February 2012
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Question: If Community isn’t renewed and this is your last day on set ever, what will you take away from this experience and what will you miss the most?
Gillian Jacobs: I’m going to cry. It so far exceeded my expectations of what the show would be. This is one of the best pilots I’ve ever read, so already my expectations were high. Then shooting the pilot -
[Jacobs begins to cry.]
Yvette Nicole Brown: Oh, it’s OK, Stinkers. She’s such a pretty crier. My God, she’s a pretty crier.
Gillian Jacobs: I’ve never worked with a group of people that have impressed me so consistently on such a daily basis. I feel like given the nature of this show, we’ve been thrown everything from an action movie to a noir to My Dinner With Andre. Everybody rose to it every single week. The writing and the creativity and the scope and the ambition of the show has been— [Jacobs’s sobbing becomes ragged.]
Yvette Nicole Brown: Oh, well. I can’t sit here and not hug you.
[Brown and Brie embrace Jacobs.]
Gillian Jacobs: Yeah. For all the people that have only heard about our show—it’s spoofs, it’s pop culture, it’s genre—they’re missing the fact that these are different, new characters on television that people have grown to love. So even when we do an episode which is set in the apartment and there’s no obvious spoof or takeoff, people still want to watch it because they love and care about these characters.
[Brie begins to cry.]
Yvette Nicole Brown: Oh, Stinker, what’s happening? Oh, my girls. Oh, my little pumpkins.
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Netflix Transitions to TV Shows | NYT →
With its three and a half year deal with Starz about to end, Netflix will soon be 60% television shows. It’s an interesting transition, and one that will certainly be scrutinized, but a sensible one in my opinion. Netflix has built up an impressive cache of television shows, and understand the divide between customer bases who prefer television and movies. Though my evidence is only...
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Comedy Central Finds Young Men Define Personal... →
Ignoring for a minute the bias inherent in Comedy Central publishing a study that says young males — their most important demographic — define themselves based on comedy, this certainly rings true.
Maybe it’s because we run a television blog that covers primarily comedy, but it feels like in an age where more disparate genres of music are more easily accessible, the common...
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WatchWe were losing a lot of sleep over who would replace SNL’s Paul Brittain in one of his most important roles: The guy who hits the jukebox in Les Jeunes de Paris. The Artist’s Jean Dujardin seems like a logical choice.
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