"With "Nirvanna the Band," Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol might have found the Holy Grail of comedy. Their ongoing multimedia project, which began with a DIY webseries ("Nirvanna the Band") in 2007 before the now-defunct Viceland aired two seasons of a full-fledged TV series ("Nirvanna the Band the Show"), and is now headed to the big screen (naturally titled " Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie "), is built around one simple joke."
"It was a funny joke when Matt and Jay were in their early twenties, but it's somehow more hilarious now that they're in their forties. And as long as they keep coming up with ideas, there's every reason to believe it will only get funnier, as the characters drift further and further away from the ages when such immaturity would have been remotely acceptable."
Nirvanna the Band is a multimedia project starring Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol as fictionalized failures who center their lives on one dream: playing a concert at Toronto's The Rivoli. The project began as a 2007 DIY webseries, evolved into a Viceland television series, and expanded into a feature film titled Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie. Rather than take sensible career steps, the characters wake each day to devise elaborate schemes to trick the venue into booking them, always failing. The comedy gains potency as the creators age, with their immaturity amplifying the humor and allowing the premise to sustain endless variation.
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