“It’s not just like he’s dreaming and that’s what we’re seeing. “The way that we’re playing it is that it’s all real,” Mirk explained. When a character sees his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend as Adolph Hitler, you can understand the inclination to dismiss what’s happening as neurotic fantasy, but writer Dan Mirk said that what you see is the truth. Playing absurdity with sincerity is exactly what this show is going for. From Monty Python to The Simpsons to Portlandia, that’s my favorite type of comedy. He?s great at playing absurd situations with naturalism. When I was looking for a director, he was the very first person that I thought of because I’ve loved his work from afar. “We didn’t really work much together - we barely overlapped on that show - but I’ve been a fan of his for years, I’m a big Portlandia fan. In the director’s chair, Man Seeking Woman alternates between Benjamin Berman ( Comedy Bang! Bang!, Tim and Eric Awesome Show) and Tim Kirkby ( Veep, Brooklyn Nine-Nine), and directing half the episodes is Jonathan Krisel ( Saturday Night Live, Portlandia). In addition to Rich, Man Seeking Woman has an interesting group of writers, including Simpsons vet Maxtone-Graham, The Office‘s Robert Padnick, New York playwright Sofia Alvarez, and Onion writer Dan Mirk. There’s an eclectic group of talent behind the scenes. I think literally since he was 21, I was a fan of this writing.” Perelman and I was a fan of his for so many years. I think he’s up there with Ian Frazier and Jack Handey and S. “One of the great short, funny piece-writers in history. “He’s a very brilliant comic writer,” said writer Ian Maxtone-Graham, known best for his 17 years on The Simpsons. In the meantime, he published three story collections and two novels - all before creating his own show for FXX, executive produced by Lorne Michaels. After heading The Harvard Lampoon in college, Rich joined Saturday Night Live as one of the youngest writers in the show’s history. For those unfamiliar with Rich, he has accomplished more professionally by age 30 than most writers can hope to achieve in their lifetimes. The Last Girlfriend on Earth, a collection of short stories by Simon Rich (some of which were previously published in the New Yorker), is the inspiration for Man Seeking Woman. It’s based on a collection of surreal short stories by Simon Rich. It’s the one TV show you can say is like no other TV show, so the closest I’ve come to describing it is that it’s like a cartoon come to life. “I have a hell of a time describing it, which is part of what makes it exciting,” Baruchel told Rotten Tomatoes. Such are the harsh realities of modern dating - and you can be sure they’ll never run out of material. (Guest star alert: Bill Hader plays Führer). Not a guy like Hitler, but the actual 126-year-old Adolf Hitler who’s been hiding in Argentina since faking his own death all those years ago. For Josh, returning to the dating scene means not only surviving a blind date with an actual troll, but also enduring the humiliation of learning that his ex-girlfriend is dating Adolf Hitler. Finding love, however, is not as easy as your typical 90-minute rom-com would have you believe. It’s like nothing you’ve seen on TV before.īaruchel plays Josh Greenberg, who tackles the single life with the help of his best friend Mike Bunt ( Eric Andre) after being dumped by his longtime girlfriend Maggie (Maya Erskine). With the narrative freedom of a cartoon and the production values of a live-action film, it’s an absurd half-hour comedy about the high stakes of twentysomething singledom as experienced through one man’s perspective.īefore you fall down this bunny hole of modern mating madness, here’s what you need to know about Man Seeking Woman, premiering on FXX this Wednesday. Based on a collection of short stories by creator Simon Rich, Man Seeking Woman is unlike anything you’ve ever seen on TV before. In November, Rotten Tomatoes visited the set of FXX’s upcoming comedy Man Seeking Woman to find out what the deal is with Jay Baruchel’s new show.
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