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Exclusive: SNL Alum Joins the Bad Mothers
Horatio Sanz by Joe Kohen/WireImage.com
Saturday Night Live alum Horatio Sanz is the latest to be cast in the ABC fall comedy, Bad Mother's Handbook, sources tell TVGuide.com. Sanz is slated to play Charlotte's (Alia Shawkat) father, Matt.
Thus far, the show already has an impressive starting roster. Alicia Silverstone will play a 32-year-old mom who's caring for both her teen daughter and her middle-aged mother, who will be played by Megan Mullally. What remains to be seen is where Silverstone and Sanz are in their relationship: Is he the ex? Are they together? At the very least, they're going to have scenes together, right?
With so much talent wrapped up already, the comedy at least has some solid underpinnings for its debut, plus it will be eye-opening (we hope) to see Sanz in a recurring, scripted role. Will you be tuning in? — Anna Dimond
Use our Online Video Guide to catch Horatio's hilarious SNL skits and more.
Related:
• Pilot News: Alicia Silverstone Is One Bad Mother
• Megan Mullally to Play Silverstone's Bad Mama
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May 28, 2008 9:17 PM
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Good luck to Sanz. Live TV certainly didn't suit him.
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May 28, 2008 9:43 PM
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I was looking forward to this one, but now I guess we can just toss into onto the pile of fat guy with a hot wife sitcoms. Plus, of all the fat guys out there why did they have to pick the one who can't get through a scene without cracking up? Oh well.
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May 28, 2008 9:59 PM
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Well somethingreal81, what a lovely and sensitive statement. Thank goodness everyone of your acquaintance is slim and trim and therefore better than people who are not. The mere idea of a fat person with an attractive spouse is too horrible to contemplate by far. After all,why should kindness, sensitivity, moral goodness,personality, or intelligence outweigh (pardon the pun)physical appearance?
And look at how fat people are ruining the world just by being in it. They're eating everybody's food and breathing the air that should go to worthier folks. Everyone should be judged by their looks. That is the most important thing about them isn't it? I mean, what did fatsos like Martin Luther King or Winston Churchill or Orson Welles ever contribute to the world?
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May 29, 2008 2:49 AM
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DaMess - can't believe I'm disagreeing with you, but I'm on somethingreal81's side with this one. There are just waaaay too many TV shows with the fat slobby husband and the hot size 2 wife. It's every large-sized man's fantasy. Sure, this sometimes happens in real life, but come on - its getting out of hand on TV.
And, for the record, I'm a former fat-girl myself (just lost 114 pounds) so I'm not talking from insensitivity. These depictions of marriages are just annoying.
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May 29, 2008 9:01 AM
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I liked Sanz on SNL. I'll wait to see to see the show first, but some of ABC's other comedy shows haven't been good. Mullally was cast perfect on "Will & Grace" so maybe this could be a good fit for her. Silverstone? Eh.. not my among my top 10 choices, but hey, she might surprise me.
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May 29, 2008 9:19 AM
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I wouldn't mind the chubby husband/hot, skinny wife pairing so much if a program would feature a chubby wife/hot, skinny husband every once in a while. There's "Ugly Betty," I guess, if you consider America Fererra chubby, which I don't!
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May 29, 2008 9:49 AM
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For some reason this seems like an odd, mismatched cast, but that could be a good thing.
I'll definitely be tuning this, if only because I loved Alia Shawkat from Arrested Development.
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May 29, 2008 12:06 PM
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DaMess: First of all, nicely done!!!
But I can understand what honbun26 (congrats on your weight loss) is saying: The King of Queens, Still Standing, According to Jim - same basic premise.
Giggedy: I like your idea. Who would you cast?
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May 29, 2008 12:27 PM
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Giggedy, they used to have to characters like that on Days of Our Lives, Craig and Nancy Wesley; he was skinny and she....wasn't. He was played by Kevin Spiritas and she was played by Patrika Dabo.
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May 29, 2008 3:56 PM
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There are just waaaay too many TV shows with the fat slobby husband and the hot size 2 wife. It's every large-sized man's fantasy. Sure, this sometimes happens in real life, but come on - its getting out of hand on TV.
They are comedies. Contrast is a common tool used in comedies. On TV this one goes back at least as far as Alice and Ralph Kramden.
There are plenty of devices that are overused on TV. If you are waiting for an original idea to hit TV (as I am) you have a long wait ahead of you.
As for your own experience with weight loss, congratulations. But I am still tired of fat people being thought of as unlovable and lesser members of the human race. I have seen children (under five) make comments about overweight people in public and seen their parents react with smiles instead of reprimands. And did you ever think of the fact that you and others are looking at the fat person as fat first and not as a talented funny person who was cast just as much or more because of that talent as for their look? Gleason certainy, Kevin James and Mark Addy would be pretty funny people in the right circumstances no matter what their weight. Sid Caesar was very overweight when his career took off. He didn't lose any laughs when he lost the weight.
When I was fat I was annoyed by the clerk in my local video store addressing me as "Big Guy". I was in the store 3 to 5 times a week and he waited on me most times and had my name right in front of him on the computer screen and my member card each time. Keeping my temper I told him that calling me "Big Guy" meant that he was addressing me based on my appearance and that I thought that was rude. Taken aback, he asked, "Well what should I call you?" I said "How about my name?" Taking a close look at him I added "After all, I don't call you 'Bald Spot' do I?"
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May 30, 2008 4:02 AM
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