Colin Jost, Wanda Sykes and a group of SNL alum are the voice stars of a new scripted comedy podcast series.
Jost, who is head writer at SNL and star of Weekend Update, and Sykes, who recently starred in Max’s The Other Two, are starring in Trust Fall.
The series was written, directed and exec produced by SNL writer Claire Friedman. It launches on November 30.
Jost stars as Trent Brockett, a sad-sack corporate drone vying for a big promotion. But when he discovers that his boss only wants to promote “family men,” Trent invents a fake wife to try and land the job. Only one problem: the corporate retreat in Aspen is just days away, and Trent is very, very single. He signs up for a Sugar Daddy dating app and meets Carla, a smart, beautiful woman. When they meet in real life, Trent discovers that Carla is just… Carla (Sykes), a brash, bold, much older woman who was trying to catfish him.
As the lie spirals out of control, these two strangers must pretend to be married, raise their fake family, and stay one step ahead of the cutthroat corporate competition. But while Trent and Carla navigate corny team-building exercises, drug-addled keynote addresses, and an alpine avalanche, something even stranger happens—they forge a friendship that challenges Trent’s whole career-obsessed perspective.
Chris Parnell, Neil Patrick Harris, Cecily Strong, Heidi Gardner, Jay Pharaoh, Michael Urie, and Rachel Dratch also star.
The series is executive produced by Friedman, Broadway Video Enterprises president Britta von Schoeler, and produced by Mark Valdez.
Claire Friedman has written for SNL and Showtime’s Desus & Mero. Before becoming a television writer, Claire worked in development at FX and served as the Executive-in-Charge of the Lip Sync Battle franchise for Paramount Network and before that was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs. She also attended Harvard College, with Jost, where she was an editor of the Harvard Lampoon.
She exec produces alongside Broadway Video Enterprises president Britta von Schoeler. Mark Valdez is producer. Broadway Video Enterprises and Audible produce.
“I started my career in the business world, so it’s been fun to satirize the absurd corporate culture I lived through,” said Friedman. “I’ve been on the receiving end of a comedy improv troupe-led teambuilding session, and it has haunted me ever since.”
