![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Since HBO failed to extend his two-year, eight-figure contract in 2021, he and his longtime partner Greg Daniels (“ The Office,” “ Parks and Recreation”) have formed their own production company, Bandera Entertainment, with more than a dozen shows already in development. He’s also something of a comedic Nostradamus: “Idiocracy,” which came out in 2006, predicts a near future in which payment is automated, Crocs are popular, and the President orders fast food in bulk. Judge has skewered the corporate workplace (“Office Space”), the rise of anti-intellectualism in politics and pop culture (“Idiocracy”), the rhythms of suburbia (“King of the Hill”), and the absurdity of a high-tech modern-day gold rush in which little of consequence is ever produced (“ Silicon Valley”). After graduating with a physics degree, he began sending out homemade cartoons to festivals, and soon became one of the most prolific, needle-accurate satirists of the past few decades. Judge, now fifty-nine, was raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. To watch them, the critic Roger Ebert wrote, was “to learn about a culture of narcissism, alienation, functional illiteracy, instant gratification and television zombiehood.”īoth Beavis and Butt-Head were voiced by the show’s creator, Mike Judge. In between these adventures, they watched TV and made fart noises, and called each other names such as “monkey spank” and “turd burglar.” They were magnificently stupid, but so pure that they achieved a kind of innocence. Each episode involved the pair idling around their Texas town, indulging in petty acts of vandalism and moronic conversations. The show’s title characters-two gross, immature, violent, strangely lovable, and very American teen-agers-were like little else onscreen. On March 8, 1993, “Beavis and Butt-Head” premièred on MTV. ![]()
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