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Dave: How Lil Dickey’s Career Was Building To A TV Show


How did Jeff Schaffer x Lil Dickey happen? 

I wasn’t really looking to do another TV show. I was pretty busy with Curb. And my friend and the producer on the show, Marty Bowen, was actually my former agent. He’s like “Hey, will you just come with me and take a meeting with a Little Dicky and Scooter Braun.” I’m like, “Fine, I’ll take the meeting.”

He was telling all these crazy stories about his life, and they were Curb stories, the kind of ideas that I really resonate with me. And I was like, “Oh this guy is really funny.” I knew his videos were funny, but this is a different kind of comedy. He was telling funny Curb stories. So that was interesting.

So I said, “Well, let’s keep talking.” So we just kept meeting and we would meet and chat, and he would talk through his life, and his issues, and his encounters with various people. And it just became undeniable that there was a really funny show here. So I was like, “All right, let’s go out and pitch it.”

Aside from the fact that there’s a lot of Larry David in Dave Burd, but there’s also this other thing that really is the reason I’m doing the show. As he talks, he’s supremely confident, and he’d earned it at that point because he’s had a ton of successful videos, everybody knew who he was. But he’s sitting there telling me like, “I want to be the biggest entertainer in the history of entertaining.” And I’m just looking at this guy who, I always say he looks like a piece of broccoli you had at a bar mitzvah, and he’s saying, “I’m going to be the most famous entertainer in the history of the world.” And by the way, he thought that six years ago before he ever rapped out loud. And I was like, “This is like cartoon level delusion. This is insanity.” I thought this is a funny engine for a character.



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