Allison Jones
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first heard Dec 2024
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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard · Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director) · 18 Dec 2024
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So I went to University of New Hampshire for a year and then transferred to Pomona College. Somehow they magically let me go. I think back on it, it could have been it probably fit their budget better to wait a year. And then I could go to California. But I had never been to California at all.
Exactly.
And where was that?
Okay.
The suburbs. I was the early TV generation. Yeah. For sure. Yeah.
Oh, no, we were plopped in front of the new color TV, we would have called it. Oh, no, we were TV kids. What else are you going to do with six ungrateful children? Yeah, exactly. And no nannies. In those days, nannies, no. Unless you were a Kennedy or something, but no nannies.
It was so new.
I just loved it. Movies were not cinema the way it is now either. My parents would bring us to movies. My father brought us to every Peter Sellers movie and Walter Matthau Jack Lemmon movie that came out, to whom I owe my appreciation of that kind of humor. But I don't know. I never broke it down. But I would say yes, definitely, and probably still the reason.
And also I love, you know, we would beg to stay up to see Johnny Carson's monologue. We'd be in the monologue and we'd see the monologue.
They weren't self-aware of being a comedy geek culture. There probably is now. That sort of didn't exist at all. They just happened to be the pure... unadulterated, brilliant science major, pre-med major, law major geeks who loved Monty Python and who loved Firesign Theater. And it was like, what are they talking about? But those are the first people I met that I was really tuned into that comedy.
They were beautiful, smart, probably at the time, highly unpopular geeks. Now they've come to the fore.
And even then that was like, oh, it was preposterous. But you got to see, you know, Jamie Cromwell laughing.
No, and Anthony Edwards. That was the first turning point of making geeks in the title of anything.
Didn't really have one. I just liked it. After Pomona, I worked night shift at a newspaper in Glendora for a year.
I'm inching my way.
And then I went to UCLA business school, mostly because my father was a businessman. And I thought, I think I can get a good salary after I go to business school. I truly was clueless. In those days, we did not put the pressure on ourselves that these poor kids do now.
I don't have a goal now. I mean, I certainly didn't have a goal then.
Well, I have a very good friend named Lydia Woodward from business school. A little core of us were just so not meant to be in the business world. I think we're all there for the same reason, just to get a job. Buy some time and get a job.
I was living in California at the time, and I think I only paid $750 a trimester to go to UCLA business school as a resident internist. What a bargain. I got my MBA for two years for like three grand. Wow, that is incredible.
It was amazing. Anyway, so I get out of business school and a friend of mine, Lydia, was going right into film school at AFI as a producing fellow is what we called it then. I was working in advertising in New York City at the time.
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