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Dispatches: Andy Samberg’s Tour de Farce

Dispatches: Andy Samberg’s Tour de Farce

Released Wednesday, 5th July 2017
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Dispatches: Andy Samberg’s Tour de Farce

Dispatches: Andy Samberg’s Tour de Farce

Dispatches: Andy Samberg’s Tour de Farce

Dispatches: Andy Samberg’s Tour de Farce

Wednesday, 5th July 2017
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Nearly every sport can point to a comedy taking aim at its flaws. Hockey has Slap Shot. Car racing has Talladega Nights. Skiing has Hot Dog. And dodgeball has, well, Dodgeball. Now cycling can claim its own: HBO’s Tour de Pharmacy, featuring executive producer Andy Samberg and a laundry list of A-List celebrities. It’s about damn time. Is any sport riper for parody? Besides the rampant doping, there’s the leg shaving, the spandex, the team names, the whiteness, the stuffy British commentators, and, of course, the curiously misshapen bodies. The film sends up all that with a gonzo storyline that clocks in at a breezy 38 minutes and features—spoiler alert—no less than four shots of full frontal male nudity plus recurring commentary by Lance Armstrong. We caught up with Samberg to find out how the film came about, why he chose to pick on cycling, and his fetish for wiener gags.

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