Allison Jones
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first heard Dec 2024
last 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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And to get called to sit on the couch. Second of all, I remember we would also go back and sort of go to the ladies' room, and then the comics were always out back in the hallway smoking and talking about their sets. And God bless the comics, but they're insecure. And these are now the biggest comics in the world. They're pretty mean, too.
The Marc Maron and the biggest stand-ups in the world were all back there at the age of 21. Yes. Yeah, gossipy and mean.
Very few females. They even had just a female knight. That was all you had for the female comics. I think it was the belly room. I remember when Whoopi Goldberg first came, it was like, oh my God. I remember Donald Deline telling me, there is this comic, this female who is unbelievable. You should go see her. Her name is Whoopi Goldberg. And I was like, okay, Whoopi, Whoopi.
I wish. Yeah.
For me, the bar was how funny they were. And, for example, I did not know how good Jim Carrey would be as an actor, but I brought him in. I did not know how good Dennis Leary would be as an actor. There's an actor who needs a better career.
He's got a good one, but deserves a better because he's an unbelievably good actor. As most many comics are good dramatically. What is more terrifying and difficult than stand-up comedy? Nothing. Nothing.
Yes, wow. I have always admired stand-up. Also because their hearts are on their sleeves, no matter how tough their act is or how tough and edgy their jokes are. Every new line, they're scared about.
Mm-hmm. I admire them greatly. I also sort of relate to their insecurity and all that kind of stuff. Most people who gravitate to Hollywood, I think, have a lot of insecurity. Yes, totally. Yeah, looking for a lot of approval. Because the one thing I find about Hollywood and kind of Los Angeles in general is it's very accepting of all the freaks, and I like that.
Completely not the way it is.
Yeah, completely the opposite.
Yes, it started with Will Smith and the late, great Quincy Jones. I mean, the highlight of my career was getting to meet Quincy Jones.
He was the producer and the creator. I think he grabbed Will and said, what can we do? And my partner in crime, we cast the show together, Sally Steiner. We drove up to Quincy Jones' house. I think it was Mulholland, but we were so starstruck. Oh, absolutely. I was always starstruck, and I still am starstruck.
But I've only met you once on an audition years ago, and you don't remember, I'm sure. But you came in. I want to hear. Pitched from Endeavor as the guy from Punk'd. Sure. And those are the days where it was like, you sort of didn't do that if you were a sidekick on Punk'd. Now everybody and their brother from a TikTok video wants to be seen. Yes. You had much longer hair.
And it was probably about 2003, because I remember I just finished the pilot of The Office, and Mitch Hurwitz had asked me to do the pilot of Arrested Development, and I couldn't do two pilots at once. It was too torture, so I couldn't do the pilot. Deb Borilski did the pilot. Many podcasts name me as the person who did the pilot of Arrested. I just did the seasons.
After season one, she did the pilot, and a beautiful job she did. Oh, my God.
I was doing a pilot. John Landgraf was the producer. It was FX, the early days of those places, like FX. And it was called Dix, D-I-C-K-S. And I just remember thinking Dax, D-A-X. That's a lot. But you came in and you were very good. And I remember thinking, oh, wow.
This is exciting.
Of course, I remember specifically the agent pitching you when it was Endeavor. Greg Siegel it would have been. Yes, he would have said the guy from Punk, which of course I didn't know what it was.
But I had known Ashton Kutcher because there's all these stories that you could connect everybody to everything when you start out.
I had met him on a wonderful pilot called Advances in Chemistry that the very brilliant Richie Rosenstock did again ahead of its time. But he came in to audition for The Handsome Kid. And he didn't get it because God bless him at the time, not an actor. He was only 20 or 19. And then Meg Lieberman brought him in for that 70s show. And the rest is history. Within like two days.
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