![]() ![]() ![]() This time around, Samberg, who executive-produced the 39-minute special, out on Saturday, July 8, is back in green spandex as the first African rider in the Tour (as Adewale Akinnuoye-Abaje points out, this dude is a guy who would put Bob Marley on the jukebox and shout out “African music!”). That’s the delightful premise of HBO’s Tour de Pharmacy, the newest documentary-style sports comedy from the team behind HBO’s 7 Days in Hell, about a fictional seven-day tennis match between Andy Samberg in a peroxide-blonde mullet and Kit Harington in short-shorts. Just, thank you.The year was 1982, an insane and little-known blip in sports history when so many riders got caught doping in the Tour de France that only five out of 170 were allowed to continue the race - all of whom almost definitely were also on drugs. However this goes, thanks HBO and Andy Samberg. Instead, 7 Days in Hell debuts on HBO streaming services on July 8. All else equal, 7 Days in Hell would be objectively funnier if it aired on ESPN, but only because ESPN is incapable of self-awareness.Where is Kristen Wiig in all of this? Oh right, she’s doing this…. ![]()
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