My super-involved retro-analysis of Community Season Three -
This might be the best Community-related piece I’ve ever written :3
I podcast, you podcast, we all podcast for podcast. -
I am on the latest episode of Around The Wood Stove talking about acting, comedy, and recent/upcoming projects. Check it out!
Homage à Trois: Musings on a Possible Community Porn Parody -
Community is coming back from its mid-season hiatus, but what about that porn parody that was announced last year? This article explores what a successful Community porn parody might look like.
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a writer's work page: A Story of a Christmas Story -
The Christmas after I turned sixteen, a family friend left an early gift for my mom on our porch. Wadded inside the elf-patterned tissue paper was the Celine Dion holiday album, titled These Are the Special Times.
The sepia-toned cover featured she of the steel-plated vocal folds, holding a…
Community Review: "Regional Holiday Music" -
…so far, Community has a great track record in the holiday episode department, and I’ve come to associate the Christmas episodes in particular with the show’s deepest, innermost sense of earnestness and sincerity—because it’s in those episodes that its voice has sung out the clearest.
Last night’s episode—the show’s third annual Christmas installment, entitled “Regional Holiday Music”—sang out more clearly (and more literally) than ever, delivering a hilarious musical send-up of Glee (with a healthy dose of Invasion of the Body-Snatchers) while yet again managing to affirm its core values of friendship and togetherness. Like Britta, the show takes this opportunity to “sing its heart’s song”—albeit much less awkwardly.
Excerpt from a piece I wrote over at PopBlerd.com. Community fans, check it out here!
Anonymous asked: Mr. Actually (Adam) Lauver: I was kidding about the salt earlier. What I meant to say was: Everyone knows that "making it" in the acting world is very difficult. It not only takes undeniable talent but incredible luck. If the forces combine in your favor, what will be your first selfless act as a(n) (inter)national celebrity?
Oh. Okay. Can I have the salt back, then?
You’re right that success in acting is very difficult, and I fully expect that if I attain it it will be more because of luck than because of talent. And I doubt that it will be because of hard work, because I fully plan on not doing much of that at all. But if, despite those things, I still manage to become successful, my first selfless act as a celebrity will be to let all of my unsuccessful friends still be friends with me. Does that count?
I’m kidding. I don’t know. It’s hard enough to be selfless as a non-celebrity, I don’t see why it would necessarily get any easier down the line. If I am ever drowning in money I imagine I’ll try to give as much as I can to good causes, but that doesn’t strike me as a particularly genuine response to the question since everybody says that. I might also start some kind of national book club where the only rule for selection is that the book has to be fucking awesome. Could that help the world? I don’t know.
I feel like linking selflessness with some vague, undefined, unlikely definition of future success kind of misses the mark. We should all strive to be selfless no matter where we are in life. Putting it off doesn’t help anybody. I mean, if I succeed as an actor, that’s great. But I’d prefer to succeed as a good person regardless of that. Does that make sense?
Anonymous asked: Mr. Actually (Adam) Lauver: Can you please pass the salt?
Sure thing. Here ya’ go.
(…with just a little Community for good measure.)
I know it’s sad, but Abed’s Uncontrollable Christmas is what made this video relevant for me.
(Oh, and if anybody’s wondering why I keep reblogging things from “xmas movie soundtrack,” it’s because it’s a really beautiful Christmas album that you can stream for free here. Check it out!)