Were there any people you really wanted to get for interviews, but couldn't? We were always focused on the panel because we wanted to show a real debate and have that mix with the absurdity of our host. That there are a lot of Kraft Punks. We went to K Street and shortened a lot of that material down. There are all Batman, just like these are all Kraft Punk. He cannot die, and 2. In Hannibal's case, I just pitched that gag out to him directly because he's just so busy. You know, I read a Reddit theory that Kraft Punk is Eric Andre from the future.
So it's that Eric can't dieāand he loses his success after The Eric Andre Show, so he becomes Kraft Punk and begins to self-produce all of these shows that aren't as good as The Eric Andre Show. I might be pouring some gasoline on that fire. The Eric Andre Show Season 4 Episodes. That was caught on camera, but what I mean is that that one moment was golden, but the two hours around it were just garbage. Anyone can put on the suit, but yeah, back during season three of The Eric Andre Show I had this idea.
Kraft Punk is just an outpouring of a talk show inside joke that won't die, both figuratively and literally. I was fascinated by the flat Earth guy though because it's a whole conspiracy I had obviously heard about before, but never had the chance to engage with it. It's always a secret who's in the costume. It's just so ridiculous and it's there during the end credits. You're supposed to hate him.
Somehow this pun joke of a character has become a part of something oddly thought provoking. Kraft Punk visits all fifty states. Like if The Eric Andre Show is airing on one channel, then a Derrick Beckles show is airing on an opposite channel as competitionābut in the best possible way. You said you were big on getting panel discussions back, but were there other segment ideas or a different structure at all that was considered, or was it always just the interviews and man on the street stuff? What about other topics you maybe wanted to feature in the roundtable discussions? We've had a few people in there. The burden with The Eric Andre Show is that he is the sole person so he needs to be there, but with this I wanted to generate real conversations between people and then have Kraft Punk be the solution, as opposed to the driving force of the problem. We do different things for different occasions. He's a concept more than a person.
Like you know at the beginning of when there are all of those Batmans out there? I keep a tight lid on him. I didn't produce the film or anything. So it was a great advantage, as a producer, to have people who were coming from that and then figuring out how our approach here would be different. Speaking of cameos, I like that Hannibal and Eric make minor cameos here. I go to the movies and he's like the voice of a bird or something. Yeah, but my favorite interview is the second one and I don't want to say too much there because I want people to be shocked by that one.
I miss that old panel dynamic and wanted to bring it back. Shine a light on his life. To call the show unconventional or alternative is a massive understatement. I'm not even denying its existence or its truth. Sometimes we have a voice modulator.
Were there any crazy situations or problems that happened when you were out in the public that weren't caught on camera? I think Derrick Beckles, who was there at the beginning of The Eric Andre Show, wanted it to be its own universe. I don't know how busy she is. Are you interested in making this an official Eric Andre Show spin-off and keep it going, or meant to just be a one-off? Or let's just do fifty states. We talk about Kraft Punk's history, the demise of the panel talk show, and what the future holds for this outlandish character! The Adult Swim series is a massively surreal deconstruction of the talk show and for years it's been surprising its audience in new ways. I like the idea of other people talking to each other and building to their own argument. Now, this is not me saying this.
I love The Departed, but Scorsese has done a lot better and Boogie Nights is the movie that made him become Mark Wahlberg from Marky Mark! Basketball player Dennis Rodman and actor Haley Joel Osment are interviewed. I love that glimpse of Kraft Punk without his helmet on. So Kraft Punk needs to go to Antarctica. The voice aspect of the character has always been interesting to me, too? What was the genesis of this special? It's just been hundreds of thousands of people in Kraft Punk at this point, which is really just representative of his personality or non-gender identity for that matter. So we set up a studio in Washington D. As silly as it sounds, we just decided early on to keep it all separate. So maybe, you never know? By that logic you'll have to do like an Episode I prequel series where some boy grows up to be Kraft Punk down the road.
There were a lot of ways to tackle a project like this, but it's really difficult to build a narrative through something like this if it doesn't have a script and there's a reason there are so few films of that nature. So I had to throw that movie a bone and pay it respect. In a particularly surprising move, announced that Kraft Punk would be getting his own half hour political special wherein his strange style mingles with Washington D. We tried messing around with the suit a little and making it more slicked out and shinier, but it bounced off the cameras too much and got wonky, so we went back to his traditional look. He's the real kingpin, so he was fun to work with on this one. Maybe just a video call in a worse case scenario because she should make an appearance, right? We wrote it and I went to set to work with Eric and riff on some things, but once the writing work was done I was mostly gone. Did you consider at all having Kraft Punk pop up on Hot Package or Mostly 4 Millennials? Were there any issues with the police? I love him, but I hate him.