Joe Pera Talks With You Canceled After Three Seasons at Grownup Swim
Hi there,
I’m writing to share the unlucky information that ‘Joe Pera Talks With You’ is over for now.
We had been driving dwelling from Bethlehem, PA the morning after my closing Spring Tour present after I obtained a name that it wouldn’t be renewed for an additional season.
“Okay, I do know what to do” I believed, and stopped the automobile for some quick meals. It was lots to course of, particularly after assembly so lots of you on the street who had been so passionate about it. I hadn’t finished a lot touring since proper after season one in 2018 and to really feel such a welcome at every present was overwhelming (thanks should you got here).
It was one of the best after I’d meet somebody after a present they usually’d point out they watched the Christmas Tree Particular each December, or inform me that the sleep episodes really work, or that they confirmed the collection to their Dad and at first he hated it however now they watch it collectively usually.
I considered that as I ate my rooster sandwich and fries. I additionally considered how we had been actually simply getting going. This winter I spent three weeks in Marquette doing analysis (additionally consuming beer) and was full of new concepts. However largely, it’s a disgrace that the characters’ tales can’t proceed. I knew the place issues had been headed however I received’t say right here trigger a part of me is holding out hope that someday down the road we will movie a correct ending for Joe, Sarah, the Melskys, Gene, Lulu, and most significantly, Fred the Pattern Man.
We had an concept the place Fred begins a ‘Remorse Membership’ the place individuals are inspired to come back and share issues they remorse most of their lives beneath the pretense that the membership will assist them discover some decision however Fred hasn’t deliberate that far forward and everybody simply will get pissed off at him.
On the identical time, I considered how fortunate we had been. The extra I learn the way TV works, the extra I understand that it’s form of a miracle that our quiet, 11-minute present about rocks, beans, grocery shops, and breakfast crews obtained on the air and lasted so long as it did.
I additionally felt very fortunate that I used to be in a position to work with my shut pals and acknowledged how particular it was that each one these humorous individuals had been engaged on the identical factor for a time frame. There was all the time a bit guilt that Jo Firestone and Conner O’Malley needs to be devoting power to reveals of their very own, however hopefully they are going to be quickly. As ought to all the writers – Dan Licata, Nathan Min, Katie Dolan, Whit Conway, the editor, and naturally, director Marty Schousboe.
Plus Jo Scott (Sue Melsky), Brad Howe (Brad Cam), Annie Donley (Diane Luten), Devin Bockrath (Debin Jaconski-Hammerschmidt), Carmen Christopher (Carlos), and lots of different comedians who had been so humorous of their characters.
And it was uncommon how a lot artistic freedom we got by the community. An episode the place a man recreates the 2001 movie Rat Race together with his pals that additionally realistically depicts the expertise of dropping a member of the family? Go for it. Cam, Walter, Mike, Keith and everybody else at Grownup Swim supported our concepts and wished us to make the present we wished to make.
It felt like we cracked one thing – a unique form of tone that has now popped up a bit elsewhere. Kinda neat but additionally irritating that we received’t be capable of proceed exploring it (a minimum of with this present). Hey, if I by no means make the rest, this was the present I all the time wished to see and I’m glad it now exists. However hopefully that’s not the case.
So what’s subsequent? Properly, a bank card firm proposed to me that we do a :30 model of the present. Like a present that goes between different reveals and I maintain up their bank card on the finish. It sounded nice to me so I mentioned…simply kidding, I’d by no means.
I’m engaged on a number of film concepts, together with ‘Postcard Males’ after all. It was a bit discouraging after I confirmed it to a studio they usually mentioned that it was “too far forward of its time” and that I ought to “shelve it for a pair a long time til individuals are prepared” however I’m going to maintain shifting ahead with it anyhow.
And the tour has been nice. I began out doing standup however for the previous 4-5 years, many of the writing and bits I put collectively onstage have been folded into the television present. Doing standup for standup’s sake is a deal with and final week I made a decision that it’s time to movie a particular. For those who come to one of many upcoming reveals, I’m going to be figuring out the kinks after which making an attempt to movie in December. Perhaps a community will wish to do it, perhaps not and I’ll do it myself however it’s time. And Marty has agreed to direct. And that’s what I’ve obtained for now.
A honest thanks to everybody who made the present doable. To the many individuals who labored on it and gave a lot of their expertise and exhausting work to it. That particularly contains the crew in Milwaukee, lots of whom have been with the present from the beginning. And thanks for watching and supporting the present and serving to it get so far as it did.
I’m sorry if that is disappointing news- there’s all the time quick food- however perhaps I’ll see you at a stay present this Summer season or Fall and I’ll let when the subsequent factor is rolling.
Sincerely,
Joe