New York Magazine talks to Donald Glover

Cool interview with Donald where he discusses Derrick, Community and 30 Rock.

Check it out: http://nymag.com/movies/features/62376/

TMZ and National Enquirer expose Ken Jeong!

Even the tabloids can’t find any dirt on Ken.

Here TMZ paparazzi catch Ken picking up his parents at the airport.



Check out the full article at:
http://youoffendmeyouoffendmyfamily.com/tmz-national-enquirer-positive-asian-american-portrayal/

Community named # 3 of shows to be Thankful for this Thanksgiving!

www.fusedfilm.com compiled a list of the top 10 new shows this year to be thankful for and Community made the list at Number 3! The rest of the list reads:

1. Glee
2. Bored To Death
3. Community
4. Stargate Universe
5. V
6. Modern Family
7. Royal Pains
8. White Collar
9. Defying Gravity
10. Flashforward

Check out the full story:
http://www.fusedfilm.com/2009/11/new-tv-shows-to-be-thankful-for-in-2009-abc-brings-us-4-new-shows-we-love-but-foxs-glee-takes-top-spot/

Happy Thanksgiving!

Obviously because of the Holiday there won’t be a new episode this week but be thankful there is an all new episode next week!

For those of you that need a quick Community Fix this week check the A/V department for the first 3 of Abed’s shorts!

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! Eat lots of Turkey and Ham and have a great Thanksgiving!



http://www.nbc.com/community/video/categories/av-department/1162591/

The New York Daily News talks to Donald Glover about moving from 30 Rock to Community

Great, short interview with Donald about meeting Tina Fey, stand-up and moving from New York to L.A.

Check it out:

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2009/11/19/2009-11-19_donald_glover_went_from_writing_for_30_rock_to_starring_in_nbcs_community.html

Director Justin Lin talks about directing Community

youoffendmeyouoffendmyfamily.com has a great article about what is what like for Justin Lin, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift director to direct the Halloween Episode of Community. There was however no mention of why anyone would put Vin Diesel in a film.

Check it out:
http://youoffendmeyouoffendmyfamily.com/my-week-in-tv-land/

Funniest Chevy lines: S01e10

This episode was a good one for the ol’ one liners!

In response to Green Week:

“First we give a month to black history and now we’re blowing seven days on the Irish.”

“You know if Senor Chang gets any crazier he’s gonna win one of those Grammy Awards.”

“If he gets any nuttier their going put him on the view.”

UPDATE: after my original post I have received a number of e-mails insisting that I add another line from the episode… so by popular demand:

“Go tongue Chang!”

Poll Results:

Well the people have spoken and despite mood swings, bringing his personal life to work and being overly sensitive to Asian stereotypes, the winner is Ben Chang A.K.A. "EL TIGRE." Yes that’s right, more of you would rather attend intro to Spanish with Senor Chang over Professor Whitman’s easy “A” accounting class. Congrats Senor Chang… it must be your dancing!

Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo getting back into the Family Truckster

Well after Chris over at The Chevy Chase Show broke the news the other day about Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo getting back into the Family Truckster as Clark and Ellen Griswold in a new Superbowl ad the internet has exploded with mixed reaction!

The ad will air Feb. 7 2010 during the Superbowl and is for HomeAway vacation rentals and will be Chase's first Superbowl ad since 1993.

Seeing that National Lampoon’s Vacation is my all time favorite movie, I am excited and hope that this will bring some attention back to the series. Chase and D'Angelo have not reprised their classic roles since their brilliant cameo on the Family Guy’s Star Wars episode in 2007.

Remember a few weeks back stories broke that a new Vacation film is underway with a grown up Rusty Griswold taking the helm. Hopefully this renewed interest will show Warner Brothers that Chevy Chase is a Movie star and should star in his own film. Fingers crossed.

Check out these sites to read more:
http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2009/11/20/chevy-chase-and-beverly-dangelo-to-take-another-vacation-sort-of/
http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/news/a187830/chase-dangelo-to-reprise-vacation-roles.html
http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/features/discuss-would-you-go-on-another-vacation-with-chevy-chase-colea.php

Happy Birthday Joel McHale!

We would like to wish Joel a very Happy Birthday! We hope you seize the day!

Exclusive Interview: Greendale Community Talks to Dino Stamatopoulos about embracing “Star-Burns” and mixing comedy and Vodka

For Greendale Community’s first exclusive interview I had the chance to speak to Dino Stamatopoulos, who you all know as “Star-burns” on Community. What you may not know is that in addition to being a consultant on Community he has written for virtually every funny show for the last 20 years. His writing credits include “The Ben Stiller Show,” "Mr. Show with Bob and David," "TV Funhouse," in addition to creating the masterpiece "Moral Orel" for Adult Swim. He is now working on a new stop-motion animation show for Adult swim called “Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenhole.” I recently had the chance to speak to him about Community and some of his other projects.

You’ve been a part of most of the funniest shows of the past couple decades starting with The Ben Stiller Show but you mostly worked as a writer in the past how did you become involved with Community and as an actor?

I'm a consultant on Community, which means I go in a couple days a week and try to say funny things that go in the script. I think at some point they thought, "Hey, the best way to use Dino is to have him try out our weirder jokes on camera." That's what they did with Star-burns. I got a text from Dan Harmon (who was probably three feet away at the time) that said, "quit shaving. We may need you for star burns." It was a non-speaking part at the time and I thought, "What the fuck. Couldn't hurt." Then it eventually turned into a reoccurring part and I got a little scared. I was very busy with Frankenhole and TV wastes a lot of time. I ended up sitting on the Community set for hours before they used me. Well, eventually, I embraced doing the part. I even grew the star burns onto my own face instead of having the make-up person apply them.

