With graduation quickly approaching, seniors across the country are probably asking themselves the same question: What the hell do we do now? Is not showering for three days now considered socially unacceptable? Is there an age limit on mom jokes? Does beer bonging on Monday nights now earn you a spot in AA instead of a high five from your best buddies?
For any of you stressing over these life-altering questions, MOVE has the cure. We prescribe an episode of “Workaholics.” If your symptoms do not cease after the first episode of the first season, continue. Relax. Watch these guys. You’re going to be just fine. And if by the end of the second season you’re still yearning to do your freshman year all over again, we have good news.
Season 3 begins Tuesday, May 29, just in time to soothe all of you brand new graduates who haven’t settled into your dream jobs yet.
The show, featuring Blake Anderson, Adam Devine and Anders Holm, follows three college roommates who still live together and work in the same cubicle at TelAmeriCorp as telemarketers. Never having quite grasped the hardworking mentality after which their show is ironically named, the trio values a little bit of work and a whole lot of play.
And by play, we mean some seriously crazy shenanigans. From Blake learning to striptease to Adam overloading on “shrooms” to three grown men fashioning onesies out of T-shirts, the show never has a dull moment, and Season 3 is only going to get better.
“We’re going to be tackling some real serious issues,” says co-star Adam Devine of what to expect in the new season. “Like obesity and finding new drug dealers and doing hallucinogens on business trips. Stuff that the youth of America and the young adults of America really want to know. We’re basically doing a public service.”
The three co-stars, who help write much of the material, say some of it is based on things that have happened to them and some is centered around things they wish would happen. They go over most of the skits in a room with their writers, but not all of their lines are pre-meditated.
“I think a safe percentage would be like…65 percent skit and 35 percent improv,” Anders Holm says.
Like so many other artists these days, the three attribute much of their success to YouTube. They say it helped them find their voice when the site first came out in 2006. Comedy Central noticed their YouTube videos and contacted them about doing their own show, and from there, the rest is history.
The guys enjoy that Comedy Central lets them do their own thing with the show.
“I think it’s cool that Comedy Central allows us to go for the kind of jokes we want to go for,” Blake Anderson says. “They let us retain our voice and I think you can see that on the screen. You can see that that’s actually coming from a real place, a place that we think is funny.”
The co-stars have experienced a massive rise in popularity since the show first aired in April 2011.
“We’re, like, kind of famous now,” Devine says. “It’s so cool that people are nice to me all the time.”
He also says he feels the trio could expand into the music industry based on the popularity of their song about Catherine Zeta-Jones dipping beneath lasers. (If you haven’t seen the show, there’s really no possible way to explain that one.)
“Watch out, R. Kelly,” Devine says. “We’re coming for ya.”
To those of you who aren’t facing that apocalyptic phase known as graduation, the stars of “Workaholics” have some advice for you, too.
“Chase those dreams,” Devine says. “Or drop out and have a good time.”