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Tour de Pharmacy

A mockumentary that chronicles the prevalence of doping in the world of professional cycling. A mockumentary that chronicles the prevalence of doping in the world of professional cycling. A mockumentary that chronicles the prevalence of doping in the world of professional cycling.

• Jake Szymanski
• Murray Miller
• Andy Samberg
• Orlando Bloom
• Freddie Highmore
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• Adrian Baton

• Stu Ruckman

• Slim Robinson

• Gustav Ditters

• Rex Honeycut

• Lucy Flerng

• Adriana Baton

• Olusegun Okorocha

• Lance Armstrong

• Finnish Husband

• Ditmer Klerken
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• Trivia Certain scenes were shot on VHS and Beta cameras for authenticity.
• Goofs The film mentions the coverage of the race by "France 2" channel. France 2 was created in 1992, in 1982 it was called "Antenne 2".

Stu Ruckman : In the autopsy, they found Juju was on EPO and cocaine, also some Insulin and Anabolic Steroids, Oxabolone, and, then Nandrolone, trace amounts of Norethandorlene and Furazabol. They even found some Heroin in his system. There was also Letrozole, Cyclazadone, some Estrogen Receptor Modulators, Raaloxifene and Tamoxifen, probably to ward off breast growth. A lot of Oxycodone in his blood. Phentermine, as well, Ortemamine, Bunolol, Lobatealol. Plus, apparently he had hopped Ethanol and taken a couple of MDAs. He clearly smoked some Crystal Meth and Crack and there was a Hormone from monkey testicles that he had cooked down into a broth that he drank. He also had apparently eaten at least one sandwich at Arby's.

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How Andy Samberg Convinced Lance Armstrong to Be in an HBO Comedy About Doping

By Scott Tobias

The HBO mock-documentary 7 Days in Hell —about an epic Wimbledon match between a bad-boy Andre Agassi type and a dim-witted British simpleton—plays like a comic hallucination of the McEnroe/Borg documentary Fire & Ice , full of absurd tangents and stories within stories within stories. At one point, a top-ranked player leaves tennis to start an underwear line in Sweden (which ends in lawsuits over groin-chafing); at another, the doc trails off into a mini-profile of a courtroom sketch artist famous for incorporating cartoon animals into his work. Created by Andy Samberg and Murray Miller, written by Miller, and directed by Jake Szymanski, 7 Days in Hell parodies the gravitas of ESPN's 30 for 30 series and HBO's own sports docs, but it's also inspired silliness for its own sake, packed with filthy jokes and appearances from big names in the sporting world and in comedy circles.

Under the HBO "Legends of Sport" banner, Samberg, Miller, and Szymanski have returned with Tour de Pharmacy , an equally brilliant riff on the plague of performance-enhancing drugs in professional cycling. Tour de Pharmacy takes a fictitious look back at the 1982 Tour de France, an event so scandalized with drug cheats that 170 riders were disqualified and only five continued to compete. (They're dubbed "The Fab Five," which prompts an appearance here by a deeply confused Chris Webber.) The remaining cyclists are Marty Hass (Samberg), an American schooled in Nigeria who proudly represents the entire African continent; JuJu Peppi (Orlando Bloom), whose heart explodes from a cocktail of about three dozen different drugs; Slim Robinson (Daveed Diggs), Jackie Robinson's nephew, who hopes to break the color barrier in this very white sport; Gustav Ditters (John Cena), a German who's bulked up conspicuously; and Adrian Baton (Freddie Highmore), a Frenchwoman masquerading as a Frenchman. In contemporary interviews, Jeff Goldblum, Danny Glover, Dolph Lundgren, and Julia Ormond play older versions of Hass, Robinson, Ditters, and Baton, respectively.

Many more unexpected people turn up in Tour de Pharmacy , from Mike Tyson to J.J. Abrams to Phylicia Rashad, but the real ace in the hole is Lance Armstrong, who appears in poorly shrouded silhouette. After spending years beating drug tests and vociferously denying accusations of cheating, only to finally get caught and confess his sins to Oprah Winfrey, Armstrong proves surprisingly eager to make fun of himself and his scandal-ridden sport. In an interview with GQ , Samberg, Miller, and Szymanski talked about Armstrong's participation, their odd digressions into a Swedish "Kultabank" credit-card commercial and a radical "red blood cell" animated explainer, and their devotion to full-frontal male nudity.

