while NBC is still paying for and airing his show, or, hell, while he's still working in the business, I have a hard time believing that he's gonna say anything to really piss them off
You’ve got Christmas, and you’ve got Dungeons & Dragons as the major political plot points in the making of Community’s second season. I was asked not to write the episode, they said “Because it won’t be an accessible topic.” I said, “I appreciate your concern, I’ll make it accessible.” This was the studio, not the network. We spent two days writing it, and we finished it, and we read it through, these two gentlemen and I at Andrew Guest’s house. His girlfriend made us Pop-Tarts and we had a little shot of cognac or something. We’d been up all night. We almost cried because we were like, “God, that was fucking hard.” And it was so satisfying. “What a nice little story this is. Let’s get to that table-read.” And we did it. We threaded the needle. We made Dungeons & Dragons accessible. We went and table-read it, and it was a great table-read, people loved it. The director, Joe Russo, was like, “I can’t wait to shoot it. I don’t have any thoughts about how to improve it. I think it’s great.”
The studio and network response at the table-read was so removed from that. They were so upset about the crime of this episode having been written. The note session as a whole was preceded by a 45-minute period of them walking around the lot whispering to each other. They told me they would come up to my office and meet me privately. When they came up, I had the director and all of the writers in the office with me, because I was terrified. They sat down, and they said, “Look, where do we start?” I couldn’t believe this was happening. I was like, “This is opposite of how you should feel right now. This is a great episode. We’re going to get a 1.7 no matter what. We will build our ratings in other ways. The episode is not about credit cards; it’s not about Hilary Duff. It’s going to get the same numbers. There is a cultural build to a hit show. We have to prove to people that we’re capable of good things so they can trust us, so that we can have a relationship. One day we will either be a highly rated show or we’ll be cancelled. It will not have to do with this moment. This episode is good, the story is good, these characters are good. Anyone who doesn’t tune in because the commercial says they’re playing Dungeons & Dragons, it’s not my fault. It’s not on me.”
It was such a depressing note session, because they didn’t even have any notes on the story. They just didn’t want it to exist. I took a photograph of my eyes driving home that day at 3 p.m. because I was leaving work early. I looked in my rearview mirror, and I was crying. More than crying, I was red-eyes, tears streaming, weeping. And I was weeping out of self-pity and frustration, like a child weeps when he doesn’t understand his parents’ rules. “Why can’t I have ice cream when I ate my liver?” I took a photo of it, so I could show it to them between seasons, because as I told my girlfriend when I got home, “I think I’m going to have to quit my own show, because I can’t operate under these circumstances. I can’t be this proud of something that the people paying me to do it are this ashamed of. It will never work. We’ll never achieve anything. It’ll never connect.” So it was the best of times and the worst of times. I think that episode is fantastic. I haven’t watched it again, but I remember it as being something else. I invite people over to my house to watch the episodes with me on Thursday night that I’m really proud of, and that was definitely one of them.
while NBC is still paying for and airing his show, or, hell, while he's still working in the business, I have a hard time believing that he's gonna say anything to really piss them off
*snip* I invite people over to my house to watch the episodes with me on Thursday night that I’m really proud of, and that was definitely one of them.
Man, I'm not sure what I would pay to go to Dan Harmon's house and watch an episode of Community with him. That would be pretty awesome though.
while NBC is still paying for and airing his show, or, hell, while he's still working in the business, I have a hard time believing that he's gonna say anything to really piss them off
You’ve got Christmas, and you’ve got Dungeons & Dragons as the major political plot points in the making of Community’s second season. I was asked not to write the episode, they said “Because it won’t be an accessible topic.” I said, “I appreciate your concern, I’ll make it accessible.” This was the studio, not the network. We spent two days writing it, and we finished it, and we read it through, these two gentlemen and I at Andrew Guest’s house. His girlfriend made us Pop-Tarts and we had a little shot of cognac or something. We’d been up all night. We almost cried because we were like, “God, that was fucking hard.” And it was so satisfying. “What a nice little story this is. Let’s get to that table-read.” And we did it. We threaded the needle. We made Dungeons & Dragons accessible. We went and table-read it, and it was a great table-read, people loved it. The director, Joe Russo, was like, “I can’t wait to shoot it. I don’t have any thoughts about how to improve it. I think it’s great.”
The studio and network response at the table-read was so removed from that. They were so upset about the crime of this episode having been written. The note session as a whole was preceded by a 45-minute period of them walking around the lot whispering to each other. They told me they would come up to my office and meet me privately. When they came up, I had the director and all of the writers in the office with me, because I was terrified. They sat down, and they said, “Look, where do we start?” I couldn’t believe this was happening. I was like, “This is opposite of how you should feel right now. This is a great episode. We’re going to get a 1.7 no matter what. We will build our ratings in other ways. The episode is not about credit cards; it’s not about Hilary Duff. It’s going to get the same numbers. There is a cultural build to a hit show. We have to prove to people that we’re capable of good things so they can trust us, so that we can have a relationship. One day we will either be a highly rated show or we’ll be cancelled. It will not have to do with this moment. This episode is good, the story is good, these characters are good. Anyone who doesn’t tune in because the commercial says they’re playing Dungeons & Dragons, it’s not my fault. It’s not on me.”
