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JAMES MASLOW & GILLIAN JACOBS!

James Maslow, who plays James Diamond on the upcoming Nickelodeon show, Big Time Rush, will be making an appearance on BuzzWorthy Radio! Maslow, as well as his other co-stars from the series, are pulling double-duty filming the show as well as recording their first album. James is no stranger to Nick. He made a guest appearance on iCarly as Shane, the guy Sam and Carly fought over. Hear more about Big Time Rush in this program!

Gillian Jacobs stars as Britta the 28-year-old dropout with something to prove in NBC's new comedy series "Community."

Jacobs was most recently seen in Richard Kelly's film "The Box," starring Cameron Diaz and Frank Langella. Other film credits include "Choke," starring Sam Rockwell and Angelica Houston (Sundance Film Festival - Special Jury Prize Best Ensemble Acting) and the lead in Damian Harris's "Gardens of the Night," which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival. Jacobs can also be seen in the upcoming films "Coach" directed by Will Frears, "Watching TV With the Red Chinese," "NoNames" and "Helena From the Wedding."

On the small screen, she has appeared in "Fringe," "Law and Order: Criminal Intent" and "Royal Pains." Jacobs will also be seen in the upcoming drama series "The Good Wife" and had a recurring role in "The Book of Daniel."

Her theater credits include "The Little Flower of East Orange" at the Public Theater, which was directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman. She also starred in "A Feminine Ending" off-Broadway at Playwright's Horizons with Marsha Mason.

Jacobs is originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and is a graduate of the Jilliard School's Drama Division.

