Hail Satire! with Vic Shuttee

Conversation #174, recorded on October 16, 2018. Nobody is funnier right now than Anthony Atamanuik. After years cutting his teeth improvising on UCB stages and on the comedy 30 ROCK, he's broken into the mainstream with his spot-on impression of Donald Trump seen in his TRUMP VS BERNIE debate series, his Comedy Central vehicle THE PRESIDENT SHOW and now in the new book entitled AMERICAN TANTRUM:...

CHAPTER 8 – When the film world seemed inhabitable, back from grave comes Guest and mockumentary format – this time taking to TV. While some might say this breaks the "Film By Film" mission statement, the 8 episode half hour comedy FAMILY TREE might really just be a long film without an editor. Piling new faces like Chris O'Dowd and Tom Bennett into the Guest-iverse, this wild shaggy dog road trip...

OCTOBER 11, 2018 - It's THE DAILY SHOW WEEKLY, hosted by Vic Shuttee (@VicShuttee) and Chandler Dean (@chandlerjdean)! As we close out May 2002 and the summer slog looks ahead, its time to reflect and take stock of the show at present. Old and new faces embody a robust news team (the recently rebranded Problem Taker Awayers), and as the Stevphens sit pretty, Weedman and Walls battle it out for blo...

Conversation #172, recorded on September 19, 2018. Adrianne Frost is a comedian, writer, actress and one-time Correspondent for THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART! We chatted Adrianne up about her chicken impression, transferring her skills to the ensemble on LATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O'BRIEN, the LAW & ORDER triple crown and the challenges of writing a book in the age of internet trolls. Hail Satire! is...

CHAPTER 7 – As A MIGHTY WIND plunged into crafting original folk tunes with vigor, Guest's final theatrically released film decides to chart another course mostly foreign to his team of misfits: earnest drama! While Mitch and Mickey were heart-touching, the tragedies of Marilyn Hack, Victor Alan Miller and Callie Webb are whole new levels of gut-punches. Back in the familiar fishbowl of Hollywood,...

OCTOBER 5, 2018 - It's THE DAILY SHOW WEEKLY, hosted by Vic Shuttee (@VicShuttee) and Chandler Dean (@chandlerjdean)! As Steve Carell returns to the studio, there's a lot of correspondents fighting for screen time. First, Lauren Weedman stakes her claim to Steve's A Trend Indeed, then Corddry returns for an outstanding leotard centric Spider-Man piece, resulting in his own death and even our inter...

OCTOBER 4, 2018 - It's THE DAILY SHOW WEEKLY, hosted by Vic Shuttee (@VicShuttee) and Chandler Dean (@chandlerjdean)! Another week, another NEW correspondent as ED HELMS joins the ranks with a weak field piece wringing comedy out of lies about the 16th President. Plus, Jon goes for the heart in I On News, the NRA gets skewered and skeezy Colbert nauseating effect. The Daily Show Weekly: A Vic and...

CHAPTER 6 – Where can the Team Guest go after being on top? Perhaps inward and to a more dramatic place, as the original music slides to the forefront earning Michael McKean an Oscar nomination for the best original song. It's the somber tales of Mitch and Mickey, former lovers who return to a gala in folk music's honor after years living separate lives. The Spinal Tap boys reunite for the first t...

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018 - It's THE DAILY SHOW WEEKLY, hosted by Vic Shuttee (@VicShuttee) and Chandler Dean (@chandlerjdean)! Indecision 2002 FINALLY kicks off with coverage of … The French Presidential Race. So while Colbert smokes a cigarette and Jon fears the success of right-winger Le Pen, quietly Mo Rocca interviews a would-be congressional candidate who served time. Meanwhile Michael Clarke Dunca...

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018 - It's THE DAILY SHOW WEEKLY, hosted by Vic Shuttee (@VicShuttee) and Chandler Dean (@chandlerjdean)! When the program needs a dire shot in the arm, HERE COMES CORDDRY! Sporting a tiny dollop of black hair, Rob Corddry comes on strong in studio as the smarmy, believable asshat that this show desperately needs. Could this be the end of Screw Ya Stephen Colbert? Does this mean Ste...

Conversation #173, recorded on September 26, 2018. Screenwriter Susan Busa and Producer Leslie Cidale are creating a feature film in Austin, TX and are looking for your help through Seed and Spark. We talk about musician Jack Ingram and how he impacted the characters of the film, producing a feature on a shoe string budget and the Hometown Heroes Rally that could lead the filmmakers to meet a Dupl...

CHAPTER 5 – Back in the comfortable saddle of the mockumentary genre, Guest and Levy attempt to scale the Mountains of GUFFMAN once again with BEST IN SHOW. It's bigger and debatably better as longtime collaborator Michael McKean returns to a family populated by returning faces (Levy, Parker Posey, Catherine O'Hara, Fred Willard, Bob Balaban, Don Lake, Michael Hitchcock, Larry Miller) and first ti...

Conversation #171, recorded on September 9, 2018. We've got Jeff Abraham on the horn and we're talking about the National Comedy Center in Jamestown NY, his vast personal vault of comedy known as the Abraham Comedy Archives and working with many greats including George Carlin, Jeff Foxworthy, Stan Freberg and more. Plus: Jeff pulls out great stories about Jerry Lewis, Dick Cavett, Milton Berle and...

