review from HuffPo!

excerpt from review:

Robert J. Elisberg

Political writer and screenwriter

The Brilliant, Hilarious Mayne Street Returns

It’s back. Finally. The glorious, Emmy-nominatedMayne Street webseries from ESPN returns today for Season 4. Life, once again, is good.

The webisodes star the too wonderful Kenny Mayne in the deeply-emotional and taxing role of ‘Kenny Mayne,’ a fictionalized version of himself and his life at ESPN. Well, we can hope it’s fictionalized. Mayne has made a career in recent years spoofing himself and sports reporting in general, notably to TV viewers through his “Mayne Event” features on ESPN Sunday, getting pro athletes to come in on the gag. And Mayne Street leaps from that into the netherworld.

Each webisode follows his generally-clueless efforts to survive at ESPN, certain that he is brilliant and doing everything better and smarter than everyone else, oblivious that the only thing keeping him from falling off the edge of the earth is his put-upon, weary and harried producer, terrifically played by Alison Becker. One webisode, for example, has Mayne’s three-person team (that includes their conspiratory theory-minded cameraman, Video Cowboy, played by Jon Glazer) on their way to cover the Beijing Olympics, when things hit a snag and Mayne decides to do his reports from New York City’s Chinatown instead, figuring that no one will know the difference.

The series was created and smartly-written by Todd Pelligrino and Josh Shelov. In 2009, it even received an Emmy nomination for “Outstanding New Approaches - Sports Programming, short format.” It’s filled with real-life celebrities playing themselves, from ESPN personalities behind the scene, such as Linda Cohn cramming her face in front of the camera to spout her favorite line from a Robert DeNiro movie, to Ben Stiller punking a sycophantic Mayne and much more.

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