What went into persuading Lance Armstrong to do this? Andy Samberg: Basically, we reached out to his reps and sent them the script. Then they said that Lance thought it was funny and he wanted to talk to me. So I called him. We talked and he liked it.

Was his participation essential? Samberg: Murray wrote it in, and we all thought it was so funny that we were praying it would happen. No one knew what he would think of it. We felt like we could make it without him, but if we got him, it would be really clutch, comedically.

Jake Szymanski: He definitely lends a lot of credibility to it because he remains, to the general public, the face of cycling in America. I think we can say we were all pleasantly surprised he said yes.

Were there restrictions or lines he didn't want crossed? Samberg: I don't think so.

Szymanski: No. He was pretty game for all of it and understood what the jokes were.

Samberg: We tried a bunch of stuff within the script—a bunch of alt-lines—and he found it all pretty funny.

Szymanski: I guess Lance Armstrong is not a guy known for saying, "Those are lines I shouldn't cross."

Samberg: That was Jake, just to clarify.

Szymanski: Put that on me.

How do the script and casting develop together? What adjustments need to be made based on who plays what role? Murray Miller: It definitely starts with the script and then, like a typical film, we look to cast the parts. I had some notion of who we wanted—and we got lucky enough to cast those people, for the most part—but there were some parts that we were unsure about, and the casting director figured out some names for us.

Samberg: Yeah. And when you cast Jeff Goldblum, you definitely write lines that you imagine being said by Jeff Goldblum. Stuff like that.

In 7 Days in Hell , Andy plays an Agassi-like figure, and you reference things like the Fire and Ice documentary, or the Isner-Mahut match at Wimbledon. Were there specific references you were going for with Tour de Pharmacy ? Szymanski: There's a great doc called Pantani and another great one called Slaying the Badger . There's a couple of other things we watched that inspired Murray when he was writing, and us when we were making it. Probably none of those were specific as a comedic take on this one movie, but we pulled from a couple different worlds of cycling and mashed it all together.

Samberg: In 7 Days in Hell , Fire and Ice was the touchpoint because it was on Wimbledon. But on this one, the idea was to pull from all the different crazy stories throughout the history of the sport, and Murray, when he started writing outlines, would go back through his sports knowledge and put together a big melange of crazy moments from that specific sport.

What about cycling inspired you? What's funny about it? Miller: I like that, in this country, it's really still a niche sport that a lot of people don't know about. I can take a little more liberty with it because I think people aren't so familiar with the rules. But, on top of that, we just like that there's not a comedy set in this world, the same way that there wasn't a well-known tennis comedy out there.

Samberg: Right. And also, Spandex.

One of the great bits in 7 Days in Hell is the digression when the main story is put on hold and you have this weird backstory about a courtroom sketch artist. This has something similar in an explainer of how red blood cells work. Is there something about documentaries that you're sending up, or is this just an absurdist streak at work? Miller: I think it's more the latter for me. I just took joy in writing this and being able to take it off on these bizarre tangents. At times it's like a sketch show.

Samberg: Part of why I think we have so much fun working in the mockumentary genre is that you can cut to pretty much anything at any time. People are now so conditioned to watch documentaries—they know how they operate, and that you can introduce a new character by cutting to them, and now they're in it. Similarly, being able to treat a sidebar idea that has nothing to do with your main story really seriously, the way the rest of it is being treated—all the pomp and circumstances lend themselves, I feel, to making comedy feel really earned and funnier and weirder. Obviously we are not the first people to do that, but we certainly love working in that tradition.

Szymanski: I also like, in documentaries, how they do take small tangents in order to understand the story. Even though it's a tangent to us or the viewer, that to the characters in the movie, to the talking heads, it's not a tangent—it's what everyone knows about if they know about this subject. It creates an extra, funny layer about what world they're in. If you follow cycling and this world, everyone knows about the 1981 Kultabank commercial, which is insane.

