Dog Bites Man
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| Genre | Comedy |
| Running time | 22 minutes + (7 min of commercials) |
| Creator(s) | Dan Mazer |
| Starring | Matt Walsh Zach Galifianakis A.D. Miles Andrea Savage |
| Country of origin | USA |
| Original channel | Comedy Central |
| Original run | June 7, 2006–present |
| No. of episodes | 9 |
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Dog Bites Man is a partially improvised comedy television show on Comedy Central that debuted in Summer 2006.
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[edit] Premise
Dog Bites Man is a parody of local news coverage, and follows the misadventures of a struggling news team as they travel around the country producing news segments. A mockumentary, the show incorporates scenes with the cast in traditional skits as well as them improvising with non-actors, who believe that they are an actual (albeit unusual) news crew.
[edit] Cast
- Matt Walsh as Kevin Beekin, the star reporter for the news show, who used to date Tillie the producer and still has feelings for her.
- Zach Galifianakis as Alan Finger, the show's incompetent director. Also a musician, in episode 3, he scored a hit song in Panama City using the name "The Finger" (the song was titled "Come and Get It (Up In Them Guts)").
- A.D. Miles as Marty Shonson, an intern who serves as a production assistant.
- Andrea Savage as Tillie Sullivan, the team's producer.
[edit] List of episodes
All titles are prefaced with "Assignment:"
[edit] Season 1: 2006
| Episode Number | Title | About |
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| 101 | Body Builders | The team report on a bodybuilding contest and attempt to spice up the story. Also, the recently reunited Kevin Beekin and Tillie Sullivan attempt to get along. |
| 102 | Undercover Homosexual | The team try to uncover discrimination against homosexuals in the city by sending Kevin in as an undercover homosexual. |
| 103 | Spring Break | The team goes do a report on Spring Break. Tillie, who apparenty despises Spring Break gets caught up in the partying and Kevin attempts to "be cool" and talk to the gets about the dangers of Spring Break. Also, Alan Finger records and releases a song, "Up In 'Dem Guts" |
| 104 | Republican Leadership Conference' | The team go to report on the Republican Leadership Conference. Whilst there, Tillie and Marty share a hotel room and Marty grows attracted to Tillie. Kevin talks a lot about meeting up with Chris Matthews and Alan gets people to sign a petiton for the release his mother from prison for tasering 22 dogs. |
| 105 | Team Building | The station is thinking about doing advertising for the show so they use a test audience to figure out its demographics. The show is criticized, causing the crew to be forced to go to a team building camp. Beekin is especially cynical about the process and is very rude to the leader who he calls "Hippie Rambo". Beekin and Tillie end up hooking up after Beekin shares his emotions around a campfire. By the end of the camp, they are all working well together, but that ends soon after they go back to work. |
| 106 | Brighton, Florida | Network sends the team to Brighton, Florida to cover a missing girl story. Marty messes up the tickets and the team ends up in Brighton, Colorado so the team decides to fake the missing girl story where they were. Marty is fixated on setting the zoo on fire but doesn't. The girl is found at the end while the team is creating a vigil. |
| 107 | Christian Convention | In an effort to boost their ratings among the God-fearing demographic, the KHBX News Team infuses their reports with religion by covering a Christian rock concert and a Christian gaming convention. In the process of filing their report, they learn new things about their own faith. |
| 108 | Gas Prices | Due to budget cuts, the KHBX news team is in danger of losing their jobs; it's either them or the Doppler, and it seems the Doppler has the edge. At the same time, they prepare themselves for alternative careers. Marty tries his hand at stand-up comedy while Alan returns to the seedy world of Korean Karaoke. |
| 109 | Daytime Talk Pilot | Kevin is sick of doing menial garbage pickup reporting. He creates a Pilot for a talk show titled Beekin and Eggs. He wants it to have A-list guests but fails to do so. He interviews a guy from a gas station who charges by the half gallon since his pumps only display up to $3 a gallon. The team thinks they do a good job yet the Network fails to pick it up. |
| 110 | TBA (Klan Rally) UNAIRED | Though details are scarce outside of cast publicity interviews leading up to the show's initial debut, episode 10 features a remote from a Ku Klux Klan picnic in Pulaski, Tennessee. In an interview with the Knoxville (Tennessee) News Sentinel on June 27, 2006, castmember Matt Walsh discussed the episode. ""The premise for the Klan episode is that we thought we were going to a typical American picnic, but we see the robes and the hoods and we realize where we are, [...] But, then, we decide to stay because the hot dogs are so good."" As of this writing, neither Comedy Central's website, nor any other television-related website has any details on when, or if, the episode will run. |
[edit] Producers and creators
- Jonathan Barry - Executive Producer
- Justin Falvey - Executive Producer
- Darryl Frank - Executive Producer
- Dan Mazer - Executive Producer
- Keith Raskin - Producer
- Dan Mazer - Creator
[edit] Trivia
- The title comes from an old journalistic saying, "If a dog bites a man it isn't newsworthy, but if a man bites a dog it is."
