THE MAN SHOW

I’ve got a friend named Tony Barbier i who I was buddies with through that whole crazy period. He had a friend from college named Daniel Kellison who is the older brother of Rob Anderson who is my producing partner on the Milonakis Show. Daniel and Jimmy met and they had this idea to do The Man Show which was happening right around the time that I was doing The Chimp Channel. Daniel loved the Chimp shorts that I’d done for TBS. So I met Jimmy and he wanted me to do these Chimp bits. But I didn’t have a lot of time because The Chimp Channel was starting. After I got fired from that, I went back to those guys and was like, “Still want to do those chimp bits?” So I did some chimp stuff for the first season of The Man Show. I wrote them with Tony Barbieri and they were really funny. One of the most gratifying things that’s happened recently is I heard that Ethan Coen [one half of the Coen brothers] is a big fan of those chimp bits I did on The Man Show.
That came back to me through my editor, Katie McQuerrey, who worked for the Coen brothers. She said that one day that Ethan came in with his laptop computer and said “This is the funniest thing in the world. Check this out.” It was a bit I did for The Man Show eight years ago. It was basically a Charles Bukowski-style bar, with all these drunks played by chimps. This drunken louse of a character would just tell dirty jokes to the bartender in this filthy little dive bar. It was pretty funny. -Tom Stern (Source)