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Crashing the Set of "Community"

Crashing the Set of "Community"

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SUMMARY

Young Hollywood visits the set of "Community" to chat with the cast about their experiences on the show and personal college memories. The cast discusses the highlights of the current season, including unique animated episodes, and shares their thoughts on best improv skills among their colleagues. They also recount memorable college moments and advice for aspiring comedians.

About this video

Get to know the cast of "Community" as they talk to us about their favorite college memory. Hosted by Amanda Champagne.

CHAPTERS

KEY MOMENTS

KEY TOPICS

  • On Set with the Community Cast
  • Season Highlights and Unique Episodes
  • Craziest College Memory Revealed
  • Best Improv Skills in the Cast
  • Characteristics of a Good Comedian
  • Favorite Season Highlight & College Regrets
  • NYU Memories & "Reading is for Dicks"
  • Amanda Champagne
  • Donald Glover
  • Jim Rash
  • Ken Jeong
  • Malcolm Jamal Warner
  • Troy

FULL TRANSCRIPT

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Young Hollywood

Welcome to Young Hollywood.

Young Hollywood

Amanda Champagne here at Paramount Studios where we're going to check in with the cast on the set of community.

Young Hollywood

So what has been the highlight of the season so far?

Guest

It's hard to say.

Guest

We've gone to so many crazy places this year.

Guest

I was just thinking like, okay, we're shooting the finale right now and it's a two-part finale, which is awesome.

Guest

I was just talking about like literally our Christmas episode was animated.

Guest

We did a claymation episode, uh, which seems to be just so it's so amazing that we've gone to such extreme places this year.

Young Hollywood

I heard a rumor you never shoot another man.

Guest

Whoever started that rumor didn't eat my beans.

Young Hollywood

What was kind of like your craziest college memory or most memorable experience in college?

Guest

Let's see here.

Guest

I'm talking in terms of like embarrassing things, you know.

Young Hollywood

Is that good?

Guest

Okay.

Guest

One time I got stripped naked uh, outside on a street corner, uh, Marquette, by my friends.

Young Hollywood

Who has the best improv skills in the cast?

Guest

I'm going to say, jeez, it's a three-way tie between Donald Glover, Jim Rash and, uh, Ken Jeong.

Guest

I would say it's a toss-up between Ken Jeong and Donald Glover.

Guest

Ken, Ken, well Ken has so much experience in in after movies and all this stuff.

Guest

It's like he comes from, I mean last season, he would do monologues, 20 minute monologues in a scene where he had four lines.

Guest

And we'd all be like, this is hilarious.

Guest

But we'd also be like, wow, four hours ago we started shooting this scene and Ken's just still improving this hilarious monologue.

Young Hollywood

What characteristics do you have to have to be a good comedian?

Young Hollywood

Are there just a couple that all good good comedians have?

Guest

Well, it's best if you, uh, uh, from the waist down.

Guest

Keep it from the waist down.

Young Hollywood

That's a good tip.

Guest

Um, and, wait a minute, what did you say?

Young Hollywood

We're taking, oh.

Guest

No.

Guest

What did you say?

Young Hollywood

Comedy.

Guest

Sorry, I didn't even say anything.

Guest

Oh, what, what's it what's it that to be a comedian?

Young Hollywood

Yes.

Guest

A sense of humor wouldn't wouldn't hurt.

Young Hollywood

What was the highlight of the season for you this season?

Guest

Oh, that's really easy.

Guest

The highlight for the season for me was Malcolm Jamal Warner playing my ex-husband Andre.

Guest

I'm been a fan of his since Cosby Show.

Guest

So for me, um, every day was Christmas when he was on on set.

Young Hollywood

Was there anything, you know, in college like a college experience that you feel like you missed out on that you look back and like, oh, I wish I would have done this or gone to this game or something like that.

Guest

You know, I don't know that I missed it, but I wasn't really a partyer.

Guest

I've never been a partyer.

Guest

And, um, you know, I have friends that have like these crazy stories of like lost nights out.

Guest

And I don't have any stories like that because I was I've been pretty tame my whole life and not that I wish that I was bloho.

Guest

But you know, it seemed like, you know, it would be something to have like in the memory bank of remember that time when I was crazy.

Guest

So I don't really have those stories.

Guest

So.

Donald Glover

Hey, Troy.

Donald Glover

Open.

Donald Glover

Ah, where did you go to school and what did you study?

Guest

I went to NYU and I studied dramatic writing.

Young Hollywood

And was there kind of like what was your best college memory or the craziest thing you did while in school even though I know NYU is pretty good.

Young Hollywood

Pretty.

Young Hollywood

It's pretty, I wanted to say like scholarly or serious or something.

Young Hollywood

I don't know.

Young Hollywood

Pretty.

Guest

You're thinking of Harvard.

Guest

We once uh as a joke did something called Reading is for Dicks, where we like went around and passed out these pamphlets about like how reading was bad and everybody needed to stop reading and stuff like that.

Guest

And we got in a lot of trouble.

Guest

I mean, they, I guess comedy mafia now because somebody went in the inside went to jail for me.

Young Hollywood

Oh, that's amazing.

Young Hollywood

That's a huge sacrifice.

Young Hollywood

You're watching Young Hollywood.

Guest

Which I am buddy.

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PEOPLE MENTIONED

  • Amanda Champagne

    Host of the interview

  • Donald Glover

    Mentioned as having excellent improv skills

  • Jim Rash

    Mentioned as having excellent improv skills

  • Ken Jeong

    Mentioned as having excellent improv skills and doing long monologues

  • Malcolm Jamal Warner

    Played an ex-husband on 'Community' and was a fan highlight

  • Troy

    Addressed by name during an interview segment

FAQ

Who hosted the interview on the set of "Community"?+
The interview was hosted by Amanda Champagne for Young Hollywood.
What was a highlight of the "Community" season mentioned by the cast?+
A highlight of the season was the variety of episodes, including an animated and a claymation episode, as well as the two-part finale.
Which cast members were cited for their improv skills?+
Donald Glover, Jim Rash, and Ken Jeong were all mentioned as having excellent improv skills.
Who played the character Andre, an ex-husband on "Community"?+
Malcolm Jamal Warner played the character Andre, an ex-husband on "Community".
Where did one of the cast members study dramatic writing?+
One of the cast members studied dramatic writing at NYU.

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