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SARAH SILVERMAN AND AN ALL-STAR CAST IN “WHO’S THE CABOOSE?”

The Hilarious Prequel to “Pilot Season,” Available March 29 on Digital, VOD and DVD

Winner, Aspen Black Diamond Award “Deliciously funny.” —Entertainment Weekly

“Each year, the nets order about 20 pilots a piece (about evenly split, half comedy, half drama), which are then cast and filmed for consideration for the fall skeds. But only about half a dozen pilots are picked up to become the premiere episodes. The other pilots are never heard from again -- and are rarely ever seen beyond network boardrooms.” -- Variety

February 15, 2011 -- When a crew making a documentary on a rare fatal disease among the homeless stops at an underground in City, it doesn’t take long before they turn their attention instead to the hot and funny stand-up Susan (), who is leaving town and heading to L.A. to land a part in a TV show, unbeknownst to her downtown “performance artist” boyfriend, Max (). Desperate not to lose Susan, Max chases after her in hopes of bringing her back home. As Susan suffers the indignities and compromises her agent (Andy Dick) hopes will make her a star, fate deals Max a winning hand in the form of entertainment lawyer Ken Fold (H. Jon Benjamin, Archer, Jon Benjamin Has a Van).

Filmed with then rising-stars of the New York and LA comedy circuit, WHO’S THE CABOOSE? is now available for the first time in the U.S. on Digital, VOD and DVD. Co-written and directed by Seder (I’m with Busey, Majority Report with ) as the “highly worshipped alternative-comedy prequel” to his “highly worshipped miniseries sequel,” Pilot Season, WHO’S THE CABOOSE? features a remarkable list of comic in supporting roles and cameos, including (Arrested Development), (Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D List), (WTF? With Marc Maron), (The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman), David Waterman (), and ().

A that utilizes “direct cinema” filmmaking to hilarious effect, WHO’S THE CABOOSE is the first narrative fictional movie shot on digital video converted to film. When the film premiered at the Aspen Comedy Festival in 1999, Variety wrote “…the cast of standup and lesser-known broadcast series talents is always fun to watch --- they etch a lineup of air-kissing, backstabbing agents, managers, thesps, et al. with hilariously accurate restraint that never strays into caricature.”

“We set out to make a movie that comedy nerds would continue to watch 15 to 20 years after we made it. We never realized it would take that long for them to see it for the first time.” says Seder. “Of course we didn’t know it at the time, but today CABOOSE is a relic of a TV era before TIVO, Reality TV and Mad Men. Pilot season, from February through April every year, was a necessary evil for young talent wanting to make it in the business,” says Seder. “Now all you need is to have an exceptional feed or a really, really effed up family and/or a drug problem, with an ability to sign a release form.”

WHO’S THE CABOOSE? is written by Sam Seder and Charles Fisher; Directed by Sam Seder; Charles Fisher, producer; Sarah Silverman, co-producer; Jim Biederman, co-producer.

WHO’S THE CABOOSE?

Pricing: $19.95 U.S., $22.95 CAN Runtime: 94 minutes Rating: N/A Catalog #: NNVG239310 Language: English Color: Color Genre: Comedy

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