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Yahoo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Disney+ 'Adults' star Jack Innanen talks 'barrier' for viral comedians 'melting' away
It's the season for comedies in TV, going from the success of Overcompensating to the upcoming series Adults (premiering on Disney+ in Canada May 28). Created by Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw (The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon), with Nick Kroll as an executive producer, and an ensemble cast featuring Malik Elassal, Lucy Freyer, Jack Innanen, Amita Rao and Owen Thiele, the show leans into the awkwardness of starting your adult life. Adults is about a group of friends in their 20s in New York, who end up living together in Samir's (Malik Elassal) childhood home. Samir is trying to be more responsible in his life, but not doing so increidbly successfully. Billie (Lucy Freyer) is trying to navigate a career in journalism, Anton (Owen Thiele) was Samir's college roommate and is a person's who can just be friends with anyone. Issa (Amita Rao) has an infectious personality and hops between odd jobs, and she's dating Paul Baker (Jack Innanen), who is always referred to by both first and last name, and Issa wants Samir to let Paul Baker move in with them. With the core of this show resting in the dynamic between these characters, Innanen shared that it was quite a natural fit. "We did [chemistry] reads, which were great, but I think it wasn't until we actually started shooting the pilot, ... they had like little dates organized for us to go and do," Innanen told Yahoo Canada in Toronto. "But most of the time we kind of just hung out in the hotel room and drank margaritas ... and gossiped our hearts out." "And there was one point when ... we had had a few drinks and Amita was like, 'OK everyone, go around and say a secret that you haven't told anyone.' And we did. And I was like, OK now we're now locked in. Now we're best friends." View this post on Instagram A post shared by Disney+ Canada 🇨🇦 (@disneyplusca) For Innanen, the Canadian star who's originally from Ontario, but now lives in New York, he was initially catapulted to success posting comedy videos on social media, amassing an impressive following. It's not a dissimilar story to Benito Skinner, also known as Benny Drama, who transferred his social media comedy success to the show Overcompensating. What's interesting about the Adults cast is that they all come from different comedy backgrounds, which seems to help each character feel particularly unique. "We had everyone from all different [backgrounds], stand-up to improv, and just all over the spot," Innanen said. "I feel like, for me, it was almost like trying to figure out how to make sure it wasn't like my TikTok videos." "I think that was just so fun, just getting to play with everyone's different type of humour. That was what I loved most. ... And I remember thinking like, oh if I can't be funny in this, then I really suck." But speaking more about successfully moving comedy from one platform to another, it speaks to how, when done effectively, that social media excitement can translate to something that feels fresh and unique in a more traditional TV format. It seems that now is the time that entertainment is taking advantage of comedy talents on TikTok and Instagram that have been able to gather an audience. "I think that barrier is just melting," Innanen said. "There's English Teacher, Overcompensating, these comedians, I think because it's completely just democratized, so anyone who wants to be doing something is doing it online, and then those people then get these new opportunities." "You can do both as well. You can make a TV show, act in a TV show, but then also be doing social media, not on the side, but at the same time, and that they are almost equal in these ways. And I think it's really cool. I love seeing Benny Drama get to do that and kill it. And it's exciting."