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How do you go about explaining to, say, Chris Webber, how he'll be involved? It's such a wild tangent for him to be in the thing at all. Miller: Andy, you want to take that one? I think we're still waiting to explain to him how he was used. One of our producers ran into him and was like, "He's available and a fan," and he was nice enough to come down and let us shoot him. And we're fans.

Samberg: We are. We happened to have a bit about the Fab Five in the movie, so we were like, "Well, actually, this is already perfect," and we just kind of worked it in. But it was great to have him, and there's tons of stuff he did. Obviously his part in it is not huge. [ Laughs ]

"When we went to HBO with the idea of 7 Days , we said to them, 'Put this out like you would any documentary. Do it through HBO Sports. Don't tip off that it's a comedy.'"

I was surprised he was okay with the "time out" reference. Samberg: Yeah. Well, that's the fun of these things. Obviously I have a ton of training with this type of thing from SNL , because it's where people come to let the air out of whatever their thing is, but more power to him. I was a huge fan of him growing up when he was on the Warriors, because I'm from the Bay. So it was cool to have him involved.

Athletes aren't necessarily known for their tremendous senses of humor. Samberg: Yeah, man. I presented at the ESPYs. [ Laughs ]

Ideally, do you want viewers to discover these shows without knowing they're comedy? Miller: That was something Andy and I talked about really early on. When we went to HBO with the idea of 7 Days , we said to them, "Put this out like you would any documentary. Do it through HBO Sports. Don't tip off that it's a comedy," and I think HBO did a good job of marketing both of these—in terms of, at least, the key art on the billboards and such.

Samberg: I've definitely had people tell me that they were watching HBO, and it came on and thought it was going to be normal, and they realized that it was something that I worked on and it was insane and caught them off-guard. That was a delightful thing to hear.

Do you consider yourselves students of sports documentaries? Are there aspects you felt inclined to parody? Szymanski: I think that, definitely, part of the idea—especially when we made the first one—was that the 30 for 30 docs had become a very big thing, and there was a resurgence of sporting docs. I think that especially we were looking at those and saying, "This is slightly more specific than a regular documentary. How can we make our comedic version of this?"

Samberg: I think we consider ourselves avid viewers of them, and not necessarily "students." [ Laughs ]

Miller: I definitely started watching them more once I started writing these things.

Samberg: Murray, it's better the other way: We were students of the genre and we felt compelled to work in that genre.

What is your working relationship like, Andy and Murray, and what does it yield that's different from other partners? Samberg: Well, specifically 7 Days in Hell … we'd wanted to make a tennis comedy since we were at summer camp. Right, Mur?

Miller: Yeah. That's actually a real thing. It was extremely gratifying.

Samberg: As is known, I work with my friends quite a bit. It's just more fun. I've worked with Jake a long time, too. He came to SNL when I was there; we've known each other a long time and done a lot of stuff together. When you work with people and are friends with them also, you have more of a shorthand. I think people relax more and it opens the door to being less precious and trying things that, when you're shooting and writing, it becomes much more collaborative—therefore funny, hopefully.

Miller: The disagreements don't last as long. I remember, Andy, we disagreed on one thing and you said, "We've been friends so long that we'll always be friends. It doesn't matter anymore." So, yeah, there's less of a major disagreement during the creative process.

Samberg: As they would say in The Fast and the Furious , "It's family."

To what degree do you let cast members make their own weird contributions? I'm thinking of Will Forte choosing to read his lines in a phonetic French. Miller: Just to be clear: Will did not have any cue cards. He stayed up all night learning that in French, and it was very impressive.

Samberg: Considering he spoke no French until the night before, he did pretty good.

Miller: You definitely want any contribution that the actor wants to bring. I know Jeff Goldblum is basically wholly responsible for the outfit he ended up in.

Samberg: Yeah. He researched it.

"Chris Romano's dick is the Stan Lee of our universe. He'll have a cameo in every one."

Based on what? Samberg: Based on his character. He went through the world of the Internet and found a bunch of costume inspirations and sent them to us, and they were, frankly, brilliant.

Miller: He found an African designer that he liked and sent them to our costume designer for inspiration. I think that led to his amazing jumpsuit.

The film has a lot of the requisite HBO nudity, but the vast majority is full-frontal male. Is that some sort of commentary on your part, or are penises just funny? Miller: I worked on Girls for five years. Maybe I found some joy in showing full-frontal male nudity to change things up.

