Written by Nicole Pedersen

Even their TV movies, once assured of securing Emmy’s, have suffered from a PBS-esque brand of boring. (Yes, sorry “John Adams” fans, I loved the book too, but if that miniseries gets any more drab I may have to start digging Jefferson again).

But today there is some hope for long-time HBO fans. The network is bringing back its most beloved comedy duo, David Cross and Bob Odenkirk of “Mr. Show” fame. Sorry “Flight of the Conchords,” did you think I meant you?

Odenkirk and Cross are re-uniting for the comedy pilot “David’s Situation,” starring Cross as, well, as himself again. The comedian moves from Hollywood to a gated suburb with two roommates: a neo con and a liberal hippie (show me a conservative hippie for once – that’s comedy gold baby). Cross and Odenkirk co-wrote the pilot which HBO has scheduled for a May shoot.

I know this makes me sort of old and pathetic but I am WAY too excited about the prospect of Bob and David coming back to HBO. It has been ten years since “Mr. Show” went off the air, and though I have watched Cross kick ass on “Arrested Development” and Odenkirk… um, write really funny stuff for other comedians, I have always felt an empty spot in my late night viewing schedule where the State of Druggachusettes used to be.

“Mr. Show” gave me so much… It taught me what a taint was, the best way to measure for a cock ring and that Mayostard is better than Mustardayonnaise. It also gave me my first introduction to comedians like Jack Black, Sarah Silverman, Brian Posehn and Paul F. Tompkins. Even if Bob Odenkirk was kind of shitty on “Real Time with Bill Maher” a few weeks ago and David Cross has whored himself for movies like “She’s the Man,” it does not diminish my memories of “Mr. Show.” If anything, it just makes it plain that Bob and David are best when they are together… sort of like Mustard and Mayonnaise.

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