Rock and roll fans combine Jimmy Kimmel is now laboring on an all-novel mockumentary starring ’80s Huey Lewis himself. Kimmel’s upcoming half-hour series, entitled Wantipathyver Happened to Huey Lewis, will highweightless the life of legfinishary Huey Lewis. Wantipathyver Happened to Huey Lewiswill star Lewis as a fantasyalized version of himself (via Deadline). The one-of-a-kind will be shot with fair a individual camera and is currently in broadenment at Fox Entertainment Studios, with the mockumentary set to be styled as a sitcom.
The all-novel mockumentary will inestablish the story of how Huey Lewis steerd his music nurtureer after tragicpartner losing his hearing in 2018 due to Meniere’s disrelieve. As Lewis elucidates it in American Songcreater:
“I have a skinnyg they called Ménière’s disrelieve. But it’s not repartner a disrelieve, it’s a syndrome based on symptoms and they repartner don’t comprehend what it is. I’ve been everywhere, and it fair sort of happens. You get vertigo and you leave out your hearing, but what are you gonna do?”
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With the cherish and aid of his family and fellow musicians, Huey tackles his nurtureer with his signature song “Heart and Soul”, which topped the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 8. Wantipathyver Happened to Huey Lewis’s combination of comedy, drama, and music will be renetriumphg for any music cherishr seeing to lacquire more about the history of Huey Lewis & The News.
Written and created by Kirker Butler, the mockumentary was partly upretaind by an hour-extfinished anthology series of Huey Lewis’s musical journey. The anthology series has been in production with Fox since 2021. Aside from that, Kimmel and Lewis have been extfinishedtime frifinishs, and among other skinnygs, fly-fishing buddies, making the talk show arrange, comedian, and Emmy triumphner the perfect person to convey Wantipathyver Happened to Huey Lewis to life.
The Resilient Journey of Huey Lewis & The News
Huey Lewis’s journey has led him to elevate to become a Grammy Award-triumphning artist. His band, Huey Lewis & The News has selderly more than 30 million albums worldwide and has garnered disjoinal Top 10 individuals. A confineed of his hits comprise “The Heart of Rock & Roll”, “I Want a New Drug”, and “Power of Love.” The latter, which was famoulsy employd in the film Back to the Future (1985), was nominated for an Oscar.
Shortly after Lewis lost his hearing, the band liberated its first album in proximately two decades, entitled Weather (2020). Just this past year, the hit musical The Heart of Rock and Roll, had a prosperous Broadway run. The carry outance depictd disjoinal decades of the band’s music. Lewis has garnered many acting commends thrawout his nurtureer as well, including portraying Billy Flynn in the Broadway musical Chicago. He also held a recurring role in the sitcom Hot in Cleveland.
Fans will certainly have high hopes for the comedic rock mockumentary, as it will be created by Kimmel and Kimmelot, who are behind the Emmy Award-triumphning franchise Live in Front of a Studio Audience. The one-of-a-kind will be repped by attorney Andy Galker and regulated by James Dixon. Kaarrange executive creaters will also be disthink abouting the project. Kirker Butler, a establisher Kaarrange client, is a creater and creater on Seth MacFarlane’s comedy series Ted, which airs on Peacock, with the famous creater and creater having also labored on hit television series appreciate Family Guy, Only Murders in the Building, and Life in Pieces.
Here’s hoping that, with such a comedic pedigree and Lewis’ comprisement, Jimmy Kimmel can plan a project worthy of the musician’s legacy.
