PAUL SCHEER

My friend told me about this really interesting sketch show, that I never saw, called TV Wheel. It starred Joel Hodgson, David Cross, Doug Benson, Paul Feig, and Andy Kindler and it was written by Judd Apatow, Joel Hodgson, and Nick Bakay. It’s pretty interesting, here’s some more info..via wikipedia….

The TV Wheel was a television experiment created by and starring Joel Hodgson, of Mystery Science Theater 3000 fame. Cable network HBO ordered a pilot, but ultimately passed on picking up the show. 

The program was a sketch comedy show. A single stationary camera was mounted inside the center of a large rotating platform. As the platform rotated around the camera, a scene would come into view of the camera. The wheel would stop and a sketch would play out in the scene, which was often framed by some piece of appropriate artwork or prop (for the purposes of forced perspective). At the end of the scene, the wheel would rotate, carrying one scene out of the camera’s view and bringing another in, and a new sketch would begin in the new scene.