50 Fun Facts About The Eric Andre Show

Which wrestler-turned-actor gave Eric André a concussion by throwing him into a shelf?

John Cena hurled him into a shelf during a season 5 opening, and one of its metal bars struck the back of his head. Eric André blamed his crew's planning, saying the wrestler only did what was asked.

Which star of The Hills fled The Eric Andre Show after the host appeared to eat his own vomit?

Lauren Conrad walked off in season 3 and, by Eric André's account, stayed hostile afterward. He has said he thinks she is fantastic, even if she will probably always hate him.

On The Eric Andre Show, Killer Mike and Action Bronson held a rap battle while both were on what?

Treadmills kept both rappers moving while they traded verses. Killer Mike had already been on the series, hyping up a female opera singer during her closing number.

The Eric Andre Show aired on Adult Swim, the night-time programming block of which cable channel?

Cartoon Network hands its late-night hours to Adult Swim, where the series premiered in May 2012. It ran there for six seasons, ending in 2023.

Which MTV prankster joined Eric André in wrecking the stage with an electric chainsaw?

Tom Green brought the chainsaw to the tenth episode of season 2. He is one of the host's stated influences, and Eric André has been a guest on the web series Tom Green Live.

Which kind of animal does Eric André voice in Disney's 2019 photorealistic remake of The Lion King?

A hyena named Azizi is his part, one of two lieutenants to the clan's matriarch, Shenzi. Azizi is a new character loosely modelled on Ed from the 1994 animated original.

Which major award did Eric André win in 2024 for the sixth season of The Eric Andre Show?

An Emmy for Outstanding Performer in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series went to him at the 2024 Creative Arts ceremony. The series was also nominated that year as a short form series.

What did Eric André splash over subway riders in a season 3 street bit for The Eric Andre Show?

Cereal and milk went flying on what Eric André called the hottest day of the year, so the milk reeked. He said the riders simply took him for a lunatic.

Which real late-night host sat for an interview on season 3 of The Eric Andre Show?

Jimmy Kimmel shared his season 3 episode with rapper Tyler, the Creator. Jay Leno was on the wish list for season 4 but was never booked.

Which street segment on The Eric Andre Show has the host interviewing strangers in a lycra outfit?

Bird Up gave its name to the season 3 finale, which aired in January 2015. Actor Stephen Colletti was that episode's interview guest.

The Eric Andre Show parodies the low-budget talk shows found on which kind of television?

Public-access is the look the 2009 pilot wore for real, and it was turned down at least once for seeming a little cheap. The closing acts often spoof the amateur performers such channels attract.

Which house band member does Eric André almost always tackle as The Eric Andre Show opens?

The drummer through season 3, Pfelton Sutton, took the hit nearly every week. Season 2 closed with a mock memorial to him, which some fans believed until he confirmed he was alive.

With only two chairs on The Eric Andre Show's set, what does Hannibal Buress do when a guest arrives?

He gives up his seat and stands beside them, since there is nowhere else to sit. From there he tries to unnerve them further while the host misbehaves.

Eric André said he made a sixth season of The Eric Andre Show after earning no money from which film?

Bad Trip, his hidden-camera road comedy, was sold to Netflix after the pandemic scrapped its cinema release. He had planned to end the series after season five.

The Eric Andre Show's New Year's Eve special in 2012 was themed around which other holiday?

Halloween dressed up the countdown, hence the title New Year's Eve Spooktacular. Demi Lovato and Sebastian Bach were among the guests.

In which European capital did Eric André interview people in the street for a 2018 special?

Paris gave the special its title, Eric Andre Does Paris, which aired in February 2018. It arrived more than a year after season 4's regular episodes had finished.

Eric Andre Show co-host Hannibal Buress played dentist Lincoln Rice on which Comedy Central series?

Broad City featured him from 2014 to 2019 as a pediatric dentist who dates Ilana. He started performing comedy in 2002 while attending Southern Illinois University.

Eric André's father, a psychiatrist, immigrated to the United States from which Caribbean country?

Haiti was his father's homeland, while his mother is an Ashkenazi Jewish New Yorker from the Upper West Side. Eric André identifies as both Black and Jewish.

In which Netflix animated fantasy series does Eric André voice Luci, a princess's personal demon?

Disenchantment gave him fifty episodes as Luci, who is often mistaken for a cat. The series was Matt Groening's first made exclusively for a streaming service.

On which CBS sitcom did Eric André play Deke, a pastry-school classmate who becomes Max's boyfriend?

2 Broke Girls cast him in its third season as Deke, who lives in a converted dumpster but turns out to be rich. His parents own a large elevator company.

Which comedy star phoned Eric André as a huge fan and paid his own way to appear on his show?

Chris Rock said he would fly himself out and put himself up, then turned up in the season 3 finale. Many of the celebrity guests in season 1 had been impersonators.

Which earlier Adult Swim series did Eric André rewatch before shooting The Eric Andre Show?

Space Ghost Coast to Coast, a talk show hosted by a recycled animated superhero, was the model he wanted to absorb. He quizzed its creator, Mike Lazzo, who had no interest in the old series.

The desks Eric André smashed in the first season of The Eric Andre Show were built from which material?

Drywall desks still left Eric André hurt during the first season. By his own estimate, he broke about twenty of them making it.

The 2009 pilot of The Eric Andre Show was filmed over a few days in what kind of Brooklyn building?

An abandoned bodega stood in for a studio because there was no outside backing and little money. Season 1 kept the pilot's dark, low-budget look.

For season 3 of The Eric Andre Show, Eric André straightened his hair in imitation of which comedian?

Katt Williams and his distinctive hairstyle inspired the look. Tropical plants dressed the set that year, meant to give the season an upbeat feeling.

