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Dog Bites Man

Dog Bites Man
Created by Dan Mazer
Starring Zach Galifianakis
A.D. Miles
Andrea Savage
Matt Walsh
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 10 (1 unaired) (list of episodes)
Production
Running time 30 minutes
Production company(s) DreamWorks Television
Distributor Paramount Worldwide Television Licensing & Distribution
Release
Original network Comedy Central
Original release July 7 – August 9, 2006 (2006-08-09)
External links
Website

Dog Bites Man was a partially improvised comedy television show on Comedy Central that aired in summer 2006. It began airing on The Comedy Channel in Australia in June 2007. The series was produced by DreamWorks Television.

Dog Bites Man was a parody of local news coverage, and followed the misadventures of a struggling news team from Spokane, Washington as they traveled around the country producing news segments. A mockumentary, the show incorporated scenes with the cast in traditional skits as well as them improvising with non-actors, who believed that they are an actual (albeit unusual) news crew.

Perhaps to lessen confusion pertaining to the true reality of the show, starting with episode five each episode began with the following message: "With the exception of the news team, the following episode contains real people who were not made aware they were being filmed as part of a comedy show."

When asked on Michael Showalter's webisode series The Michael Showalter Showalter if Comedy Central had cancelled the show, Zach Galifianakis replied "Yes, thank God." He went on to explain that "messing with people" made him uncomfortable.

All titles were prefaced with "Assignment:"


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