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Link Tank: Moonbase 8 Stars Talk Showtime’s New Silly Space Comedy

Check out this interview with Fred Armisen, Tim Heidecker, and John C. Reilly about their new space comedy on Showtime, Moonbase 8. “Going to space is no joke. The astronauts who make it up there go through years of training, endlessly repeating drills and crisis management maneuvers, and must be as intelligent as they are cool under pressure. In other words, they need to be everything the characters in Moonbase 8 are not,” Read more at Thrillist. From World Kindness Day to National Flossing Day, here are some offbeat holidays to celebrate in November. “While you’re busy celebrating Banana Pudding…
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Moonbase 8 Release Date and Trailer for Showtime Astronaut Comedy

Moonbase 8 might, by virtue of its title, evoke imagery from unintentionally-funny early-post-Star Wars cash-in sci-fi from a bell-bottoms-brandishing yesteryear such as space base farce Saturn 3, but the comedy is assuredly intentional in the case of the Showtime series, which has just released its full trailer and a November release date. Intriguingly, Moonbase 8 is a six-episode half-hour astronaut comedy series that’s not even set in space, instead set in the final frontier of the Arizona desert, following the training exploits of bumbling NASA wannabees played by an auspicious comedy collective in John C. Reilly, Fred Armisen and Tim…
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