For season 5 of The Eric Andre Show, Eric André shaved off all his body hair except which part?

His eyebrows survived, while he also gained 20 pounds and sat in many tanning beds. He called the result a weird uncanny-valley version of himself.

Which British comedian does recurring performer Semere Etmet portray on The Eric Andre Show?

Russell Brand, as played by Semere Etmet, even covered an awards red carpet for the series. The directors admitted they were not sure where Etmet came from, only that he kept turning up on set.

Which rapper walked out of his interview in the season 4 premiere of The Eric Andre Show?

T.I. shared the season 4 opener with Abby Lee Miller. Eric André later said the rapper had simply had enough.

Which rapper's interview on The Eric Andre Show ends on a freeze-frame of Hannibal Buress appearing to kick him?

Flavor Flav insisted afterward that the kick to his face never happened and blamed the editing. He posted an angry message to Eric André about it in October 2016.

What did Eric André say he hid under guests' seats on The Eric Andre Show to unsettle them?

Rotten clams went under the seats before guests walked out, and heat ducts made the chairs swelter. The studio also ran without air conditioning, which he said was too loud for filming.

Hardcore band Trash Talk performed on The Eric Andre Show while its members were wearing what?

Shock collars triggered by volume punished the band for playing loudly. The closing music spots often gave real acts a heavy twist like this one.

Which indie musician played on The Eric Andre Show while samurai tormented him in a game-show spoof?

Mac DeMarco was the target of a segment titled Attack DeMarco, styled after Japanese game shows. He was the musical guest of the fourth episode of season 3.

Which musician sang the national anthem during a chaotic cooking segment on The Eric Andre Show?

T-Pain sang The Star-Spangled Banner and fired a gun in the air while comedian Rory Scovel wrecked his own cooking station. Scovel also wrote for seasons 2 and 4.

Through which website did Eric André find James Hazley, who played clone co-host Blannibal?

Craigslist turned up Hazley after Hannibal Buress decided to leave during season 5. Blannibal then quit in turn, leaving the host with no regular sidekick.

A widely shared reaction image shows Eric André shouting at a fence outside which 2016 event?

The Democratic convention kept him outside, so the Adult Swim special was titled Eric Near the DNC. His companion special from the Republican one had aired a week earlier.

Which recurring Eric Andre Show character got a political spin-off special of his own?

Kraft Punk, played by writer Dan Curry, fronted Krft Punk's Political Party, interviewing political personalities. A season 6 episode is also named for his return.

Under which stage name did Eric André release the 2019 album Cease & Desist on Stones Throw Records?

Blarf began as a short-lived college band before he revived the name as a solo act. When the album was announced, he denied on Twitter that the alias was his.

From which music college did Eric André graduate in 2005 with a Bachelor of Music degree?

Berklee College of Music in Boston took him in 2001, straight from an arts high school in West Palm Beach, Florida. He was born in nearby Boca Raton.

Which co-creator of MTV's Jackass joined The Eric Andre Show as a director for its sixth season?

Jeff Tremaine shared directing duties on the 2023 season with the series's longtime co-director. Eric André had already written for and appeared in Jackass Forever.

Before The Eric Andre Show, Eric André worked live events as a costumed mascot for which insurance company?

Geico sent him out as one of its cavemen at live events while he was, by his own account, just scraping by. That money paid for the pilot, until it ran out before he could hire an editor.

Members of which society attacked Eric André when he crashed their gathering in a suit of armor?

Mensa members proved the angriest and most violent people the crew met in season 1, an irony one of the directors pointed out. The bit aired in the seventh episode.

Eric André spent a year learning which editing software to finish the pilot of The Eric Andre Show?

Final Cut was his only route once the money ran out, since he could not afford an editor. Adult Swim executive Keith Crofford later called picking up the finished pilot a no-brainer.

Which code word did Eric André use on The Eric Andre Show's set when he needed medical attention?

Popcorn was the signal, as he revealed in the behind-the-scenes special for season 5. He admitted hospital visits happened often enough to need a phrase of their own.

Eric André was arrested after disrupting which event in a frat-boy outfit for The Eric Andre Show?

A town hall meeting heard his frat-boy character propose putting beer in the water fountains. He spent time in jail afterward, during the making of season 1.

Through which New York neighborhood did Eric André drag a leaking body bag for The Eric Andre Show?

Chinatown got the body bag in season 3 because the production chose not to spend $300 on a filming permit. Police and other first responders soon arrived.

Metal band Exhumed played The Eric Andre Show with backup singers impersonating which Motown group?

The Supremes, or three impersonators of them, backed the band in season 3. Guitarist Matt Harvey said Pig Destroyer had been wanted first but was unavailable.

Which filmmaker, once a child actor in Kevin Smith's Dogma, was the principal director of The Eric Andre Show?

Kitao Sakurai was born in Kyoto, raised in Cleveland and made his screen debut at 12 in a martial arts film. He also turns up as a guest in a season 6 episode.

Eric André called season 4 of The Eric Andre Show a dystopian version of which David Lynch film?

Eraserhead suited the gloom: he wore a tuxedo, lost weight and gave up deodorant and hair brushing. The house band was replaced that year with a group of elderly men.

During whose interview on The Eric Andre Show did the host jump through his desk and hurt his tailbone?

Vivica A. Fox watched him crash through in season 2 onto what turned out to be solid concrete. He said the landing left his body asymmetrical, and his walk odd, for the rest of the year.

On which FXX comedy did Eric André play Mike, the laid-back best friend of Jay Baruchel's lovelorn Josh?

Man Seeking Woman ran for three seasons from 2015, with Mike forever keener on finding Josh a fling than a relationship. Simon Rich developed the series.