THE ANDY MILONAKIS SHOW

I direct it, which I can say now because the DGA busted me anyway. I directed but I couldn’t take credit because the DGA forbids you to work on non-DGA shows.

Jimmy Kimmel was a big believer in Andy. He found him on the internet and brought him into Jimmy Kimmel Live. I was actually directing bits for Jimmy Kimmel Live and I did the first bit that Andy did on Jimmy Kimmel Live. From there it didn’t really work out with Andy on Jimmy Kimmel Live. His weird sensibilities didn’t really mesh with the show so Jimmy promised to develop a show and he asked me to come in and direct it. So I developed it with Andy. We put together an outline of what the show would be and we went and shot it and it came out really funny. MTV was really happy with it so they picked it up and then John Kimmel, who is Jimmy’s brother, came in as the head writer and Rob Anderson is the producer on it. We are sort of equal partners in terms of authority on the show. I try to make Andy’s sensibilities accessible if possible.

Andy was actually a big fan of my film Freaked and when I first met him to do a bit for Jimmy Kimmel he was really psyched that I worked on it. It was flattering of him to say that. We are a pretty good fit. He’s a very funny, very creative guy but I think he definitely benefits from being guided a little bit.

Jimmy’s kind of commandment was that it should definitely look cheap. It should look like Andy made it himself. So working with that as a framework, yeah, it’s supposed to look cheap but we do a lot of surreal stuff and it gets fairly sophisticated sometimes. But it’s all in the service of something that was put together on the cheap. - Tom J. Stern
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