One of its main themes is the idea that "the people most qualified to succeed are the least capable of handling success". 1,424 people follow this. [44], Seeking to keep Extract below the radar of the studio system, Judge and his producers set up a production company, Ternion Productions, and arranged private financing while partnering with Miramax for domestic distribution of the film. Starring: Bryan Cranston, Hunter Doohan, Michael Stuhlbarg, Hope Davis, Carmen Ejogo, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Amy Landecker, Margo Martindale, Maura Tierney, Sofia Black-D’Elia. [31] The studio suggested he make a movie like Car Wash but "just set in an office". It’s an extremely slippery slope, especially when Michael discovers that the kid Adam killed was the son of a crime boss (Michael Stuhlbarg) who will stop at nothing to avenge the death. Mike Judge is on Facebook. or. The thought of six more episodes watching more things run amok isn’t an especially happy one, although the addition of Margo Martindale in episode four and the promise of Maura Tierney later in the season do offer some hope. The film was released without a trailer or substantial marketing campaign. [27], During the panel discussion for the return of Beavis and Butt-Head at Comic-Con 2011, Mike Judge said that no current plans exist to revive King of the Hill, although he would not rule out the possibility of it returning. Each plan Michael enacts to cover up the crime goes spectacularly wrong, and it becomes clear that he is only good at helping, not hindering. [34], Judge has made supporting and cameo appearances in numerous films. [citation needed], Michael Craig Judge[4] was born on October 17, 1962, in Guayaquil, Ecuador. [53] The first season of Silicon Valley was 8 episodes long, and received critical and public acclaim. When Adam gets home, he makes sloppy efforts to hide the accident, each step of which will become important later on, when his father joins him in the coverup. [49], In 2010, reruns of The Goode Family aired Monday nights at 10 pm on Comedy Central, beginning January 4. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. You Can't Use This Feature Right Now. On: Showtime. Follow him on Twitter @MatthewGilbert. You're failing! [37] Lack of concrete information from Fox led to speculation that the distributor may have actively attempted to keep the film from being seen by a large audience, while fulfilling a contractual obligation for theatrical release ahead of a DVD release, according to Ryan Pearson of the AP. [16] On January 10, 2014, Judge announced that there is still a chance to pitch Beavis and Butt-Head to another network and that he wouldn't mind making more episodes. Email or Phone: Password: Forgot account? See more of Mike Judge Simi Valley City Council on Facebook. Facebook. [32] In the film, he made a cameo appearance as Stan (complete with hairpiece and fake mustache), the manager of Chotchkie's, a fictionalized parody of chain restaurants like Chili's, Applebee's and TGI Friday's, and the boss of Jennifer Aniston's character, whom he continually undermines and interrogates over her lack of sufficient enthusiasm for the job and the insufficient quantity of "flair" (buttons, ribbons, etc.) [15] The premiere was dubbed a ratings hit, with an audience of 3.3 million total viewers. Since then, it has gained a cult following. You can try again later. www.simivalley.org. More energy! [31] Judge sold the completed film Office Space to 20th Century Fox based on his script and a cast that included Jennifer Aniston, Ron Livingston, and David Herman. 2929 Tapo Cyn Rd (888.21 mi) Simi Valley, CA 93063. [33], Since fall 2003, Judge and fellow animator Don Hertzfeldt have run an animation festival called "The Animation Show". In the early 1990s, he was playing blues bass with Doyle Bramhall. 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[59], Judge married his wife Francesca Morocco in 1989. Judge says, "I had a great crew, and it's good going into it not pretending you're an expert. [28], Judge began to develop one of his four animated short films entitled Milton, about an office drone named Milton that Judge created, which first aired on Liquid Television and Night After Night with Allan Havey, and later aired on Saturday Night Live. [60][61][62] Together they have two daughters and a son. To me that's just like more of a character thing about Hank than it is a political joke or anything. Cranston’s performance doesn’t quite manage to ground all the coverup commotion; he turns up the volume a little too much on Michael’s desperation. 19K likes. The show centers on the Hills, a middle-class Methodist family in the small suburban town of Arlen, Texas. Log In. We gotta reshoot it! Bryan Cranston as Judge Michael Desiato in Showtime's "Your Honor. Judge also created a video clip of Beavis and Butt-Head ripping into Steve-O for his video Poke the Puss, where the two try imagining if they would like the video better if they were black. Judge hated the ending and felt that a complete rewrite of the third act was necessary. ", In June 2016, before the presidential election in November, Rolling Stone published an article stating that Judge would produce Idiocracy-themed campaign advertisements mocking Donald Trump's presidential campaign if given permission from 20th Century Fox to do so. [18] Judge was a former resident of Garland, Texas, upon which the fictional community of Arlen was loosely based, but as Judge stated in a later interview, the show was based more specifically on the Dallas suburb of Richardson. But, like Cranston’s Walter White in “Breaking Bad,” he spins out in a big way — OK, I’ll say it, he breaks