Samberg: For me, it was just a nice departure to do comedy about dicks. I never had really gotten to do that in music form or any form. It was a freeing thing for me.

Szymanski: That was my goal: to give Andy a chance to do a comedy that involved penises, because I thought he'd be good at it. Also, I can admit that, since being a child of the '80s and being seven years old, if you sneak on HBO and see that the upcoming program has "N" for nudity, you might get a little excited. I think we're equal-opportunity nude-showers.

Miller: Some of the inspiration definitely comes from the actor who has been naked now, twice [in 7 Days in Hell and Tour de Pharmacy ]. Chris Romano is a good friend, and this is what he's become known for. [ Laughs ]

Samberg: The only recurring character in both of the specials is Chris Romano's dick.

Szymanski: We definitely, because of Romano, are like, "How are we going to work his penis in?" I tell this story a lot and I will tell it again.

When we were shooting 7 Days in Hell , before Chris Romano was naked in our threesome-on-the-court scene, it was the day before we were shooting, we didn't have that role cast, and we were sitting around going, "Shoot, who's going to come do this? Do we know any guys who are willing to be naked?" And as we were having that conversation, Murray got a text from Chris Romano that was a picture of his penis. That is one of his running jokes: He sends friends a lot of photos of him naked. I did not know Chris as well at the time, but they were like, "Oh, of course. Why don't we ask Romano? He shows his penis all the time." Now we will have him do that in every one of these things we make, I think.

Miller: It's certainly my muse. Already thinking about the next one. "What sport is funniest to work Romano's dick into?"

Samberg: I think it's safe to say that Chris Romano's dick is the Stan Lee of our universe. He'll have a cameo in every one.

Can you, Andy, talk about your character and how you created it? Samberg: Well, we were trying to think of a reason for why I was clearly not in good shape and not good at cycling, so that was a good jumping-off point. Then the fact that the Tour is open to people from all over the world and we tried to have a nice variety of involved countries. I believe that's how it went down.

Miller: I initially had you from another country, and then I think you came up with, maybe based on another character you had in stand-up, "Chad." Based on that stand-up joke you used to have.

Samberg: That was funny. His dad had a diamond mine and all that. It's almost like we were going for comedy. We were like, "What if we did the opposite?" [ Laughs ] I caught myself trying to explain a joke there and failed.

If you do more, would it be sports you can plausibly be an athlete in? Samberg: Regardless of whether I would be in them or not, the idea is that they're called the Legend of Sport series. That's on the poster. We're trying to make people notice that they exist—that's our version of 30 for 30 . Definitely our hope, and in the discussions we've been having with HBO, is to make more and do a different sport each time.

Miller: Your question implies you found Andy a believable tennis player and cyclist, which means his director did a great job.

The stroke seemed solid. Samberg: I was better at tennis than cycling, and better at tennis than Kit Harington—which was really a good win for me.

Miller: He had taken one lesson, so he wasn't a hard guy to beat.

Samberg: It's like Forte and French.

You're all rigorous in your preparation for these. Miller: You're starting to get a sense of how these things are made.

Szymanski: When you asked the question about Forte, I had an honest moment of panic. Because we had been shooting for 48 hours straight, we thought that Forte had knocked it out of the park with his French.

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This HBO mockumentary is part-pastiche of the mythologising sports documentary, part-zany comic creation of its own. Tour de Pharmacy tells the incredible untrue story of the 1982 Tour de France, the most chaotic iteration of the race that never happened. Of the original 170 cyclists, all but five were disqualified for bribing the deep-in-debt president of cycling’s governing body (Kevin Bacon), leaving only Italian-a sensation-a JuJu Peppi (Orlando Bloom); secret female racer Adrian Baton (Julia Ormond and Freddie Highmore); frustrated nephew of Jackie Robinson, Slim (Daveed Diggs); a roided-out Austrian (John Cena); and Marty Hass (Andy Samberg), a Nigerian cyclist despised by his country.

