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Bad Trip: Eric Andre Recounts His Wild Experiences On Set

Note: This interview took place in early 2020, prior to the coronavirus pandemic. Eric Andre is feeling nostalgic. He wistfully recalls a simpler, but arguably not any less crazy time in his life, as he anticipates the public’s reaction to his upcoming movie, Bad Trip. “Back in like 2009, I’d dress up like Ronald McDonald and head into a McDonald’s,” Andre tells us about one of the earliest segments for his Adult Swim series. “I’d be drinking booze, crying and smoking cigarettes in there. That was all just with one mic and one camera on me.” For over a decade,…
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The Eric Andre Show: Why This Ritzy Season Is “The Best Yet”

Eric Andre has made reinvention a staple of The Eric Andre Show. What started as a lo-fi spoof of the celebrity talk show circuit has evolved and devolved over four seasons. In season 3, Andre’s refreshed look featured a Katt Williams-esque perm. In Season 4, Andre completely let himself go: He neglected to bathe and turned the set into what he called “ratty and disgusting and gray, like a Soviet prison.”  After four years off air, The Eric Andre Show returns to Adult Swim on Oct. 26 with a complete 180. The new set is bright, colorful, and ritzy. “I wanted…
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Eric Andre Show Season 5: Lizzo To Guest Star on “Bird Up”

In the four-year gap between seasons of The Eric Andre Show, hundreds of bad television shows have come and gone. Some are still airing. When Adult Swim’s manic riff on the talk show format returns on Oct. 26, there’s one title that Eric Andre hopes to maintain: the “Bird Up” segment remaining the worst show on TV. “I hold that trophy high,” Andre says with a laugh in an interview with Den of Geek promoting the new season. In an effort to keep that trophy on his mantel, Andre added some starpower to his fan-favorite man-on-the-street segment, “Bird Up.” He…
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine Problems Addressed in Depth by Andre Braugher

Brooklyn Nine-Nine star Andre Braugher has been talking about the issues that the show faces going into Season 8, now that the writing team behind the comedy series have decided to scrap their initial scripts in the wake of global Black Lives Matter protests and continuing police brutality in America, and start over from scratch. Braugher, who has played Capt. Raymond Holt on the beloved sitcom since 2013, notes that when addressing its lighthearted portrayal of police behavior, Brooklyn Nine-Nine has – for the most part – been no different to other shows in sweeping the more distressing facts under…
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The Gospel According to André

Andre Leon Tally has been a fixture in the world of fashion for so long that it?s difficult to imagine a time when he wasn?t defining the boundaries of great style. Kate Novack?s intimate portrait, The Gospel According to Andre, takes viewers on an emotional journey from Andre?s roots growing up in the segregated Jim Crow South to become one of the most influential tastemakers and fashion curators of our times. [Magnolia Pictures]Rated: PG-13Release Date: May 25, 2018
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