I'm really looking forward to this show. I trust Mike Judge will deliver based on the quality of Office Space and Idiocracy.<p>They've done a great job casting the show. It's a great list of funny actors(Martin Starr), improv(Zach Woods), and comedians(Thomas Middleditch, Kumail Nanjiani and TJ Miller). Kumail Nanjiani and TJ Miller are two of my favourite comedians.<p>Kumail has a video game podcast with his wife Emily called "The Indoor Kids". <a href="http://www.nerdist.com/podcast/the-indoor-kids/" rel="nofollow">http://www.nerdist.com/podcast/the-indoor-kids/</a> His standup special Beta Male is available for $5 here <a href="http://ccdirect.comedycentral.com/watch/kumail-nanjiani-beta-male" rel="nofollow">http://ccdirect.comedycentral.com/watch/kumail-nanjiani-beta...</a><p>TJ Miller's Special is $5 here <a href="http://ccdirect.comedycentral.com/watch/tj-miller-no-real-reason" rel="nofollow">http://ccdirect.comedycentral.com/watch/tj-miller-no-real-re...</a><p>Here they are in a couple "This is not happening" sets on youtube. Kumail <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNpRMfiwwlM" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNpRMfiwwlM</a> and TJ <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf9N5AWprG8" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf9N5AWprG8</a><p>It's pretty tragic that main character Christoper Evans Welch died while in the middle shooting the show. As a result they ended up having to change the show drastically.
Ok someone should run a book on how soon into the show the common "nerd" tropes are used :-)<p>Just mentioning DnD is always good a for a few laughs :-(<p>Having said that C4 did this a few years ago with "Nathan Barley" - one of the people being parodied actually worked at the same company that I did.<p>Will it be as good as the IT crowd though?
I can't tell if I should be excited that Mike Judge is coming out with something new or downright hateful that I now have to almost certainly subscribe to HBO for whatever price the provider sees fit.<p>People like him should really follow Louis C K's example and make everything available over the web DRM free for a reasonable price. I can't think of a reason they would need HBO or FOX to make things happen. (On a second thought - Louis C K stand ups are one man show mostly but still for serials there must be a ton of independent investors willing to invest in the new model of delivering entertainment. There's Kickstarter even :))
Based on the commercials, I'm afraid this is going to be any broad comedy with cheap laughs...like The Big Bang Theory. Big I did like Office Space, Idiocracy, and bits of Extract so I'll give it a chance.
After presenting at the last TC disrupt last year me and my business partner was contacted by someone planing the show. They wanted to use our material and or us as extras when they recreated Disrupt. Not sure what happened but we lost contact with them. Been waiting to see how this show turned out.
HBO's certainly been doing everything they can to promote it in Seattle: <a href="https://twitter.com/stuartpb/status/444271882066350081" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/stuartpb/status/444271882066350081</a>
People at startups look more like MTV Real World celebs and than the awkward geeks they are portrayed as in this series. Watching it I felt like Mike Judge is really out of his element in terms of being able to satirize something he's only familiar with through news articles.<p>More often it's catered food or food trucks - not ramen noodles.