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[Rentahamster]

- Silicon Valley Season 3: Trailer

Must.....resist...must...be strong...

 

[Man]

"What are you a fan of?

Metamucil?
Polio?
The photograph?
A nice piece of fish?
Senior citizen discounts at Perkins family restaurants?"

Hilarious.

 

[OnPoint]

My mind is aching for this show.

 

[Cornballer]

- Wired Cover Story: The Silicon Valley Boys Aren’t Just Brilliant—They’re Part of a Comedy Revolution

THE GAMES BEGIN—as they so often do—with a poop joke. ¶ It’s a late-January morning and we’re on a giant back-lot soundstage in Los Angeles, where cast members of HBO’s dot-comedy Silicon Valley are hunched over their laptops, tossing out beta-male insults. Today’s scene gathers four of the show’s actors—Thomas Middleditch, who stars as the flappable app developer Richard; Kumail Nanjiani as the put-upon programmer Dinesh; Martin Starr, a k a Gilfoyle, the ­fatalist-Satanist tech wiz; and Zach Woods, who plays milquetoast consigliere Jared—as their characters meekly plot revenge against a former ally who’s sold them out. After a few takes, however, the actors start going off script, lobbing improvised one-­liners the way 5-year-olds smack around balloons.

“We should mail him a bag of his own poop.”

“We should get him suspended from LinkedIn.”

“We should sign him up for all the podcasts he doesn’t like.”

Are they all gold? They are not. But as the actors become both more drained and more limbered up, the Silicon set becomes a rolling riff-tide of free-form, ever-escalating jokes, even when the cameras aren’t on: The phrase “ding-dong” is inserted into random lines (“Lame City. Population: ding-dong”). Off-key Michael McDonald impressions are trotted out and dueled. For one scene, Woods improvises nearly half a dozen versions of the same line, reshaping and recasting it each time and throwing in references to everything from Harriet Tubman to Anne Frank to the suffragette movement. At one point, an in-­character spat ends with Starr shouting, “Go masturbate and cry!” The subsequent response, which involves a trash can and bodily fluids, is so crass that some of the crew members wince.

More via the link.

 

[Cornballer]

- 'Silicon Valley' Cast Explains What Real Startups Do (NSFW) (youtube vid from Wired)

 

[DJ_Lae]

- 'Silicon Valley' Cast Explains What Real Startups Do (NSFW) (youtube vid from Wired)

Oh man, Zach's stuff is gold.

 

[Cornballer]

Oh man, Zach's stuff is gold.

Yup. His deadpan weirdo shtick always cracks me up.

 

[Funky Papa]

- 'Silicon Valley' Cast Explains What Real Startups Do (NSFW) (youtube vid from Wired)

Zach and Martin need Jesus in their lives.

 

[Cornballer]

April Fools vid featuring Richard Hendricks:

- Tackling gigantic shrinking challenges at X

Imagine if we could compress data to the point that we could decrease compute times by 10X? Or if we could miniaturize physical objects, dramatically increasing global portability while reducing their carbon footprint? That’s what project compression is about and to tackle this mammoth challenge, we brought in some mammoth talent.

Also:

- Trailer on Facebook (same as the full S3 trailer though there are a couple of different clips)

 

[Rentahamster]

- 'Silicon Valley' Cast Explains What Real Startups Do (NSFW) (youtube vid from Wired)

"Tubber...

<.<

>.>

...I'm a member "


LMAO

 

[Cornballer]

A few recent tidbits:

- re/code podcast: How Dan Lyons Created Fake Steve Jobs, Wrote for ‘Silicon Valley’ and Escaped a ‘Cult-y’ Unicorn

On the new podcast, Lyons also discussed how he secretly created the satirical Internet personality Fake Steve Jobs, his blink-and-you’d-miss-it stint at Gawker’s Valleywag and his recent turn as a writer for the HBO show “Silicon Valley.”

He praised that show’s writers’ room as being similarly cynical to a room of journalists, and explained the inspiration for the character Russ Hanneman, an obnoxious investor/tequila enthusiast.

“I think he’s supposed to be a mix, but a lot of [Mark] Cuban,” Lyons said. “They lighted on this idea of the guy who had a big hit back in the first dot-com boom.”

- Huffington Post: Amanda Crew Talks Season 3 Of 'Silicon Valley'
- T.J. Miller and Kumail Nanjiani Play Dark Souls III (youtube)

 

[Cornballer]

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