Comedian Gregg Turkington, best known for his hack standup character Neil Hamburger, has been cast as the lead in Entertainment, a new movie from Rick Alverson, director of the 2012 Tim Heidecker-starring drama The Comedy. Deadline reports that John C. Reilly, Michael Cera, and Heidecker are playing supporting roles in the film, as well.
Turkington and Heidecker wrote the script together, which follows a failing, aging standup known only as “The Comedian†(Turkington), performing a string of awful gigs in the Southwest on his way to meet his estranged daughter.