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May 09,2012
I have added pics of Alison on Jay Leno today! This is a little sneak peek for West Coast people since Jay Leno is on right now 
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May 9 2012: Jay LenoTweet
May 07,2012
NBC is looking to bring back its Thursday night comedy block — with some caveats.
The Peacock network is nearing a deal that would see 30 Rock return for a seventh and final season of 13 or 14 episodes, per our sister site Deadline.
Last month, Rock‘s creator and star Tina Fey told the ladies of The View that the end was “visible on the horizon… We can’t do this for 35 years.”
Meanwhile, Deadline reports that Community and Parks and Recreation are also expected to be picked up for an abbreviated (and hopefully not final) fourth and fifth season, respectively.
May 07,2012
Check out this recent interview Alison did with MTV at Loud Noises!
Alison Brie is a woman of many talents: she can act, pull off a believable British accent – as seen in the hilarious Jason Segel and Emily Blunt comedy “The Five-Year Engagement – and let us tell you, the girl can sing like a bird.
Brie already has a cult-like following of devoted fans thanks to her role as the innocent-but-spunky Annie Edison on NBC’s hit comedy “Community,” but lately she has been dabbling in musical courtesy of her work with The Girls – a pop trio she recently formed with two of her best friends, fellow actresses Cyrina Fiallo and Julianna Guill (who have both popped up on “Community” as well).
Fortunately, Brie is just as nice as her “Community” character, as she was willing to chat with MTV News on the phone a bit about her new group and how they came to be. When asked if she was already friends with her fellow bandmates before their respective appearances on “Community,” she explained that they were all in an online web series together known as “My Alibi,” which ran on ABC Family’s website. Brie described the show as a “’Breakfast Club’-type web series,” and credits it for helping her land the role of Annie because the characters are so similar.
The Girls made their debut performance in New York City – with the amazingly talented locals Jones Street Station as their backing band – and Brie revealed that they were very prepared for the gig. “We practiced a lot. We practiced for about four months – choosing songs and getting together weekly with Ludwig Goransson [a composer on “Community”] as he helped us with our harmonies,” she explained.
“But of course, on the day, liquid courage was involved,” she joked.
Brie explained that music has long been a part of her life because her father is the leader of the Terry Charles Band, who occasionally play the Viper Room in LA.
While they were warmly embraced at their first gig, The Girls aren’t taking things too seriously just yet. “I don’t think you’re going to see us hitting the streets with The Girls posters or shopping our demo to any labels or anything like that,” she laughed. “It’s been happening more organically and casually. There is no master plan at work here. We just want to continue to have fun and sing.”
For The Girls second show, they found themselves in the back of Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles on Cinco de Mayo for the store’s “Nerdmelt” event, which also featured comedian April Richardson of “Chelsea Lately,” who admitted to being dumped recently. (I can only imagine who the unlucky fellow might be as she was as hilariously funny as she was inappropriate and beautiful.)
The Girls have been sticking to covers so far (easy now, they are only two gigs in), but the songs they pick are “spot-on,” as Simon Cowell would put it. I felt like I had taken a time machine back to the ’60s as Brie, Fiallo and Guill were all sporting lovely dresses that had a vintage charm, while singing mesmerizingly beautiful harmonies during covers like the good ole’ Hall and Oates tune “Rich Girl” and their own rendition of “These Girls – a tune originally credited to none other than Brie’s “Community” co-star Donald Glover through his rap side-gig, Childish Gambino (who I personally witnessed slay the audience at SXSW last year).
While they also performed a lovely version of Bruce Springsteen’s “I’m On Fire,” the highlight of the evening for me personally was their take on The Head & The Heart’s “Winter Song,” which showcased their ability to harmonize and the natural beauty of each of their voices. The final song of the evening – a cover of Jones Street Station’s own “Tall Buildings” – was also rather breathtaking.
At the end of our chat, we asked Brie a classic “what if” question: If you were stranded on a deserted island and could only have three albums to listen to, what would they be?
As expected, she wasn’t a fan of the question (“You know that’s a mean question,” she joked) and its inherent “implausibility,” so she requested that they be three of her favorite albums at this moment. Making me feel like a lacking journalist, she mentioned two artists I did not know (but have since listened to and fallen in love with): the folk sounds of The Lumineers and sexy synthy ’80s throwback Haim.
