Tonight at 9p, the cast of Undateable is doing something that has never been done on NBC. They are the first comedy to go live for a full hour. When I heard they were doing this, I got excited. If any show can keep you on the edge of your seat with will they mess up or not, it is this one. Undateable has three theatrical trained actors and four professional comedians. I can’t wait to see how the latter handles it. But that is only one aspect of this one hour live experience to look forward to tonight.
On Friday, the cast Chris D’Elia, Brent Morin, Bianca Kajlich, Ron Funches, Rick Glassman, David Fynn and Bridgit Mendler talked about tonight’s groundbreaking episode. The seven of them plus guest star Victoria Justice gave us many reasons why we must tune in!
How do they feel about going live?
Ron Funches is excited. Bridgit Mendler said, “I think it is ambitious. I am curious what they are going to accomplish with that format. They really tried to spice it up as much as possible.” Then she added that the writers did a great job of acknowledging that show is live.
Victoria Justice, who was the only guest star at the press day said, “I think it is a little intimidating to come on to a show that is live, but at the same time that is what kind of made it exciting. She then explained, “I could’ve just come and guest starred on the show, but the fact that it is the live episode is exciting. Makes it more of an event sort of thing.”
On the event front, they are going to have almost as many celebrities on the show that were at Saturday’s boxing match.
NBC announced a few of them yesterday. They are Zach Braff, Donald Faison, Neil Flynn, Christa Miller, Kate Walsh, Victoria Justice, Dr. Drew and other they could not announce. The press release also stated that there will be a “Superstar Surprise Musical Guest.” I know who it is, and all I can tell you is that they have ties to Taylor Swift. Then again who doesn’t? Update, since the news is out there it is Ed Sheeran!
What I can tell you is that Executive Producer Bill Lawrence asked Kate Walsh to guest star on the show via Twitter and as you can see she said yes.
We know that a chart topping singer is going to perform on the show, but what about the cast that normally sings on the show? Will they be singing tonight?
Medler and Justice will be singing a duet tonight, I know the song but I can’t tell you. I can tell you that it was a spontaneous decision. Medler said that Bill Lawrence told her she’s doing a song and then said it was going to be a duet with Victoria. Both girls were surprised but up for the challenge.
When I asked Morin if he would be belting out a tune, D’Elia said, “Yes, because it is an episode.â€
Who will be the first one to mess up, mess up the most and the worst?
All but two people said Brent Morin for every answer. The two people, who said otherwise, said that Rick and Bianca would mess up the most. We will just have to see what happens when it airs.
How will Morin control his laughter? His secret is that will be thinking of his dog that drowned when he was boy. Sad, right?
Undateable is known for the actors Improvising during their tapings, will they do it during the live show?
Ron Funches told me, “They are scripting in places for us to improvise. Which I guess is kind of frightening.” Although Chris D’Elia feels differently, “Improving doesn’t make us nervous, but knowing the lines does.”
How does Bianca Kajlich feel about the comedians Improvising tonight? She said, “I personally feel better with them. If something is going to go wrong we are in great hands to have people that are great at Improv and great at picking up the pieces.” She added, “It feels more freeing I think to be with people who are capable of jumping in at the last second and helping out.” Her co-star Bridgit Mendler feels differently because she told me she is a little nervous about that. She said, “I am hoping with enough practice, we will be able to go over that element of it so we know at least what that feels like.”
On that note, when did they get the script?
Three weeks ago, Chris was on TBS’s Conan and he said they had not yet gotten the script for tonight’s show. In fact, they didn’t get it until last Monday. Before you fret, Bent says that is the longest they have had one. Plus, extra rehearsal time was made to make sure tonight goes off flawlessly.
Something Rick Glassman commented on, “The four of us have much more experience working in front of a live audience than doing this. Which makes me very comfortable with this. I am guaranteeing that it will be flawless.” Ron just laughed his loveable laugh. Although I will say Rick sounded pretty confident about his statement.
What are some of the things that will be different tonight?
They have someone timing them into scenes, but there is something you can look out for tonight. Glassman explained, “We have to do some costume changes and get from one set to another within four seconds with music playing in between. So we’ve been practicing taking off shirts and putting stuff on and running upstairs.” Then he added, “We are starting out with multiple layers, t-shirts sewn into hoodies and we’ll take them off as we go. Scenes are going to start with us breathing heavily.”
Is there anything they can’t they do?
Funches says that the cast is constantly being reminded that it will cost them a lot of money if any of them curse. Rick says that is the only thing they can’t do. Which means at least one of them will accidentally do it. Right?
Why you should watch?
Funches summed it up, “There’s a lot of fun guest stars that we cannot talk about. There’s a lot of fun music we cannot talk about. It’s just more, it’s a super-sized show. If you like Undateable; but you are like it is over now (because it’s a half hour), it’s nice to be able to go here’s a double dose of what you love and also it’s live so we could mess up.
