Matt Okine’s New Stan Show Is Stuffed With Australian Comedy Legends!
Coming soon.
Ex-triple j breakfast host and all-round funny human Matt Okine is bringing his talents to television.
The comedian has partnered with Stan on a new comedy series The Other Guy, based on his standup show of the same name. It’s about “a successful radio host who finds himself unexpectedly back in the dating pool for the first time in a decade, after discovering his long-term girlfriend has been having an affair with his best friend.”
Yeah, it may be a touch autobiographical.
According to new info released by the streaming service today, the show will consist of six half hour episodes. Production begins this week, with Sydney filmmaker Kacie Anning (the legend behind web series Fragments of Friday and the Sydney Opera House’s ‘Minister For Men’ sketches) serving as director. The series was written by Okine, Greg Waters and stand-up comedian Becky Lucas (Please Like Me).
Harriet Dyer (No Activity), Valene Kane (The Fall), Magda Szubanski (Kath & Kim) and Christiaan van Vuuren (Bondi Hipsters) also co-star.
Speaking to Junkee earlier this month, Okine said that it was strange adapting his life into a TV series.
“I’ll have my character do something in the script,” he said. “You know, act a certain way to someone or do something silly for that situation, and all the notes will come back and be like, ‘Yeah, sorry, the character shouldn’t really do this, because he’s just too unlikeable.’ And I’ll be like, ‘Oh, that’s funny, because that’s actually what happened.’ So I realised pretty early on in the whole process that I am a very unlikeable person.”
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The Other Guy will premiere on Stan in late 2017.