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Watch: 'Community' stars Joel McHale, Gillian Jacobs, Alison Brie & Yvette Nicole Brown at Comic-Con, Part 2

How did they become the tightest-knit, silliest cast on television?

By Alan Sepinwall Friday, Jul 20, 2012 10:00 AM

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Time for part 2 of my Comic-Con chat with "Community" co-stars Joel Mchale, Gillian Jacobs, Alison Brie and Yvette Nicole Brown. Part 1 was the more serious end of things, as the actors talked about the show's continued survival, their feelings about Dan Harmon's exit, their relationship with the fans, etc.

In part 2, things get a bit sillier (albeit not to the furry level of last year's McHale/Brown/Rash extravaganza) as they discussed exactly how they came to be such a tightly-knit group — right before the cameras rolled, Jacobs and Brie were loudly dueting on Flight of the Conchords' "Jenny" "Debra" by Beck — whether the cast or the study group is emotionally closer and (for a surprisingly long period of time) what the heck is up with Chevy Chase's feet.

Enjoy. The new season of "Community" debuts Friday, October 19 at 8:30 p.m. on NBC. 

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Alan Sepinwall
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Alan Sepinwall has been reviewing television since the mid-'90s, first for Tony Soprano's hometown paper, The Star-Ledger, and now for HitFix. His new book, "The Revolution Was Televised," about the last 15 years of TV drama, is for sale at Amazon. He can be reached at sepinwall@hitfix.com
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    belinda

    I wish you had that footage of Jenny!

    July 20, 2012 at 12:41PM EST Reply to Comment
    • Midnight_run_mca255950_talkback_profile

      sepinwall As the correction (which came courtesy of Jacobs herself on Twitter) says, it was actually "Debra" by Beck, which sounds like this:

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8YaaUYiELw

      And the Conchords song I mistook it for wasn't "Jenny" (though "Debra" has lyrics about a Jenny), but "Most Beautiful Girl in the Room," which sounds like this:

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YIxpNPhAQE

      July 20, 2012 at 1:25PM EST
    • Midnight_run_mca255950_talkback_profile

      sepinwall So all around, a bad job by me.

      July 20, 2012 at 1:25PM EST
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      belinda And here I was about to give you some partial credit since Jenny seems very much inspired by Debra.

      But even that was wrong. Wow, Alan, the unprofessionalism! :D

      July 20, 2012 at 2:58PM EST
    • Midnight_run_mca255950_talkback_profile

      sepinwall I Britta'ed it.

      July 20, 2012 at 4:01PM EST
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    Arthur F.

    Nice group snapshot. The actors, together, convey such a relaxed, honest ensemble, real pleasure working in "Community", it is hard to match that to reading about Harmon, his moods and the whole Chase debacle. ON another note, I've had the chance to watch "Community" dubbed in German in Europe, and it is quite illuminating because it shows just how inside-language the script becomes (references are lost, inflections are lost) and how important the natural rapport of this acting ensemble, as this multi-headed character dialog (compared,i.e., to "Two and a Half Men" which is really line by line each week the same two or three people )
    Would love eventually to see more serious discussion by the actors about working as actors on Community too, but this was fun.

    July 22, 2012 at 5:16AM EST Reply to Comment

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