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Allison Jones

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
804 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)

I started in season three. Jeff Garland is a good and wonderful friend. He brought me on in season three. And then I was on for many, many seasons, except for a couple of seasons where I wasn't available. But were you there when Monica got to do Curb Your Enthusiasm?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)

So jealous.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)

So jealous.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)

So jealous.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)

Now you're too famous. You can't not play yourself.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)

Now you're too famous. You can't not play yourself.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)

Now you're too famous. You can't not play yourself.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)

Yes, but I did a lot of my self-education then too because I tried to know every improv person in the universe because I was lucky enough to be doing The Office, Curb, and Arrested Development starting with season two. If you go back and watch then, you'll see the same season. Everybody does Curb. Everybody has all the same people.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)

Yes, but I did a lot of my self-education then too because I tried to know every improv person in the universe because I was lucky enough to be doing The Office, Curb, and Arrested Development starting with season two. If you go back and watch then, you'll see the same season. Everybody does Curb. Everybody has all the same people.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)

Yes, but I did a lot of my self-education then too because I tried to know every improv person in the universe because I was lucky enough to be doing The Office, Curb, and Arrested Development starting with season two. If you go back and watch then, you'll see the same season. Everybody does Curb. Everybody has all the same people.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)

That was when, from my own history in comedy, nobody got improv actors. Nobody brought them into the fore until it was like Judd Apatow and Paul Feig. For me, it was all casting sitcom pilots, and it was always tough. Tough to find anybody funny. Tough to find anybody who can pull off the sitcom. And in those days, tough to find anybody great-looking enough for a network to approve them. Right.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)

That was when, from my own history in comedy, nobody got improv actors. Nobody brought them into the fore until it was like Judd Apatow and Paul Feig. For me, it was all casting sitcom pilots, and it was always tough. Tough to find anybody funny. Tough to find anybody who can pull off the sitcom. And in those days, tough to find anybody great-looking enough for a network to approve them. Right.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)

That was when, from my own history in comedy, nobody got improv actors. Nobody brought them into the fore until it was like Judd Apatow and Paul Feig. For me, it was all casting sitcom pilots, and it was always tough. Tough to find anybody funny. Tough to find anybody who can pull off the sitcom. And in those days, tough to find anybody great-looking enough for a network to approve them. Right.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)

You had to have a lot of things. Yeah, you did have to have a lot of things. So that was when Judd and Adam McKay and Paul Feig, they started appreciating the fact that most improv actors or comedians who then got into improv was not in the four of comedy either. When I started again, it was all stand up comics.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)

You had to have a lot of things. Yeah, you did have to have a lot of things. So that was when Judd and Adam McKay and Paul Feig, they started appreciating the fact that most improv actors or comedians who then got into improv was not in the four of comedy either. When I started again, it was all stand up comics.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)

You had to have a lot of things. Yeah, you did have to have a lot of things. So that was when Judd and Adam McKay and Paul Feig, they started appreciating the fact that most improv actors or comedians who then got into improv was not in the four of comedy either. When I started again, it was all stand up comics.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)

Improv was still Second City and it was Groundlings, which were sort of character oriented.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)

Improv was still Second City and it was Groundlings, which were sort of character oriented.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)

Improv was still Second City and it was Groundlings, which were sort of character oriented.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)

No one until sort of Second City started to move. I was trying to pluck people out of Second City in the early 90s. I remember going there to see Second City the first time when we were looking for Carlton on Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.