bad. [citation needed] In 2017, Judge's fourth animated series, the music-themed Tales from the Tour Bus, premiered on Cinemax, to critical and audience acclaim. [29] Originally, the studio wanted to make a film out of the Milton character but Judge was not interested, opting instead to make more of an ensemble cast–based film. You Can't Use This Feature Right Now. I hopefully write stuff that is recognizable as the archetypes of this world," Judge stated. Contact Mike Judge Simi Valley City Council on Messenger. His next film appearance would then be Serving Sara (2002) where he played a motel manager. During the run of the show, Judge took some time off to write and direct Office Space, Idiocracy, and Extract. The film's original release date was intended to be on August 5, 2005, according to Mike Judge. In 1995, Judge and former The Simpsons writer Greg Daniels developed King of the Hill, which debuted on Fox in 1997 and quickly became a hit with both critics and audiences; running for 13 seasons, it became one of the longest-running American animated series. Although I liked the episode "Hank's Bully" where Hank's talking to the mailman and he says, 'Why would anyone want to lick a stamp that has Bill Clinton on it?' "The Animation Show" tours the country every year, screening animated shorts. His wife, Adam’s mother, was murdered a year earlier, so he is even more driven to hold onto the only family member he has left. Michael Craig Judge (born October 17, 1962) is an American animator, actor, filmmaker and musician. After its debut in 1997, the series became a large success for Fox and was named one of the best television series of the year by various publications, including Entertainment Weekly, Time, and TV Guide. [38], That speculation was followed by open criticism of the studio's lack of support from Ain't It Cool News, Time, and Esquire. Learn More . Judge was born in Ecuador and raised in the U.S. state of New Mexico. [24] The show's 14th season was supposed to air sometime in the 2009–10 season,[25] but Fox later announced that it would not air the episodes, opting instead for syndication;[26] as a result, the final four episodes aired in syndication in May 2010. 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The title “Your Honor” refers to his professional title, but it also seems to be asking him, “Your honor?” He suspends his own sense of what is right, and fast. [42], In the U.S., the film was released to DVD in January 2007 and later aired on premium-television, multiplex channels Cinemax in September 2007 and HBO in January 2008. He’s a compassionate and ethical judge, we learn in an early segment featuring him on the bench, and he has a deep wish to help the New Orleans community where he lives. [7], After graduating from UCSD in 1985, he worked for a company called Support Systems Associates Inc. as an electronic test engineer for the F-18 fighter jet. Michael Desiato just keeps screwing up, and he doesn’t yet know about his son’s extremely problematic romantic relationship, which I won’t spoil here. [56] The series was renewed for a fifth season, which premiered on March 25, 2018. Disliking the company's culture ("The people I met were like Stepford Wives. [21], For the 1997–1998 season, the series became one of Fox's highest-rated programs and even briefly outperformed The Simpsons in ratings. [51] In 2013, Judge collaborated with Seth MacFarlane on a mashup episode of Family Guy, in which, complete with a Hill-themed opening, Judge reprises his role as Hank Hill. He attended St. Pius X High School[6] and graduated with a bachelor of science in physics from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in 1985. The two have no adult supervision, are dim-witted, sex-obsessed, uneducated, barely literate, and lack any empathy or moral scruples, even regarding each other. [58] In 2019, he announced to have been developing two projects for HBO: QualityLand and A5. He’s no Walter White, who, while he may have started making meth to get money for his family, found his true self while building a drug empire. [29] The inspiration came from a temp job he once had that involved alphabetizing purchase orders[30] and a job he had as an engineer for three months in the San Francisco Bay Area during the 1980s, "just in the heart of Silicon Valley and in the middle of that overachiever yuppie thing, it was just awful". We limit how often you can post, comment or do other things in a given amount of time in order to help protect the community from spam. she wears on her uniform. [46], Judge's third television series, The Goode Family, debuted on ABC but was cancelled after one season. [45] The film premiered on September 4, 2009 and received mixed to positive reviews from critics and was a minor commercial success. Over the next several years, he focused his energy on developing Idiocracy. Mike is currently writing, directing, and producing season 2.0 of HBO's Silicon Valley! [44], Keeping true to this baseline of reality, Extract was shot in a working factory, in this case a water bottling plant south of Los Angeles, in the City of Commerce. Michael Craig Judge (born October 17, 1962) is an American animator, actor, filmmaker and musician. As King of the Hill was coming to an end, Judge created his third show, ABC's The Goode Family, which received mixed reviews and was cancelled after 13 episodes. [70], American animator, actor, filmmaker and musician, This article is about the animator, actor and filmmaker. An extended version of his sequence can be seen in Jackass 2.5 (2007) which was a direct-to-video release. However, the series was pulled off the schedule shortly thereafter. [43], Judge's fourth directorial