Showtime orders a Wall Street collapse comedy from Don Cheadle and Happy Endings' David Caspe

By William Hughes | June 14, 2018 | 10:47pm

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Don Cheadle is headed back to Showtime for another dip into the comedic world of financial chicanery, with Variety reporting that the House Of Lies (Pies) star has signed on for a new series about an infamous Wall Street crash. Specifically, Cheadle will star alongside Andrew Rannells and Regina Hall in the network’s new series Black Monday, a comedy about the 1987 stock market collapse. (Fun fact: In Australia, it’s actually known as Black Tuesday, so tell that to your raging time zone-centrism, Showtime.)

In the real world, the crash—still the largest one-day drop of the Dow Jones ever—had any number of causes, including (allegedly) computer trading, failing international relations, and good old-fashioned human dumbness. In the Showtime version, though, it’s being pitched as the work of a crew of outsiders led by Cheadle, taking down the establishment of old white financial dudes while also “crashing the world’s largest financial system, a Lamborghini limousine, Don Henley’s birthday party, and the glass ceiling.”