Bettendorf Talks(2024)

Bettendorf Talks is a workplace comedy that blends talk-show format with behind-the-scenes chaos. Hosted by comedy duo TJ and Dave in a small Quad City studio, the show chronicles their desperate attempt to revive their faded careers on a shoestring budget. With an inexperienced writing staff, Dave's outsized ego, and TJ's earnest incompetence, the pair navigates an absurd production where the band is tight, the local guests are wonderfully strange, and the director commands respect—yet somehow nothing comes together. Despite everyone's best efforts, the show's dysfunction stems not from laziness but from a team pulling in wildly different directions. It's a sharp satire of ambition meeting reality in the last place anyone would expect to find it.