When “The Eric Andre Present” returns to the Grownup Swim airwaves tonight after a 3 yr hiatus, followers of Andre’s model of surrealist speak present humor will probably be handled to a different spherical of awkward interviews, deranged pranks, and bare PAs.
The sequence, which premiered in 2012, made Andre a star in different comedy circles. However after a profitable five-year run, he paused the present in 2020 to pursue larger initiatives. In a brand new interview with the Associated Press, Andre stated that his choice to deliver the present again for a sixth season was partially attributable to his Netflix movie “Bad Trip” not being the monetary windfall that he anticipated it to be.
“I used to be going to finish the present after 5 seasons after which I didn’t make any cash on ‘Bad Trip,’” he stated, earlier than including that he nonetheless enjoys making the present and is open to extra seasons. “Why completely shut the door on a present the place I’ve full artistic freedom?”
Whereas Andre says that he was upset with the monetary outcomes of “Unhealthy Journey,” the comic teased that the movie paved the best way for some larger initiatives — however he’s not able to announce them simply but.
“It’s not even my company overlords. It’s superstition,” he stated of his causes for remaining tight-lipped. “So, I’ll let you know when the time is true.”
Andre’s feedback in regards to the artistic freedom that he enjoys on the present echo comparable remarks he made to IndieWire in 2020, when he stated that it will be arduous to ever completely finish the sequence.
“As I used to be going by the enhancing and ending submit manufacturing, I used to be like, ‘That is the funnest present to make and I’m so blessed to have this chance that that is my job. I’ve full, full artistic freedom,’” he stated. “I used to be sitting at dwelling eager about how a lot I benefit from the strategy of the present and the way we’ve it all the way down to a science and our workforce is a good, cohesive household and was like, ‘Why would I shut the door on this?’ I’m gonna preserve the door open. I don’t know if I’ll do it each single yr, different initiatives will come and go and I’ll have to regulate, however I really like the present an excessive amount of to retire it and that is one of the best season but and we’re so in our groove. It doesn’t really feel proper to finish the present. It’s simply getting began.”
