>Russ Hanneman is generally understood as a parody of Mark Cuban>The biggest clue is that both are billionaire internet-era entrepreneurs tied to “putting radio on the internet” / Broadcast.com-style success, and Cuban himself reportedly found the character funny rather than objecting to it.
Most people on /tv/ are too dimwitted to understand that his shark tank persona isnt real. In the world of finance he was always considered a very unserious person
I assumed he was a parody of... the Napster guy. The one Justin Timberlake played in Social Network.
>>221372274They might have added some of the napster guys traits onto Russ, so you might be right.Cuban was the foundation they built the character on and then they added on traits from other retarded "investors" in the valley. They did the same thing with most characters that were based on real people
>>221372304this. gavin belson was based on like 3-4 different CEOs
>>221372345Especially Bill Gates with using philanthropy to clean up his image
Why do these guys continue to work when they reach multimillionaire status? Russ is a billionaire
>>221372814Without goals to pursue most men spiral into depression. It's not really about the money at that point.Bumming around on a beach all day with hookers and drugs might sound great but when you're 2-3 years into it you'll just feel like an empty husk of a man
Any time a TV show needs a "real life billionaire" Cuban seems to pop up to play himself, so I can see the similarities
The character played by the fat asshole kid from the Sixth Sense was based on this guy.I had no idea who he was when the show aired but he's very famous now
>>221372890Melancholy is very real.
>>221372814A million dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool?
>>221372890I'd rather do it on a beach than in a room alone somewhere I die from exposure most of the year, including today while cocksuckers are complaining it's hot where they are.
>>221375026A trillion dollars
>>2213750262 chicks at the same time?
>>221372213this show would've been incredible if at the 3rd season, Pied Piper just failed whilst Big Head stumbled into his Stanford lecturer position. After the Jack Barker CEO season, the show fails to add anything funnier than the 1-3 seasons.
>>221372213Russ Heeberman
>>221375644This. And when Bachman disappears shortly after the whole thing just falls apart. It had so much potential to be one of the greatest shows
>>221375644Nah, the ending of Season 4 is absolute kino. It's such a great feeling for them to come into all my f the success they worked toward and deserved, only for them to realize just how much more was to be done as they stare at what appears to be the endless halls of their new office. If the show had ended there, it probably would be in the running for one of the greatest comedy series of all time, but HBO must have offered a LOT of money to make a season 5.
>>221374861He owns the defense company that Goop is shilling
>>221375737I think this is the Me-too that pissed me off the most
>>221375767Same. The show was still watchable but it could have been peak.
>>221375767He was fired because he sperged out on his co-stars for not donating enough to Hillary Clinton, and he had a meltdown on set after Trump won, lmao
>>221375026Waiting until marriage?
>>221375794After he was fired he also got into a heated argument with a Trump supporter on a train and proceeded to call in a fake bomb threat on the lady. He's even nuttier in real life than his character was
>>221375830Apparently he has brain damage from a medical event
>>221372455At least Belson was never a pedophile rapist, unlike Gates.
>>221375737yeah the magical dynamic fell off greatly after S3, none of the other seasons have anything as rewatchable or memorable. Skunkworks was hilarious. They stalled with the ending, they were meant to be ultra-successful, but it would be so much funnier if they bailed out whilst Big Head just rakes it in big time. The "Erlich Bachman" is dead was just a one-joke admission that the show was zombified, the final season was so bad compared to S1-3.
Who was this autismo billionaire based on?
>>221376235Probably Peter Thiel. Back then he was known as the spergiest billionaire in the valley
>>221372274The Napster guy was one of the main inspirations for the Erlich Bachman character
>>221376235100% Peter Thiel. They even included his hatred for college. In real life Thiel started a fellowship that awarded money to people who agreed to drop out of college, lmao
the issue with this show was that it was rarely laugh out loud funny. most jokes were like yeah I get it haha. >Jin yang steals tech because he's chinese. Get it hehe?>big head is incompetent but look how he's failing upwards! >le monotone man says something sarcasticGavin and his assistant probably provided the most hearty lols. each week, I was always more excited to watch VEEP.
>>221376753All the characters you mentioned were just personified parodies of common occurences in the real life tech industry. The situation itself wasn't supposed to be funny
>>221376025>the final season was so bad compared to S1-3i’ve rewatched the series like 4 times over the years and i never manage to get through the whole 5th season, so i’ve never seen the final season
>>221375794>>221375830>he doesn't agree with my politics IRL therefore he is a bad actor!!!no
>>221376235Great actor/character, real shame that he died
>>221376917No one said he was a bad actor, just a nutjob. Take your meds
>>221372213>Making the board a better place through deep dive fictional character crossover assessments
>>221376753Filtered by a comedy show. Grim
>>221372213Who is richard a parody of?