It was such a depressing note session, because they didn’t even have any notes on the story. They just didn’t want it to exist. I took a photograph of my eyes driving home that day at 3 p.m. because I was leaving work early. I looked in my rearview mirror, and I was crying. More than crying, I was red-eyes, tears streaming, weeping. And I was weeping out of self-pity and frustration, like a child weeps when he doesn’t understand his parents’ rules. “Why can’t I have ice cream when I ate my liver?” I took a photo of it, so I could show it to them between seasons, because as I told my girlfriend when I got home, “I think I’m going to have to quit my own show, because I can’t operate under these circumstances. I can’t be this proud of something that the people paying me to do it are this ashamed of. It will never work. We’ll never achieve anything. It’ll never connect.” So it was the best of times and the worst of times. I think that episode is fantastic. I haven’t watched it again, but I remember it as being something else. I invite people over to my house to watch the episodes with me on Thursday night that I’m really proud of, and that was definitely one of them.
that's very sweet and all, but I am not gonna take stuff like that at face value. Dan Harmon is in the business of selling shows--selling them to the audience and selling them to the channel. I'm sure that there are disagreements over what sort of episodes the writers ought to write, but I don't believe that they're too drastic given the way the enterprise is conducted. More to the point, I absolutely do not believe that writing an episode about DnD when the channel is concerned about not enough people knowing about DnD to be the sort of revolutionary action that yields true art.
I'll race, To feel the wind in my face
And I'll race, To feel alive
And I'll race, To feel like I own this place
And I'll race until I die
And I'll race against the other racers
And I'll race with one big shout
And I'll race against the clock
And I'll race against myself
And I'll race
And I'll race
The actual painting is rather dark [if more subtle than this], so I did some post work and brightened it up in Photoshop. I've considered doing another day's work on the painting to brighten it up, but I think I might just leave it as is.
Nick Offerman, Rob Lowe, Chris Pratt, Aubrey Plaza, Aziz Ansari, Donald Glover, Danny Pudi, Alison Brie, Gillian Jacobs, Jim Dale... And they find the need to nominate Jon Cryer again.
But if you read only one post-nomination interview today, maybe make it HitFix’s talk with Amy Poehler, where the Parks And Recreation star (and Best Actress nominee) celebrates the show’s rightful Outstanding Comedy Series nod, jokes that she’ll campaign for votes by going door to door and doing “a really cool thing where I pour honey over myself,” but more importantly, addresses one of this morning’s most egregious snubs—that of her co-star Nick “Ron Fucking Swanson” Offerman. “It's a hot load of bullshit that he didn't get a nomination,” Poehler says, “and you can quote me on that.” Done and done.
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Man, I'm not sure what I would pay to go to Dan Harmon's house and watch an episode of Community with him. That would be pretty awesome though.
that's very sweet and all, but I am not gonna take stuff like that at face value. Dan Harmon is in the business of selling shows--selling them to the audience and selling them to the channel. I'm sure that there are disagreements over what sort of episodes the writers ought to write, but I don't believe that they're too drastic given the way the enterprise is conducted. More to the point, I absolutely do not believe that writing an episode about DnD when the channel is concerned about not enough people knowing about DnD to be the sort of revolutionary action that yields true art.
I really liked the You Can't Shoot Here bit.
Home Movies is one of my favorite things ever. He was in a commercial with Conan a while back and I flipped out.
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I guess Archer has given him a ton of exposure, but yeah to me he'll always be McGuirk.
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And I'll race, To feel alive
And I'll race, To feel like I own this place
And I'll race until I die
And I'll race against the other racers
And I'll race with one big shout
And I'll race against the clock
And I'll race against myself
And I'll race
And I'll race
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nah
and "true art" wasn't my phrase, I was just borrowing it
Your post was pretty dumb regardless
more like
bread and circuses
I've loved his voice for a long time, but I didn't know what he looked like until JBHV
aaaahhhhhhhhhhh
but John Hodgman follows her!
http://tygerbug.deviantart.com/art/Community-Abed-Danny-Pudi-213864360
Danny Pudi as Abed Nadir from Community.
Acrylic paint on a 16x20 canvas panel.
The actual painting is rather dark [if more subtle than this], so I did some post work and brightened it up in Photoshop. I've considered doing another day's work on the painting to brighten it up, but I think I might just leave it as is.
I'm also painting Annie Edison [Alison Brie].
Here are some quick pencil sketches of the entire cast of Community:
http://orangecow.org/art/community.html
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its flavor would make me throw up
Ron Swanson's Pyramid of Chocolateness
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?p=19625433#post19625433
http://blog.zap2it.com/pop2it/2011/07/communitys-alison-brie-gillian-jacobs-go-lesbian-sm-for-gq.html
Nick Offerman, Rob Lowe, Chris Pratt, Aubrey Plaza, Aziz Ansari, Donald Glover, Danny Pudi, Alison Brie, Gillian Jacobs, Jim Dale... And they find the need to nominate Jon Cryer again.
Pardon me while my brain shuts down
... we can't, can we
HAPPENED AGAIN LOLLLL
fuckin hell
computer seems okay this time though
my water went out, though, which is weird
oh my god
OH MY GOD
Hahahaha
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/07/john_goodman_beefs_up_the_seas.html