We went over to Comedy Central to watch David Cross and Jon Benjamin do their new cartoon Freak Show. We thought we'd see two funny guys riffing over a huge bong and coming up with some funny concepts that a million lackeys would have to carry out but what we saw was really, really, really, really, different from that.
First of all they don't do shit. 90% of their day is playing video games and the other 10% is sleeping and only the other 10% is working on the show. Then maybe another 5% or so is talking on the phone with the animators and making notes and shit. Another, say, 7% is fucking around with the production people who have to order them lunch and stuff. You get all kinds of cool presents when you work with funny people.David and Jon were doing press the day we were there so after we were done interviewing them we sat in on a 20 person conference call with every college in America and heard 20 of the stupidest questions ever made including, "How much pot do you smoke to come up with these ideas?" (we were kidding at the beginning when we said we expected to see that) and "Why did you choose to do this show as animation?" We also recorded them doing their jobs so you can see what that's like (it's boring) and we filled up our cameras with pictures and movies and stuff too.Click here for more behind-the-scenesness and preview clips.
First of all they don't do shit. 90% of their day is playing video games and the other 10% is sleeping and only the other 10% is working on the show. Then maybe another 5% or so is talking on the phone with the animators and making notes and shit. Another, say, 7% is fucking around with the production people who have to order them lunch and stuff. You get all kinds of cool presents when you work with funny people.David and Jon were doing press the day we were there so after we were done interviewing them we sat in on a 20 person conference call with every college in America and heard 20 of the stupidest questions ever made including, "How much pot do you smoke to come up with these ideas?" (we were kidding at the beginning when we said we expected to see that) and "Why did you choose to do this show as animation?" We also recorded them doing their jobs so you can see what that's like (it's boring) and we filled up our cameras with pictures and movies and stuff too.Click here for more behind-the-scenesness and preview clips.