>>221378568I think he's just a parody of the average founder. Maybe they took some of his spergy traits from Zuckerberg
>>221376753I laughed at loud on a regular basis watching this show. Usually thanks to Zach Woods
>>221376235>>221376267>>221376540>>221376926Peter Thiel and Paul Graham
>>221379195what makes you think he's partly based on paul graham? most veteran techies i've met have said the character is almost a 1:1 copy of peter thiel, down to his autistic cadence
>>221379251It makes it kind of a time capsule from back when Thiel was quirky but a little likeable, maybe even based. In general the whole SV techbro thing was so much more innocent then, now everyone's making weapons and spy kits for the government
>>221372213We don't care
>>221379283nobody cares what you care about. go shit up some other thread
>>221372345The way his spiritual guru and the security guy was fighting over Gavin's ear was such a funny micro subplot
>>221375856I don't know if I really believe that, I believe it was during a stand up comedy set but who knows. He claims to have had a golf ball sized brain tumor removed from his frontal cortex.
>kino comedic actor>just wants to direct
>>221375644>>221375737>>221375740>>221376025>>221376235They had planned the show to be about the guys' relationship with Peter the autismo billionaire + the rivalry between Peter and Gavin. When the actor died unexpectedly while filming the first season, the remaining episodes of the season and the general of the direction of the show had to be changed completely. The reason the show keeps recycling plots and doesn't know when to wrap things up is because they had absolutely no idea what to do with the premise after that actor died.Why they didn't just substitute him with a similar character played by a different actor (or reshot the scenes they had already shot, there weren't THAT many of them) remains a mystery. Laurie Bream was allegedly used to use some of the original ideas, but none of the planned plotlines were used.
>>221376540The unsuccessful Amazon show 'Betas' also had a tech mogul that constantly railed against college. Both might have been based on Thiel but I suspect there are many others in the Valley that feel the same way.
>>221376753Do shows need to be laugh out loud to be enjoyable? If it's an hour of sensible chuckles, does that count for nothing because there were no extreme moments?
>>221379478Is he in anything else that's good? He was 10/10 in SV
>>221379506wait he died in real life? i thought it was just classic season one trying some new things for season two
>>221379562He's a homosexual fundamentalist Mormon in 'Big Love'.
>>221379478Consider the bulldog
>>221379555The schtick got old. I get that the show must go on, but after the retard flubbed the 2nd set for life deal I was fucking out.
>>221379506Never knew that but it was clear he was supposed to have a bigger role in the show. I know people have said he’s basically Peter Theil but I’ve been told by people that have worked in that industry that there are just a lot of people in there like that. But that’s really just the whole show in general, being able to capture those type of people in character form. I don’t even know if they exists anymore or if it’s all just Indians.>>221375737Bachman leaving really did change the show but it was terrible after
>as an adult Peter Thiel had read The Lord of the Rings more than 10 times.If Thiel had bought the rights to LoTR instead of Bezos it would probably have been kino. But that bald fuck just had to do it
>>221379555You write like Gavin Belson talks. I like it
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>>221379542back in the day most programmers were self-taught, and the tech industry has always been a place where you had to think outside the box to innovate. college teaches students to think inside the box, so it becomes an obstacle for anyone who wants to innovate rather than become a 9-5 drone at a big tech company. that's why a lot of the OG tech founders think college can be bad for certain people, but thiel took it to an extreme level
>>221379562he plays the fag in American Psycho, and directed some comfy hippy family movie with Viggo Mortenson a few years ago
>>221379814also because of guys like peter thiel, investment banks and hedge funds spent the past 5+ years frantically recruiting people with autism diagnosis, because they tend to think outside the box as a default-mode and can see things that the other analysts can't.they even have their own interview processes specifically for them where they put their skills to the test with zero social HR bullshit
>>221379885>he plays the fag in American PsychoOh my god is that him, you're right
>>221379562He was a prison guard in Oz but I think it was only a couple of episodes
>>221379555checked and I still ended up watching the whole show because like you said it was still funny enough. not something I'd ever rewatch though
>>221379595These were some of my favourite gags.>Consider the tortoise. As the fable teaches us, it may appear that he is losing in his race against his nemesis, the INSOLENT and COCKSURE hare.
>>221379321The security guy was loyle to his capo. Not like that spiritual leech