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018 - It's THE DAILY SHOW WEEKLY, hosted by Vic Shuttee (@VicShuttee) and Chandler Dean (@chandlerjdean)! Coming off the lowest week in the history of the show thus far, it is NOT a good sign when explore the depths of a Mo Rocca travel segment, a return of the Penis Puppet and (in a first) a farmed-out 11 minute docu-series featurting NO COMEDY AND PLENTY OF PORN STARS in PROJECT R...

CHAPTER 4 – Whether it was a cash grab or a savvy filmmaking challenge, Guest follows up the high highs of GUFFMAN with the stinking open pastures of ALMOST HEROES. With only his right hand man Levy journeying over to the land of mainstream 90s comedy with him, Guest is but a director for a Chris Farley + Matthew Perry vehicle parodying the expedition of Lewis and Clark to the Pacific Ocean. Will...

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018 - It's THE DAILY SHOW WEEKLY, hosted by Vic Shuttee (@VicShuttee) and Chandler Dean (@chandlerjdean)! We're just gonna say it – this may be the worst week of the show yet. Between dancing robots, new studies, inexplicably disconnected interviews (Fat Jonny likes foods, Paint a Bow Bow Red!), and Mo Rocca evokes 9/11 for no reason. Plus, Jon is terrified by David Brock, a man who...

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018 - It's THE DAILY SHOW WEEKLY, hosted by Vic Shuttee (@VicShuttee) and Chandler Dean (@chandlerjdean)! Jon is back for a banner week of high and lows – Jon gets his hero Senator John McCain for a sit down, Colbert channels his Report persona for the Fightin' Whites and Weedman cracks out a strong field piece villainizing Tax Cuttin' Pete Sapp! Meanwhile, Lewis fends off a muddy f...

CHAPTER 3 – More than 10 years after Guest helped reshape comedy on film with SPINAL TAP, the director returns to his comedy roots with WAITING FOR GUFFMAN. Pairing for the first time with SCTV star Eugene Levy, Guest creates perhaps his most enduring characters in Blaine, Missouri. Fred Willard, Catherine O'Hara, Bob Balaban, Michael Hitchcock, Parker Posey and more join the team for the first ti...

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018 - It's THE DAILY SHOW WEEKLY, hosted by Vic Shuttee (@VicShuttee) and Chandler Dean (@chandlerjdean)! As Jon Stewart fields offers from ABC and butters up CBS and NBC, Comedy Central does its best to keep Jonny happy. There's the introduction of the Color Coded Terror Alerts, Lewis Black reveals his true nature, Stephen Colbert makes out with Campbell Smith and the MONSTEROUS RET...

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018 - It's THE DAILY SHOW WEEKLY, hosted by Vic Shuttee (@VicShuttee) and Chandler Dean (@chandlerjdean)! It's a secret Guest Host week as Jon is off hosting SNL, Stephen Colbert steps up to the plate with plenty of bad celebrity boxing, bad Monica Lewinsky coverage and baaaad Price is Right related field pieces! But this week sees the field piece return of Steve Carell, the return o...

CHAPTER 2 – After the riotous cult following that developed over THIS IS SPINAL TAP, Christopher Guest takes a 5 year sabbatical from the big screen. He does a year on Saturday Night Live, he appears in bit parts in films like THE PRINCESS BRIDE and LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS… and presumably, is pitching a number of projects in Hollywood that don't gather much steam. It may be only fitting that that f...

AUGUST 29, 2018 - It's THE DAILY SHOW WEEKLY, hosted by Vic Shuttee (@VicShuttee) and Chandler Dean (@chandlerjdean)! While two more guests enter the elite 4-timers club, they could NOT be more different. Jeri Ryan gets on Jon's case for past discretions, while Michael Moore demands the resignation from half the Bush administration. Sadly, the Olympics continue and even in a short week – there's n...

Conversation #170, recorded on August 6, 2018. We're talking with television writer Raelle Tucker, showrunner and creator of SACRED LIES, which adapts from the Stephanie Oakes book and the Grimm fairy tale of the Handless Maiden. Raelle previously wrote for TRUE BLOOD and SUPERNATURAL. Sacred Lies is an original half hour drama on Facebook Watch. Hail Satire! is hosted and produced by Vic Shuttee.

CHAPTER 1 – It all starts with a little rock, about 18 inches in size. The first Guest film may go to 11, but it is not in fact directed by the man himself! Instead, THIS IS SPINAL TAP is a creation of Rob Reiner, and as his oddball former commercial director Marti DiBergi becomes fascinated with the hard nosed lifestyle of the Squatney band Spinal Tap, we too are enraptured with his "rockumentary...

PREFACE – In the era before cinematic universes were so commonplace, few directors made use of their filmography quite like Christopher Guest. Armed with a crew of affable familiar faces, the National Lampoon veteran brought improv comedy to mainstream thought a new type of filmmaking with the birth of the Mockumentary genre. Host Vic Shuttee (@VicShuttee) is joined by renowned podcaster entertain...