The latest clowning icon to join tardy - dark is n’t Jessica Williams or Desus & Mero , it ’s the freakish offspring of a Labyrinth creature and Sully from Monsters Inc. Comedy Central announced at this year ’s TCA that it ’s picked up Funny or pall ’s The Gorburger Show for an eight - episode season .
The Gorburger Show is a web serial by Silicon Valley ’s T.J. Miller that debuted in 2012 , all about a garish stranger who convey over a Japanese talk of the town show and forces its guests to teach him about humanity . It antecedently aired for two time of year , with 19 episodes . The deadpan humor ( with a pull ! ) is somewhat similar to IFC ’s Comedy Bang ! Bang ! , which was cancelled late last class , or Funny or pass away ’s Between Two Ferns . It ’s just , this fourth dimension , there ’s an extraterrestrial being postulate .
In a insistence dismissal , Comedy Central gasconade that Gorburger was impart much - needed “ diversity ” to late - night video , which was kind of a dumb move . It ’s no secret that late - Nox boob tube is frustratingly missing in representation , and Comedy Central has play a part in that . Granted , Trevor Noah hosts The Daily Show , but Comedy Central did cancel The Nightly Show , which did a way better job at tackling government issue like wash relations . consider Gorburger is play by a white-hot dude , it ’s kind of a stupefied , tasteless joke that elude the problem rather than doing anything about it .
On top of it , I honestly have no clew how they ’re break to turn this five - minute jest into a half - minute show . Comedy Central managed to do it brilliantly with Drunk History , which just got regenerate for another time of year , but that ’s in the main because the format loan itself to longer episode . There ’s really only one jocularity in The Gorburger Show ; he ’s an alien who does n’t understand human things , and also he want to dispatch sometimes . The Gorburger Show is set up to debut this spring .
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