Did the writers give you any direction on the character of Star-burns?

DERRICK’s First Feature Film could be coming to your town!

Donald’s sketch comedy group DERRICK has just released its first feature film Mystery Team. You can go to Mysteryteam-movie.com or DERRICKcomedy.com and request that Mystery Team come to your town!

In the mean time check out the new short film!

Ken Jeong on The Today Show

Ken will be on The Today Show (NBC) tomorrow morning (November 19)approx. 9:30 am promoting his very special Community episode!

IF that’s a little too early for you, check out this clip of the next episode!

Ken Jeong + Joel McHale = BFF?

hollywoodbacklot.com visits the set of Community.

Check out hollywoodbacklot.com for some great photos of the set behind the scenes.
Check it out here:
http://hollywoodbacklot.com/backlot/gallery/community/2009/10/23/Community_joel_mchale_chevy_chase

Popmatters.com ask Alison Brie and Donald Glover 20 questions

Donald wants to get Martin Luther King drunk and Alison wants to “romp around a room half-naked with a bottle of champagne.” This is some article!

We also learn that Donald will be singing in an upcoming episode and that Ghostbusters is one of Alison’s favorite movies… I think I’m in love.

Check it out here at Popmatters.com:

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/116229-alison-brie-and-donald-glover-of-community/P0/

Just a reminder that this is the last day of the 6th annual Chevy Chase Green Auction. Auction ends November 18th

The auction benefits the Green Community Schools.

The GREEN Community Schools mission is to create long-term holistic partnerships between the school, local community residents, stakeholders, available resources and families to ensure that the community is environmentally aware and able to successfully practice and promote sustainability in their lives, communities and globally.

Such items going up for auction include:
It's a Caddyshack Golf Outing--Golf with Chevy Chase and Bill Murray!
Meet Joel McHale on the Set of "The Soup" Plus Take Home a Signed Script from "Community"
Meet Chevy Chase on the Set of "Community"!

Could someone loan me a couple grand?

The Auction ends November 18th 2009.

Check it out here:
http://www.charitybuzz.com/auctions/greenschool

Pierce Hawthorne has his own site!

NBC.com has added a really funny professional site for Pierce. The site offers a Professional Bio and information on his services such as Hypnotism and More, Jingle Master, Toastmaster and of coarse Moist Towelettes.

How cool would it be if NBC continue what they did with the Office cast and offered Chevy a weekly blog? Fingers crossed!

Check it out!
http://www.nbc.com/community/exclusives/pierce-hawthorne/2009/11/professional-bio/#

Poll results: Who do you want for a Lab partner?

Looks like Annie won by more than a hair! I bet her letting her hair down in this past episode didn’t hurt any. 44% of you want Annie as a lab partner… me too! Wow!

Learn to Debate at NBC.com

NBC adds another quiz type game to its site. Not much to it but fun.

Check it out:
http://www.nbc.com/community/games/a-convincing-argument/

More Abed warped version’s of reality. Hilarious… and somewhat disturbing.

Episode Two of a new web series by GCC film student Abed Nadir.

New T&A game (I have named Troy and Annie T&A)

Well I don’t know if NBC.com is just bored or going overboard with the Community Quiz’s but I do love playing the Community Memory game. Ether way the official Community Website has added a new quiz game in the theme of everyone’s favorite new “will they won’t couple”… Troy and Annie! Who I have taken it upon myself to dub T&A… because it’s cute and I never miss the chance to make a "tits and ass" joke!


Check out the T&A themed game “Crushing on you” at NBC.com
http://www.nbc.com/community/games/crushing-on-you/

Episode One of a new web series by GCC film student Abed Nadir.

Ever wonder what would happen if the students from Greendale where in a sitcom?

Well then NBC is following the marketing of The Office with a new Web series.

Check out budding filmmaker Abed Nadir first of a series of Webisodes:

Dan Harmon, "Salute Your Shorts" and "Channel 101"

Pastemagazine.com has a great article on Dan Harmon and his brilliant work on "Salute Your Shorts" and "Channel 101."

Check it out:
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2009/11/salute-your-shorts-dan-harmons-channel-101-shows.html

Chevy and his phone

Chevy is now a pitchman! In addition to Chevy’s MyTouch commercial with his former SNL buddies you can also check out a brief video at the MyTouch website of Chevy talking about what he looks for in his phone and explains that he can call his family on his… he just needs their number!

http://www.t-mobilemytouch.com/?WT.mc_id=622m3


Also if you haven’t already seen it, check out Chevy’s commercial here!

New poll results! “I’m Batman”

The results are in and I thought Pierce had it won with the Beastmaster costume but Abed’s amazing Christen Bale/Batman impression won it by a landslide!

Our Hero!

For more check out this great interview from comicbookresources.com with Danny about getting into character!

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=23625

Getting rid of Britta full video

I hate to be one of those sites that just post videos all the time but this is just to funny to pass up. NBC has released the full music video of Pierce and Vaughn’s new song “Getting rid of Britta!”

Enjoy.

Russ?

Well everybody and their sister has already reported this but for those of you living under a rock or just on Vacation it seems Anthony Michael Hall will be guest staring on Community. Apparently he will be playing a dick (see Edward Scissorhands for an example) and hopefully give Chevy a chance to look funny at his former son!

The Greendale Community Blog Vacation

Sorry we have been short on post lately but I have been on Vacation! The idea of me on vacation is laughable considering my life is a vacation but that is my excuse for no post. So sit back and get filled with a week of old news you’ve already heard!