, Tucker comes off as the polite, sharp guy you'd want to hang out with, and the director guy comes off as a grade A dick. imho
I think they could have 20 or 30 seconds of a song, maybe even a synopsis of the play. They could have done a better trailer than that. I've seen play trailers done better. Hamlet and Macbeth at least have the sets to give you and idea. Plus a line or two couldn't hurt either. Given it is not a cohesive story, it's not like you can spoil IHTSBIH.