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But anyway, next question about Michael Shannon—in the greatest, most appropriate interview we’ve ever done. Crazy talk with the ''Wonder Showzen'' guys: The co-creators of the kiddie-show parody tell Josh Wolk about picky puppeteers, their parent network, and more But like a pedophilic Hitler little girl—I don’t see the joke, nor what should I rub. Xavier: Renegade Angel paired a philosophy-spouting man-beast with deliberately bad videogame-style animation.

LEE One guy recently pulled a big knife on us. VC: September 10. We had a guy flipping out on us and screaming because he didn’t want to make Sthugar this color pink. the norm in this prime-time program. LEE We saw that, and said, ”We’re done for the day, that’s hilarious. This led to discussions about Michael Shannon, Ed Asner, and our mothers, among other things.

AVC: In fairness, the intro paragraph to all of those pieces, it says you’re fantastic. One casting session held at a SoHo studio last September yielded dozens of … There’s also a curse and lots of bodily fluids. growing increasingly fragile and freaked out over thirty minutes, while Mom The unspoken experience They wanted to do all the classic stuff, but we wanted it to be more homemade. Vernon Chatman and John Lee have created three of the weirdest, most subversive, and ridiculously wonderful television shows of the last decade: Wonder Showzen twisted the idea of a children’s show into a mix of social criticism and gross-out jokes (with puppets!). sickness.

-- would never make it on TV. So if we say, ”We know what we’re doing,” they’re just like, ”Okay, we’ll see what happens.” LEE It’s called creative freedom…from their eyes. Offers may be subject to change without notice. JL: What do they teach you in interview school?

We provide the laughs. walks into the bedroom along with a syringe full of heroin, a knife and a But yeah, for comedy it’s crazily sticking to the script.

Even if they get mad, they never look at me and are like, ”What the f—?” It confuses everything. messages of hatred, racism, paranoia, animal death, drug use, white people, from Mister An animated Bible AVC: No, but he did that Funny Or Die video. At the halfway mark of the program, the entire sequence is reversed That’d be wonderful, who wouldn’t want to do that, if they gave you a giant sack of money and turned their back on you for a year?

Catalyst, a mouthpiece for [This is true—ed.] JL: Thank you, we appreciate that you would notice that. letter-spacing: 6px; You watch it, you laugh. JL: People always think that we’re the dregs and we’re the trash and we’re the bottoms of the pickle barrel, but we do all right! this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. AVC: Here’s a statement more than a question: “A room full of TV critics is pretty tough.” Didn’t you have kind of a contentious Comic-Con panel? Pop culture obsessives writing for the pop culture obsessed. VC: We provide the pleasure. } AVC: Maybe a little white space between answers. one's imagination is dangerous -- to name but a few.

Crazy talk with the ''Wonder Showzen'' guys: The co-creators of the kiddie-show parody tell Josh Wolk about picky puppeteers, their parent network, and more. The executives, seeing a tirade of sexist, racist, and generally offensive humor quickly decided to … It brings a Club over the last few months. anti-Christian. [They high-five exaggeratedly] CHATMAN They’re proprietary about everything. One of the best regular segments involves 1950s-era documentary footage spliced The one thing that we try not do is be campy, like, “This is bad, and isn’t that fun?” But we definitely have to incorporate that it’s kind of crappy into it. People say that to me on the street all the time. The creators of Wonder Showzen (production company PFFR, comprised of Vernon Chatman, John Lee, Alyson Levy, and Jim Tozzi) are also behind many of the darkest cult-comedies on TV: South Park, Louie, Delocated, almost all of which have created their own media scandals for pushing the limits of offense. CHATMAN They were a little careful, but we’d worked with them before [on Snoop Dogg’s sketch show Doggy Fizzle Televizzle]. are unloaded from a truck, then progressively killed and chopped up. VC: Those are the only people who have carte blanche over their lives. “Change your pants!”. of today?"

& Grace and The A.V. That’s just gravy.

JL: I’m going to guess the guy who made Dogtooth.

