It’s impossible to say why “Smiling Friends,” Adult Swim’s manic, pseudo-nihilistic and brightly colored workplace comedy, has gained the following it has. Even the series’ creators are a bit baffled ...

Zach Hadel and Michael Cusack, the co-creators of Smiling Friends, don’t really watch many cartoons these days. It’s something they’ve shared before in interviews, and something they reiterate on a ...

Smiling Friends” has proven that the show’s signature style and approach to comedy is not getting stale any time soon.