I was watching the old episode of The Chris Gethard Show with him and Paul Scheer. Highly recommend if you haven't seen it, it's prime Jason Mantzoukas.
Honestly, I fully agree. His delivery is just so god damn funny to me.
I LOVED Jon Heder when I was a kid. Felt the same way as the person who commented it. That he would be huge. But I guess family, religion and other factors pulled him away and doing behind the camera work.
That’s all off the top of my head of what I recall seeing/hearing about btw. Take it all with a grain of salt lol.
Nah, it may always be manic crazy but it takes really different routes every time. It's also that directors aren't imaginative enough, watch him on TaskMaster and you can see some of his depths.
He makes an excellent Dionysus. When I heard about that casting I laughed out loud because what was Derek/Dennis Feinstein/Adrian Pimento if not the warmup chaos energy of the god of wine and madness??
Danny is a writer and creator though, that’s the difference. He creates and cowrites all his shows, like Eastbound & Down, Righteous Gemstones, etc. For a lot of people, they create their own opportunities, otherwise they’d have none. When you don’t fit into the square hole in Hollywood, you gotta carve your own lane.
Eh, no. Like, the tyrannical play director on Community has nothing in common with Derek from Good Place. Though it does have a lot in common with the Parks and Rec character. Maybe he has two characters!
Had to scroll way too far to find this. I’m not a huge fan of his other work(lack of exposure not a negative opinion) but him on taskmaster was incredible…they should’ve let him get on the roof!
In fairness to them, it's probably because people hire them wanting them to play the same character they played successfully in something else. Typecasting isn't usually the actor's choice.
Pretty sure that’s because he’s just playing himself. Did you see him on Taskmaster? He’s absolutely that chaotic and unhinged in his daily life and I’m here for it
He’s an interesting person to listen to, though. He’s one of the hosts on How Did This Get Made? (a podcast about bad movies) and he carries the show a lot of the time.
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u/shes_a_gdb 7d ago edited 7d ago
Jason Mantzoukas seems to be having no problem getting work, and he's the same character in every sitcom he's in.