The New Big Ball with Neil Hamburger (2008 unaired Adult Swim Pilot)

This was a proposed Tim & Eric spin-off along with Check it Out with Dr. Steve Brule. Check it Out of course got the green light while Neil's great game show was left behind to never even air on TV.

[@NobodyCaresALot]

I wish this would've continued. I love that he calls the first guy an asshole. This is what America wants. I think he was just a little bit early to the scene. I think it's time for the New, New Big Ball.

[@evenmorebetter]

I caught this on the Adult Swim Roku channel Tim & Eric Channel 5 livestream one time and was delighted to find out that I caught something rare and precious. I appreciate that it feels like a game show arbitrarily defining new games and rules on the fly. A worthwhile use of your 13 minutes

[@ahouse8600]

“Good shot Tracy.”

[@MD-fk8vp]

The theme music is the from the uk version of wheel of fortune

[@MD-fk8vp]

Also the stings are from the weakest link

[@VideosJacked]

This should have been picked up. It's gold.

[@shig27frag]

same goes for so many things he has been involved with. Have you seen "Entertainment"? I'm so damn happy that got made!

[@VideosJacked]

@@shig27frag it's on my list to watch. Heard it's great and you solidified the notion.

[@chrlpolk]

I can see why it wasn’t. Not really a concept they can stretch. Unless every episode was a completely different type of game show. This sketch is great and it could have easily been incorporated as cutaway segments for the main show.

[@BigBewtieHoles]

This is hilarious but I can see why it wasn’t picked up. If I was an executive I’d just be asking “where else can you go with this premise? “

[@iconoclast137]

this is the best

[@JohnathanLaFey]

Alcoholic Michael Caine

[@JesseSwaney]

Interesting.. thank you for uploading.

[@MURDER_WITH_A_V]

Corbin Bernsen working with Neil Hamburger was not on my bingo card.

[@redvelvetunderground]

i'm so mad this never got picked up wtf

[@InfiniteRhombus]

i wanna add this was filmed way before check it out!

[@shig27frag]

Interesting! I lived in the uk for five years (2011-2016) and don't recall ever seeing Wheel of Fortune. Just looked it up though and it had a 13 year run 1988-01. As an American born in 1979 it is crazy to think of a country where Wheel of Fortune comes to an end!!

[@Chef_BoyarDiesel_Fuel]

I never knew this existed, but I’m damn glad to see it. Neil fits the Adult Swim formula perfectly.

[@shig27frag]

Yeah i was kinda surprised, but glad when it scanned it for copywrite and came up clean

[@shig27frag]

You have seen Decker, right?

[@Chef_BoyarDiesel_Fuel]

@@shig27frag I don’t think so, what’s that? It sounds familiar so maybe I have.

[@shig27frag]

@@Chef_BoyarDiesel_Fuel It's an adult swim show with him (Gregg Turkington not in character as Neil) and Tim Heidecker.

[@pooppee9264]

The fake laughter along with Neil's humor doesn't work and makes it seem less funny. That's the major issue with this. This is way too Tim and Eric, Neil should be doing something drier.

[@pooppee9264]

The fake laughter worked on his old albums but this is different. If the audience had booed and he was constantly fighting them it would have been a better show

[@chrlpolk]

@pooppee9264 You’re right, if the audience was shouting out answers like The Price Is Right and Neil cough-gagged and told them to shut up so the contestant can concentrate, that would have been more in character.

[@dontknow3949]

I agree with that, it doesn't work. IMO it was pretty bad all around, and I'm a diehard fan of T&E and Gregg Turkington/Neil Hamburger as well as everything they all do solo. I've seen pretty much every piece of content ever released by all of them and this has to be the worst. They didn't play to Neil Hamburger's strengths at all. I wish he had a TV show because I think he would be great on his own show but it'd have to be extremely dry and probably outside of the T&E universe... I can't even really picture what episodes 2, 3, 4, etc. would even look like with this show?

[@Heirllionaire]

Linda def a man

[@dontknow3949]

Nope Jayne Trcka is just a female bodybuilder. Google "female bodybuilder" to see more humans of this archetype.