| Alt Name: | Stan Hooper |
| Genre: | Sitcom |
| Creator: | Norm Macdonald Barry Kemp |
| Director: | Jeffrey L. Melman Barry Kemp |
| Starring: | Norm Macdonald Penelope Ann Miller Reagan Dale Neis |
| Composer: | Jason Miller |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Num Seasons: | 1 |
| Num Episodes: | 13 (5 unaired) |
| Executive Producer: | Norm Macdonald Barry Kemp Lori Jo Hoekstra |
| Producer: | Jessie Ward Dugan |
| Runtime: | 30 minutes |
| Channel: | Fox |
| Company: | Bungalow 78 Productions Paramount Television |
A Minute with Stan Hooper, also known as Stan Hooper, is an American sitcom starring Norm Macdonald. The series was a Bungalow 78 production in association with Paramount Television and aired on Fox. The series was canceled after eight of the thirteen episodes produced were aired.
The central character's name, Stan Hooper, was taken from Macdonald's work on Saturday Night Live, but the characters were vastly different. The role also allowed Macdonald to play the straight man among a cast of eccentric characters, a departure from his traditional comedy style.
Hooper, a famous newspaper columnist turned television commentator, moves his family from their New York home to a small Wisconsin town, Waterford Falls, where he hopes to better get in touch with Middle America in an attempt to make his weekly minute-long television commentaries more appealing to a larger audience. While there, he interacts with the folksy, and largely strange, townspeople of Waterford Falls.
Macdonald has said his goal was for the show to lull its audience into complacency, and become more subversive as time went on. It included a plan for Stan's wife Molly to be murdered by a drifter at the end of the first season.[1] The show was cancelled before any such plans were enacted.
In Australia, the entire series aired in late-night timeslots on Network Ten.