Tragedy, scandal, and surprising romance unfold across the documentary’s chronicling of the race’s 21 stages, with plenty of digressions along the way — from a riotous interview with the head of the sport’s anti-doping agency (played by Nathan Fielder) to an animated explanation of red and white cells that devolves into a surreally bloody civil war. The humor zooms between the high-brow (French New Wave references delivered by JJ Abrams) and the R-rated from scene to scene, making this breezy mockumentary a wild ride of its own.

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Cycling mockumentary “Tour De Pharmacy” doesn’t aim to be more than pure, uncut silliness—composited of famous faces in goofy wigs and irreverent humor—and that hardly proves a deficiency. With a running time of 39 minutes, it's double the length of Louis Malle ’s famous and much more serious Tour De France short doc "Vive le Tour," but it can be just as captivating in its own way.

Written by Murray Miller , this treasure trove of goofy gems is about the Tour De France in 1982, in which an entire roster of racers was knocked down to five once it was discovered that everyone was doping. Director Jake Szymanski ’s film focuses on the five that remained. Characters include Daveed Diggs’ Slim Robinson character, who is obsessed with being known as “the first black something,” like his famous uncle, Jackie. Then there’s Andy Samberg as Marty, the “first African” to join the Tour De France, even though it becomes clear that he’s a obnoxious American kid who only lives in Niger because his parents own a diamond mine. John Cena plays an aggressive Austrian rider who in the previous year was skin-and-bones before he did steroids; Freddie Highmore portrays a woman (portrayed by Julia Ormond in modern-day interviews) who pretended to be a man in order to race. With its main characters in particular, "Tour De Pharmacy" gets a lot of mileage with the way it pokes at the white male privilege at the center of such a sporting event. 

As a sports narrative, Szymanski vaguely follows the bizarre events of this very fake race but lets the comedy be steered by character development and hilarious side observations from talking heads. Like his previous tennis mockumentary "Seven Days in Hell," the taste for straight-up silliness thrives well beyond its initial sport. 

Explaining what is specifically funny about a film like this is like listing off musical notes to describe a melody, but I can say that what the film wants to do it does very well; the revolving door of celebrities playing oddball characters is always a great factor, my biggest laughs coming from the legendary Maya Rudolph and the immaculately droll Nathan Fielder. It’s a surprising ensemble of brief cameos here and there but has the neatness where performances are fleshed out for the time they are needed. There are plenty of other people of note, too, like Jeff Goldblum , Dolph Lundgren , Kevin Bacon , Danny Glover , Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and even J.J. Abrams (the latter who can be seen singing the praises of " Juwanna Mann .") The only unamusing talking head? Lance Armstrong , whose appearance as a doping expert is like a teeth-gnashing epilogue for his sleaziness in real-life documentaries like " The Armstrong Lie ."

The 39-minute running time is one feature that nags the project, despite the story's intention to be as fleeting as it is goofy. It has such adrenaline that you imagine it could be longer, and the movie doesn't give much to take away aside from memories of laughing. But for a small project that merely wants to be silly, it comes down to speed: a good feature comedy is roughly laugh-a-minute stuff, and this does well with its half-length—a laugh every 30 seconds, often a big one, sounds about accurate. As a piece of entertainment that primarily aims to distract and delight, it’s can’t-pass-up goofiness. 

Nick Allen is the former Senior Editor at RogerEbert.com and a member of the Chicago Film Critics Association.

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  TV-MA | comedy | 39 MIN | 2017

A fictional Tour de France in which every competitor was doping is the setting for this comedy starring Andy Samberg and Murray Miller.

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A short, sweet assemblage of star cameos and filthy jokes

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• Jake Szymanski
• Kevin Bacon
• Orlando Bloom
• Jeff Goldblum
• James Marsden

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It’s 1982, and the Tour de France is in full swing. But Tour de Pharmacy isn’t just a chronicle of a 35-year-old bike race; it’s a documentary account of a watershed moment in organized sports. After all, it’s not every year that a field of 170 riders is reduced to just five when doping and bribe scandals disqualify almost every competitor.

In 2015, director Jake Szymanski and writer Murray Miller delivered 7 Days in Hell , another HBO-produced mockumentary about an infamous weeklong tennis match. Tour de Pharmacy is cut from the same cloth; it’s packed to the brim with star cameos, it’s full of preposterously vulgar sight gags, and at less than 40 minutes in length it’s quick enough to avoid overstaying its welcome, even if it’s more of an extended collection of sketches than a film. Structured like a 30 For 30 directed by Mel Brooks, Tour de Pharmacy is mostly just an excuse for Szymanski and Miller to encourage a roster of A-list talent to do some weird character acting.

