Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers, multi-hyphenate entertainers who are together best known for hosting the “Las Culturistas” podcast, are developing an untitled comedy for Searchlight Pictures.
The comedy duo will write and star in a comedy based on “Why Didn’t Chris and Dan Get Into Berghain?,” a multi-part episode of the podcast “Search Engine.” In it, a pair of Americans travel across the world to Berlin to try to get into Berghain, the world’s most exclusive nightclub.
Olivia Gerke and Oly Obst will produce for 3 Arts Entertainment, with PJ Vogt and Sruthi Pinnamaneni co-producing. VP of Production Richard Ruiz and Creative Executive Daniel Yu are overseeing the project for Searchlight.
Yang and Rogers previously worked with Searchlight on “Fire Island,” a queer rom-com reinterpretation of “Pride and Prejudice” from writer-star Joel Kim Booster that was released on Hulu in 2022. Their podcast, “Las Culturistas,” is a two-time recipient of iHeart Radio’s Podcast of the Year Award and has spawned its own awards show which aired on Bravo earlier this year and was picked up again for 2026.
Yang, a five-time “Saturday Night Live” Emmy nominee, can be seen in theaters in Universal’s “Wicked: For Good.” He is also part of the voice cast of Warner Bros.’ upcoming adaptation of “The Cat in the Hat,” due out November 2026, and earlier this year reunited with “Fire Island” director Andrew Ahn for “The Wedding Banquet.” Rogers most recently was seen in the Lionsgate comedy “Good Fortune” and in the most recent season of the Apple TV series “Palm Royale.”
Yang and Rogers are represented by UTA, 3 Arts Entertainment, and Schreck Rose Dapello. Vogt & Pinnamaneni are repped by UTA and Jackoway Austen. The deal was brokered by UTA.
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