Reddit AMA Chat recaps for the week: Bill Hader and Dino Stamatopoulos

 

So, we actually had TWO different AMA’s this week. One from recently hired South Park writer Bill Hader the other from Dino Stamatopoulos. To be honest, however Bill’s chat really didn’t have much to offer in terms of actual South Park notes other than the fact that he’s pretty excited and that writing will commence in September. Really, he was there to promote The To Do List the new film that we mentioned yesterday opening in theaters everywhere this weekend.

 

Thankfully, Dino Stamatopoulos  ALSO did a Reddit AMA and his proved to be a bit more fruitful in terms of cool tidbits.

 

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For starters, Dino mentioned that there WILL be another animated episode of Community this season and that he will begin writing it soon. However, don’t expect anything new on the Moral Orel front anytime soon and your best bet to seeing anything fresh is checking out the live readings Dino is doing for all of the unproduced episodes of Moral, complete with live action puppets helping tell the stories.  Dino also gave a quick update on the Anomalisa mentioning that progress is slow on the successfully Kick Started project, but evidently it is looking swell and should be done shooting in November.  We also mentioned a little while back about Dino’s new graphic novel called Trent and in his AMA he was able to shed a little more light in the direction of the graphic novel in terms of the tone of the piece:

 I will write more serious, dark comedy on my own. You may see it some day if you buy my Graphic Novel when it is released. I might make a stop motion movie out of it. It’s called TRENT.

Interestingly enough, it sounds like the relationship between Dino Stamatopoulos and Adult Swim’s Mike Lazzo is a bit strained with the former mentioning that the latter hates him and never picks up any of Dino’s shows. Could this be why High School USA! went to FOX? We will have to do some investigating on that one. However, from the sounds of it no matter how tough the Adult Swim shows were for Dino, none could have been tougher than this story of his whilst on set for TV Funhouse:

A duck once took a shit in my mouth. Wasn’t funny to me, but the duck loved it. I swear it’s true. It happened on TV FUNHOUSE. I was working a duck puppet under a stage that had a bunch of Duck puppets on it. One duck looked down into the hole my arm was going through and the rest is history.

Hopefully, with Yahoo getting the SNL library everyone can get a chance to see this episode of Funhouse sooner rather than later so that we can get a good point of reference. In any case, Dino said he might come back on today so you should get in on that -ish now while it’s still hot. Also, be sure to watch Dino’s new series High School USA! this Saturday Night @ 11:15pm EST only on FOX!