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Casting Couch: Jason Biggs Finds His Roommate from "Hell"

Jason Biggs has found a roommate from hell and if you've ever seen still-missed comedy Undeclared (available on DVD, natch, so get out there and watch it), you'll recognize his slob of a roomie.

CBS Paramount comedy pilot I'm in Hell, about a Wall Street player-type (Biggs) who dies in a freak Blackberry-related accident and is reassigned to Earth (Hell is too full, apparently) has found its co-star, a slovenly awful guy in none other than Marshall himself, Timm Sharp.

Sharp will play Bigg's Earthbound roommate from hell, a truly awful individual. So nothing like Undeclared's so-sweet-he-seemed-stupid Marshall then. (Let's just hope he doesn't end up in a bird-related mishap.)

Sharp recently appeared in two episodes of FOX comedy 'Til Death and has been seen on HBO's Six Feet Under and FOX's Malcolm in the Middle. Sharp has popped up in a number of features including Friends with Money (as an architect), Fun with Dick and Jane, and a little film I've never heard of (but am now dying with curiosity over) called A Ninja Pays Half My Rent.

This pilot just got a hell of a lot more interesting.

Comments

Anonymous said…
While that is a GREAT bit of casting (perfect, really), I don't think anything can help this pilot.
Good cast but the premise sounds pretty hokey. Like something from the 80's. And not in a good way. Of course, maybe it will fit right in on the fall schedule with the cave man pilot.

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