Hey, everybody! It's Bob and David!

In perhaps the best news for comedy fans since the Kids in the Hall announced that reunion tour, Bob Odenkirk and David Cross — creators of the insanely great HBO sketch comedy program "Mr. Show" — have a new show (honorific unknown) in the works. The sitcom, "David's Situation," has been written by the pair, and is set to start filming for HBO in May, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

"We are both very, very excited about it and feel it's really strong and important to the health of America," the guys write at their website, BobandDavid.com. "We know that America is hurting right now and old people like to say that 'Laughter's the best medicine.' So, keep hope old people, an injection of 10cc's of funny is about to be shot all up in your funny bones!"

The show's premise: Cross, playing himself, moves out to the suburbs, where he shares a house with an ultra-conservative and a liberal hippie. Sounds to me like a "Three's Company" update, but instead of Chrissy and Janet, there's Ann Coulter and Janeane Garofalo. Yikes.

Odenkirk is set to direct, but there's no word on if he'll appear onscreen, which is disappointing. In the nearly 10 years (!) since "Mr. Show" took its final bow, Bob and David have had precious few acting gigs together. The only ones I can think of are an episode apiece for "NewsRadio" and "Arrested Development."

Otherwise, the two have gone their separate ways professionally, with varying degrees of success. David has had more time in the spotlight, with his role as Tobias Funke on "Arrested," his prominent stand-up career, and several movie roles. Granted, those roles have been in stinkers like "School for Scoundrels" and "Alvin and the Chipmunks," but c'mon, look at the guy — he's not exactly George Clooney.

Bob has mostly stayed behind the scenes, directing movies (also-stinkers "Let's Go to Prison" and "The Brothers Solomon") and producing Cartoon Network's pretty good "Tom Goes to the Mayor." Bob's also been embracing this newfangled Internet thing, churning out a handful of shorts for R-rated comedy site SuperDeluxe.com, including the hilarious "Truth About Lincoln."



But the prospect of the guys working on a new show together is cause for much giddiness. "Mr. Show," with its absurdist sensibilities, seamless sketch links, and dead-on social parody, remains the watermark for cutting-edge American comedy. We'll have to wait to see if "David's Situation" can live up to such lofty expectations, but at least it gives us something to look forward to. Until then, we've always got our "Mr. Show" DVDs.

Anybody else excited about this? Or do you just wanna share your favorite "Mr. Show" moments and maybe explain how 24 is the highest number there is?



-- Adam Reinhard, lifeisfunnybutnothahafunny@gmail.com