Hoping to keep my indie music cred, I encouraged Brie to check out two totally amazing acts that she admitted being unfamiliar with: R&B prodigy The Weeknd and Ryan Gosling’s music project, Dead Man’s Bones. We hope she enjoys both!
May 06,2012
Check out another latest interview of the cast talking about The Five-Year Engagement:
May 06,2012
I have added some twitpics of Alison, Julianna and Cyrina performing at Loud Noises along with Jones Street Station yesterday.
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May 5 2012: Loud Noises!
Watch some of the videos so far:
May 05,2012
Check out Alison and Mindy’s recent interview with Young Hollywood about The Five-Year Engagement recently:
May 03,2012
Community co-showrunners Neil Goldman and Garrett Donovan have inked an overall deal with 20th Century Fox TV.
As part of the two-year pact, Goldman and Donovan will develop and supervise new projects for the studio. In doing so, the duo will relinquish control of the Sony-produced comedy, with which they’ve been involved as writers and producers for the show’s three seasons. (If it’s picked up for a fourth, one source suggests creator/co-showrunner Dan Harmon, producer Chris McKenna or someone new would run NBC’s Community.)
“We’ve had our eye on them for a long time,” 20th Century Fox TV Chairman Dana Walden tells The Hollywood Reporter, noting that Goldman and Donovan are not only “incredibly funny” but also “incredibly beloved.”
In this particular case, Walden credits the passion of 20th TV’s comedy head Johnny Davis for making the deal happen, acknowledging that it was he who came to her and her partner Gary Newman several times throughout the development process to suggest the pair was ready to branch out and urge 20th to set a meeting.
“Gary and I had to support this deal at a certain point just to have Johnny stop talking about them,” Walden jokes, adding: “When you have a creative executive that has that kind of passion for two writers, it’s impossible for that sentiment not to become contagious.”
The Emmy-nominated writing partners, who started as staff writers on Fox’s Family Guy before jumping to ABC’s long-running Scrubs, have spent the last six years under overall deals at NBC/Universal. Looking ahead, Goldman and Donovan will likely jump onto one of 20th’s pilots in a matter of weeks, while simultaneously developing their own vision.
Goldman and Donovan are represented by UTA and Ziffren Brittenham.
May 02,2012
Alison made it on FHM’s 100 Sexiest Women In The World 2012 list. She is number 77!
Full name: Alison Brie Schermerhorn
DOB: December 29, 1982
Place of birth: Pasadena, California, USA
Occupation: Actress
Alison Brie factsAlison’s an American actress famous for appearing in Community, Mad Men, and Scream 4.
She was ranked #5 in the 2010 Annual Independent Critics List of the 100 Most Beautiful Famous Faces From Around the World, which is a thing that actually exists, apparently.
Before she became an actress, Alison Brie worked as a clown.
Why we love Alison Brie
According to IMDB, Alison Brie’s first role was Toto in a production of the Wizard of Oz at a South California Jewish Community centre. We’re not sure, but we think Toto was a dog. Isn’t that right? Strange. Perhaps they put her in a tiny dog-suit. Anyway. She also performed as a clown before she made it big, which at least goes some way towards healing our fear of clowns. Although not all the way. Never.
Alison Brie’s probably most famous for her role as Annie Edison in cult US Comedy Community, which is right at the top of our list of Shows We’re Totally Going To Watch Soon Honestly right next to Arrested Development and The Killing. We hear it’s fantastic. She’s also in super-slick smoking endorsement and occasional drama Mad Men, where she plays Trudy Campbell, and as Neve Campbell’s assistant in Scream 4 (or Scre4m, as it was officially and perhaps wrongly called). It doesn’t work out well for her – she gets killed in a garage. You might think that constitutes a spoiler, but come on, guys. It’s a Scream film. Barely anyone survives those.
But it’s not all big-budget films and AAA titles for our Alison. Oh no. Alison Brie’s appeared in a variety of shows, shorts and movies with titles ranging from the merely dubious (Dickie Smalls: From Shame to Fame) to the Syfy-Channel orientated (The Deadliest Lesson, Parasomnia) to the outright incriminating Hot Sluts – and we’re not making that up, you can look it up. Turns out it’s a comedy, so it’s fine. But do remeber that your place of work might not see it that way, don’t come crying to us when some IT snake grasses you up.
