If you live in the US then DO NOT move from you television sets tonight (Thursday 10th August) as it is the premiere of the IFC series Documentary Now! Starring two of the best ex-‘Saturday Night Live’ alumni Fred Armisen and Bill Hader in ‘Sandy Passage’ an hilarious parody of the Maysles Brothers 1975 documentary masterpiece ‘Grey Gardens’. The original story followed two reclusive and financially-strapped relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy who were living in a dilapidated Hamptons mansion. Hader plays Little Vivvy Van Kimpton a debutante turned spinster with a very eccentric style of dressing, and Armisen plays her bed-ridden bickering mother who blew her knee when chasing a squirrel. The two actors give pitch perfect performances working from a wonderful script from Late Show Host Seth Meyer.
P.S. If that is not enough encouragement then the rumor is that Dame Helen Mirren has a cameo role in it too.
TOTALLY UNMISSABLE.
Labels: 2015, comedy, Grey Gardens, parody, television
