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Mr. Throwback offers laughs with a talented cast of longtime comedians, real life celebrities, and actors. With stars like Adam Pally, Stephen Curry, and Ego Nwodim, Mr. Throwback has a little bit of everything. Mr. Throwback is a mockumentary about old friends, scams, basketball, and reliving the glory days.

Peacock's new mockumentary Mr. Throwback delivers quite a few laughs thanks to its deep cast of comedians and talented actors. Mr. Throwback is one of several new shows on Peacock. It follows the fictional Danny Grossman as he reconnects with the real-life basketball sensation Stephen Curry. Danny's penchant for lying and scams quickly complicates that reunion, and leads to a documentary about his life being made. That then creates a hilarious situation that makes Mr. Throwback one of the best shows on Peacock.

The trailer for Mr. Throwback only shows a glimpse of all the characters and jokes the show has in store.

What do you do when one of the biggest sports stars on the planet asks you to write a role for him? If you’re David Caspe and Adam Pally, you think quickly.

The duo — who first worked together on the cult ABC sitcom “Happy Endings,” created by Caspe and starring Pally as Max Blum, a disheveled gay man making ends meet as an unlicensed limousine driver while mooching off his ensemble of Chicago friends — never expected to find themselves writing a mockmentary about Steph Curry. But when the Golden State Warriors star teamed up with his wife Ayesha Curry to host the game show “About Last Night” on what was then called HBO Max in 2022, their comedic fates changed forever.

Each episode of the show featured different celebrity couples answering embarrassing questions about each other, and both Pally and Caspe appeared as guests along with their respective partners. They...

Fire up the ribs, alert the staff at Rosita’s and wake up Chad the underwear monster because the curse of Penny’s birthday has been lifted! A soul-killing 11 years ago this month, the world lost one of the greatest TV comedies to ever be mistreated by a network: Happy Endings. After three seasons and probably twice as many time-slot changes, the eminently quotable, easily rewatchable ABC sitcom created by David Caspe delivered its traditional season-finale wedding episode. At the time, none of us knew that it would be the last we’d see of Chicago hot mess Penny Hartz, her gay bestie Max Blum (Knuckles‘ Adam Pally) and unrequited crush Dave Rose (Zachary Knighton), his on-off girlfriend Alex Kerkovich (Elisha Cuthbert), her sister Jane (Eliza Coupe) and brother-in-law Brad Williams (Damon Wayans Jr.). But like the sun blasting through your drawn shades, three days after going into ...