Mike Judge's "Silicon Valley" (HBO Show)

did you not recognize him?

haha i freaked out when i found that out too :)

it genuinely blows my mind that this isn't the first thing people think when they see him or even hear his name

Same

lol damn well know i see it duh

p sick of tj miller tbh

they can just find some other low-rent VC buffoon there's a million ppl that could play that part

I do hope they give him a spectacular death though

ok to be fair I only watched Freaks & Geeks once thru and it was 10+ years ago

though strangely enough I still have not stopped thinking of James Franco, Seth Rogen, and Jason Segel as "that guy from Freaks & Geeks"

Martin Starr more or less the same in Party Down, Knocked Up, sequel to that Nazi zombie movie ...

i never saw any of those!

you should watch Party Down

Party Down is the best.

Party Down is the best and yeah he is similar to Guilfoyle

he clearly didn't wanna be typecast as Haverchuck

omg stop everything and watch party down.

agree with everyone about Party Down

yeah seriously

Martin Starr being pedantic about "hard sci-fi" and the fact that Robbie Krieger and not Jim Morrison wrote Light My Fire in Party Down are pretty much the funniest things I've ever seen on TV.

The hard scifi speech is all time

Stevie D: watch Party Down now; at its best it's better than Silicon Valley.

it's not hard sci-fi but I like it

It's mystifying that no one mentioned adventureland when speaking of latter day Martin starr roles, it's a really sweet sympathetic variation on the hardline nerd of party down / Silicon valley

I actually don't think his Party Down character is that similar to his Silicon Valley character - they have things in common but I think they're two distinct types.

This is madness!

[Blind Gossip] When a key cast member leaves a successful show, you have to ask what happened.

No, it’s not creative differences or scheduling difficulties or any other bulls*t you’ll probably hear. It may be hard to believe, but he’s actually more obnoxious than his character. He walked into contract negotiations making demands like he is the biggest star on the show, and he came out with nothing. The hate working with him so it was as good a time as any to can him.

Everybody will make it look like it was a mutual decision so everybody saves face. He does have other gigs lined up, so people probably won’t question it too hard.

On a side note, we hear that now producers have to figure out what to do with the actor whose character was the foil to the departing actor’s character. One possibility is to make him the key player in a real estate transaction that keeps the rest of the cast together.

that seems ... plausible

I hope Jian Yang gets better scenarios and the actor ends up being the breakout star of the show

holy shit I am watching this new one and I forgot how bro Haley Joel Osment is now

this show can survive any departure except middleditch tbh

although if zach woods leaves i will cry forever and then carry on watching it

yeah I don't really think this show is built on great characters or performances (apart from maybe Jared, a truly inspired character) and if they wanted they could trade most of them out.

had to watch the preview for next week several times just to savor Jared's incredible impression of a bro.

i loved tj miller's character though. very real personality

he's just the same grandiose motherfucker stereotype a bunch of other comedians use, even if he's good at it. imo erlich is only really funny when the script has him wistful or attached to some horrible idea, only to somehow break even or come out ahead

middleditch gets on my nerves and it's exactly the reaction the plot is going for, but I feel like they could plug in a number of similar neurotic genius types instead

nah this show will be bad after TJ miller leaves cuz sitcoms always decline after core cast members leave it's the law

reminder that trump illegally tried to build a bunch of his usual crap in cuba https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-donald-trump-golf-cuba/

Is he replacing TJ Miller as the incubator owner?

that'd be a twist

whoops I meant the above for the trump thread sorry folks

tj miller has an excellent gurgly delivery that i'll miss

a fraction of the amt i miss peter gregory tho, holy cow remember :( :( :(

he's just the same grandiose motherfucker stereotype a bunch of other comedians use, even if he's good at it. imo erlich is only really funny when the script has him wistful or attached to some horrible idea, only to somehow break even or come out ahead

middleditch gets on my nerves and it's exactly the reaction the plot is going for, but I feel like they could plug in a number of similar neurotic genius types instead

― mh, Monday, May 29, 2017 8:43 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dont agree at all, it feels like a v specific type to me & hes pretty much always hilarious on the show imo

This series has been disappointing really, just treading the same ground as before. GREAT IDEA > GET INVESTOR > HUGE FUCKUP > OR IS IT AN OPPORTUNITY? > GREAT IDEA WHICH IS SUBSET OF PREVIOUS IDEA > GET INVESTOR... maybe it works as a micro-satire of the startup tech industry as a whole, how there are no new ideas and they're just going further and further down the same rabbit holes until they get lucky (which seems to be by dumping the whole vapourware concept on someone with deep pockets).

Some great moments (Jared and the car, Liz' description of sex with Richard - even if the sex itself felt stupid, "you're my best friend") but nothing to stand out as justifying a new season for me.

so are they going to have haley joel osment be their version of palmer luckey, complete with horrible political leanings

the whole endless cycle of implosions is actually something I like about the show- no matter what they end up reseting all the way back to zero

yeah it's an endless churn

Kind of like a sitcom.

"You fucked my wife."
"I fucked your wives."

It's a funny show, but it's really just a nerd "Entourage."

wow no way