“We were like, ‘It just has to be a bunch of crazy-ass pranks’,” Andre said. In 2013, when Andre’s agent first suggested he meet with “Jackass” producer Jeff Tremaine about making a prank-based movie, he and his writing partner Dan Curry pitched a string of disjointed ideas akin to what he had been doing on his show. Translating Andre’s punk-rock, Dadaist style of comedy into a coherent film was no easy feat. Tiffany Haddish co-stars as Bud’s escaped-convict sister Trina, as do numerous innocent bystanders who are unwittingly roped into the pranks that Andre concocts along the way, whether it’s sticking his hand in a blender at a smoothie shop or getting sexually violated by a gorilla at a zoo. In the anarchic tradition of films like “Borat” and “Bad Grandpa,” the hidden-camera comedy follows best friends Chris (Andre) and Bud (Lil Rel Howery) as they travel across the country so Chris can be reunited with the girl of his dreams (Michaela Conlin). It’s a huge silver lining to the corona fallout.” “Now the movie is dubbed and subtitled in 60 languages for their 200 million subscribers worldwide. “They’re kind of the best venue in town,” Andre said of Netflix.

The film is set to begin streaming on Friday, opening Andre to an audience far beyond the stoned college students and comedy nerds who have thus far made up much of his fan base. I was drinking White Russians in my bathrobe for a month, throwing chicken wings at my TV screen, all bitter.”įortunately for Andre, Netflix swooped in and picked up “Bad Trip” from Orion Pictures. “We didn’t know what was going to happen. “It was incredibly depressing,” Andre, 37, said in an interview over Zoom from his home in Los Angeles this week. As much as he appreciates an unpredictable twist, he was not happy about this one. Just days before his prank-comedy film “Bad Trip” was set to premiere at the 2020 South by Southwest festival in Austin, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, bringing the world to a grinding halt and throwing Andre’s film, which he had spent four years bringing to fruition, into limbo.

If you ever attend one of his notoriously wild birthday parties, you might see him get body-slammed through a table by a Mexican luchador or find yourself chatting with elderly nudists he hired to mingle with the crowd.Įvery once in a while, reality bites back - and a year ago, it delivered Andre a doozy. Comedian Eric Andre loves nothing more than to grab someone else’s reality and bend it toward absurdity.įor nearly a decade, his Adult Swim anti-talk show “The Eric Andre Show” has served up 11-minute barrages of cringe-inducing chaos and frenetic surrealism.

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