Community, the tv show

plus i am not even a "fan" so yeah... i don't know why I keep opening this.

Do ittttt

when this thread began I doubt anyone here could have predicted much of what happened with Glover's career. "He could have been the next Eddie Murphy" is a weird take, since people in the future will be saying "he could be the next Donald Glover."

Yeah, I have no problem with the current Donald Glover or his c/v.

alls im sayin is that if he didn't have the ambition to become the world-conquering polymath that he is today and he decided to stick to his original milieu, he could've been equally successful. cause he's an outrageously talented comedic actor.

It's hard to say what his milieu is, exactly. Writer? Performer? Actor? Musician? Director? The weakest link on his resume seems to be movies. What made him (and really everyone) in Community so great is their gifts as team players. They're all "stars," even if by narrative default they orbit Joel McHale.

Def. one of those shows where every character/actor could (and sometimes did) anchor an entire episode.

having a successful/critically acclaimed prestige tv show that you created, star in and are the executive producer on, whose production gets delayed because you have to be Lando in a new Star Wars film, while also having a v successful music career (much more than Eddie Murphy ever had for a start) is a strange kind of failure.

ha, he definitely is a world-conquering success.

im just a guy who despises the music of childish gambino idly speculating about a world where donald glover stuck to comedy.

atlanta is better than community

Maybe, but they're totally (and tonally) different animals.

decided to stick to his original milieu, he could've been equally successful. cause he's an outrageously talented comedic actor.

Before he became a sitcom actor on Community, he had already been part of a live sketch comedy group, a UCB improviser, a youtube writer/performer with millions of views, a salaried sitcom writer, a stand-up comedian, and had co-written a theatrically-released movie.

His original milieu, before all of those, was being in New York University's sketch team: it's fair to say that writing a couple of skits a month, which were performed anonymously by an ensemble at one free show monthly, exclusively to college students, would not have made him equally as successful if he'd kept it up for 18 years instead of doing a bunch of other things.

he wrote for Kenneth on 30 RK

(said adoringly)

thanks for the explanation, amelia bedelia

sic, you ever wonder if you're gonna get bored playing a board game?

let's talk about Danny Pudi instead. What's up with that guy?

he's the voice of huey on ducktales

He's on that new Apple TV show called "Mythic Quest," playing a morally questionable business dude who wants to add loot boxes to everything.

Abed would totally be into loot boxes.

Mythic Quest is also a show written by Community writer Megan Ganz, I think

Yeah, she' s in the mix. But she also did "Sunny in Philadelphia," which I think is the more direct link.

decided to stick to his original milieu, he could've been equally successful. cause he's an outrageously talented comedic actor.

Before he became a sitcom actor on Community, he had already been part of a live sketch comedy group, a UCB improviser, a youtube writer/performer with millions of views, a salaried sitcom writer, a stand-up comedian, and had co-written a theatrically-released movie.

His original milieu, before all of those, was being in New York University's sketch team: it's fair to say that writing a couple of skits a month, which were performed anonymously by an ensemble at one free show monthly, exclusively to college students, would not have made him equally as successful if he'd kept it up for 18 years instead of doing a bunch of other things.

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Kevin Hart is the current version of Eddie Murphy in terms of national stature and omnipresence I would say

I don't like Childish Gambino but I've come to respect the obvious will pushing it forward.

Who was Eddie Murphy's Rock?

Nick Nolte

he wrote for Kenneth on 30 RK

(said adoringly)

― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved),

yah he is IRL from Stone Mountain, Georgia, so wrote loads of gags for / about Kenneth's background

when this thread began I doubt anyone here could have predicted much of what happened with Glover's career. "He could have been the next Eddie Murphy" is a weird take, since people in the future will be saying "he could be the next Donald Glover."

― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes)

he could have been the next Jordan Peele

great revive

who knew everyone felt that way about Childish Gambino

great table read. like the P&R special, they've pried open my wallet

I look forward to his surprise stand-up special dropping in 2025.

Atlanta is so good he gets a free pass from me on like four more poor Prince impersonation singles.

look the kid’s brilliant, it doesnt really matter if you didnt dig his music

he could have been the next Jordan Peele

JP never topped the Pazz and Jop singles poll, every kid's dream

only managed to tie for #9 in Reissues in 1986

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we are rewatching S1 and there’s so many genuinely great moments in the early episodes

i forgot about Abed’s first movie “Six Candles” in episode 3 or 4? amazing

it's funny because you'd never guess the show would get as zany as it did in the first season. it was never a grounded show and the characters and dialogue were sharp from the beginning but it was less set-piecey.

one of my fav eps is still the one where Pierce joins Vaughn's band.

We've been watching it from the beginning, me and a daughter, and it has aged really, really well.

a friend of mine is watching for the first time and his only word of complaint so far is that it "isn't believable." i've assured him that it only gets more realistic as it moves along.

lol

Ha, I'm glad people are coming around to my pov on s1. I think Abed's movie was as early as ep 2?

Arrested Development just doesn’t have realistic family dynamics. 2/10 would not watch again

been watching through S3 occasionally for a few months; gotta hurry up to get to the table-read ep.

just watched that podcast episode #5 with surprise guest alison brie, pretty incredible

It's wonderful how well they all get along and how funny they are all together. They never even get around to talking about "Community." Or anything, really!

this is on Netflix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juk9K1LaxP4