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Disney+ 'Adults': Jack Innanen talks 'barrier' for vial comedians moving to other opportunities 'melting' away
It's the season for comedies in TV, going from the success of Overcompensating to the upcoming series Adults (premiering on Disney+ in Canada May 28). Created by Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw (The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon), with Nick Kroll as an executive producer, and an ensemble cast featuring Malik Elassal, Lucy Freyer, Jack Innanen, Amita Rao and Owen Thiele, the show leans into the awkwardness of starting your adult life. Adults is about a group of friends in their 20s in New York, who end up living together in Samir's (Malik Elassal) childhood home. Samir is trying to be more responsible in his life, but not doing so increidbly successfully. Billie (Lucy Freyer) is trying to navigate a career in journalism, Anton (Owen Thiele) was Samir's college roommate and be friends with anyone. Issa (Amita Rao) has an infectious personality and hops between odd jobs, and she's dating Paul Baker (Jack Innanen), who is always referred to by both first and last name, and the show begins with Issa trying to convince Samir to let Paul Baker move in. With the core of this show resting in the dynamic between these characters, Innanen shared that it was quite a natural fit. "We did [chemistry] reads, which were great, but I think it wasn't until we actually started shooting the pilot, ... they had like little dates organized for us to go and do," Innanen told Yahoo Canada in Toronto. "But most of the time we kind of just hung out in the hotel room and drank margaritas ... and gossiped our hearts out." "And there was one point when ... we had had a few drinks and Amita was like, 'OK everyone, go around and say a secret that you haven't told anyone.' And we did. And I was like, OK now we're now locked in. Now we're best friends." View this post on Instagram A post shared by Disney+ Canada 🇨🇦 (@disneyplusca) For Innanen, the Canadian star who's originally from Ontario, but now lives in New York, he was initially catapulted to success posting comedy videos on social media, amassing an impressive following. It's not a dissimilar story to Benito Skinner, also known as Benny Drama, who transferred his his social media comedy success to the show Overcompensating. What's interesting about the Adults cast is that they all come from different comedy backgrounds, which seems to help each character feel particularly unique. "We had everyone from all different [backgrounds], stand-up to improv, and just all over the spot," Innanen said. "I feel like, for me, it was almost like trying to figure out how to make sure it wasn't like my TikTok videos." "I think that was just so fun, just getting to play with everyone's different type of humour. That was what I loved most. ... And I remember thinking like, oh if I can't be funny in this, then I really suck." But speaking more about successfully moving comedy from one platform to another, it speaks to how, when done effectively, that social media excitement can translate to something that feels fresh and unique in a more traditional TV format. It seems that now is the time that entertainment is taking advantage of comedy talents on TikTok and Instagram that have been able to gather an audience. "I think that barrier is just melting," Innanen said. "There's English Teacher, Overcompensating, these comedians, I think because it's completely just democratized, so anyone who wants to be doing something is doing it online, and then those people then get these new opportunities." "You can do both as well. You can make a TV show, act in a TV show, but then also be doing social media, not on the side, but at the same time, and that they are almost equal in these ways. And I think it's really cool. I love seeing Benny Drama get to do that and kill it. And it's exciting."
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Dave Nemetz Reviews Adults: FX's Hilarious Gen Z Sitcom Gives TV a Much-Needed Youth Infusion
Young people are an endangered species on TV these days. Broadcast TV has given up on them entirely, and even cable and streaming shows rarely focus on people in their 20s unless it's through a sci-fi or supernatural lens. It's as if TV has thrown up the white flag and surrendered an entire generation to YouTube and TikTok. That's why it's a relief to see a show like FX's Adults hit our screens. (It debuts tonight at 9/8c on FX and streams in full on Hulu starting tomorrow; I've seen the first three episodes.) It's not only a show about young people today, but a very good one: a laidback Gen Z hangout comedy with an easy charm and — most importantly — lots of big laughs. Adults follows a group of five New York City friends in their early 20s who live together in the house of one of their parents (who never seem to be home). They giggle on the subway, they scam free food, they confront sex offenders. They don't know how to write a check, and are really still figuring out how to be grown-ups, actually. They're broke and in so much debt that they're contemplating starting an OnlyFans, but they hang onto their jobs by serving as their bosses' resident youth correspondents, answering queries like: 'Do kids your age give a s–t about Al Gore?' More from TVLine The Handmaid's Tale Boss Reveals the Character He Almost Killed Off in the Series Finale (But Didn't) The Handmaid's Tale's Elisabeth Moss Takes Us Inside Directing the Series Finale: Ending Show Without That Big Character Return 'Didn't Feel Right' The Handmaid's Tale Brings Back [Spoiler] in Powerful Series Finale - How Did June's Story End? This all feels like a mash-up of twentysomething comedies we've loved in the past, pairing the sexual frankness of Girls with the tight-knit nucleus of Friends. (Phoebe Waller-Bridge's delightful Netflix comedy Crashing, with a bunch of friends living in an abandoned hospital, is another touchstone.) But the biggest influence here is the late, great Broad City, with its loopy surreal touches and its willingness to gleefully trample over any notion of good taste. (These friends walk in on each other on the toilet just to chat.) Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw, who write for Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show, created the series, and they manage to capture the chaotic energy of youth, where truly anything can happen at any given moment. (Especially when you're living in New York.) Adults is also firmly set in The Year of Our Lord 2025, and it exposes the very weird tightrope young people have to walk today to avoid becoming a social media pariah. The struggle is real… and it's relatable, too. As Samir (Malik Elassal) puts it, 'I always thought the world was going to be waiting for me, and instead, everyone's annoyed that I'm here.' Even if you're not in your 20s anymore, the hurdles that Samir and his pals have to leap over just to survive are all too familiar, and that helps the show tap into something timeless. The cast is packed with newcomers who are brimming with potential. All five lead actors are basically unknowns, and they all get a chance to shine, from Lucy Freyer's sunny Billie to Amita Rao's gloriously brash Issa. (Issa and Broad City's Ilana would be instant best friends, I'm sure of it.) Owen Thiele is an early standout as Anton, the overly gregarious 'friend slut' whose propensity to make friends leads to hilarious trouble in Episode 3. (He has hundreds of people he just met once saved in his phone as 'Red Shirt Tall Guy' and 'Psychic Shared Her Joint.') Even though it's rooted in Gen Z, Adults still fits into fairly conventional sitcom rhythms and payoffs. (There are hints of a potential romance between Samir and Billie, for example, that might eventually start to bloom.) And it's comforting in a way to see this show use those tried-and-true techniques to find big laughs within a whole new generation. There's a notion out there that TV comedies aren't funny anymore, or that nothing can be funny anymore, with all the perceived restrictions on what we can and can't joke about these days. Neither one of those is true, of course — and Adults, thankfully, joyfully, proves it. THE TVLINE BOTTOM LINE: FX's Gen Z sitcom is a welcome shot in the arm to TV comedy, with a cast of talented newcomers and a bold style that delivers huge laughs.
Boston Globe
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
‘Adults' revisits the time-honored territory of young friends in New York
The show is vague about employment and income for several of the housemates. One way it avoids the 'cost of living in NYC' debate is to make clear early on that Samir is putting everyone up in the house rent-free. (Given that Samir is one of the characters without a job, he might be wise to charge his free-loading friends some minimal fee to cover his own expenses.) Advertisement It's fitfully funny, though half the cast is acting for the cheap seats and could do with dialing their performances down to, say, an 11. Mostly, though, it makes you think of how many, many efforts there have been to reproduce what worked on 'Friends.' There was an era in the show's heyday where it seemed like each new season of television brought you another batch of photogenic young people. Advertisement Unfortunately for all of us, it's not that easy to recreate. 'Friends' had many flaws, which have been enumerated at length over the years, but what it had down was impeccable cast chemistry and the consistent ability to land setup, punchline, punchline, knock 'em dead punchline. Here, the setups are frantic — the show has a manic energy that it has trouble wrangling into effective payoffs. One of its funnier threads is when housemate Anton (Owen Thiele) is revealed to be too effortlessly charming for his own good: his phone contacts are full of people he's met briefly and formed heartfelt bonds with, including a handsome young man who turns out to be the neighborhood stabber. Revealing the list of randos Anton is texting (and how much more frequently he responds to these unnamed strangers than, say, Samir) is funny. The stabber's eventual appearance at the house for paella night, where unsuspecting housemates Billie (Lucy Freyer) and Issa (Amita Rao) flirt with him then miss every possible cue from Anton about the man's identity, falls flatter. By the time Charlie Cox emerges from Marvel's ' Advertisement Lisa Weidenfeld is an arts editor at the Globe. Lisa Weidenfeld can be reached at
New Indian Express
6 days ago
- New Indian Express
PEO arrested for embezzling Rs 1.37 crore
BERHAMPUR: Golanthara police on Sunday arrested the panchayat executive officer (PEO) of Laudigaon under Rangeilunda block in Ganjam on charges of misappropriating around Rs 1.37 crore government funds. The accused is Samir Kumar Mishra. The fraud came to light after a complaint was filed by block development officer of Rangeilunda Biswajit Ray. A resident of Aska, Samir had joined as the PEO of Keluapalli panchayat around six years back under a rehabilitation scheme after the death of his father who was also an executive officer. The accused was also managing the affairs at Laudigaon panchayat since the last one year. However, after appointment of Susanta Pattanaik as the new PEO of Keluapalli earlier this month, he was in charge of Laudigaon panchayat. Berhampur SP Saravana Vivek M said Samir was the custodian of cheque books, cash books, and other financial documents of Keluapalli since 2019 and he was responsible for managing the funds of the panchayat with the sarpanch's approval. However, last year, he reportedly forged the sarpanch's signature to embezzle funds from a joint account in Union Bank's Tulu branch.
