On a recent morning, Burd, 31, recounted his trajectory from inside his spacious, modern home in Los Angeles. “Lil Dicky leaned into the internet and the internet leaned back into him,” said Mickey Meyer, co-founder of the Jash online comedy community and currently president of Group Nine Media. It’s better to understand him as a new type of entertainer, one who’s maximized the online comedy boom - even through its recent bust. But it would be wrong to characterize Burd as yet another rapper who’s turned to acting, especially those, like Eminem and 50 Cent, who’ve mined their life stories to cross over. Their show, which premiered on FXX on March 4, follows the early days of Lil Dicky’s career, a time filled with promise and plenty of indignities. As he’s talking, I thought, ‘This is a real interesting comedic engine for a show.’ Because he’s so sure of himself, but no one else in his immediate surroundings could possibly be as sure of him as he is.” Those are delusions of grandeur that are off the charts. “And I’m looking at this guy who looks like he should be voted least likely to succeed on Jdate, and I’m thinking, ‘He really thinks he’s going to be huge.’ The most interesting thing to me was that when he had done nothing six years ago, he still thought he was going to be the biggest entertainer in the world. “The reason I’m doing the show is that when was sitting across from me, he’s telling me how he’s going to be the biggest entertainer in the history of entertaining,” Schaffer explained. He wasn’t looking to take on another show but agreed to a meeting at the home of Scooter Braun, the manager Burd shares with Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande, among others. Schaffer has worked as a producer and writer on HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm” for more than a decade and co-created “The League” for FX. It was this outlook on life that attracted Jeff Schaffer, the co-creator and showrunner of “Dave,” to the project.
“I’m this really bizarre juxtaposition of an unreasonable amount of self-confidence, to the point where it’s like borderline irrational, combined with a ton of self-deprecating neuroses and just stress,” he said. Now he envisions that in 20 years, once the bush of curls atop his head has turned to salt and pepper, he’ll win the Academy Award for best actor for his performance in an emotionally gripping drama.īurd acknowledges how ridiculous some of the things that come out his mouth may sound, even to himself. With barely any music out, he used to tell record labels that he was going to become one of the biggest artists in the world. Still following?īurd’s favorite artist is Kanye West, and like West he’s prone to making outlandish claims about his abilities and what he believes he’ll be able to accomplish in his lifetime. Their histories are remarkably similar, particularly the fact that both are best known for being the rapper Lil Dicky, even though they both still introduce themselves as Dave.
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For his new TV show, “Dave,” Dave Burd created a fictional character named … Dave Burd.
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