{"id":868753,"date":"2026-10-02T22:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T22:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/868753\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T22:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T22:52:08","slug":"dasan-frazier-shane-paul-mcghie-to-star-in-issa-raes-hbo-comedy-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/868753\/","title":{"rendered":"Dasan Frazier &#038; Shane Paul McGhie To Star In Issa Rae&#8217;s HBO Comedy Pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/shane-paul-mcghie\/\" id=\"auto-tag_shane-paul-mcghie\" data-tag=\"shane-paul-mcghie\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shane Paul McGhie<\/a> (Poker Face, The Last Shift) and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/dasan-frazier\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dasan-frazier\" data-tag=\"dasan-frazier\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dasan Frazier<\/a> (A Different World, Delphi) are set as the leads in <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/untitled-male-friendship-show\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Untitled Male Friendship Show<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/issa-rae\/\" id=\"auto-tag_issa-rae\" data-tag=\"issa-rae\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Issa Rae<\/a>\u2018s new half-hour comedy pilot at <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/hbo\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hbo\" data-tag=\"hbo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HBO<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWritten and exec produced by Rae, the pilot centers on Menzel (McGhie), a 28-year-old barber, aspiring sports manager and professional best friend to JB (Frazier), a 27-year-old up-and-coming boxer, as they navigate ambition, insecurity, loneliness and the double-edged sword of success within the high-stakes world of professional boxing in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPrentice Penny, a key collaborator of Rae\u2019s on Insecure, will serve as showrunner, executive producer and pilot director. Jax Clark will exec produce for Hoorae alongside A Penny For Your Thoughts and Jonathan Berry and Dave Becky for 3 Arts Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMcGhie\u2019s credits include guest roles in Poker Face, Abbott Elementary and Grey\u2019s Anatomy and as Jevon in Andrew Cohn\u2019s feature The Last Shift. He\u2019s repped by Innovative Artists Entertainment and Josiah Akinyele at ColorCreative.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFrazier most recently appeared in A Different World, which was just <a data-id=\"1237145174\" data-type=\"post\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/10\/a-different-world-renewal-season-2-netflix-1237145174\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">renewed by Netflix<\/a> for a second season. Upcoming, he\u2019ll be seen in a recurring role in Delphi, Prime Video\u2019s new series out of the Creed universe, from Michael B. Jordan\u2019s Outlier Society. Frazier is repped by Paradigm, Tassell Talent Group and Fox Rothschild.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Shane Paul McGhie (Poker Face, The Last Shift) and Dasan Frazier (A Different World, Delphi) are set&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[366312,88,1035,55935,366313,92,366314],"class_list":["post-868753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-dasan-frazier","tag-entertainment","tag-hbo","tag-issa-rae","tag-shane-paul-mcghie","tag-tv","tag-untitled-male-friendship-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}