Prep your industrial-strength printers and stock your staplers. “Corporate” is getting one last ride through the horror show of life inside big business.
Comedy Central announced on Monday that its acclaimed series would be returning for a third and final season next year.
The series, created by Pat Bishop, Matt Ingebretson and Jake Weisman, debuted last year and quickly became a network highlight, eventually landing on IndieWire’s Best New TV Shows of 2018 list. Ingebretson and Weisman star as Matt and Jake, a pair of would-be junior executives, forced to contend with all the tedious and bizarre parts about working at a massive multinational corporation that makes just about anything you can think of.
As both an escape from and the main contributors to their soul-crushing work, Matt and Jake are joined in their exploits by office obsessives Kate and John (Anne Dudek and Adam Lustick) and enigmatic Hr liaison...
Comedy Central announced on Monday that its acclaimed series would be returning for a third and final season next year.
The series, created by Pat Bishop, Matt Ingebretson and Jake Weisman, debuted last year and quickly became a network highlight, eventually landing on IndieWire’s Best New TV Shows of 2018 list. Ingebretson and Weisman star as Matt and Jake, a pair of would-be junior executives, forced to contend with all the tedious and bizarre parts about working at a massive multinational corporation that makes just about anything you can think of.
As both an escape from and the main contributors to their soul-crushing work, Matt and Jake are joined in their exploits by office obsessives Kate and John (Anne Dudek and Adam Lustick) and enigmatic Hr liaison...
- 6/10/2019
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
“Corporate” has been renewed for Season 3 at Comedy Central in what will also be the show’s last season.
The third season will debut in 2020. Season 2 of the scripted series launched back in January. Led by stars Jake Weisman, Matt Ingebretson, Lance Reddick, Aparna Nancherla, Anne Dudek and Adam Lustick, the series looks at life as a Junior-Executive-in-Training at a soulless multinational corporation. Matt and Jake (Ingebretson and Weisman) are at the mercy of a tyrannical CEO Christian DeVille (Reddick) and his top lieutenants, sycophants John and Kate (Lustick and Dudek). As Matt and Jake navigate an ever-revolving series of disasters, their only ally is Human Resources rep Grace (Nancherla), who is beleaguered by both her job and her exhausting relationship with the very needy Matt and Jake.
The series was created by Pat Bishop, Ingebretson and Weisman. Guest stars in Season 2 included Kyra Sedgwick, Elizabeth Perkins, Kristen Schaal, Sasheer Zamata,...
The third season will debut in 2020. Season 2 of the scripted series launched back in January. Led by stars Jake Weisman, Matt Ingebretson, Lance Reddick, Aparna Nancherla, Anne Dudek and Adam Lustick, the series looks at life as a Junior-Executive-in-Training at a soulless multinational corporation. Matt and Jake (Ingebretson and Weisman) are at the mercy of a tyrannical CEO Christian DeVille (Reddick) and his top lieutenants, sycophants John and Kate (Lustick and Dudek). As Matt and Jake navigate an ever-revolving series of disasters, their only ally is Human Resources rep Grace (Nancherla), who is beleaguered by both her job and her exhausting relationship with the very needy Matt and Jake.
The series was created by Pat Bishop, Ingebretson and Weisman. Guest stars in Season 2 included Kyra Sedgwick, Elizabeth Perkins, Kristen Schaal, Sasheer Zamata,...
- 6/10/2019
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Two black men walk into a bar. “It was a dark and stormy night,” Open Mike Eagle says in an old-timey British accent, setting the stage. “A man with a double-breasted blazer and a smoking pipe walks in,” Baron Vaughn says, picking up his friend’s story. Then the punchline arrives. The man, a TV executive, points at our heroes: “You, you come here. Be my new negro,” says Open Mike, mimicking a faux-white-man tone. He and Vaughn start laughing. This is not, they assure me, how their series The New Negroes (Fridays at 11 p.
- 5/3/2019
- by Charles Holmes
- Rollingstone.com
Baron Vaughn and Open Mike Eagle know the title of their new Comedy Central show, “The New Negroes,” will cause a few double takes.
The hosting duo thought about changing it, but then thought again. “I like that it’s provocative, that it’s not easily explained or that there’s no easy answer to what it means. I feel that the show is itself an answer to why we chose to call it that,” Vaughn says.
The title harkens back to 1925 and “The New Negro: An Interpretation,” an anthology of African-American essays, poetry and fiction edited by Alain Locke, the first African-American Rhodes scholar and widely-acknowledged father of the Harlem Renaissance.
“That time in American history was seen as a turning point with a lot of Black creatives being able to redefine what being a Black American meant, and that’s the spirit we’re taking forward with this show,...
The hosting duo thought about changing it, but then thought again. “I like that it’s provocative, that it’s not easily explained or that there’s no easy answer to what it means. I feel that the show is itself an answer to why we chose to call it that,” Vaughn says.
The title harkens back to 1925 and “The New Negro: An Interpretation,” an anthology of African-American essays, poetry and fiction edited by Alain Locke, the first African-American Rhodes scholar and widely-acknowledged father of the Harlem Renaissance.
“That time in American history was seen as a turning point with a lot of Black creatives being able to redefine what being a Black American meant, and that’s the spirit we’re taking forward with this show,...
- 4/10/2019
- by Will Thorne
- Variety Film + TV
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