Paul Rudd And Paul Rudd Star In New Netflix Sitcom ‘Living With Yourself’
Netflix have clearly been reading your diary.
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that the one thing that makes any TV series or movie better is the addition of Paul Rudd.
After all, the man has been spicing up properties for decades now. As Ant-Man, he made Marvel’s strangest superhero a screwball comedy legend; his rom-com spoof They Came Together is one of the most necessary and engaging takedowns of our time; and he even (somehow) managed to elevate the material of Judd Apatow’s dour This Is 40 into something special.
Clearly then, Netflix have been paying attention to the Rudd effect. The streaming titan has just announced a new sitcom titled Living With Yourself that not only stars Paul Rudd, but also Paul Rudd.
The web-series was created by Timothy Greenberg, best-known for serving as an executive producer on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart (and for no joke directing the live-action sequences in classic adventure PC game Myst.)
In the show’s opening, Rudd comes downstairs one night to discover that he has been burglarized by a naked version of himself. Learning that said other self recently awakened in a shallow grave, Rudd attempts to unfurl the mystery of his doppleganger.
Of course, because this is a sitcom first and foremost, there’s also a bevy of shenanigans, mostly centring on the jealousy between the two Rudds. One wants what the other has, and both deeply dislike the other, giving a whole new meaning to the phrase ‘being too hard on yourself.’
Watch the full trailer below, and marvel at any show that can open with a man awaking in his own grave, wrapped in plastic, before quickly pivoting to the kind of slapstick you’d expect to find in your average episode of Home Improvement.
The first season of Living With Yourself hits Netflix in full on October 18.