Things you buy through our links may earn Vox Media a commission. But tonight at p. Another episode airs tomorrow on its regular night, also at p. Was this show born out of a lifelong fascination with local newscasters? And there was a show in New England, where I grew up, called Chronicle , that told boring Americana stories. I always had an affinity for poking fun at it. It always felt like nobody was watching that show.
It was like pirate radio. We watched a bunch before we made the show, and some of them really are excruciatingly slow, and then they have that moment at the end that was like two minutes of just a creek and birds.
It was really mesmerizing. As a kid, if you were high — holy shit. That show would drive you insane. Is that by design? Look at me. I mean, really — look at me. Let it sink in. And the other shit I do keeps coming along — opportunities to do voice-over stuff. Doing parts in animated shows is, like, excruciatingly easy at times. Almost oppressively so. Sounds like a good gig. It allows me a lot of time on the Internet. I took him to Washington, D.
Van has a lot of man-on-the-street segments, like the bit in which you harass moviegoers mid-film. We did that twice. Initially, we went into a chain theater in Manhattan, in the middle of the day, for one of the Harry Potter movies. I wanted a bunch of people to tell me to go away. The first guy I saw was an old man sitting by himself. Do you have a second to discuss gay marriage? Fire away. In which case: Thank you for the interview.
You moved to Boston after college and started doing comedy. Had you been performing prior to that? No, not at all. I was really shy. Well, not shy, but short. My friend Sam Seder, who now does a political podcast, was starting to do open-mike stand-up, and he kind of enlisted me to do bits for him. Were you doing stand-up? I would be terrified. Do you move around a lot when you record voice-overs?
