Watch: 'Community' stars Donald Glover & Danny Pudi talk about TV's funniest bromance

And how do their co-stars feel about them dominating the end of each episode?

Watch: 'Community' stars Donald Glover & Danny Pudi talk about TV's funniest bromance

Donald Glover and Danny Pudi on NBC's "Community."

Credit: NBC

I already recapped the raucous "Community" panel from Comic-Con, and shared one tidbit from my interview with Dan Harmon about the study group's new professor. Some of my other interviews will hold until closer to the show's late September premiere, but in the meantime, I wanted to share this video interview I did with the hilarious duo of Donald Glover and Danny Pudi.

If you haven't watched "Community," well... you should watch "Community." But if you do watch it, you know that Glover and Pudi have quickly become one of the funniest duos on television, as well as one of the most surprising. Even Harmon says he didn't intend for the two to become BFFs (if you watch the early episodes, Glover was mainly placed opposite Chevy Chase), but then he saw the two beat-boxing together during a red carpet interview and realized he had something brilliant on his hands. That led to the "Donde esta la biblioteca" rap, and to all the brilliant tags (the scenes that play over the closing credits) featuring Troy and Abed that followed it.

So after the jump, the interview in two parts, including Glover's discussion of how being friends with Abed has changed Troy, and both of them on how the other castmembers feel about them dominating the tag in each episode...

 

 Alan Sepinwall may be reached at sepinwall@hitfix.com

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    Craig Esherick's Mustache I can't decide whether the Kia mice rapping is weird, or a perfect fit with these interviews.

    July 27, 2010 at 11:44AM EST Reply to Comment
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    J I think there's an age cut-off where you cannot say "Bee Eff Eff" out loud, even ironically, without seeming creepy. Fourteen, maybe?

    July 27, 2010 at 12:02PM EST Reply to Comment
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      sepinwall You may well be right, J. You may well be right.

      July 27, 2010 at 12:19PM EST
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      Jason Potapoff Ya I agree. And the funny thing is Alan said it like it was a perfectly normal term like mother, father, etc. which is pretty much the best thing you can do to make it sound like a legit word yet is still sounds wrong said by an adult.

      July 28, 2010 at 9:49PM EST
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      M If you're over 30, I could understand it sounding strange to you.

      March 7, 2011 at 5:37PM EST
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    cathlene good stuff!

    July 27, 2010 at 12:40PM EST Reply to Comment
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    LJA I know I've asked this before, but it begs repeating here.

    The character Toofer on 30 Rock was based on Donald Glover, right?

    July 27, 2010 at 9:51PM EST Reply to Comment
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      NateC Aside from being black TV writers, they are absolutely nothing alike.

      July 28, 2010 at 9:01AM EST
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      mratfink the character's name is also Twofer, because he is two for one in that he is both black and a Harvard grad.

      July 28, 2010 at 11:16AM EST
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      Joy Donald Glover was a writer on 30 Rock. He may have been a force behind creating the character, but I don't think it's fair to say it's based on him.

      July 28, 2010 at 6:32PM EST
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      Savvy Veteran Plus, Donald's an NYU grad, not a Harvard man. And—although I'm not exactly sure when his creative role on the show began—I don't think he was involved with 30 Rock when its characters were being developed. According to IMDb, he didn't write any episodes until 2008, although I suppose it's possible he was still involved with the show before that.

      July 28, 2010 at 8:26PM EST
  • I wish people were more inclined to ask writers about character motivations than actors.

    July 29, 2010 at 12:06AM EST Reply to Comment
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    cooney516 Write a comment...

    July 30, 2010 at 1:33AM EST Reply to Comment
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    jcpdiesel21 Fun interview! Alan, I loved that you asked them about Troy's obsession with "butt stuff" (and couldn't help but giggle). Danny and Donald seem like very cool guys.

    August 2, 2010 at 11:54PM EST Reply to Comment
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    a MAN Good stuff!! Thank you!!

    August 3, 2010 at 1:03PM EST Reply to Comment
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    spilt_daydreams I thoroughly enjoyed this. Thank you. :)

    March 21, 2011 at 1:27PM EST Reply to Comment
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