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Trailers | July 20, 2009 | Comments (22)

All the cool kids (read: asthmatics) in the movie blog world who saw Mystery Team this year at Sundance insist that it’s, like, the comedy sensation of a lifetime. It’s apparently better than sex! And for most of them, it’s the closest they’ll ever get (movie blogger burn! High five! No? *slinks away*). Anyway, the movie is reportedly going to screen this year at Comic-Con (we have three writers attending — they’ll be the three with actual significant others; geek burn! High five! *sorry*), and it opens in theaters this fall.

I don’t want to judge the movie by the trailer and by the reception, so far, of our hard-up, bearded colleagues, so I’ll wait until it’s released to pass judgment. Except to say this: It’s either some sort of genius Wet Hot American Summer for Napoleon Dynamite fans, or it’s stupid beyond measure. I feel like a prick for saying it, but it’s like finding the three kids in high school who were actually dorkier than I was. And I kind of want to beat them up.

Does that make me a bad person?



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Comments

I feel like a prick for saying it, but it’s like finding the three kids in high school who were actually dorkier than I was. And I kind of want to beat them up.

Does that make me a bad person?

No, no it doesn't.

Posted by: DeistBrawler at July 20, 2009 8:20 PM

Holy shit! I know those guys! I had heard they were working on a movie, but this is a little surreal.

Posted by: SaBrina at July 20, 2009 8:24 PM

Oh, and for giant dorks, they always seem to have a ridiculous amount of girls hanging on them. Not that I necessarily want to defend their reputations, because one of them was a dick to me. So scratch what I said. Go beat them up.

Posted by: SaBrina at July 20, 2009 8:27 PM

Mark my words: Donald Glover will be huge. I have followed Derrick comedy for a while now, and that guy is a star in the making. I'll put money on it.

Posted by: aidan at July 20, 2009 8:28 PM

The Sundance trailer was a lot funnier.

Posted by: Mick J at July 20, 2009 8:30 PM

I'm with you Dustin, I don't know what to think about that. Although the geek pheromones are making me punchy.

Posted by: admin at July 20, 2009 8:41 PM

I'm very excited for this. Like a couple others I've been a big fan of Derrick Comedy for a while now. I think everybody should give it a shot (as well as their online content at www.derrickcomedy.com /I highly recommend the spelling bee clip.)

I can't speak at length about the experience of the two whities, but aidan has got it right: Donald Glover is greatness. Proof? He's been on the "30 Rock" writing staff since about the beginning and apparently has gotten a lot of advice from the Tina Fey. He's been funny for a while on his own, but that can't hurt.

Posted by: CleverJohnny at July 20, 2009 8:47 PM

o yeah by the way that trailer sucks. this ones better: vhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxx1vOhlqmM

Posted by: aidan at July 20, 2009 8:47 PM

I feel like a prick for saying it, but it’s like finding the three kids in high school who were actually dorkier than I was. And I kind of want to beat them up.

Time to unretire the dreaded Rear Admiral.

Posted by: branded at July 20, 2009 8:58 PM

Man, this doesn't even make the list of things that make you a terrible person.

Posted by: Tracer Bullet at July 20, 2009 9:02 PM

Are they same guys who did the rad Memento parody?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZcfJu4cWZ4

Posted by: Lauren at July 20, 2009 9:02 PM

As a person who adapted Derrick Comedy sketches for theatre class, I can say this with complete bias: FUCK. YES.

Posted by: Marcela at July 20, 2009 9:11 PM

"feel like a prick for saying it, but it’s like finding the three kids in high school who were actually dorkier than I was. And I kind of want to beat them up.

Does that make me a bad person?"
no, just a bitch

Posted by: Jack Random at July 20, 2009 9:33 PM

Yes, Don Glover will be huge (and his name is practically dong lover, so there's that) and DC Pierson is a pretty terrific writer, at least. They moved to LA 37 days ago. I know this because he's doing a daily blog on his site, which is all kinds of funny and wistful and romantic. I look forward to reading it every day.

Posted by: Max at July 20, 2009 9:34 PM

I will say that I love many of the skits from DerrickComedy, but they can be hit and miss, and I have no clue whether this movie will be good. Now, if BriTanick got a movie, I'd love to see that.

Posted by: Christian H. at July 20, 2009 9:41 PM

@ MAX: Link? I would like to see that blog.

Posted by: Lindsey with an 'e' at July 20, 2009 10:24 PM

@Lindsey
Here's passage from a recent post I really liked:

"We are reviewing a print of our movie that has been converted to actual thirty-five millimeter film. Our movie was shot digitally and has been digital every step of the way, so seeing it in the form of light shining through actual physical film, complete with the grain and imperfections you sort of take for granted until they aren’t there and things feel too smooth, is a really incredible experience. Our movie looks like a movie, thanks to many many hours of painstaking work by Dan and the color correction guys at the post house. It is chemicals and celluloid rolled up into big canisters. It is a record of the light given off by things in the actual physical world and after being captured and flying around digitally for several generations, now a year and change later it’s once again physical and warm and organic. It’s a movie on film. I can’t explain how cool that is."

The rest: http://www.dcpierson.com/

There's also some great short stories. This one blew my mind (I recommend you rope in the nearest human being to you, and read it out loud): http://www.dcpierson.com/archives/000723.html

Posted by: Max at July 20, 2009 10:59 PM

I've seen Derrick a couple times at UCB (a friend of mine is a HUGE fan of them) and I think the best thing about their schtick is that they are so good at improv. They can an idea that was brought up in the beginning of their thirty minutes, and use that and end it with a bang in a completely different scene and topic. And it would be hilarious the entire way through.

Anyway, the last show that I went to of theirs they said that they were going to screen the movie after the show if we wanted to stay and catch it. The boyfriend and I decided to leave. So... despite them being really great at improv, their scripted stuff just looks awkward as hell.

Posted by: dene at July 20, 2009 11:12 PM

Donald Glover is definitely on his way (I'll be watching him on Community this fall) but I think the last trailer was better. This one is too low-key.

If you check out Derrick Comedy, be sure to see Bro Rape, Emo Song, or Girls are not to be Trusted. It's impossible not to laugh at at least one of those.

Posted by: Brie at July 20, 2009 11:20 PM


Hot cougars? Sensual milfs?
"Cougar Central"? "San Carlos" ? or "San Francisco"?
*** Agelover. c o m *** is the real place that is packed with them.

Posted by: maggielindia at July 21, 2009 2:13 AM

I guess Donald Glover left 30 Rock to do "Community". I was wondering how he was going to balance both jobs. I guess he doesn't have to now.

Posted by: John Darc at July 21, 2009 6:07 PM

Now, if BriTanick got a movie, I'd love to see that.

Posted by: Christian H. at July 20, 2009 9:41 PM

if BriTanick came out with a movie, I might just die of happiness.

Posted by: Lena at July 22, 2009 12:52 AM