ATX Festival
The best medicine: Childrens Hospital joins ATX Festival for marathon atDrafthouse
Do clowns frighten or delight you? How about doctors wearing clown makeup and blood-splattered scrubs to put their clearly terrified child patients at ease?
Actor/creator Rob Corddry's Patch Adams-based character, Dr. Blake Downs, is just one of the twisted versions of popularized medical stereotypes showcased in the hysterical and surreal Adult Swim show, Childrens Hospital.
In three seasons, the series has achieved an impressive blend of abject absurdity, self-referential meta comedy and celebrity guest star appearances that makes you wonder how they pull each episode off and also what is so wrong with their brains that they could even come up with it in the first place.
Most people have only experienced the show served up in jam-packed 11-minute televised tidbits. But now you can see all three seasons in one ass-numbing marathon as a special event in the first ever all-television ATX Festival at the Alamo Drafthouse.
Members of the cast — including Corddry, Rob Heubel, Erinn Hayes and Ken Marino — along with executive producers David Wain and Jonathan Stern will be in attendance at the screening to answer your questions and provide commentary on all of the episodes. (For those who were present for Wain's and Marino's appearance at the Wainy Days marathon a month ago, you know how awesomely derailed these shows can get...)
If you're a fan of sappy primetime medical dramas like Grey's Anatomy, House, ER, and St. Elsewhere, you'll especially appreciate the on-point parody of Childrens Hospital's storylines and details. If you're a fan of meta alt comedy, you absolutely will not want to miss this opportunity to hear the creators and the stars discuss their intentions and their inspirations for the show's insane twists. And if you like poop jokes, you're probably already on board.
Ticket prices include admission to the marathon at the Alamo Ritz, a prior ATX Festival panel discussion with the cast at the State Theatre, and after party with the cast at the Stephen F. Austin Intercontinental Hotel, and an exclusive Mondo poster of Childrens Hospital. (Tickets are sold separately from the ATX Festival badge prices.)
