Danny McBride Is Not Above a Little Violence (or a Lot of It)
6/20/202638 min
The writer and actor, known for his profane comedic antiheroes, likes to find universal truths in human flaws.
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[gentle music] From the New York Times, this is The Interview. I'm David Marchese. Danny McBride's great HBO shows, I'm talking about Eastbound & Down, Vice Principals, and The Righteous Gemstones, all of which he co-starred in and helped to create, weren't just satirically sharp, hilariously profane, and sneakily heart-tugging. They also worked as almost anthropologically detailed studies of a certain type of modern American manhood. McBride's anti-heroes in all of those shows were arrogant, insecure, unapologetic, vulgar, status-obsessed, and nursed all kinds of petty grievances. They're also widely beloved. Now, he's applying his gift for satire and character studies to short stories with his first book, the forthcoming collection, Thrilling Tales of Modern Men. Some of the stories fit pretty neatly into the McBride canon of