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13 Failed TV Pilots By Beloved Comedians (We Never Knew About)

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13 Failed TV Pilots By Beloved Comedians (We Never Knew About)

November 21, 2021

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For every TV show that goes into production, way more get passed over, which means there’s a near-endless supply of good comedy we’ll sadly never get to watch. For example …

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COMEDY NERD There's an Amy Poehler pilot in which she played a sassy suicidal patient. A psychiatric patient, specifically-it was called Sick in the Head, and it was about a psychiatrist and various people in his life. CRACKED.COM — Source

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COMEDY NERD We almost got to watch Janeane Garofalo as a professional gambler on TV. That was the premise of the TV show Deal!, in which Garofalo played poker player Annie Duke (a real person). CRACKED.COM — Source

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COMEDY NERD A comedy group that included Chelsea Peretti wrote an Adult Swim pilot in 2012. It was called Getting It Together, and it was about four women who somehow end up living in a tree house in Central Park. CRACKED.COM — Source

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COMEDY NERD Hannibal Buress did a pilot for a TV show about himself, called Unemployable. It would show just how totally unsuited he is to any job whatsoever besides being a comedian, but the network passed on it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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COMEDY NERD Nathan Barnatt was supposed to do an Adult Swim comedy, but it didn't work out. It was called Youth Large, and it was going to be based on his character Keith Apicary. CRACKED.COM — Source

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COMEDY NERD Craig Ferguson and Zach Braff made a pilot for a TV show called High. ec СО COMIC That was in 1989, and the cast included a young Gwyneth Paltrow, but the pilot never gained any traction. CRACKED.COM — Source

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COMEDY NERD We never got to watch a TV show with Jack Black and a talking motorcycle. ... DISI OCO OMIC It was called Heat Vision and Jack, and it was created by Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab-but the pilot was never made into a series. CRACKED.COM — Source

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COMEDY NERD After Bob Odenkirk and David Cross made Mr Show, they shot a new pilot. THE It was called David's Situation, and it had David Cross as himself - but they both lost interest in the project pretty soon. CRACKED.COM — Source

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COMEDY NERD In 2002, Fox agreed to produce a pilot for a show based on Marc Maron's act. It was supposed to be about Maron and his odd family, and the script got written but not made. CRACKED.COM — Source

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COMEDY NERD Sarah Silverman did a pilot loosely based on her life, Susan 313, that bombed. She ended up releasing it online for free much later and, looking back, she agreed that it didn't really work. CRACKED.COM — Source

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COMEDY NERD Jordan Peele wrote Alligator Boots, a failed pilot from Kanye West himself. СУ And it was a puppet show, of all things- and that was when Peele had just finished doing MadTV, and would soon start the Get Out script. CRACKED.COM — Source

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COMEDY NERD Marc Maron and Rainn Wilson were both going to do a sitcom called Slice O' Life. It'd be about a TV news show about human interest stories. Maron would be a producer's assistant while Wilson would be a sound guy. CRACKED.COM — Source

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COMEDY NERD Chris Rock wanted to make a comedy show with Cardi B, but it didn't take off. Не noticed her when she wasn't big yet, and thought she had great talent for comedy- but the show never got picked up. CRACKED.COM — Source

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