May 29 2009'Yo Teach...!' Clip and Behind-the-Scenes!
Every group of underachieving, inner-city high schoolers needs a Michelle Pfeiffer, or a Pryzbylewski, or a Steve Harvey to show them that someone cares, that rapping is like funky poetry, and that dice is like math. This fall on NBC, one such group will get theirs in Mark Taylor Jackson, the "wise-cracking mentor of Yo Teach...!"
As this clip and behind-the-scenes featurette demonstrate, the show looks hilarious. And heartwarming:
Actually, the whole thing is a viral marketing thing for Funny People, Judd Apatow's upcoming decidedly non-Adam-Sandler-comedy Adam Sandler comedy that co-stars Jason Schwartzman as this comedian-cum-sitcom star. Too bad, though. This show could have single-handedly dawned a new era TGIF.
Reader Comments
1. jesse the kid - May 29, 2009 12:48 PM
i f'd my highschool science teacher... she was pretty high up on the kelvin scale...
2. DreamFolder - May 29, 2009 1:22 PM
It's Welcome Back, Kotter for the new millenium... replace honking obnoxious Horschak with rapping wanna-be's
meh
3. Dragon - May 29, 2009 1:47 PM
It's RAJ!!!!
4. austinjames - May 29, 2009 1:49 PM
haha isntt that the same classroom set as boy meets world
5. Nick - May 29, 2009 2:02 PM
Look at you! You're wearing a sleeveless shirt and a winter hat!
6. Brayden - May 29, 2009 2:54 PM
I spy a cameo from Bo Burnham :)
7. Lee - May 29, 2009 2:55 PM
What those kids really need is Tom Berenger as the substitute.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYIC34T7pmU
8. TetraShiva - May 29, 2009 2:56 PM
Nice, I Watch Stuff Writer.
I wonder if anyone else will get it.
9. Bickleton Wigglesworth III - May 29, 2009 3:07 PM
Smart Asian girl knows iambic pentameter, who would have seen that coming?
10. Nice Pete - May 29, 2009 4:02 PM
If you're trying to tell me that teacher is not Jason Schwartzman, you are a dirty liar.
11. Nice Pete - May 29, 2009 4:04 PM
Nevermind, didn't read the whole article. False alarm everybody.
12. bribios - May 29, 2009 4:54 PM
That was awesome. I would say they need to make that into a real show but I think 90 percent of the audience wouldn't get it.
13. Stuey - May 29, 2009 5:00 PM
HAHA @ 1, nice one.
I am sure 98% of the people that read that were like, "Kelvin? I don't get it...oh well FIRST!!" and naturally end up being fifth.
14. Keithypoo - May 29, 2009 6:22 PM
"You're wearing a sleeveless t-shirt and a winter hat." I'm going to go out on a limb here and say a race war will ensue in the classroom. To Kill A Mockingbird will be referenced, and teach will be forced to quit....in the third season.
Oh, it's fake? Like the Bible, you say? Hmmm....I wish my name wasn't Jason Schwartzman...say that 5 times fast!
15. Darth - May 29, 2009 6:40 PM
The 'behind the scenes" scenes are interesting.
16. Rutty - May 29, 2009 7:11 PM
The Aintitcool.com site has an awesome talkback of enraged nerds who don't get it and are crying "sell out" for AICN advertising a shitty NBC sitcom.
unbelievable.
17. eat this - May 29, 2009 9:03 PM
hey pretentious bastards, do you get this? t(-_-t)
"90% of the audience wouldn't get it". Shit, what a douchebag
18. john wayne was a nazi - May 29, 2009 10:48 PM
Nice reference from the Wire
well done sir
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20. Kurt C - May 30, 2009 10:51 AM
THis idea was done well with "Classroom"
http://www.channel101.com/shows/show.php?show_id=175
21. sarah - May 31, 2009 2:08 AM
oh thank god. i watched the "clip" first without reading the rest of your post and just kept thinking 'what is this crap?'... and wondering about your taste for calling it *hilarious*...and wondering what the hell jason schwartzman was doing with his career...WHEW!
22. frank - June 14, 2009 1:43 PM
Hey, you know who can't act? Ryan Reynolds. Sorry, I just had to interject.