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Why Jason Sudeikis & Brendan Hunt Chose To Set Ted Lasso In England
By VALERIE ETTENHOFER
"Ted Lasso" is a big-hearted sports sitcom that mainly works because of its premise of the fish out of the water, where American coach Ted Lasso manages an English football club.
The show wouldn't be the same without its culture-blending humor, but co-creators Jason Sudeikis and Brendan Hunt had an even simpler reason for setting the show in England.
While Ted's clueless about the UK, Sudeikis is an Anglophile. Sudeikis and Hunt (who plays Coach Beard in the show), actually love and know British culture, especially pop culture.
"When I was a kid, I was into the Beatles, Shakespeare, Doctor Who, Monty Python," Sudeikis told USA Today. Hunt, too, was a fan of the classic British sitcom, "Fawlty Towers."
As Hunt put it to USA Today, "Jason and I not only have a true love for the game of football, as most of the world knows it, but also a great appreciation for English culture."
However, this didn't prevent the pair from having their real-life fish-out-of-water moments while in the U.K., including looking in the wrong direction while crossing the street.