![]() Azaria plays a baseball play-by-play announcer based on a character he created for a comedy web series in 2010. Simmons guest starring in the third season. The show stars Hank Azaria, Amanda Peet, and Tyrel Jackson Williams, with J. Azaria gives baseball’s voice a back story, and it’s entirely out of left field.Brockmire is an American sitcom that premiered on Apon IFC. Still, it’s, er, pitch-perfect satire if you’re a baseball fan, or have a nostalgic attachment thanks to radio broadcasts of the game that still sound like they’re beamed in from 1957. Brockmire never drops the play-booth persona, and at times this can wear very thin. “Because we don’t judge you like those snooty pharmacists,” announces Brockmire to the sparsely populated stadium.īut what makes “Brockmire” so funny – Azaria constantly seeing the world through the eyes of a baseball commentator – can also make it overly reliant on that one joke. In case this sounds saccharine, Jules also thinks offering free cold medicine (an ingredient often used in making methamphetamine) at the gate is a great promotional idea. She believes the team, the town and Brockmire can be redeemed. Jules has taken out a second mortgage on her bar to buy the team. She’s less broken and harbors too much hope to be jaded. Both bring a humor and sympathy to characters that might otherwise prove difficult to tolerate, let alone like. The series pokes fun at just about every baseball cliché there is – the deep-voiced announcer in the loud sports jacket, rituals that must be performed before each game in order for the team to win (in this case, it’s imperative for Jules and Jim to have sex), the Japanese pitcher and famed Latino hitter whose stars have faded.Īzaria and Peet are great, together and separately. The nerdy recluse, who has no interest in radio or baseball, grew up watching Brockmire’s humiliating meltdown on YouTube, so feels he knows at least something about the man he’s now working for. The newfound fame, however, is not the kind of notoriety Brockmire needs to reestablish his career.īut it’s the only reason his young assistant-intern Charles (Tyrel Jackson Williams) knows Brockmire’s name. Far from forgotten, his 2007 meltdown went viral while he was overseas the worst day in Brockmire’s life has reached a new generation of fans, many of whom use his wife’s name as shorthand when describing a particular sex act. fastball misses just low, count goes full, three and two.”īrockmire faces an equally steep climb. Right in the middle of it was my wife, Lucy. ![]() “I went home to surprise my wife on our anniversary, and please imagine my surprise when I came home to find half a dozen naked folk sprawled out in my living room in what can only be described as a desperate and hungry kind of love making. ![]() Ge, ge, ge, ge Gerry’s!” - until an increasingly drunk Brockmire began lamenting his own tragic story in between his game commentary. Gerry’s Gelatin: nutritious, delicious and fun. In the pilot’s opening moments we learn that it was a night like any other at the stadium, narrated by The Voice of Kansas City - “Folks, welcome back to the bottom half of the eighth inning, or as it’s better known, the Gerry’s Gelatin home run inning. ![]() Brockmire and his banter, originally made for the Web series “Funny or Die,” are now at the center of a new comedy debuting Wednesday that follows a former Kansas City Royals game announcer after a very public fall from grace a decade earlier. ![]()
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