The Thrilling Adventure Hour by Ben Acker

And then transferred out to Emerson where they taught him how to write TV. It turns out that we had had mutual friends who had been meaning to introduce us for about a semester, so we very quickly became friends and spent the remainder of our college time together in the coffee shop on campus playing card games with grad students. So we met on a line to get our curricula for that department, and we became friends. How did you two meet, and when did you decide to write together?īen Acker: We both went to Syracuse University, and we were both transferring into the film program from other departments in the school. I was able to talk to Thrilling Adventure Hour creators Ben Acker and Ben Blacker each via phone, and we discussed the show’s unique voice, collaborating with Welcome to Night Vale, and how they’re growing the Thrilling Adventure Hour world. Tompkins, Paget Brewster, Marc Evan Jackson, Busy Philipps, James Urbaniak, and John DiMaggio, and the show frequently draws talented guests like Nathan Fillion, John Hodgman, and Linda Cardellini. Thrilling Adventure Hour’s talented group of regular performers includes Paul F.

Last fall, creators Ben Acker and Ben Blacker released a graphic novel adaptation of the show, bringing their idiosyncratic sensibility that regularly mixes vaudeville humor, the tropes of old genre serials, arch wordplay, and catchphrase humor all wrapped in good-natured whimsy to the page and realizing characters like Sparks Nevada, Marshal on Mars and the time-traveling, Nazi butt-kicking Amelia Earhart in a new form. The LA-based monthly short-form comedy and variety show The Thrilling Adventure Hour is entering its ninth year in March, and as a self-proclaimed “new-time podcast in the style of old-time radio,” the show is ever-gaining in popularity and expanding into media beyond its live show roots.

The Thrilling Adventure Hour by Ben Acker