20TH ANNIVERSARY!

Read:


Wet Hot American Summer at 20:
The Nashville of Absurdist Cinema
(Awards Watch)

Watch:


David Wain’s 20th anniversary comments
on Wet Hot’s inception, making and legacy

Original cast LIVE READ!

was Saturday, October 24, 2020

Thanks to all who came, we raised over $200,000
to support of Biden Victory Fund
in the swing state of Pennsylvania and throughout the rest of the country.

THE MOVIE

a.k.a. WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER: Last Day of Camp
“Best comedy since 2000”
--AV CLUB:  "The 50 best comedies since 2000"

 

Wet Hot American Summer, the movie, was filmed in 28 rainy days, May & June 2000 in Wayne County, Pennsylvania. 

It premiered at the Sundance Festival in January 2001.

USA Films released the movie theatrically on July 27, 2001.

The DVD was released on January 2002, with the following elements: 

  • super high quality director-supervised transfer

  • great behind-the-scenes footage

  • tons of deleted scenes

  • audio commentary with Wain, Showalter and Garofalo

  • songs from the movie

  • production stills

  • bios and cast comments

  • alternate soundtrack with lots of added farts 

Midnight and outdoor screenings began in several cities August of 2003, and have increased in number every summer.

In August of 2011, many members of the cast celebrated the movie's 10th anniversary at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, highlighted in this Vulture article.

On January 21st, 2012, the original cast gathered at the San Francisco Sketchfest to perform a live radio play version of the film, which you can read about here on the Huffington Post.

Bradley Cooper remembers his sex scene with Michael Ian Black.

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THE BOOK

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(e.g. Amazon)

Screenwriters David Wain and Michael Showalter take pen to page and create a hilarious, behind-the-scenes annotated version of the original screenplay. Learn how and why they made artistic decisions while writing and filming the movie. The book also features reproduced ephemera from filming—photos, original (and scathing) reviews, AIM chat conversations, marked up script pages, and so much more. From Abrams Books.

“Wet Hot American Summer is one of the funniest films ever made. This is a must-read for any fan of comedy out there.” — Rachel Bloom

“Watching Wet Hot American Summer for the first time was an ‘Aha’ moment for me. The blend of physical comedy—bizarrely specific—and wildly heightened characters made me see the vast possibilities within the world of making comedy, and making comedy with your friends.”
— Abbi Jacobson

“I saw Wet Hot American Summer opening weekend and it blew my comedy mind. And now this book has blown my book-about-classic-cult-comedy-with-insights-and-anecdotes-that-really-elevate-the-whole-experience-of-something-I-already-loved mind.” — Nick Kroll

“If you love the movie Wet Hot American Summeras much as I do, but for some reason don’t like watching it, then I guess this is the perfect book for you.” — B. J. Novak

THE DOCUMENTARY

Watch the full-length documentary about the making of WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER — for free!

THE PREQUEL

“First Day of Camp” PRESS!

Original teaser

Showalter & Wain on Jimmy Fallon

ALL EIGHT EPISODES STREAMING on NETFLIX

THE SEQUEL

“A funny, poignant camp reunion.”
              - Robert Lloyd,  LA Times

“The spirit of Wet Hot American Summer is alive and well Ten Years Later”
              - Erik Adams, AV Club

“Ten Years Later is yet another sweet, painfully funny, extremely worthy follow-up to a cult classic."”
             - Tom Philip - GQ 

ALL EPISODES STREAMING on Netflix

SELECTED ARTICLES

THE SOUNDTRACK

THE WHAS ALBUM

GET the record, Plus WET HOT T-SHIRTS & "HIGHER AND HIGHER" RECORD at RUSTED WAVE!

and listen to selections from the "First Day of Camp" SOUNDTRACK
from Craig Wedren on Soundcloud!

THE GAME

"A different kind of RPG, one in which players struggle with drugs, sex, and talking vegetables rather than orcs and dungeons." 
–Entertainment Weekly

"The Wet Hot American Summer tabletop game is D&D for comedy nerds" 
–The Verge

Order here!