4.6 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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The critically beloved sitcom “The Other Two” follows the trials of the older, struggling siblings of a 13-year-old overnight pop sensation. The series creators knew the first season got lost in the shuffle when it ran on Comedy Central. For season two, the show moved to HBO Max, and is a lot easier to find. Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider tell KCRW about the return of “The Other Two,” and how they decide which celebrities to skewer.
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0:00.0 | From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business. |
0:04.9 | The pop culture satire and the other two follows the trials of the older loser siblings |
0:09.9 | of a 13-year-old overnight pop sensation. |
0:13.4 | The series creators knew that the first season was kind of lost in the shuffle when it ran on Comedy Central. |
0:19.1 | Now with Season 2, the critically beloved show |
0:21.5 | is a lot easier to find. It all happened completely independent of us. We just got a phone call |
0:26.8 | one day. You get a phone call saying, guess what? You're on HBO Max? Honestly, basically. Kind of. |
0:32.7 | Kind of, yeah. Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider, former Saturday Night Live headwriters and creators of the other two, |
0:39.5 | tell us how they chose which celebrities to skewer and why they have no qualms about including |
0:44.4 | a lot of un-euphemistic sex talk in their show. |
0:48.1 | But first, we banter. |
0:49.3 | Stick around. |
0:50.0 | It's the business from KCRW. |
0:55.8 | I am joined by my colleague in banter, Matt Bellany. |
0:59.1 | Hello, Matt. |
0:59.8 | Hi there. |
1:00.5 | So just at the end of August, you know, all of the studios sent executives and representatives |
1:06.0 | to Las Vegas to talk to theater owners. |
1:09.0 | This was supposed to be an affirmation of the importance of |
1:12.2 | theaters. Everybody talked about how committed they are to theaters. They showed a reel of Tom |
1:17.5 | Cruz doing a stunt in Mission Impossible, and the crowd went wild because they love Tom Cruise movies. |
1:23.7 | And so that was all well and good, but now Paramount has said they are pushing Top Gun, |
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