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Sometimes its good to be Mike Judge.
Those times, however, tend to occur later than they should.
Fortunately, Judge tends toward finding greater success on the small screen.
Yes, that Alex Jones.
Last season,Tales From the Tour Busfocused on country, while season two focuses on funk.
Was the genre switch something youd always planned to do?Yeah, and funk just seemed right.
Ive gotten a lot of really great feedback, so thats been really, really great.
Apparently Jerry Lee Lewis liked the machine-gun scene.
I wanted to approach it as a fan and as someone who grew up around it.
And its the same thing with this.
I think funk never really got the attention it deserved.
Ive never seen anybody really delve into that.
This season its probably Betty Davis.
Betty Davis, shes Miles Daviss ex-wife, and theres just this amazing stuff she did.
Her story, its almost part-mystery.
I just had no idea.
I mean, I wouldve loved to do one on Earth, Wind and Fire.
Im just a huge fan.
I mean, you never know.A congressional testimony?
Boy, theres just been so much.
I stay in touch with the tech world and, as you know, it moves fast.
When we startedSilicon Valley, I thought, Maybe were too late.
They already didThe Social Networkand that was great, maybe this has passed.
But its just been more drama and craziness, and the tech world just keeps fueling stories.
I think this could go on another two or three, if everybody wanted to keep doing it.
Theres been talk for awhile about the possibility ofKing of the Hillcoming back.
Is that still an ongoing conversation?Yeah, were still having conversations about it.
Weve just all been busy with other stuff.
All the people involved and who weve been talking to, I guess Im not supposed to say.
So yeah, thats another one were kicking around.
Is it true that Dale Gribble was at least partially inspired by Alex Jones?Not really.
But the character had already been created, so it wasnt based on him or anything.
Youactually went on his show, right?Well, he interviewed me at my house once!
We had a bunch of mutual friends in Austin.
This was awhile ago, though, before he went completely cuckoo and completely off the deep end.
Austins kind of a small town, and a lot of people knew him back in the day.
He was just this kind of local colorful guy.
Speaking ofKing of the Hill, will the world ever see the fabled live-actionMonsignor Martinezpilot?Probably not.
See, I think the script was one of the funniest scripts Ive ever been involved with.
And wed come up with really stupid ideas.
One was the Jump to Conclusions mat, and then the other one was Bit Soup.
But the mat, I dont know what happened to it.
That mightve also gotten stolen when my office was broken.
So I actually ordered some bootlegs on eBay.
I mean, not all of it is good.
We did some of them so quickly.
But the stuff thats good I look back fondly on and really like it.
I got my foot in the door because of it, so it led to everything.
For that reason alone, Im still fond of it.
For the ten-year [Idiocracy] anniversary in 2016, we did a couple screenings.
We also did some stuff in 2012.
Yeah, weve talked about it and weve had some ideas about bringing him back.
I mean, its just so fun to watch Terry do that.
Hes even able to improv as Camacho!
Butthe ones we did in 2012, it was too close to the election.
We got held up.
If it had come out earlier, I think it would have gotten more attention.
