Comedic Team The Grawlix Feature Nick Spreigl From Air Dubai Musically for New Online TV Show

by Tim Wenger

A collection of Denver-based filmers, actors known as The Grawlix, and even Air Dubai drummer Nick Spreigl, have come together on a web-based TV series called “Those Who Can’t.” Entered into Amazon.com’s brand new Amazon Studios, the show is based around three high school teachers plotting revenge on a student who has made their lives a living hell.

Andy Juett, of Indie 101.5 fame in addition to being a big comedy producer here in Denver, worked on the pilot episode with the Grawlix crew. “The Grawlix pilot, Those Who Can’t, is grateful to be a part of the launch of Amazon Instant Video’s “Amazon Originals” batch of pilots.  Those Who Cant’s pilot episode is FREE for the next month or so on Amazon Instant Video.  It’s pretty rad because you can watch the show a lot of places including computers and via Amazon Instant Video on video game systems.,” says Juett via email.

Denverites may be familiar with The Grawlix, an alternative comedy show featuring Adam Cayton-Holland, Andrew Overdahl, and Ben Roy. In addition to their live comedy shows and web series (which can be viewed at funnyordie.com/thegrawlix), this group of comedians, writers, and producers is responsible for the “Those Who Can’t” pilot episode, which they submitted to Amazon Studios during open submissions to Amazon Studios for an original comedy series. The pilot was directed by the Nix Brothers.

“During the process of making the pilot, we were able to lure in some pretty great cast members that were some of our famous friends including Kyle Kinane (voice of Comedy Central) who plays the crotchety Rod Knorr, MTV’s Nikki Glaser and Rory Scovel in addition to Ben, Adam and Andrew,” says Juett.

Cayton-Holland had the idea of using a drum line as the main musical focus, to coincide with the show’s ‘school’ theme. The music for the pilot was written and recorded by Spreigl, who came into contact with the group through Juett. Spreigl teaches drum lessons to Juett’s son and Juett, upon learning that Spreigl played in Air Dubai, approached him about doing the music for the program. “We started talking and he was like, ‘I have this pilot, and we need some music for it,’” says Spreigl. “It’s about teachers, so we were thinking a drum line.” Spreigl wrote all of the music for the pilot.

The pilot is currently streaming on Amazon’s website. The link is as follows: amazon.com/gp/product/B00CBNPCZ2. Viewers can vote for this pilot, or any of the others that are entered in the competition. “This is the part where we wait and see,” says Spreigl. “It’s important for people to check it out, vote, and support Denver. It was cool to collaborate with some other Denver people,” he adds. “Comedians with their own thing going on, I’ve got my own thing going on, but being able to come together and be able to do something together that pushes Denver into the spotlight is exciting. The comedy scene and bands are blowing up, people are starting to pay attention to Denver a lot more.”

Online: facebook.com/thegrawlix

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