As those characters go, Tour de Pharmacy has more than enough gags to justify its existence. After most of the riders are eliminated, following an embarrassing fight that ends in a doping needle being discovered in a water bottle, just five remain. Juju Pepe ( Orlando Bloom ) pushes himself to the absolute limit, even if history would reflect that the ’82 race ends in tragedy for the young star. Gustav Ditters ( John Cena ) is all natural, a monster of the racing circuit who insists that all those bags of blood in his fridge are just Gatorade, offering to drink it on the spot for the police. Marty Haas ( Andy Samberg ) is the TDF’s first African competitor, even if everybody else in Africa seems to hate him. Slim Robinson ( Daveed Diggs ) is the nephew of Jackie, hopeful to stand as a black pioneer in another white sport even if few of those opportunities remained by the early ‘80s. And Adrian Baton ( Freddie Highmore ) was the race’s first female entrant, competing in drag to remain in the running.

Tour de Pharmacy is a modest success of aggressively stupid comedy. Its abbreviated runtime means that few jokes get the chance to breathe before it’s on to the next, but the machine-gun nature of Murray’s screenplay also allows for a handful of terrific gags. The HBO-style talking heads get some of the best material, as Joe Buck and Mike Tyson remark on the physical endurance and penile girth of professional racers with pitch-perfect deadpan delivery. (There are a lot of dick jokes on hand, and if the idea of Bloom riding a bicycle while pissing all over himself in order to remain ahead of the pack isn’t funny to you, this might not be your thing.) Likewise, Nathan Fielder is hysterical in a small handful of cutaways as a doping expert who’s also sampled all banned substances in order to better perform his job.

The faux-doc structure allows for Szymanski to drown the film in every cameo he could possibly land, from Danny Glover to Chris Webber, and virtually every performer gets at least one great laugh line out of the come-and-go approach. There isn’t much to Tour de Pharmacy overall beyond its ribald gauntlet of jokes, but this ends up being a boon to the project. There isn’t much of any time wasted on plot, and at less than an hour, what’s ultimately a one-note joke is played as long and loud and well as that note can be. Sometimes one just wants to kick back and laugh at J.J. Abrams waxing philosophical about the cinematic accomplishments of Juwanna Mann , or Cena bench pressing a naked man in a fit of rage.

This review won’t spoil any more names, as the blindside nature of the casting is half the fun. (This is especially true of how Szymanski chooses to age up his leads; Cena’s present-day equivalent is especially good.) But the biggest stunt Tour de Pharmacy attempts is also the one on which it’s being sold, so it’s likely not much of a spoiler to touch on how Szymanski and HBO somehow talked Lance Armstrong into an extended riff on his own doping scandal. While it’s hard to argue that it’s within good taste, given that Armstrong himself lied through his teeth for as long as he possibly could on the subject, the gag nevertheless works. Obscured by a voice modulator, if not by the documentary crew, Armstrong lets Tour de Pharmacy take him as far as it’s willing to go. And if its shots do occasionally feel like pulled punches, it’s still proof that most people are better off when they can take a joke about themselves. Even disgraced legendary athletes.

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Tour de pharmacy.

Directed by Jake Szymanski

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A mockumentary that chronicles the prevalence of doping in the world of professional cycling.

Orlando Bloom Andy Samberg John Cena Jeff Goldblum J.J. Abrams Mike Tyson Lance Armstrong Kevin Bacon James Marsden Dolph Lundgren Freddie Highmore Julia Ormond Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Maya Rudolph Danny Glover Daveed Diggs Will Forte Nathan Fielder Phylicia Rashād Joe Buck Chris Webber Chris Romano Seth Morris Jon Hamm Eric Nenninger Eugenia Kuzmina Myles Brewer Kevin Clash Edgar Wright Show All… Rebecca Dayan Russ Walko Patrick John Costello Carly Richardson

Director Director

Jake Szymanski

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Andy Samberg Murray Miller M. Elizabeth Hughes

