Christopher Mintz-Plasse to star in Internet Things You Have Heard Of: The Sitcom, basically
Still condemned to a life of having “McLovin” staining his name like the damned bloody spot in Shakespeare’s MacLovin, Christopher Mintz-Plasse will make a genuine effort to start clean by starring in a new CBS sitcom. And fittingly, both his character and the show are mired in their own inescapable branding: Mintz-Plasse and Red State actor Nicholas Braun have united for a pilot written by Alan Kirschenbaum and Ajay Sahgal, starring as two buddies who ditch their Indiana hometown to move to L.A. and begin exciting new lives working for Groupon. Yes, the actual Groupon—the popular group-discount website that already demonstrated it has a sense of humor during last year’s Super Bowl, when it torched all of its incipient goodwill just for the funny joke of becoming known as the company that thinks philanthropy is hilarious.