The NBC series "Tommy Lee Goes To College" premiers on August 16, at 9 pm.
The drummer's visit to the University of Nebraska is meant to make people laugh, there no joke on the university or on Lincoln campus.

We look better than we maybe really are, said Matt Ellis, a Nebraskan and Lee's roommate for the show.
I know I look better than I do in real life, he added.

UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman, who has already seen a couple episodes featuring the Tommy Lee in a variety of fish-out-of-water situations, was very amused.

I thought the university came through very well, Perlman said. I think the comedy is a joke on Tommy and not a joke on the university.


Our admissions people tell us there is certainly a buzz about the university when you talk to high school kids across the country, the UNL Chancellor added.

They offered us Tommy Lee, they didn't offer us Snow White, Perlman concluded.

The promotional clips include shots of Lee playing drums with the Huskers marching band during halftime of last year's Baylor game at Memorial Stadium.

Tommy Lee can also be seen struggling in class or being assisted by tutor Natalie Riedmann, an attractive girls spotted by the producers in the campus.