If a celebrity is looking for a career shot-in-the-arm (or, frankly, a few extra bucks), I so prefer the self-deprecating Web series over easier and far less creative Fox/VH1 reality show humiliation. David "Bud Bundy" Faustino, having already tried the latter (2002′s Celebrity Boot Camp) is now dabbling with the former in his new Web series Star-ving, which debuted its first three episodes last week on Crackle.com. It’s a simple, predictable premise: Having been screwed out of Married With Children residuals by his invalid manager, Faustino is now a pathetic, washed-up porn store proprietor. He lays it out in the show intro: "My money’s gone, my mother’s a midget, my wife left me for my neighbor Coolio….Oh, and I’m freakishly short. Thanks, God!" Ed O’Neill stars in the first episode (embedded below), where he drops some 50 or so F-Bombs in a short couple of minutes before driving off in his Porsche and telling Faustino "Suck my d—."
From Crackle:
The less-funny Episode 2 has Faustino babysitting Gilbert Gottfried’s obese, mentally handicapped 34-year-old son Sparky, and the third segment, starring Coolio, plays the wiggas-meet-Compton homeies card for all it’s worth. It’s moderately amusing, and Faustino’s co-star, and real-life friend,Corin "Parker Lewis" Nemec shows some promise (assuming you believe wiping your butt with adead plant is funny — I do). But with the O’Neil bit already done, I wonder if we aren’t already looking down the mountain on this thing. Faustino’s other Married co-stars, Katey Sagal (Peg Bundy) and Christina Applegate, are also scheduled to appear, and seeing as I’m a big Married fan, I’m on board for at least another couple of episodes. Anyone gonna join me?
I didn’t know Parker Lewis still existed. It’d be worth it to check him out. Synchronize watches!
What is with the David Faustino resurgence? Did anyone “see” him on Sunday’s Robot Chicken? Who knew he was still relevant!
That’s too bad for Faustino…I always liked him on the show. Christina Applegate and Katey Sagal have definitely fared the best, post-MWC.
this was hysterical! someone needs to greenlight this show for SHO or HBO! faustino is still a cutey
I wasn’t terribly impressed with the first two episodes. They seem to be aping too many things, primarily everyone else that’s done their own playing-myself-but-not-really thing, and “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” (even using some of the same open-license music) but without the same absurdism or earned shock. But I grew up with Bud and I’m glad to see he is making a real effort, instead of cashing checks.
It’s kinda early, but I believe you mixed up “latter” and “former”. Unless you were going for the “sequence in time” definition, instead of the “in order of mention” definition. Just sayin’.