Despite being an NBA mega-star with the Golden State Warriors, Steph Curry is eager to show off his comedy chops in the trailer for Peacock‘s Mr. Throwback, which was released on Wednesday.
Curry’s chance to play a comedy hero has come with the Universal Television mockumentary that marks his first scripted TV role and is set to premiere on Aug. 8.
The comedy sees Adam Pally as Danny Grossman, a down-on-his-luck memorabilia dealer who looks for redemption by reuniting with his sixth-grade teammate, basketball legend Curry, who plays himself on screen.
In Mr. Throwback, Curry aims to help his middle school buddy get redemption. “Let’s do a documentary on it,” he says at one point in the trailer. That has the former school buddies joyously traveling on Curry’s private jet and sharing pre-game horse placenta drinks, called “placenta-ritas.”
Saturday Night Live castmember Ego Nwodim plays the director of the documentary-within-a-mockumentary to get Grossman back to his sixth-grade glory days, or something perhaps more calculating hinted at in the trailer.
“People love a redemption story. But you know what people love more? A trainwreck,” Nwodim tells the mockumentary audience as on- and off-court mayhem ensues. The Peacock comedy is executive produced by Curry and series creators and executive producers David Caspe, Matthew Libman, Daniel Libman, Erick Peyton and Pally.
As Curry continues to make inroads as a Hollywood playmaker, he and his producing banner Unanimous Media and David Henrie’s Cedar Hill are developing the basketball-focused comedy feature Trick Shot. The four-time NBA champion recently also served as executive producer on the Netflix animated series Good Times.
He was the focus of the sports documentary Stephen Curry: Underrated, which launched on Apple TV+ last year.
