Community, the tv show

Livestream technology is now such that I could watch(read: listen to) all of this on my phone as I drove home last night.

Here's a youtube playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2B63B1FC877FAD30

just watched the whole thing, convinced jim rash is the funniest one there

Unless I'm wrong, he's the only proper improv type in the cast, isn't he? Jacobs, Pudi, YNB are all trad actors, Glover and McHale are stand-ups, not sure about Brie and Jeong.

Jeong started as a standup. Actually, he started as a doctor, and then became a standup.

i always assumed rash was a trad actor who just fit the role really well

Glover is an improv dude. McHale a proper actor. Both have only started doing stand up post-Community.

well, JM got into standup via The Soup a while before Community, but yeah, both those guys came to it after being on TV

Glover's not really got an improv core, he definitely came up through sketch and formal writing

McHale was doing stand-up years before Community afaik

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tarfumes linked to the av club article mentioning it, but this whole interview with community women is a v interesting and worthwhile read: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/02/28/community-alison-brie-yvette-nicole-brown-gillian-jacobs-megan-ganz-roundtable.html

Shirley could be an even better character if she started addressing people as "Stinker" or "my little pumpkins"

all the talk (from harmon, actors, writers, fans) about "how this episode really tells you why these people are friends" or "we really wanted to give shirley more depth this episode" etc. really kind of diminishes my enjoyment of the show. it feels like it doesn't leave any room for viewers to make heir own judgments, and anyway the "emotional" beats are generally the worst in this series. i should probably just attempt to watch it in a vacuum.

Jim Rash is a groundlings/UCB-type; I believe he taught improv there, if my FB/LJ friends are anything to go from.

One day somebody will realize that Ken Jeong is best when doing straight deadpan. I still hold that the funniest he's ever been onscreen was Knocked Up.

Actually, I don't have a problem with them explicitly breaking down the show and how they wanted the characters to work. There's something in the construction & intelligence of the show that connects to me emotionally, even with it all exposed. It's like it operates on a level where the impact of the magic trick is only heightened by showing everyone how it's done. We all know we're watching this very meticulously assembled thing, and the intelligence involved with it and what it needs from the viewers only makes us like it more.

except that it DOESN'T really seem that meticulously assembled, really, and to me that's what all the backchannels etc. reveal. i mean for all the talk they do you'd think the show would be of a bit more formal interest in terms of balancing plotlines, etc. but it's really not that much more sophisticated than a lot of other shows, except in its humor--which is what gets talked about the least, it seems.

i think someone needs to go back to the dan harmon circles reeducation camp, where circles

One day somebody will realize that Ken Jeong is best when doing straight deadpan. I still hold that the funniest he's ever been onscreen was Knocked Up.

The deleted scene with him, Katherine Heigl, and Adam Scott is insanely hilarious. Scott loses it, and Heigl sounds like she's about to hyperventilate.

Pt. 14 on the paleyfest with the spoilers bit was hilarious.

a spoilery but awesome season 3 return trailer is up (video auto-plays, sorry about that).

i think they released an animated short today too, but i haven't watched it yet.

Holy balls! That's about a million times more amazing than I ever dreamed it might be.

People are now just busying themselves assembling their own mash-up trailers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgHFL3eW4nY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD8WOzRG8ik

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTt4EYDjk6k

I kind of want to start a thread just to attract Whiney's attention to the existence of this:

http://cdn.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/community-jedi.jpg

Holy balls! That's about a million times more amazing than I ever dreamed it might be.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, March 8, 2012 1:37 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Damn straight. I thought the season 3 trailer was special, but this...this is the John Coltrane of mid-season sitcom teaser trailers.

Also caught a few glimpses of what Harmon called "either the best or the worst thing in television history," just Annie and Abed in the Dreamatorium for the whole episode.

Surely Abed should be Luke and Jeff Han? Britta as Bib Fortuna and Shirley the Ewok are genius though.

Abed has already dressed up as Han on the show, though.

was the new one last nite?

IIRC he had to grab being Han before Jeff slouches into the role by default

xp It wasn't on last night; it starts up again this coming Wednesday.

thursday

Arg, right. I was thinking of Happy Endings.

Dean as Oola

http://instantmagnitude.com

Bill Carter piece in today's NYTimes.

I don't think every genre exercise the show does counts as "parody", which Carter wrote like 3x.

I do like that this quote made it in there:

Mr. Harmon appreciates the praise and said he had no quarrel with NBC’s executives, adding that they were supportive beyond the call of duty, “especially when they are under such pressure — they’re in a knife fight with Univision for ratings, for gosh sakes"

Britta as Jacko looks hilarious.

"we're in a ratings war, for pete's sake, we can't have 'community'!"

"...Jim Rash, who plays the bent Dean Pelton on the show. "

Um what

wkiw drunk Britta

I'm so mad I missed this, our NBC affiliate didn't air it in favor of overblown thunderstorm coverage.

"...Jim Rash, who plays the bent Dean Pelton on the show. "

Um what

― kinder, Tuesday, March 13, 2012 1:48 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

um what um what

^^It's a secret plug for the forthcoming NBC Romantic Comedy series "Bent".

Man, some of the line-readings tonight were just killer.

I feel super vindicated by my very early pronouncements of Community's greatness itt. Y'all just let me know when you want me to predict the next sitcom phenomenon, y'hear?

Lemme guess: GCB

the Only Fools and Horses remake with John Leguizamo.

Unfortunately, ¡Rob! didn't get renewed for a second season. So much potential...lost.

haha

I suspect Apartment 23 could be good, but it could also be very very bad.

"Way to commit, Johnny Fever!"