“I thought it was gonna go one season,” Eric André laughs.
On Sunday, although, The Eric Andre Show — the comic’s anarchistic, satirical take on late-night discuss reveals unspooled the primary episode of its sixth season.
Like the 50 twisted episodes (and three specials) that preceded it on Cartoon Network’s adult-targeted programming block Adult Swim, the episode is equal elements surreal, absurd, surprising, hilarious and deeply uncomfortable. He destroys his set, makes use of a bat to beat a man dressed as a prince, asks visitor Lil Nas X when was the final time his mom had intercourse, and, while posing as pest management, pranks an workplace employee by having a toddler-sized bug crash by the wall.
Future episodes will carry a very agitated Daymond John (of Shark Tank fame, and whom Andre calls one of his favourite friends ever) and a very unsettled Jaleel White, who nervously puffs on a vape pen as issues get weirder and weirder round him. “He likes marijuana, nothing wrong with that,” André says of the actor finest recognized for enjoying Steve Urkel within the ’90s sitcom favourite Family Matters. “He was high. He was shook.” (Watch our full interview beneath.)
Other friends this season will embrace Donald Glover, Jon Hamm, Jaden Smith, Megan Good, Mia Khalifa and Chet Hanks. We can’t let you know if any of them stroll out, like Lauren Conrad famously did in Season 3 (after André seemingly ate his personal vomit) and T.I. in Season 4 after a man got here out with no pants (or underwear) on. André says different previous friends, specifically Tichina Arnold, Robin Givens and Tia Carrera, “kinda slowly moonwalked back. It wasn’t technically a walkout, but it was a stroll towards the exit.” (The present’s reserving trick? Guests usually aren’t advised which interview on their press circuit is about to happen.)
Gone this yr is co-host Hannibal Buress, who left throughout Season 5. Another large distinction: one more jarring physique modification for the 40-year-old André. It’s all half of the present’s bonkers aesthetic. The host shed a dramatic quantity of weight for Season 4 and gained greater than 40 kilos for Season 5. So for Season 6, because the press launch for the present proclaims, André bought “ripped and shredded, with taut nips and glistening six-pack abs.” He additionally sports activities a new slicked-back ponytail.
André flaunts his new bod usually and early in the course of the present, however the web bought a sneak peek at his new physique months in the past by way of a NSFW picture posted of him and then-girlfriend Emily Ratajkowski.
He doesn’t actually need to discuss how their short-lived coupling took the tabloids by storm, however he’ll let you know how a lot it sucks to get toned.
“I’ll never do any of ’em again,” he says of the physique modifications. “They’re all a nightmare and they’re all horrible for you. Even that one, which was the healthiest one. Anybody over the age of 22 that has abs is a psychopath. Or unemployed. It takes so much work and effort to see your abs. For a man to see his abs Is a full-time job. I mean, it’s unbelievable. You have to be obsessed on a psychotic level.”
The comic didn’t see his abs for very lengthy.
“The second I wrapped, I went to Prince Street Pizza [in Manhattan] and I ate an entire pizza, went to sleep, woke up and ate like three bagels. That’s no exaggeration,” he says. “And then I went on a drinking bender. The most insane drinking bender in my life. Like, there’s a lost week of my memory. … Then I forgot I had a trip to Portugal with my friends. We went to Portugal and drank our weight in wine. Then I got back, and this was only a few weeks after we wrapped. I stepped on the scale and had gained all my weight back. What took me like six months to get [down] to took me like four weeks to put on. And then I was like, ‘F**k it, man. I’m a comedian. I don’t need to be in shape.”
Shortly after that lengthy bender, a pal knowledgeable André that he had been kicked out of Saturday Night Live. That wasn’t precisely true, however he’s nonetheless placing the items collectively, and got here to a revelation throughout our interview.
From the knowledge we gathered, the date was May 14, 2022. Selena Gomez was internet hosting SNL, with Post Malone because the musical visitor.
“I was drinking hurricanes all day. And they call ’em slurricanes for a reason,” he says. “[SNL player] Sarah Sherman got me tickets. And then I got there and I’m sitting in the audience and my stomach started [to hurt]. I thought I was gonna throw up. And I don’t know if you’ve been to a taping, but the seats are very close together. So my stomach was like a washing machine and I was like, ‘F**k, I cannot throw up at Saturday Night Live. Like, I don’t want to show disrespect. So I looked at my date and I go, ‘We have to walk out, we have to go right now.’ And I ran outside and got fresh air and then I went to a halal cart and I just like ate like 10 pounds of halal meat. And then I felt great.
“But that was a mess. My therapist and I have been talking about that for months.”
No doubt how some of the unsuspecting friends on The Eric Andre Show have felt.
New episodes of The Eric Andre Show are premiering Sundays at midnight on Adult Swim.
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