Paul Scheer plays Andre on FX’s The League and he told me about his role and the show at the premiere last week. The League is a hysterical show about 5 lifelong friends who are in a Fantasy Football League together and besides all of them trying to win it, it also deals with their lives outside of it and how their friendship gets them through it. You don’t have to know anything about Fantasy Football to enjoy this show, you just have to love to laugh at things you shouldn’t. Paul Scheer described his character to me, “Andre is like this insane fun character because he is desperately trying to fit in. He is successful in his real life, he makes a ton of money, he is a successful doctor, he dates women, but in his group of friends he is that loser that they went to high school with and he will never be able to lose that. And that is a fun character to play. To have everything disposable, but still to never be able to up himself in their friends’ eyes.” The stuff his friends does to him will crack you up and make you feel bad for him because they are always picking on him. Like on last week’s episode when he shows them he framed his first joint he smoked when he was in college, and his friends told him that there was never any weed in it but just pubes. How messed up is that? Tonight he finds out that two of his friends are Eskimo Brothers because they did his sister when they were much much younger and he didn’t know about it until now. When I asked him if his sister was going to be on the show, you have to watch the interview above to see how I caught him off guard and how adorable he was when he realized what I was asking!
So what is coming up for Andre in the upcoming episodes? He told me he goes on a Mancation with one of his friends and it becomes bromantic, that sounds interesting. And on next week’s episode he joins another league and his friends are not happy about it. Now when it comes to the actors and a Fantasy Football League, Paul Scheer told me although he has never played in one before the show, he is leading their league! Not bad for a first time.
So besides kicking a$$ in the real life Football Fantasy League what else does he have going on? He is starring in a show on HBO called Funny or Die Presents and in April you can see him the much talked about Piranha 3D. But before all of that check him out tonight and every Thursday on FX at 10:30p for one of the funniest shows on TV now!!!
