We cherish this concept.
Twenty years after HBO gave viewers the beloved sitcom “The Comeback,” starring Lisa Kudrow, followers could also be in retailer for a Season 3. Kudrow, 61, performed sitcom vet Valerie Cherish — a girl determined to revive her profession.
The unique present aired in 2005 earlier than returning for Season 2 in 2014. Now, Dan Bucatinsky, who performed Billy Stanton, Valerie’s publicist who couldn’t management his anger, is getting candid on the chance.
“I would love it,” the actor, 59, completely informed The Put up on the 2025 Astra Awards. “I would love it. It gets talked about all the time. So just know — I hope so.”
Though there was no official phrase from the community if a reboot is within the playing cards, Bucatinsky, Kudrow and the remainder of the forged can be sport.
“We talk about it all the time,” the “Scandal” alum confessed. “If there are talks happening, I can’t answer, but we talk about it all the time and we all would love it.”
The sitcom additionally featured Damian Younger, Lance Barber, and Robert Bagnell. Robert Michael Morris, who performed Kudrow’s hairdresser Mickey Deane, handed away in 2017 at age 77.
“We worked together a lot over the years,” Bucatinsky mirrored. “But certainly shooting ‘The Comeback’ was one of them. I think one of the scenes I loved the most with her, was going into her trailer in Season 2 when Billy has just had it and is quitting and throws his phone across the room.”
“That was a really iconic moment for a publicist who could never really keep his rage to himself,” he went on. “We had a really good time doing that.”
Kudrow was nominated for an Emmy for Excellent Lead Actress in a Comedy Sequence in 2006 for Season 1, and once more in 2015 for Season 2.
Michael Patrick King created the satirical comedy that poked enjoyable at actuality tv and the leisure business. He and Kudrow have spoken out about the potential of one other comeback for Valerie Cherish.
“There’s always a meeting, every now and then, where we put ideas on the table,” the director, 70, informed Selection in honor of the twentieth anniversary of this system earlier this month. “It has to be a really intricate combination of things to get us both to the place where we think, ‘Oh, God.’ We laugh at anything; Valerie could be funny anywhere. But the thing we’re always looking for is, what would make an event worthy of Valerie coming back? So we’re constantly meeting — ‘Hey, what about this?’”
In 2025, Kudrow feels the present would resonate even stronger with these making an attempt to make it on actuality tv.
“It’s much more identifiable,” the “Friends” star admitted. “I’ve seen ‘Housewives.’ We have another point of reference for a woman and what she’s willing to do. Every one of those Housewives, they know what they’re doing; they’re playing a role in order to get their brand out there, and it’s a means to an end.”
Along with “The Comeback,” Bucatinsky has his sights set on one other position.
“I want to play a villain,” he informed the Put up. “I want to play a criminal, a villain or a cop. Maybe not a cop that is a criminal or a villain, but why not?”
A dream co-star for Bucatinksy can be just a few acquainted faces that he’s labored with up to now — and some new ones.
“I loved working with Corey Hawkins on ’24:Legacy,’” he shared. “I’d love to work with him again. But Lisa Kudrow has been a friend and partner of mine for 20 years. So, I always love working with her again. I’ve really been lucky to work with a lot of great, strong women and I hope that continues because I’m a fan of so many. Kristen Bell. I would love to work with Kristen.”
Bucatinsky not too long ago labored on Season 4 of the hit HBO collection “Hacks.” The present stars Jean Sensible as get up legend Deborah Vance and Hannah Einbinder, a comedy author.
“It was the relationship that I was able to form with Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder,” the producer gushed about his favourite a part of becoming a member of the forged. “That friendship is one that I will cherish. Getting to know them off camera, then getting to play with them on camera is a dream. So much of my job on that show was playing the guy whose job it was to wrangle these two forces. I am a father of two, so I was playing dad a little bit on the show as well. But the gift really was being part of that community that felt really strong both behind the scenes and in front of the camera.”
The trio’s time on set included many chats within the greenroom.
“We would hang out in this little greenroom area at our chairs,” Bucatinsky reminisced. “We would talk. We would keep each other warm. We would go get tea. We would go get snacks. We would ask each other for advice about everything. Recommendations of movies and documentaries and doctors. And talk about our kids and our pets. And it was really an opportunity in between scenes to really get to know one another.”
