King of Fools: The Oral History of Danny McBride

Danny McBride’s characters are, with a few exceptions, magnetically terrible. Over the past 20 years, he’s written himself a collection of profane, overconfident, wrongheaded, tacky Southern men whose delusions and ineptitude keep them from becoming the heroes they see themselves as in their own minds. The approach has allowed him and his tight-knit pack of collaborators to study—and make fun of—a very specific type of 21st-century American unexceptionalism.