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Murray Miller

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Susie Farris

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Michael Giambra Bijan Shams Daniel Reitzenstein

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David Bernad

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Almitra Corey

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Romy Itzigsohn

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K.T. Chandler Adina Sullivan

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Annie Cardea Megan Nicoll

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Review by Karst ★★★★ 6

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Starring: Andy Samberg , Orlando Bloom , Freddie Highmore , Joe Buck , Nathan Fielder , Daveed Diggs , John Cena , James Marsden , Maya Rudolph , Danny Glover , Mike Tyson , Julia Ormond , Jeff Goldblum , Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje , Lance Armstrong , Dolph Lundgren , Eric Nenninger , Kevin Bacon , Will Forte , Chris Webber , Phylicia Rashad , J.J. Abrams , Jon Hamm

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'Tour De Pharmacy' Trailer: What Happens When You Train Super Hard On A Bicycle

James Marsden  looks right at home as an on-air sports journalist in the 1980s. With the big framed glasses and colorful attire, the actor, who typically shines in comedies, is covering the 1982 Tour De Pharmacy. A dangerous year in cycling, with everybody doping. In HBO's new sports mockumentary,  Andy Samberg ,  John Cena ,  Orlando Bloom , and a  long list  of other familiar faces play athletes competing in the 1982 race – which looks every bit as ridiculous and as fun as  7 Days in Hell .

Below, watch the  Tour De Pharmacy  trailer.

In  7 Days From Hell , Sandberg played volatile tennis star Aaron Williams for director  Jake Szymanski  ( Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates ), who's behind this new HBO documentary as well. A part of the fun of that comedy was watching actors we don't always see in comedies getting ridiculous. A long list of talent starred in  7 Days From Hell , and the list is just as lengthy for  Tour De Pharmacy .

Julia Ormond ,  J.J. Abrams ,  Kevin Bacon ,  Dolph Lundgren ,  Maya Rudolph ,  Will Forte ,  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje , Freddie Highmore ,  Danny Glover , and looking as dapper as ever, Mr. Jeff Goldblum . Even  Lance Armstrong  makes an appearance.

Cena looks like he's going to score some big laughs in the mockumentary. He looks wonderfully absurd on that tiny bicycle competing. Trainwreck  and  Sisters   showed he's adept at comedy, so it's not surprising he looks like one of the film's standout players. Even how brightly he smiles lying about "training super hard on a bicycle" is a great, small touch that helps make that joke hit. There's a lot of funny moments in the trailer, though. Bless costume designer Romy Itzigsohn for giving Goldblum fans something to smile about today. Jeff Goldblum is one of the few who could remain divine while rocking that look. No matter how he's dressed, he's a national treasure. for giving Goldblum fans something to smile about today. Jeff Goldblum is one of the few who could remain divine while rocking that look. No matter how he's dressed, he's a national treasure.

If  Tour De Pharmacy  is as enjoyable as 7 Days From Hell , hopefully Sandberg and Szymanski keep these sports mockumentaries coming. There's no shortage of subjects to cover.

In 1982, during a dark and fictitious time in cycling history, the sport's most venerable, time-honored race was marred by the doping of virtually all of its competitors. Riddled with nefarious characters, that year's competition was a hornet's nest of moral depravity. Through the perspective of five riders, Tour de Pharmacy gives an inside look into the grim realities of the darkest event in a sport notoriously tainted by controversy.

Tour De Pharmacy  premieres  July 8 .

