If you’ve read a single post on Warming Glow over the last month, then you likely already know that “Community” is set to return tonight on NBC. Here’s the funny thing about “Community,” though: For a show that’s such a huge phenomenon on the Internet, most people don’t actually know much about the actors behind some of their favorite characters. With the exception of Joel McHale and Chevy Chase, the cast of “Community” was largely unknown before the show debuted in 2009. Most of the actors, however, have been working in various roles in television and movies for years. Few, however, would recognize their pre-”Community” work.
I spent a few hours doing some sleuthing, however, and came up with 25 Facts about the pre-show careers of the cast of “Community” that most of us weren’t aware of. Until now. I don’t know how much most of this will change your perception of the actors, but at the very least, fans of 90s hip-hop (DANGER?) may see Yvette Nicole Brown in a completely different light.
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#26. Chevy Chase once hosted a late night talk show. It was terrible.
[en.wikipedia.org]
He should’ve told that story about how he banged Eartha Kitt in the airplane bathroom.
+1 La Schmoove
26. Danny Pudi and I went to Marquette at the same time. I saw him once (probably).
Fascinating story, I know.
Terry Crews is married with kids.
I’m pretty sure he also wasn’t an SNL cast member
I’m pretty sure he means Terry Sweeney …
I’m pretty sure Terry Crews might kick Dustin’s ass for this.
#27 Our beloved Alison Brie went to drama school in Glasgow, where I live. Sadly I didn’t manage to meet/stalk her.
I worked as a set PA on the film “Choke.” Sadly, I did not get to meet/stalk/smell Gillian.
They actually reference Gillian’s Choke role in that season 1 episode where Jeff and Chang hang out. The next morning, they keep laughing and referencing “Cherry Daquiri,” which was Gillian’s character’s stripper name.
Also, Gillian was the villain in that early Fringe episode with the flashy hypnotizing lights.
Holy Shit, I totally forgot about that. Nice call, Patty.
I almost died when they referenced that. I wasn’t 100% sold on the show prior to that, but that sealed it.
ah….. I don’t remember what I had for lunch.
Wow, that’s fantastic. HIGHLY recommend that movie, BTW (not just for naked, nypho britta)
That Ken Jeong fact kind of blows my mind. I work for a medical device company and I came across some paperwork a few months ago that was signed for by the Dr. Ken Jeong. This could of course just be a giant coincidence, but I’m going to pretend it’s not.
Also, there is a hospital in Glendale that is on Chevy Chase Drive.
/cool story, bro
I knew that about Jeong, but my wife and I have been rewatching old seasons of “the Shield” and he has a bit part in season 6 as a photographer taking pictures of cops in the Farmington station.
Who the hell is Aubrey Huff? You mean Plaza.
Haha, i didn’t even catch that. Aubrey Huff is a mediocre baseball player.
Yes. Oops. I’m always confusing her for bad first basemen.
And while I’m at it: Terry Crews is a large black man. Terry Sweeney was SNL’s first gay cast member.
BRING BACK MATT!
While we’re piling on, Terry Sweeny was on the show in the early 80′s, not in ’97. In Dustin’s defense, I had trouble concentrating after reading #23 too.
Aubrey Huff isn’t bad. He’s mediocre, like DBNA said. This oversight is an outrage!
Corrected (and the wording on that made clearer). And really, it’s not like I’m the first guy to mistake a slight white guy with blond tips for Terry Crews. HAPPENS ALL THE TIME.
Adding to the pile-on, the headline is “25 Facts That You Didn’t Know About the Cast of ‘Community’”, but the first 5 facts are about the show’s creator, not a cast member.
Also in your defense, Terry Sweeney was horrible on SNL.
Yvette Nicole Brown was also in the episode of The Office where Dwight worked at Staples.
She was also The Pecker’s secretary in Tropic Thunder
“The Pecker’s secretary”
OK, my sense of humor is still in junior high; so what?
I wonder what happened to the Whyte Gyz. I hope they’re doing okay.. (can’t believe I own that piece of shit CD)
Never saw TV101, but I LOVED Harmon’s Acceptable TV on VH1. Still have most of it on DVD somewhere. [www.vh1.com]
Mystery Team was a pleasant surprise to me. I saw it a few years ago using the Netflix. The whole movie isn’t anything super special, but 1st five minutes of that movie absolutely killed me because I’m an immature dumbass.
I’m re-watching 30 Rock from the start at the moment , and was greatly surprised to see Donald Glover as an extra (also Aubrey Plaza) and see him also with a writing credit in series 3. Then you stole my thunder by having it on the list. U thunder stealer you.
I don’t know how I am goning to get through the rest of my day after reading #23,I just enjoy thinking about Alison but know you have go and add that article as well.
Thanks Dustin.
I’ve seen those Danny Pudi commercials so many times and never put it all together until right now. Clearly years of television watching have dulled my senses to commercials.
SAME! I clearly remembered the T-Mobile one and it kinda blew my mind.
Being from Milwaukee I can attest to the sheer craptasticness of The Dead Alewives. Just simply awful.
I used to go there with a girl I was trying to bang, after 2 visits I realized sex was not worth sitting through these shows anymore.
“…there was, of course, the girl-on-girl action….”
Congrats, Dustin. If I had found out this fact in my “research,” there’s a) no way I’d have buried it as number 23 — talk about burying the lede — and b) no way I’d have found any of the rest of this crap interesting at all.
I remember reading about #23 sometime ago, and seem to remember she backed away from the quote by saying she was joking. True or not, it doesn’t matter.
“I saw its debut at Sundance”
Don’t… don’t do that.
Then how will you know how hip and cool and well-connected I am if you don’t know that I’m allowed out of the house once a year to hang out with extraordinarily annoying fat guys with neck beards and thermoses filled with Mt. Dew in press tents with more virgins than at the bottom of God’s volcano? Sheesh.
“God’s Volcano” is the term I use to describe a truly vile beer and curry shit.
The title is a lie. I knew a lot of these facts!
Ditto
Donald Glover wrote and performs in Werewolf Bar Mitzvah!
[www.youtube.com]
an American “The IT Crowd”!? with Richard Ayoade!? i need to see this pilot
No. No you don’t. I’m not the kind of guy who always says, “Oh, the British version is better *fart sniff*” but somehow they took the exact same storyline (including Ayoade) and made it AWFUL. It’s on YouTube if you really hate yourself, though.
Is ANYBODY else attracted to Alison Brie?
….
Anybody?
No?
OK….
might have been worth skipping a real education to repeatedly penetrate her while tripping on shrooms.
I downloaded the screen shots of Gillian Jacobs in Choke for the sake of art.
/did that movie have a chicken in it?
I wish I owned an East Coast Family t-shirt.
Donald Glover was mentioned in Tina Fey’s autobiography.
Yvette Nicole Brown was also a voice on the new “Pound Puppies” TV show. A sassy boxer. I have kids and recognized her voice immediately.
Wait, so they’re giving Emmys for the Oscars? Good Lord. Hollywood is even more of a self-satisfied circle jerk than I ever realized.
Wow, I totally remember both of those Pudi commercials. That Alison Brie (Schermerhorn, hahaha) interview wrinkled my brain. But at the same time, she does seem to have a very high level of confidence and comfort with her sexuality, so I guess her [former?] easiness shouldn’t really be surprising.
Is it just me, or does the doctor in that Laser Fart video totally look like a young Louis CK?
I have a mental picture of Brie sissoring the bearded teacher.
Now I have that mental image also…..
and I thank you.