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The Hollywood Reporter profiles the Parks and Recreation writers

Saturday, June 5th, 2010

Get to know the writers of Parks and Recreation with this article in The Hollywood Reporter! A snippet of the article appears below. Click the “source” link for the full version.

From The Hollywood Reporter:

The team’s collective resume includes gigs writing for “Late Night With Conan O’Brien,” “Saturday Night Live,” “The Sarah Silverman Program,” “Hung,” “Mad TV,” “King of the Hill,” “The Office,” “South Park,” “The Daily Show” and “Human Giant.”

Not surprisingly, in person, the team comes across as quirky as the City of Pawnee’s staff.

Without anyone inquiring, Goor will proffer the nutritional info of his microwaved sweet potato; dapper Alan Yang will share stories of his late-night escapades as a single guy; and petite Katie Dippold will blurt out-of-nowhere prognostications like “There’s going to be an earthquake tonight,” earning her the title of “the weirdest person in the room” by her fellow scribes.

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Photos: NBC Universal Summer Press Day

Monday, April 26th, 2010

Here are a selection of pictures from NBC Universal Summer Press Day held earlier today in Pasadena, California. Follow the link below for more photos!

From left: Parks and Recreation co-creators Michael Schur and Greg Daniels, Amy Poehler, Adam Scott, Nick Offerman and Aziz Ansari

Aziz Ansari and Amy Poehler

New Parks and Recreation series regular Adam Scott

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‘Hunting Trip’ (2.10)

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

Original air date: November 19, 2009

Writer: Daniel J. Goor | Director: Greg Daniels

Summary: A HUNTING WE WILL GO—Leslie (Amy Poehler) tries to prove she can hang with the guys so she invites herself on Ron’s (Nick Offerman) annual hunting trip, but things don’t go as planned. Meanwhile, April (Aubrey Plaza) and Andy (Chris Pratt) bond in the office while everyone is away. Rashida Jones, Paul Schneider and Aziz Ansari also star.

Poll:
In a poll conducted on Knope Knows from November 19-29*, viewers gave “Hunting Trip” an 8.81/10.

*Typically, viewer polls go live immediately after a new episode airs on Thursday and run until Sunday evening. The poll for “Hunting Trip” was extended because I was unable to update in time.

Ratings:
4.613 million viewers | 2.0/6 A18-49 | Source

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Highlights #1 | Highlights #2

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Paley Center’s Inside Parks and Recreation event

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

November 18, 2009:

Here are some event quotes from executive producer Greg Daniels and actors Amy Poehler, Aziz Ansari and Nick Offerman, courtesy of IGN.com:

Amy, on how giving Parks and Recreation time to breathe has been the difference maker this season:

I always knew this show was complex and needed to open up a little bit. I like to think that the show needed to decant. … People are starting to care about the people on the show. It was always our intention that the show be funny, but also a show where you actually wanted to see what happened to the characters.

Greg, on writing for the actors:

Mike (Schur) and I have been writing the characters more specifically to the actors and I think we can see more of the intelligence of the characters.

Amy, on Leslie Knope:

The comedy for her comes out of her trying to stay optimistic in the face of all these challenges. Pawnee is a real town as far as I’m concerned and the show’s concerned. To be able to have the real base where surreal, crazy stuff happens and have a real character that can deal with crazy stuff is great. It allows you to be able to go very small or very broad.

Nick, on his favorite Parks scene:

The scene where Leslie takes Ron to break up with Tammy is my favorite. Because, you know, I just got here and just to be sitting in that room with Amy and Megan, I just wanted to pinch myself. I was thrilled last season just standing in a doorway sipping a cup of coffee but I’m over the moon now that I get to do gymnastics.

Aziz, on his favorite Parks scene:

In the (upcoming) divorce episode, it gets pretty rough for Tom. It was really fun because there was some serious acting for me to do compared to my usual d*** jokes. And what guy out there hasn’t been distraught over a girl before? It was a really fun episode for me.

Link: Parks and Recreation’s Cast Speaks Out

Thanks for the tip, @Mullally_Lovah!

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Greg Daniels gets grilled by TheWrap

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Here’s a Q&A between Greg Daniels and TheWrap. In it, Greg mainly discusses The Office. However, he answers fairly unique questions, such as the likelihood of The Office continuing with a mostly new cast and whether there’s any chance of a Parks and Recreation/Office crossover.

The Office is such a hit now, it’s easy to forget how close the show came to dying at birth. Was there a moment during that first season where you thought, “OK, we’re toast.”
I knew we had a lot of unusual features for an NBC comedy at the time, like no laugh track, the concept of the documentary, a pretty flawed main character, etc. — so I had prepared the executives for the reality that we weren’t going to be a hit out of the starting gate. The mid-level NBC and GE executives loved the show, though, and related to the absurdity of corporate life and supported us internally.

How long would you like The Office to continue in its current incarnation? Could you see the show continuing with a mostly new cast, a la ER?
Mindy Kaling very early on made the comparison to ER, and I think it would be possible to keep bringing new characters in. Ed Helms’s Andy Bernard was introduced in season three, for example, and Ellie Kemper came on last year. In our premiere, we introduced three summer interns just for the episode, but by the end of it I was curious to see more of them.

But it is hard to imagine the show without Steve and the current cast at its core. We are still several years away from having to think about it, and I have a good idea for a series finale episode, too.

Any chance of a Parks and Recreation/Office crossover? And how are things on the new show?
Things are great on the new show. Mike and I tinkered with things after our six-episode season one, and the reaction has been extremely positive. The show gets better and better every episode, which is tough for me as the pilot co-writer and director to admit. When we cast Rashida Jones on Parks and Recreation, though, I think we closed the door on a fictional crossover between the two worlds.

Link: ‘The Office’s’ Greg Daniels: Grilled

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