What more do you need to tune in? It’s live! It’s full of great guests! It’s got singing! There’s a chance they’re going to screw up! And most importantly, it is going to be FUNNY!!! So tune in tonight at 9p for an experience only the cast of Undateable can conjure up!
On May 5th at 9p, Undateable is doing a live episode for the East and West Coast. Anytime a sitcom goes live it is awesome, but Chris D’Elia made it sound even better than all those other ones when he was on Conan yesterday.
The live episode is airing in just 3 weeks from tonight and D’Elia said they don’t even have the script for it yet. He added, “In fact, the writer emailed us, Brent (Morin) and I, ‘Hey, just so you know the show is on in two (three) weeks and we’re going to shoot it. If you have anything you wanna add into the script, feel free to just throw it out to us.'” Then he added, “It’s just going to be horrible.” No, that is what is going to make it fantastic!
Not only are they scriptless, but D’Elia, Morin, Ron Funches and Rick Glassman are all professional comedians, so they are all ready to mess up on the big night. Although those four are used to improvising, I feel for their co-stars David Flynn, Bianca Kajlich and Bridgit Mendler because they are not comedians. I don’t know how they are going to keep a straight face, and more importantly continue acting as all the madness takes place. Actually, that is what is going to make those live episodes ever more fabulous.
So mark your calendars for May 5th at 9p on NBC because you are not going to want to miss Undateable’s live episode as it happens.
If you’ve never seen Undateable, you can get a taste of it tonight and every Tuesday at 9p on NBC. I promise you are going to love the taped episodes as much as the live one!
Undateable’s Rick Glassman posted a photo of himself kissing his co-star, Ron Funches, and I have to wonder if they have something to tell us? All they have to tell us is one of the answers to 6 Things About Love. To find out the question that led to that moment, watch the video from Mashable below?
Now when it comes to their kiss, how cute would it be if they became dateable to each other on the NBC sitcom that airs Tuesdays at 9p? Funches can giggle like a teenage girl every time after they kiss. Any time he laughs, I laugh! He has the most addictive laugh on television.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukUeH08aONU
Bridgit Mendler spent most of her career working on Disney shows like Good Luck Charlie. Now that she is old enough to drink, she is changing things up and playing a waitress at a bar on NBC’s very dateable Undateable tonight and every Tuesday at 9p.
Does the actress think her fans will follow her over to the much more adult sitcom? Recently, at the NBC TCA Winter Day, she said, “I mean, so far they’ve been excited, which I’m glad about.” Then she added, “I see a lot of social media stuff from them. I’m hoping that they enjoy it. I mean, obviously, it’s a different kind of comedy. So I’m thinking that it will more be something that the older fans will gravitate towards, but I think it’s genuinely funny. So I’m assuming that my fans will as well.”
Talking about social media, the cast and crew are seeing the upside of being on a show with her. Rick Glassman said, “Half my followers are now Bridgit-bots.” David Flynn added, “We all get aggressive tweets from Brazil and Argentina.” Then Brent Morin chimed in with, “Yeah, from 11 year old girls.”
Bill Lawrence, who created the show, knows the power of her younger fans because his kids are “suddenly interested” in Undateable. He joked that they are much more impressed with her than him. But no matter what any father does, the kids are never impressed with him at that age. Thus, he shouldn’t feel bad.
When it comes to Mendler’s age, Lawrence says that they have has to explain some of the jokes to her because she is too young to understand them. To make you feel old, she didn’t know what a payphone is and she never heard the song Old Man River. So if she doesn’t get it, neither will her younger fans. But that shouldn’t stop them from watching because the one thing they will get is the giggles. That’s because, Undateable is a show that every one of every age can find something to laugh about. They might not get all of the jokes, but they will get a lot of them.
When it comes to Mendler as Candance, she definitely has added a new brand of humor to the humorous show. So make sure to tune in to see her and the rest of the gang on NBC tonight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPGYuhkQH4I
On the season premiere of Undateable on Tuesday all Bianca Kajlich had to say was, “Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Sometimes we are. One night stands are like fast food. Sure you feel guilty the next day, but sometimes you just need something cheap you can enjoy in your car,” but she had a problem with the one-liner. She forgot how it was suppose to end, so when she got to, “Sometimes you just need something to,” she ended it with “f*ck!” Too bad the show airs on NBC because her ending worked so much better than the one that was written for her. Not that the writers joke was bad, it was just that hers was an improvement.
If Kajlich was feeling bad about her mistake, to make matters worse, her male co-stars are all comedians so they were having a field day with it.
Once they were done giving her grief about the error, it was time to continue on with the taping and for some reason she had problem with the line again. I wonder why?
She wasn’t the only one who screwed up when they filmed the season premiere, so see what the other actors messed up during the taping.
And if you think the bloopers from Undateable are funny, the show is even funnier. So make sure to watch it every Tuesday at 9p on NBC.
