Deli Boys Renewed for a Second Season by Hulu
Onyx Collective and 20th Television announced today that the critically acclaimed Hulu Original comedy series Deli Boys has been renewed for a second season.
Fred Armisen (Saturday Night Live, Wednesday) will join the sophomore season as a series regular, alongside Asif Ali, Saagar Shaikh, and Poorna Jagannathan.
Deli Boys follows a pair of pampered Pakistani American brothers who lose everything and are forced to reckon with their Baba’s secret life of crime as they attempt to take up his mantle in the underworld.
Armisen is set to play a legendary gambling savant with an uncanny ability to read people like cards. His casino empire is global, but his crown jewel is in Philly. He is uniquely brilliant and deeply unhinged — a deadly combo if you cross him.
Fred Armisen is a comedian, writer, producer, and musician. Armisen’s career began in the Chicago-based post-punk band Trenchmouth, as well as the Blue Man Group.
An 11-season veteran of Saturday Night Live, Armisen was the co-writer and co-star of IFC’s Emmy-nominated series Portlandia, which he created alongside Carrie Brownstein; co-writer, co-star, and executive producer of HBO’s Spanish-Language series Los Espookys; and co-writer, co-star, and producer of IFC’s Documentary Now.
He currently stars in Season 2 of Wednesday on Netflix and voiced Elliot Birch in the eighth and final season of Big Mouth, also on Netflix. In film, he recently voiced a character in The Super Mario Bros. Movie and starred in Judd Apatow’s The Bubble.
He’s currently touring Comedy For Musicians But Everyone Is Welcome and just wrapped his Broadway debut in All In: Comedy About Love. In 2014, Armisen was named band leader of the 8G Band on Late Night with Seth Meyers.
Brillstein Entertainment Partners, WME, and Yorn, Levine, Barnes, Krintzman, Rubenstein, Kohner, Endlich, Goodell & Gellman rep Armisen.
The half-hour series Deli Boys was created by Abdullah Saeed and developed by Jenni Konner and Nora Silver under Jenni Konner Productions. Michelle Nader, who served as showrunner in Season 1, was an executive producer alongside Saeed, Konner, and Silver.
Nisha Ganatra served as executive producer and director of the pilot. The series is produced by 20th Television and hails from Onyx Collective.
Since its debut, Deli Boys has earned widespread critical acclaim and captured the attention of both industry insiders and mainstream audiences. The series holds a Certified Fresh rating of 96% on Rotten Tomatoes and earned a spot on the 2024 Gold House A100 List, honoring creator Abdullah Saeed and the cast for their cultural impact and creative excellence.
