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First Look: ‘Drinking Buddies’ with Anna Kendrick, Ron Livingston, Olivia Wilde and Jake Johnson | UpandComers
On last night’s Daily Show, Jessica Williams talked to this Utah politician who challenged his party on immigration reform and ended up in deep dookie, doo-doo and caca.
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Introducing GQ's Fifth Annual Comedy Issue
See Bill Hader, The Lonely Island, Ellie Kemper, Will Arnett, Chris O’Dowd, and the rest of our Comedy Issue players guess the identity of our June cover star
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This website maps every recurring joke on Arrested Development
An interactive visualization of running jokes in Arrested Development.This is amazing.
New ‘Arrested Development’ Clip featuring Ed Helms
The Mother, played by Cristin Milioti
↳ Episode 08x24 | “Hi. One ticket to Farhampton, please?”
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We’ve talked here and there about letting the audience see the mother before Ted. Would that be fascinating or let some air out of the balloon? We were scared of it for a long time, but this past season, it came up, and it just fit in so well. Ultimately we view it like we’ve been honing in on this mother mystery for so long. In season one, it was like a shot of planet earth from outer space. And we’ve honed in and honed in and honed in, and we look at season nine as like now we’re down to Google street view. We’ve gone from a super-wide shot to super-microscopic-tight, and it just felt right to see the mother’s face and to give the audience that gift and that knowledge. There was something exciting about getting a little bit of her before Ted ever does. There was something that we felt like this audience who has stuck with us for all of these years we wanted to reward them with that.
And to give ourselves the gift of having something. We didn’t want to do season 9 unless we had something that just got us really excited to write it. This concept got us very excited to write it and lent itself to a lot of great ideas that came out. The tipping point was when you have enough ideas that you’re going to be bummed if you don’t get to try these ideas, that’s when it became worth it for us to do season 9, and part of that is revealing the mother. The idea of getting to know her, getting to know where she’s coming from, it became too tantalizing to pass up.
— Craig Thomas and Carter Bays, ‘How I Met Your Mother’ Creators Answer the Burning questions about the Mother | EW (via popculturebrain)
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We flew Cristin out to do an on-camera audition with Josh [Radnor, who plays Ted] with our decoy script pages, and it was funny — Neil walked into the makeup trailer while I was just chatting with Cristin, she was getting make-up to go do this screen test with Josh, and Neil walked in and looked at her and his eyes widened and he sort of said, ‘Oh my God, are you the mother?!’ And he gave her this big hug and was like, ‘You’re the mother!’ And Cristin and I were like, ‘No, it’s still just an audition; it’s not done. I’m not cast yet.’ Neil was celebrating a little too early.” Adds Bays, with a laugh: “That’s when you widen to reveal the other two girls that are also screen-testing in the trailer.” Continues Thomas: “It was dangerously close to that, because two other people did come in, and they had thankfully stepped out of the trailer but Neil was doing his victory dance that it might be Cristin. There were other two very lovely wonderful actresses coming in to read for it but ultimately we really believed in Cristin for it. The right choice.
Bill Hader Leaving 'SNL', Sudeikis and Armisen Still Uncertain | NY Times
This week’s season finale will cap Hader’s eight-year tenure on the show. The Times reports that Fred Armisen and Jason Sudeikis’ status on the show is also in question, and of course Seth Meyers will depart for ‘Late Night’ by at least February.
Lorne Michaels on Hader:
“In terms of intelligence and talent, he was in that same tradition,” Mr. Michaels said in a telephone interview. “He was so completely committed to the art of it and enough a student of it that there’s something strikingly original. He didn’t explode onto the air, but gradually he found his voice, and that became a huge thing.”
Mr. Hader said: “My joke was, we’ll start singing ‘Ruby Tuesday’ and just say bye to Kristen again. I can just do a little wave at goodnights, and that signifies it.”