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• AwardsCircuit.com Christopher James There are enough zany sight gags and fun performances to keep Tour de Pharmacy moving at a brisk and hilarious pace.
• San Francisco Chronicle David Wiegand Tour de Pharmacy is a tour de farce of bad taste, unsophisticated humor, brief nudity and absolutely no redeeming values at all except that it's damn funny and oh, so badly needed right about now.
• Entertainment Weekly Ray Rahman You don't have to know or care much about the sport to enjoy the broad sight gags, amusing tangents, and cartoonish accents.
• RogerEbert.com Nick Allen As a piece of entertainment that primarily aims to distract and delight, it's can't-pass-up goofiness.
• The Lonely Film Critic Tomas Trussow The jokes are lobbed at the velocity of gunfire so that you're not done chuckling before something even dumber comes along.
• Consequence Dominick Suzanne-Mayer Tour de Pharmacy is a modest success of aggressively stupid comedy.
• Quartz Adam Epstein Tour de Pharmacy is exactly the type of utterly silly and self-aware comedy that seems to work well in contrast to our dour reality at present.
• Polygon Karen Han Just as funny as I remember [it] to be.
• The Atlantic Sophie Gilbert It takes the thorny subject of doping in professional cycling and turns it into pure, gleeful mayhem.
• New York Times Neil Genzlinger The film is directed by Jake Szymanski and written by Murray Miller, who paired so well on an earlier installment in what we can only hope will be a series of sports dismantlings.
• Los Angeles Times Robert Lloyd Apart from the generally good jokes and the amusing imitations of period style, what makes Tour de Pharmacy good company is the overarching sense of play.
• Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert The never-ending jokes are profane, obvious, ludicrous, repetitive, absurdist, puerile, crass, tasteless, and, of course, totally freaking stupid. Yeah, I loved it.
• Wall Street Journal John Anderson A mock-doc sendup of the Tour de France, drug scandals, blood-doping and, sadly, men, Tour de Pharmacy has an interesting premise and nowhere to take it.
• Hollywood Reporter Dan Fienberg Tour de Pharmacy is smart, silly and often hilarious, and a worthy follow-up to creators Andy Samberg and Murray Miller's 2015 tennis lark 7 Days in Hell.
• The Daily Dot David Wharton Tour de Pharmacy is a potent, weaponized mixture of the very clever, very stupid, and utterly ridiculous. And at a brisk 40 minutes, it's absolutely worth the ride.
• rogercatlin.com Roger Catlin The piece has a roaring sophomoric quality and quite a fixation on penises, but generally gets to the comic finish line.
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Below, keep reading for more details on how to watch Madonna’s Celebration show in Rio online in the U.S., including for free.

How to Watch Madonna’s Celebration Concert in Rio: Date, Time, Channel

Madonna’s final Celebration Tour stop will take place at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday, May 4. It will air on the Brazilian channel TV Globo at 9:45 p.m. local time in Rio.

Stream Madonna’s Celebration Show in Rio: How to Watch in the U.S.

If you want to watch Madonna’s Rio concert outside of Brazil, you can tune into TV Globo at 5:45 p.m. PT/8:45 p.m. ET in the U.S. You can stream TV Globo on any live TV streaming service that carries the Brazilian channel, including DirecTV and Sling .

Already have a Globoplay account? There’s a way to access your service from outside of Brazil.

Get more details on how to watch TV Globo and other Brazilian channels in the U.S. below.

DirecTV Stream

You can watch Madonna’s concert in Rio on DirecTV when you add Brazilian programming (including the TV Globo channel) to a satellite or internet-based plan. New subscribers can stream for free with DirecTV’s five-day trial. For satellite subscribers, you can add international programming to a Basic or Preferred Choice base package ($27.99 to $59.99 per month plus tax). The BrazilianDirect add-on is an extra $29.99 per month and includes TV Globo, or you can get the standalone TV Globo channel add-on for $19.99 per month. For DirecTV subscribers connecting via internet, add Brazilian programming for just $30 per month on top of your existing cable TV streaming package. Learn more here. And for a limited time, eligible subscribers can save up to $240; learn more here .

Watch Madonna’s Celebration concert in Rio on TV Globo with Sling , which offers a free three-day trial when you add select Brazilian TV Pack plans (reg. $13.99 and up per month) to your streaming package. New subscribers save half off their first month of Sling, so you can stream Madonna’s show in Brazil starting at only $20 for the Orange plan (reg. $40 per month) that includes CNN, HGTV, ID, A&E, ESPN, Disney Channel and other networks. Other packages include the Blue tier ($22.50 for the first month, reg. $45 monthly) and the combined Orange & Blue package (reg. $60 monthly) that includes exclusive news and entertainment channels such as ABC, NBC, Fox, E!, FS1, FX and others.

For those who already have Brazil’s Globoplay streaming video-on-demand service, you can use a virtual private network (VPN) to access your account in the U.S. Plans start at $12.95 per month or $8.32 monthly with annual billing; learn more here .

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