effort was 2009's Extract. [54][55] Silicon Valley aired its fourth season, which premiered on April 23, 2017. It takes the judge very little time to start messing around with evidence. Judge was raised from age seven in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he spent a small portion of his life working on a chicken farm. And, alas, much of what comes after the forceful opening is a disappointment. I don't really like political reference humor that much. It was confirmed on The Goode Family Facebook page that Comedy Central had picked up the reruns of the series,[47] which were to be evaluated for a chance of being renewed for a second season. Who is this man rejecting the legal system that he lives by and that pays him? Get Directions (805) 583-6701. [10], In 1992, he developed Frog Baseball,[9] a short film featuring the characters Beavis and Butt-Head, to be featured on Liquid Television, a 1990s animation showcase that appeared on MTV. In 1991, his short film "Office Space" (also known as the Milton series of shorts) was acquired by Comedy Central,[9] following an animation festival in Dallas. Silicon Valley would later be renewed for a second season on April 21, 2014 and a third season on April 13, 2015. [4][5] He is the middle of three children born to Margaret Yvonne (née Blue), a librarian, and William James Judge, an archeologist. [17], In early 1995, after the successful first run of Beavis and Butt-Head on MTV, Mike Judge co-created the show King of the Hill with former The Simpsons writer Greg Daniels. [citation needed], Judge's third film, Idiocracy, a dystopian comedy starring Luke Wilson and Maya Rudolph, was given a limited release theatrically by 20th Century Fox in September 2006, two years after production. At the time of his birth, his father was working for a nonprofit organization in Guayaquil and other parts of Ecuador, promoting agricultural development. [36] The film was not screened for critics beforehand as is usually done. Create New Account. I was burying my head in the sand. The new Showtime drama starring Bryan Cranston seemed to be reaching for the high intensity levels of “The Night Of,” the intelligent HBO thriller from the same writer-producer, Peter Moffat. They remained married for twenty years until they divorced in 2009. [39][40][41] Time's Joel Stein wrote "the film's ads and trailers tested atrociously", but "still, abandoning Idiocracy seems particularly unjust, since Judge has made a lot of money for Fox. [44] He makes an uncredited appearance as Jim, a union organizer. The HBO comedy is a single-camera live-action sitcom set in Northern California. [69] It was later reported by Business Insider that the ads would not go forward. He was a part of Anson Funderburgh's band for two years, playing on their 1990 Black Top Records release "Rack 'Em Up",[8] while taking graduate math classes at the University of Texas at Dallas. It’s directed with a sure hand by Edward Berger, so that viewers feel the full weight of each moment as Adam, who’s having an asthma attack, decides to leave the boy he has hit to die with his head up against the curb. He would later then appear in the comedy Jackass Number Two (2006), in which he can be seen during the closing credits. The driver at fault is the teen son of Cranston’s Judge Michael Desiato, Adam (Hunter Doohan), and during the crash sequence, in what feels like suspended time, we get to track every choice he makes. [50], In 2012, Judge directed the music video (animation by Titmouse) for country music group Zac Brown Band's "The Wind". He also wrote and directed the films Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996), Office Space (1999), Idiocracy (2006), and Extract (2009). He remembers them telling him, "More energy! [35], In April 2006, a release date was set for September 1, 2006. The story begins, as it did in “The Night Of,” with a devastating depiction of the events that become the prime mover for the rest of the series — in this case, a hit-and-run accident. You're failing! [60][63][64] The family resides in Austin, Texas and Malibu, California.[65]. "[32] In addition, Fox did not like the gangsta rap music used in the film until a focus group approved of it. Judge voiced characters Hank Hill and Jeff Boomhauer. ". In 1987, he moved to Silicon Valley to join Parallax Graphics, a startup video card company with about 40 employees based in Santa Clara, California. Judge had a voice cameo in South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (1999), the feature-length film adaptation of the popular Comedy Central series; he voiced Kenny McCormick when he was unhooded towards the end of the film. [57], On January 12, 2017, Deadline confirmed that Cinemax ordered 8 episodes of Judge's new animated series, Mike Judge Presents: Tales from the Tour Bus. The show centers on two socially incompetent, heavy metal-loving teenage wannabe delinquents, Beavis and Butt-Head, who live in the fictional town of Highland, Texas. The driver at fault is the teen son of Cranston’s Judge Michael Desiato, Adam (Hunter Doohan), and during the crash sequence, in what feels like … [52] Earlier in 2010 and 2012, Judge played cameos as Hank on two episodes of MacFarlane's The Cleveland Show. [citation needed], Judge created his fourth show, Silicon Valley with King of the Hill executive producers John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky. During the first two episodes of “Your Honor,” I was just about riveted. Despite his King of the Hill protagonist Hank Hill being identifiable as a conservative[66] and his The Goode Family being essentially a satire of many liberal viewpoints, Judge avoids discussing his political leanings.