A project to root for.
Christopher Guest, who co-wrote (as starred as Nigel Tufnel in) “Spinal Tap” before he went on to co-write and direct the similarly improvised comedies “Waiting For Guffman,” “Best In Show,” “A Mighty Wind” and “For Your Consideration,” is shopping an improvisational sitcom in the tradition of Larry David’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”
According to a Vulture exclusive, “Family Tree” would star Chris O’Dowd (who played Kristen Wiig’s cop love interest in “Bridesmaids”) as a man trying to track down his real family.
While NBC Universal International is producing the potential series, Guest is pitching the project to such censorship-free outlets as HBO, Showtime and Netflix.
This is far from Guest’s first TV project. He was a “primetime player” alongside fellow “National Lampoon Radio Hour” vets Bill Murray and Brian-Doyle Murray on ABC’s “Saturday Night Live With Howard Cosell,” appeared on “All in the Family” with Rob Reiner and “Laverne & Shirley” with Michael McKean, and, most famously, served as a writer-performer on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” during its 1984-85 season.
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