Lifestyle
Step inside comedian David Wain’s garage and you’ll find a middle-aged dad band rocking out. The rotating crew of band members includes “Weird Al” Yankovic and Ken Marino.
July 25, 2023
Movies
The film “Wet Hot American Summer” is now something of a Sundance prototype, an unexpected surprise that seemed to catch many young talents at the beginning of their careers.
Jan. 23, 2014
The State alum David Wain directs his first studio comedy with ‘Role Models.’
Nov. 7, 2008
Television
To the delight of comedy nerds the world over, “Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp” -- the eight-episode revival of the 2001 cult favorite starring Paul Rudd, Amy Poehler and Elizabeth Banks -- premiered Friday on Netflix.
July 31, 2015
Were you to imagine a follow-up to “Wet Hot American Summer,” David Wain and Michael Showalter’s 2001 absurdist parody of an 1980s summer camp movie, it likely would not be as a prequel in which all the members of the main cast, now 14 years older, return to play their old characters in a story set two months before original film.
July 30, 2015
Archives
Stella, a New York-based alternative comedy trio, has a few dirty little secrets on its website (www.stellacomedy.com) that are too good to keep under wraps.
April 25, 2004
David Wain, who directed the new summer-camp spoof “Wet Hot American Summer,” has to be pleased with some of the early reviews of his R-rated comedy.
Aug. 27, 2001
When “Wet Hot American Summer” was released in theaters in July of 2001, the oddball comedy brought in just $295,000 at the box office — barely enough to buy a house in the suburbs, much less recoup its meager $1.8-million budget.
Entertainment & Arts
De Wain Valentine’s use of unusual industrial materials was instrumental in the Southern California artistic movement.
Feb. 24, 2022
Every character in writer-director David Wain’s romantic comedy parody “They Came Together” is a type and a joke: the “vaguely but not overtly Jewish” male lead (Paul Rudd), the cutely klutzy female lead (Amy Poehler), the wrong guy for her (Ed Helms), his hot and troubled ex (Cobie Smulders), and so on.
June 26, 2014