If you like schoolyard puns, then you’d like the Hung panel – TCA Report
July 31st, 2009
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, TCA Press Tour, Reality-Free
Going in, everyone in the crowd had to know that the panel for HBO’s Hung was going to consist of puns and schoolyard humor. After all, it’s a show about a down-and-out guy who uses his best asset — his manhood — and becomes a male prostitute. So it shouldn’t have been a big surprise when a reporter started the questioning by asking whether the show continues a trend of shows about “ordinary working stiffs with a secret.”
It went pretty much downhill from there, aided and abetted by the show’s stars, Thomas Jane and Jane Adams.
Jane, on his audition process: “I had to go into the other room to disrobe, so I wouldn’t hit anyone in the eye. It’s for safety.”
Adams told a critic that it was interesting he was making so many penis puns “While you’re holding that mike.”
Co-creator Colette Burson got into the act, calling the member of Jane’s character of Ray Drecker as “The Platonic Penis. It’s the ideal penis on a certain level.”
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