3/18/2023 0 Comments Shadow and bone afterpartyIf you’re still f- around and treating people super or attacking women or saying “suck my d- and I’ll give you a job” and don’t think there’s any repercussions? This isn’t “Mad Men” anymore. If guys are doing something like that right now, get rid of them. I think everyone’s scared to speak up and be canceled or say the wrong thing. “Tommy Boy,” “Joe Dirt” - those movies didn’t make that much, and then they seeped in through TBS or HBO. So if you say “Grown Ups” made $160 million and tickets are $16, what is that, 10 million people see it? Netflix movies are seeping in so deep to people in one day, instead of a movie and a press junket here and then we’d go to Europe and then it goes to HBO and then video. 1 in the world!” There’s no Yankee doodle dandy, running around the city feeling cool.īut when you think about it and you go, OK, “The Wrong Missy” had 59 million views in the first month. It’s like a text that’s like, “Congrats, you’re No. You don’t get the fun of going out to dinner to celebrate. That’s like, ‘Oh, you’ll probably get another movie.’ No one is aware of this. You can’t compare it to looking at the box office. When a movie does well on Netflix, does it feel the same as when “Tommy Boy” was a hit in theaters? The last three comedic films you starred in - “The Do-Over,” “Father of the Year” and “The Wrong Missy” - all premiered on Netflix. I look at my old HBO special and think, “That’s funnier than stuff in my current stand-up.” I would think I’m better now, but I’m not sure. I don’t know what people’s perception of me is. It’s very hard to see how people see you objectively. So you don’t think about what your brand of comedy is? If this is the only time you see me, I should always have stuff that’s good - that’s my whole job. It is still an audience, and everything is a constant audition, so there’s someone who has never seen me and they’ll see one Instagram story or post and you don’t want to throw a clanker up there. I’d rather have it mean something, or people will fade out too quickly. Or talking to squirrels as TMZ and going, “Squirrel, squirrel, what do you think about the presidency?” There’s usually no second takes. where he was visiting his 85-year-old mother for Christmas - Spade talked about becoming a talk show host, leaving the box office behind and the comedy world’s #MeToo reckoning.Īt first, it was just, like, filming myself crunching leaves and thinking that was fun. The show, which will be released weekly, has Spade and co-hosts Fortune Feimster and London Hughes chatting with talent from Netflix’s most popular films and television shows. When the cable network pulled the plug - or, as Spade joked, “pushed me out on the freeway” - Sarandos suggested he do a similar program for the streamer.Įnter “The Netflix Afterparty,” premiering Saturday. The executive, who, like Spade, grew up in Arizona, had swung by the Comedy Central set a few times, watching from backstage. I think that’s how tough the biz is, where they say, ‘How much is that one? OK, get rid of it.’ So, I understand.” (ViacomCBS declined to comment.)įortunately, Spade had acquired a powerful fan during his short-lived run as a talk show host: Ted Sarandos, co-chief executive and chief content officer for Netflix. “It wasn’t that, but I think he’s talking, like, really inexpensive. “The reason I heard was the new guy wants to cut anything that’s kind of expensive and go kind of cheap,” Spade said, referring to Chris McCarthy, who came in as ViacomCBS’ president of entertainment youth Brands, including Comedy Central, at the beginning of 2020. He said he was told the decision to ax the show was a cost-saving measure. But critics responded warmly to Spade’s easy demeanor and his penchant for bantering about pop culture with fellow stand-ups. The program was hardly a massive hit, launching in July 2019 with about 460,000 viewers per episode. “They said we were gonna shut down fully and told me around the same time it was in Deadline. “Honestly, I was kind of shocked,” said Spade, 56. Like most TV shows filming in March, the comedian’s late-night talk show “Lights Out” came to a sudden halt because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and under lockdown Spade attempted to produce content for Comedy Central from home - doing interviews with Adam Sandler and “Tiger King” cast members that would post online.īut on April 3, the trades reported that “Lights Out” had been canceled, less than a year after its premiere. A month into the pandemic, David Spade got fired.
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