Dave (TV Series)

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Dave (TV Series)

From left to right: Taylor Misiak, Andrew Santino, GaTa, Travis Bennett, Christine Ko

Dave (TV Series), starring rapper Dave Burd (aka Lil Dicky) as himself, is a comedy television series on the FXX network. The first two episodes aired on March 4th, 2020. The show is currently streaming on Hulu, Amazon Video, and Vudu.

Dave is executively produced by Kevin Hart, Greg Mottola, Saladin Patterson, Scooter Braun, Marty Bowen, Mike Hertz, James Shin and Scott Manson.

The show is aimed in part to challenge toxic masculinity, even Dave's rapper name "Lil Dicky" is a nod to that. Many of his songs, though raunchy and explicit, convey messages tackling issues like hypermasculinity ("Classic Male Pregame") and white privilege ("White Dude").^[8]

"It's hard for people to take being funny seriously, even though I don't think it's mutually exclusive," Dave Burd tells the Recording Academy. "I think I can be funny and still very musically credible." ^[7]

GaTa, who is Lil Dicky's hype man both on the show and in real life, is diagnosed bipolar disorder (something he has also struggled with in real life) and hospitalized, shown in a flashback.

Societal standards dictate that men are not supposed to be emotional.

Many people don't believe in mental illness to begin with as well, and this sentiment is notably enforced in/on black, hispanic, and asian communities.

GaTa's character tackles both of those subjects

“I’m glad you told us — and I think it’s pretty cool that we’ve got the first hype man that’s clinically depressed.”
-Andrew Santino in "Hype Man" S1Ep05

Cast

Lil Dicky as himself
Taylor Misiak as Ally, a kindergarten teacher and Dave's girlfriend. Misiak also starred in Lil Dicky’s “Pillow Talking” music video and had a recurring role on NBC’s I Feel Bad.
GaTa as himself, Dave's on-stage hype man.
Andrew Santino as Mike, Dave's roommate and manager.
Santino had a recurring role on NBC’s I Feel Bad.
Travis Bennett as Elz, Dave's childhood friend from Philadelphia and DJ.
Christine Ko as Emma, Ally's roommate and friend.
Ko was recently featured in Tigertail for Netflix and will be seen in Greg Daniels’ Amazon Video series Upload.^[6]

Episodes


	Name	Air Date	Written by
S1Ep01	The Gander	March 4th, 2020	Lil DickyandJeff Schaffer
S1Ep02	Dave's First	March 4th, 2020	Yamara Taylor
S1Ep03	Hypospadias	March 11th, 2020	Lil Dicky
S1Ep04	Somebody...	March 18th, 2020	Luvh Rakhe
S1Ep05	Hype Man	March 25th, 2020	Saladin Patterson
S1Ep06	Talent Shows	April 1st, 2020	Lil Dicky
S1Ep07	What Wood You Wear?	April 8th, 2020	Alex Russell
S1Ep08	PIBE	April 15th, 2020	Max Searle
S1Ep09	Ally's Toast	April 22nd, 2020	Vanessa Mcgee
S1Ep10	Jail	April 29th, 2020	Lil Dicky

FXX said "Dave is currently the second most-watched inaugural season for a comedy on the network. The top spot is currently held by the first season of Atlanta in 2016, which averaged 5.2 million viewers over the course of its run."^[1] The show's audience is steadily increasing as well.

Dave receives many of its views (~95%) from online streaming sites, like Hulu or Amazon Video. The first five episodes each garnered about 200,000 views when it first aired on television, but each eventually earned around 5 million via streaming sites.^[1]