With “Nirvanna the Band,” Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol might have found the Holy Grail of comedy. Their ongoing multimedia project, which began with a DIY webseries (“Nirvanna the Band”) in 2007 ...
The 'BlackBerry' prankster exploits 17 years of playing around with Jay McCarrol to make a renegade comedy in which two aspiring musicians go to extreme lengths to book a gig. Just how far would two ...
SXSW: Seventeen years into their medium-spanning comedy project, Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol still can't get a gig at the Rivoli. But that hasn't stopped them from trying. “Nirvanna the Band the ...
There was one recurring thought running through my mind while watching Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie: “How in the hell are they getting away with this?!” My only prior knowledge of Matt Johnson ...
Grab a bottle of Orbitz, because Neon has acquired the rights to “Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie.” Variety confirmed the news after Neon teased the acquisition in a cryptic social media post ...
One of the reasons I go to film festivals—perhaps at this point the main one—is to see movies the way they’re meant to be seen. I don’t mean dazzling images on a silver screen, although that part is ...
With "Nirvanna the Band," Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol might have found the Holy Grail of comedy. Their ongoing multimedia project, which began with a DIY webseries ("Nirvanna the Band") in 2007 ...
Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol tell IndieWire about spending two decades scheming to land a gig at the Toronto rock club, and why they model their characters after Calvin and Hobbes. With “Nirvanna the ...