plus i am not even a "fan" so yeah... i don't know why I keep opening this.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 17:25 (four years ago) link
Do ittttt
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 17:26 (four years ago) link
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), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 17:30 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I have no problem with the current Donald Glover or his c/v.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 17:37 (four years ago) link
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.
― sleight return (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 17:39 (four years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 17:46 (four years ago) link
Def. one of those shows where every character/actor could (and sometimes did) anchor an entire episode.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 17:47 (four years ago) link
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.
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 18:01 (four years ago) link
ha, he definitely is a world-conquering success.
― sleight return (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 18:04 (four years ago) link
im just a guy who despises the music of childish gambino idly speculating about a world where donald glover stuck to comedy.
― sleight return (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 18:10 (four years ago) link
atlanta is better than community
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 18:15 (four years ago) link
Maybe, but they're totally (and tonally) different animals.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 19:02 (four years ago) 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.
― Bleeqwot (sic), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 20:16 (four years ago) link
he wrote for Kenneth on 30 RK
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 20:18 (four years ago) link
(said adoringly)
thanks for the explanation, amelia bedelia
― sleight return (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 20:23 (four years ago) link
sic, you ever wonder if you're gonna get bored playing a board game?
― sleight return (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 20:24 (four years ago) link
let's talk about Danny Pudi instead. What's up with that guy?
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 21:20 (four years ago) link
he's the voice of huey on ducktales
― sleight return (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 21:22 (four years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 23:08 (four years ago) link
Abed would totally be into loot boxes.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 23:11 (four years ago) link
Mythic Quest is also a show written by Community writer Megan Ganz, I think
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 23:13 (four years ago) link
Yeah, she' s in the mix. But she also did "Sunny in Philadelphia," which I think is the more direct link.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 23:48 (four years ago) link
― Bleeqwot (sic), Wednesday, May 20, 2020 4:16 PM bookmarkflaglink
boooom
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 23:50 (four years ago) link
Kevin Hart is the current version of Eddie Murphy in terms of national stature and omnipresence I would say
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 23:51 (four years ago) link
I don't like Childish Gambino but I've come to respect the obvious will pushing it forward.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 23:53 (four years ago) link
Who was Eddie Murphy's Rock?
Nick Nolte
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 23:54 (four years ago) link
― 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
― Bleeqwot (sic), Thursday, 21 May 2020 02:45 (four years ago) link
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes)
he could have been the next Jordan Peele
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 21 May 2020 03:10 (four years ago) link
great revive
― mookieproof, Thursday, 21 May 2020 03:14 (four years ago) link
who knew everyone felt that way about Childish Gambino
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 21 May 2020 04:02 (four years ago) link
great table read. like the P&R special, they've pried open my wallet
― Nhex, Thursday, 21 May 2020 04:24 (four years ago) link
I look forward to his surprise stand-up special dropping in 2025.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 21 May 2020 04:55 (four years ago) link
Atlanta is so good he gets a free pass from me on like four more poor Prince impersonation singles.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 21 May 2020 04:56 (four years ago) link
look the kid’s brilliant, it doesnt really matter if you didnt dig his music
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 21 May 2020 04:58 (four years ago) link
JP never topped the Pazz and Jop singles poll, every kid's dream
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Thursday, 21 May 2020 14:18 (four years ago) link
only managed to tie for #9 in Reissues in 1986
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/bigmouth/images/c/c9/Screenshot_47.png
― Bleeqwot (sic), Thursday, 21 May 2020 20:24 (four years ago) link
we are rewatching S1 and there’s so many genuinely great moments in the early episodesi forgot about Abed’s first movie “Six Candles” in episode 3 or 4? amazing
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 21 May 2020 20:33 (four years ago) link
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.
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Thursday, 21 May 2020 21:57 (four years ago) link
We've been watching it from the beginning, me and a daughter, and it has aged really, really well.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 21 May 2020 22:35 (four years ago) link
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.
― sleight return (voodoo chili), Thursday, 21 May 2020 23:35 (four years ago) link
lol
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Thursday, 21 May 2020 23:38 (four years ago) link
Ha, I'm glad people are coming around to my pov on s1. I think Abed's movie was as early as ep 2?
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Thursday, 21 May 2020 23:39 (four years ago) link
Arrested Development just doesn’t have realistic family dynamics. 2/10 would not watch again
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 21 May 2020 23:41 (four years ago) link
been watching through S3 occasionally for a few months; gotta hurry up to get to the table-read ep.
― Bleeqwot (sic), Friday, 22 May 2020 00:15 (four years ago) link
just watched that podcast episode #5 with surprise guest alison brie, pretty incredible
― Nhex, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 10:34 (four years ago) link
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!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 14:17 (four years ago) link
this is on Netflix
― jazzed (it's a boy!), Thursday, 18 June 2020 00:06 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juk9K1LaxP4