WATCH: Trailer drops for Bad Monkey season 2

November 6th, 2026 by Marc Comments

Yes! Yancy is back just in time for Christmas!

Bad Monkey is an Apple TV comedy from Bill Lawrence, starring Vince Vaughn as a former Miami cop turned health inspector investigating a bizarre Florida murder mystery.

Bad Monkey is a comedy based on Carl Hiaasen’s New York Times bestselling novel about Andrew Yancy, played by Vince Vaughn, a former Miami police detective who is now working as a health inspector in the Florida Keys.


WATCH: Trailer drops for Criminal, based on Brubaker and Phillips’ hit grahic novel series


After tourists fish a human arm out of the water, Yancy sees a chance to prove it was murder and win his way back onto the force, but first he has to get through a cast of Floridian oddballs and one bad monkey.

Everyone’s favorite food inspector is back.

Vince Vaughn returns as Andrew Yancy in Bad Monkey, streaming December 2.

Watch the trailer:


“I’ll be in it,” Neve Campbell talks Scream 8


Bad Monkey stars Vince Vaughn, L. Scott Caldwell, Rob Delaney, Meredith Hagner, Natalie Martinez, Alex Moffat, Michelle Monaghan, Ronald Peet and Jodie Turner-Smith, with special guest star John Ortiz and guest stars Zach Braff, Ashley Nicole Black, Scott Glenn and Charlotte Lawrence.

Bad Monkey is developed by executive producer and showrunner Bill Lawrence, the award-winning creator and producer behind Apple TV comedies including Ted Lasso and Shrinking. Vince Vaughn also serves as star and executive producer.


WATCH: Character posters and Ebenezer on the Shelf short appear

Marc is a self-confessed nerd. Ever since seeing Star Wars for the first time around 1979 he’s been an unapologetic fan of the Wars and still believes, with Clone Wars and now Underworld, we are yet to see the best Star Wars. He’s a dad of two who now doesn’t have the time (or money) to collect the amount of toys, comics, movies and books he once did, much to the relief of his long-suffering wife. In the real world he’s a graphic designer. He started Following the Nerd because he was tired of searching a million sites every day for all the best news that he loves and decided to create one place where you can go to get the whole lot. Secretly he longs to be sitting in the cockpit of his YT-1300 Corellian Transport ship with his co-pilot Chewie, roaming the universe, waiting for his next big adventure, but feels just at home watching cartoons with his kids….