Comedian and suit aficionado Adam Conover has announced that he’s coming to Netflix in a new comedy series calledThe G Word with Adam Conover. Described as a sketch comedy series with documentarian elements set within the federal government,The G Wordteams Conover with Higher Ground,Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company.
This news also means, as Conover has confirmed on Twitter, that Conover’s previous show, the educational comedyAdam Ruins Everythingon truTV,is officially over. The last episode of its third season, which aired in October of 2019, has turned out to be its series finale.
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The G Word(not to be confused with the recently-Kickstarted documentary by Marc Smolowitz)is loosely based upon the 2018 best-selling non-fiction bookThe Fifth Risk,byVanity Fair’sMichael Lewis. It documents the notoriously bizarre transition process between the Obama and Trump administrations, with a focus on individual employees within the Departments of Energy, Agriculture, and Commerce. (Long story short: Trump’s peopledidn’t know how anything workedand were not interested in learning the details.)
In keeping with that, the early word onThe G Word With Adam Conoveris that it’s intended toexamine the federal governmentfrom an insider’s perspective, with a focus likeThe Fifth Riskon the individual employees that make it work. There’s been no information yet on casting besides Conover, or the overall intended tone of the show; it’s probably safe to assume that it will have a more grounded tone thanRuins Everythingdid. Then again, so do most fever dreams.
Conover, who will host and executive produceThe G Word, also voiced multiple roles on Netflix’sBojack Horseman.He currently hostsThe Crystal Mazeon Nickelodeon, an American adaptation of the long-running British children’s game show, and a current-events podcast calledFactually!Frequent YouTube viewers may recognize him as an early contributor to the Los Angeles-based sketch comedy channel CollegeHumor. Presumably,he does not sleep.
This appears to be Higher Ground’s first foray into TV, after previously producing three film-length documentaries—American Factory, Crip Camp,andBecoming—in 2019 and 2020, as well as Michelle Obama’s eponymous podcast. All three of Higher Ground’s films to date have been distributed by Netflix, in keeping with the multi-year deal the Obamas signed with Netflix in 2018.American Factory,which depicts the experiences of workers at a Chinese-owned factory in Moraine, Ohio, won just about every award that it could win this year,including an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature.
The G Word with Adam Conoveris scheduled to begin filming in 2021.
