Wonder Showzen contains offensive, despicable content that is too controversial and too awesome for actual children… If you allow a child to watch this show, you are a bad parent or guardian.” As viewers of the short-lived sketch series know, though, that doesn’t mean children were precluded from actually appearing on
the show. On the contrary, kids made up the vast majority of
Wonder Showzen’s on-screen talent, often appearing alongside puppets voiced by the show’s co-creators, Vernon Chatman and John Lee.
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One instance where kids flew solo, though, was in the much-discussed segment Beat Kids, in which precocious elementary school students played investigative reporters. Armed with microphones and clad in Kermit The Frog-style trench coats, the Beat Kids ventured into adult spaces like butcher shops and racetracks, sidled up to grown-ups, and asked the tough questions. One kid reporter set up on Wall Street and asked traders, “Who did you exploit today?
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Oscar Winner Emma Stone Set to Star in The Curse for Showtime Created by and Co-Starring Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie
The project is a genre-bending scripted comedy that explores how an alleged curse disturbs the relationship of a newly married couple as they try to conceive a child while co-starring on their problematic new HGTV show.
[via press release from Showtime]
OSCAR(R) WINNER EMMA STONE SET TO STAR IN THE CURSE FOR SHOWTIME(R) CREATED BY AND CO-STARRING NATHAN FIELDER AND BENNY SAFDIE
Network Orders Comedy Series Executive Produced by Stone, Fielder and the Safdie Brothers and Produced by A24