CHATMAN Sometimes in the foreground of the shot you’ll see just the top part of a fist come in, maybe with some teeth [stuck] on the fist. Wonder Showzen, once called Kids Show, was originally produced as a pilot for the USA Network. large vats of liquid shit. watch it". For whatever reason, that’s what he’s into. For your show, you get kids to do the most bizarre and, at times, awful things. Season two starts. LEE We should just tell people: Visually, a swung bat works well on camera than knives. including Nickelodeon, CMT, and VH1. Wordsworth is the nerd, the smart guy, supposedly educational, so he has an exposed brain. JL: Usually for us its butt jokes or fart jokes. VC: Yeah, that doesn’t count. Wonder Showzen ruled, though honestly how it managed to last two full seasons I have no idea! On TV, we have 100 percent creative control, which exists in movies of a reasonable budget for maybe three people in the world. A worker hangs AVC: Okay, here’s another one that might apply: “What constraints did you feel working on a low-budget film?”.

AVC: I’ve asked you to try and make your answers into promotion for The Heart, She Holler.

LEE We don’t really know anything about girls, so we figured pink, and one tooth, right? pills! boy goose-steps and stomps around Manhattan dressed as Adolf Hitler, waving VC: Large arcs are tides, and the individual episodes are waves crashing on the rocks. And for Sthugar, we wanted the most sweet, girly girl.

the Jewish Anti-Defamation League complained, the segment was removed.

But that’s what people say to us—volumes of minutiae.

LEE To me, I thought that was totally capitalist. VC: And when we do run out of money, all we’ve got to do is call Michael Shannon and he’ll write us a check. What’s the point?

Okay, first question. You just start off with a karate chop to the yogurt… [Ding.] sequence from Mr. Show -- and even David Cross once described Wonder that white supremacists on various message boards have also puzzled over the We’re the abused hookers in this relationship. LEE Yes. AVC: Shannon is so intense; he probably gets creepy gifts from fans. In a storyline about an anthropomorphic number "2" trying to kill itself, of the world's leading creators of television programming, wireless services, LEE We really enjoy them. This season hasn’t been as bad, but we had some really fun fights. CHATMAN It has some kind of veneer or aura about it that it’s a cool thing, because the execs like to tell us, ”Oh, I like the show.” As if, ”I’m the one who likes the show. The figure of Jesus comes down from the cross and begins color: #aaaaaa; MTV2 is planning to air We can say ”Jesus” but we can’t say ”Jesus!” You can’t say it as an exclamation. AVC: Would you ever want to do a big Hollywood movie? VC: For sure. CHATMAN No. Don’t just rub your creepy area in our face. together in a manner echoing instructional "how things are made" features It’s like you’re baiting family-values and right-wing groups to try to get you off the air. and animal death.

AVC: No, not at all.

The content, however, is far from child-friendly. closeups of meat and filth push like Play-Doh through grinders, straining into And we force them to not cut loose and have fun.

They couldn’t tell the difference between us and Stankervision [the since-canceled prank show that premiered at the same time].

VC: At least kiss your fist before you punch us in the face!

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LEE And they don’t bruise easily. You’re supposed to start every interview by saying you’re wonderful, easy people to deal with, and I have limitless time on my memory stick—on my “this is all I can handle of you” stick.

Once they figured out people would get it [after a positive New York Times review came out], they could defend it…. One

Knock knock! [Laughs.] JL: Are we going to get into a mom fight?

You’re an embarrassment. JL: We don’t know, maybe it was terribly tragic sex. We’re just sucking on their question run-off. From time to time, a disturbing video effect warps a portion of the screen VC: We’ve actually written some stuff for Ed Asner before, but he turned us down! It’s in discarded turtle shells. If you like irreverence, profanity, and the glee of two people biting the network that feeds them, read on. AVC: That question was for Rick Springfield. The headline won’t say “Miley Cyrus,” it’ll say “John and Vernon.”, JL: Maybe it should say “John and Vernon Cyrus.”. AVC: Rick himself wrote a tell-all about the things he shouldn’t have done. I think we need it on a regular basis. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Wonder Showzen has some of the most insanely cutting, graphic, and adult comedy out there. a brief eight-minute tape which got shopped around to various media outlets. They’re pretty middle-class, buddy. JL: And see if we can beat their answers? CHATMAN The amazing thing about kids is you cannot piss people off through a kid. “Is this the biggest press tour you’ve ever done?”. AVC: Can the dumbest people appreciate it? VC: I know what you want us to say: Boardwalk Empire premieres soon and everybody should watch it. Like Patton will improvise some of the best lines in the show. VC: I’m fine. [Both laugh.] Did we give Heart, She Holler a bad review? JL: It would be a terrible mess if it were based more on improvisation.

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