Exclusive: Peacock has put in development Big Dummie, a half-hour comedy inspired by the life of Korean-American rapper Jon Park (aka Dumbfoundead), from NCIS: Los Angeles co-star Eric Christian Olsen and his Cloud Nine Productions and CBS Television Studios, where Cloud Nine is under a deal.
Written by Lisa Parsons (Insatiable), Big Dummie, set in Los Angeles’ Koreatown, centers on a 30-year-old rapper, played by Park, who endures an early mid-life crisis as he loses relevancy in the rap world and falls out of touch with his family and friends.
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Parsons, Park, Olsen and Cloud Nine Productions’ John Will executive produce. Cloud Nine and CBS TV Studios will co-produce.
Park rose to fame...
Written by Lisa Parsons (Insatiable), Big Dummie, set in Los Angeles’ Koreatown, centers on a 30-year-old rapper, played by Park, who endures an early mid-life crisis as he loses relevancy in the rap world and falls out of touch with his family and friends.
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Parsons, Park, Olsen and Cloud Nine Productions’ John Will executive produce. Cloud Nine and CBS TV Studios will co-produce.
Park rose to fame...
- 4/15/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Awkwafina is Nora From Queens can easily be a spiritual sequel or a spinoff of Comedy Central’s wildly popular series Broad City. Although the show from the newly minted Golden Globe winner lives in the same universe as Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson’s trend-setting Bff comedy of female empowerment, Nora From Queens is in a world of its own. It not only continues to showcase Awkwafina’s talent but puts a thoughtful lens on Millennial journey in the 21st century as well as Asian identity and culture — but don’t get it twisted. It’s still bubbling over with Awkwafina-laden humor that are rooted in her days of “My Vag.”
Debuting January 22 on Comedy Central, the first season of Nora From Queens is inspired by Awkwafina’s own life growing up in Flushing, Queens with her super-chill, activewear-clad dad Wally (played by Emmy-nominated actor Bd Wong) and her...
Debuting January 22 on Comedy Central, the first season of Nora From Queens is inspired by Awkwafina’s own life growing up in Flushing, Queens with her super-chill, activewear-clad dad Wally (played by Emmy-nominated actor Bd Wong) and her...
- 1/21/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Korean-American rapper Jon Park (aka Dumbfoundead) is set to recur on Comedy Central’s upcoming scripted series Awkwafina. He will join the titular actor-rapper Awkwafina in the series which follows a twenty-something Nora living in Queens, striving for a larger than life existence while living with her father and grandmother.
Park will play Nora’s friend Doug on the series. He joins a cast that includes Bowen Yang as Nora’s more successful cousin, Bd Wong as her father, and Lori Tan Chinn (Orange Is the New Black) as her grandmother.
The Crazy Rich Asians star teamed with Karey Dornetto and Teresa Hsiao to write the pilot which was directed by Lucia Aniello. Comedy Central ordered 10 episodes of Awkwafina last year. The series is executive produced by Awkwafina, Dornetto, Aniello, Peter Principato...
Park will play Nora’s friend Doug on the series. He joins a cast that includes Bowen Yang as Nora’s more successful cousin, Bd Wong as her father, and Lori Tan Chinn (Orange Is the New Black) as her grandmother.
The Crazy Rich Asians star teamed with Karey Dornetto and Teresa Hsiao to write the pilot which was directed by Lucia Aniello. Comedy Central ordered 10 episodes of Awkwafina last year. The series is executive produced by Awkwafina, Dornetto, Aniello, Peter Principato...
- 7/24/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
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