The Customer is Always Wrong by Mimi Pond

Photo: Jagrap via Flickr Creative Commons The Craziest Day Of My Entire Career: Mimi PondMimi Pond is a cartoonist whose work has appeared in the National Lampoon, the LA Times, and the New York Times. Plus, they talk about how magic mushrooms helped them write some of the episodes - you don’t wanna miss that!Ĭlick here to listen to this interview on YouTube! Jesse sat down with co-creators and stars of Corporate Jake Weisman and Matt Ingebretson to talk about getting the shows tone right, what it was like pitching the show to a corporation, and why they cast Lance Reddick, who played Cedric Daniels on The Wire to play the CEO of Hampton Deville. Deadpan humor and satire is tough, but Corporate really nails it. Corporate has a great supporting cast including Lance Reddick, Anne Dudek, Aparna Nancherla, and Baron Vaughn.

Corporate goes beyond your standard office comedy and dives into deeper themes like the capitalism, art, suicide, and even the meaninglessness of life. Matt and Jake have just enough power and money to keep working there, but not enough to make any real impact in the company. Every character on the show is a little depressed and angry about working for a soul-sucking giant multinational corporation. The show follows the lives of Jake and Matt, two junior executives in training at Hampton Deville. But it’s so much darker, weirder and universal than that.

Photo: Jesse Thorn Jake Weisman and Matt Ingebretson on their new Comedy Central show ‘Corporate’Technically, the new Comedy Central show Corporate is a workplace comedy. New to Bullseye? Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcasts or with your favorite podcatcher to make sure you automatically get the newest episode every week. If you’ve never picked up a comic book before this is a good place to start, obv. And finally, Jesse tells us about “Understanding Comics” by Scott McCloud - a comic book about understanding comic books. Plus, cartoonist and writer Mimi Pond tells us about the craziest day of her entire career. Plus, they talk about how magic mushrooms helped them write some of the episodes - you don’t wanna miss that! They join Jesse in the studio to chat about getting the shows tone right, what it was like pitching the show to a corporation, and why they cast Lance Reddick, who played Cedric Daniels on The Wire to play the CEO of Hampton Deville. The show tackles themes like the capitalism, art, suicide, and even the meaninglessness of life. They have just enough power and money to keep working there, but not enough to make any real impact in the company. The show follows the lives of Matt and Jake, two junior executives in training at Hampton Deville, a hopeless megacorporation. Technically, Corporate is a workplace comedy. They created and star in the brand new Comedy Central show “Corporate.” First up: Matt Ingebretson and Jake Weisman.

The Customer is Always Wrong by Mimi Pond