Allison Jones

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard · Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director) · 18 Dec 2024 podcast

Oh, you are? That's so cool. Oh, yeah. How do I not know that?

Ashton had done that. No, he hadn't done that.

That's in everybody's head about everything.

So did you have a chip on your shoulder, would you say?

Yeah, right, right, right. I've got to go past these people.

Oh, yeah.

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?

So jealous.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

And they said, can we just go to Chicago and look for some of these kids? Because I don't know. And so I went to Second City for the first time and that's when I met Jeff Garland. But on main stage at that time, was Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert and Amy Sedaris and Paul Dinello and Jeff Garland.

Anyway, that history of comedy. But when I started to do a lot of comedy shows and bringing a lot of the improv comedy was when the state had started and when Kids in the Hall had started.

That stuff all came through basically what was then called the Comedy Channel, I think. It was Comedy Central, but at the time it was called something else. The Comedy Network.

He started it all as well.

I mean, Ben Stiller, very important in comedy. And I think they owe the biggest debt to Mr. Show. Yeah. To Bob Odenkirk and David Cross. Yes. which would air at midnight on HBO.

I passed him today on the street.

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