Bust Down

[Ron Superior]

Sadly, posting this was prompted by noticing that one of the cast has just died, but has anyone here watched Bust Down? It's on Peacock. There were only 6 episodes, and I'd imagine there won't be any more now which is a shame cos I thought they were great fun. Some episodes were better than others but it was consistently funny, and approached some big subjects from an interesting angle.

Created by and starring Chris Redd from SNL, Sam Jay from Pause, Langston Kerman from Insecure, The Boys and his really funny podcast My Momma Told Me, and the sadly now late Jak Knight. Jak was the only one I wasn't familiar with going in to the show but he was an absolute presence on the show and I did a deep dive in to his work as soon as I finished all 6 episodes in one day. So sad.

The show also featured a great turn from the rapper Freddie Gibbs.

Definitely worth checking out.

[Small Man Big Horse]

Ah, fuck, I interviewed Jak by email back in 2018, our exchanges were only minor but he came across as a really nice guy and I was really pleased to see his career take off, so to die at such a young age is awful news.

[up_the_hampipe]

Yeah, real shame about Jak Knight. Really talented and quite prolific at such a young age. Love this clip that's making the rounds https://twitter.com/lmaooross/status/1548116150030319616

I've not watched Bust Down yet but love pretty much everyone involved, especially Chris Redd after seeing him live recently, so I'll check it out.

[Ron Superior]

Yeah, Chris was great in it. I think you'll enjoy Bust Down a good deal.

Ah, fuck, I interviewed Jak by email back in 2018, our exchanges were only minor but he came across as a really nice guy and I was really pleased to see his career take off, so to die at such a young age is awful news.

Yeah, shocking, 28 man. Don't know if I've just not noticed it before or if it's a common thing these days on tweets about celebrities dying, but a significant proportion of the replies were from people either saying the likes of "yeah, it's the vaccines" or "yeah, fentanyl". Grim, shitty stuff.