Duration:: 48m
Broadcast on:: 12 Dec 2009
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VGW Group, voidware prohibited by law. 18+ Terms and Conditions apply. Lock told the radio. It is Buzzworthy Radio. Where you can get the latest buzz. I'm all your favorite children, Buzz. Buzzworthy, Buzz. Now! You are now listening to Buzz, radio. Yo. Yo. This is Blake Lewis. You're listening to Buzz. Right, right, right, right. Right, radio. Buzz, Buzz. What is going on everybody? Welcome to our second show of the day here on VWR. I am the Vell Dilly, your host this wonderful Friday, December 11, 2009, 9 p.m. Eastern Time, 6 p.m. Pacific Coast Time. Here on vlogtalkradio.com. We're going to be having on two guests in this 45 minute segment. Later on in the evening, we're going to be joined by Julian Jacobs. He plays the role of Britta on NBC's new comedy series Community. She will be talking to us for a brief period. But first, we've got up here James Maslow. Let's get into a little bit about him, shall we? He first got his premiere on an episode of iCarly in playing Shane, I believe, playing in Shane, and I saw him first. One ounce fans will get to see him as James Diamond on Big Time Rush, which will premiere in January 2010. But they have a sneak preview of it a few weeks ago, which is still airing on Nick and T. Nick. James Maslow is joining us right now. How are you? Hey, I'm doing good. How you doing? Good. Good, man. Thanks for showing up tonight, man. Pleasure to have you. Oh, of course. Thank you so much for having me on. I apologize if I sound a little, little scruffy and find a bit of a cold, so bear with me. Oh, okay. Yeah, I noticed you found it worth. I thought you were like shouting or something. Like, you know, that, that, that thing that seeing artists do when they're in a recording series, you've seen it chat too much, and now your voice is gone. I thought that's what that was. No, no, no. I try not to chat too much because we do have to sing. But the fact I was trying to get through singing today. But, you know, it's all good. It just kind of jumped up on me yesterday, and I'm doing good. I'll be over in a day or so. Wow. You definitely have that, man. I think that it will be gone by tomorrow. It's, it's, it's confidence. I believe in vitamin and sleep. It'll be good. All right. I wish I had that cold, uncooled confidence. I never do when I get sick like you, but... Can I say it's more like bear, because I need to get over it quickly, right? That's probably the better answer. So for all of you who did not check out Big Time Rush on the 29th of November, tell us, tell us exactly who, who's James on the show. What is James? What's he like? Who is he? Well, I play James Diamond, and James Diamond is a very, very motivated character. What motivated him is, is, is fame, and the idea of becoming a pop star, even when we're in Minnesota. None of my friends think about anything but hockey, and though I love the sport, I love, you know, I love my boys and friends, I also have been studying, you know, pop and, and LA culture and fame and everything since I was little. So when this opportunity to audition kind of American Idol type contest comes to town, you know, James Diamond is just stoked to have the chance to go and, and be able to sing and perform and live that life. And, you know, luck come with it. He gets the opportunity. In fact, all, all four of us do. Yeah. Yeah. James, James Diamond is like the one that's the most, I don't like your word, egotistical. I would say the most confident out of the group. You're definitely confident. In fact, you know, maybe, maybe not egotistical, but maybe, you know, he's been referred to as the lovable narcissist. Definitely, definitely like that. And definitely into looking good. Kind of what he does. The cool thing about, the cool thing about this, this show as well, I was thinking for you guys here. What's interesting is that you guys are actually recording, besides filming the show, you are recording your first album, is that right? Yeah, though it, though it, I'm sure it doesn't sound like it now. We actually do sing in real life and we're getting the opportunity with Columbia Records to go and record our own album. We're working on that right now and it's going fantastic. So it's pretty cool to get to, you know, play that in the TV show and then real life actually do it. And, and speaking of the fact that you are a singer/songwriter, is there any of songs that you guys have done that you had influenced, or you had written, or you would hope to have on the album a song that you write? Yes, and I think, I think come second album, we're going to get more opportunity. However, we've had a lot of influence in each song we've gone over as a group so far. It's been pretty cool that we get, you know, in the studio we get a lot of say in making each song our own, so that's been pretty cool. That's awesome, that's awesome. Yeah. Now, how did you, now how did you find your love for acting and singing? What drove you into that passion? Well, I was saying when I was younger, and I think in fact it almost found me more than I found it, because my mom threw me into choirs when I was five or six years old. She just threw me in this hand, you're a children's choir. Didn't even ask me to sign me up. You're doing this, no questions asked. Oh no, she didn't even tell me. That would have been the courteous thing to do if you're going to force something upon your child. She pretty much just dropped me off one day. I'm like, where am I? She's like, oh no, you're going to choir. I'm like, what? She left. I hated it for the first two weeks. And it, I was, you know, I went from just playing sports to like all of a sudden I'm sitting in a big church where we first had it, you know, just singing. And it's almost two weeks on the dot, something clicked. I just fell in love with it. I'd always sang, and now I was like, wow, I'm actually around other people that can do this and do this well. I get to do this and like perform from people, I'm like, this is sick. Like what, you know, honestly it turned into a miracle, and from then on I just trained every day. And it was really the eighth grade, I think, that I decided, look, I want to do this for the rest of my life. And that's when I decided to go to my first performing arts school, which I continued to go to, performing arts school throughout high school. And, you know, it was singing to opera, to musical theatre that transitioned into film and television and, you know, pop, rock, what we're doing now? Oh, see now, see now you hated it before the look where, look where it's gotten there. So you know, it's become my passion. You know, I, I, you know, I guess I was decent at it and I had so much fun doing it but I figured, hey, why not do this for a living? And so I've worked towards that ever since. See now, now we got to get this shout out to the mom because if it wasn't for the mom, you wouldn't be doing this right now. So shout out to James Mazzo's mom. There you go. There you go. That's what we're doing right now. We're shouting out to mom right now. You see, this is what you got to do. You've got to force the kids to do what they don't want to do. No, no. It made it, made it a little more overdramatic. But shout out to the Pops as well because I'm pretty sure he's the one that ended up driving me to everything. So I got to say, thank you, dad. Appreciate it. Yes, yes. Thanks, James. It's bad. Hey, we can't drive at that young age, so you got to do it for us, so. Right? Too much. Let me tell you, the day I turned 16, I had my license and my dad was so grateful. Wow. Did he rush you to get your license? Oh, it was. No, he didn't rush me. I'm not kidding. He's been reading car drivers since I was like eight years old. I love cars. I rush me to get my license. I had my permit the day of. Actually, right before I got my permit, they switched it to 15 and a half. You know, I used to go get your permit 15. Then they switched that, moved it up. I was just pissed. So I got it. I was the driving instructor. Like, my dad's had this driving since we were little, like, on private land and stuff. So it wasn't a big deal. He's like, he's literally reading a magazine. He's like, you know, driving? I'm like, yeah, he's like, cool. He got that done with it. And I had it. I had it. I don't think the day after my birthday. It's maybe, you know, one day after. But, you know, I needed it. I wouldn't be able to be up in L.A. driving all the time in San Diego if I didn't do that, so I worked out. That's good. That's good. And you did the appearance on I-Car like I said. You were in, I saw him first, which I believe was the season two premiere of the show. And it's funny. I was reading up on this interview and it seems that a lot of people start interest saying that you could be the next Zach Efron. What do you think about that? I've never heard that comparison in my life, actually. Wow. Thank you for first. No. It's actually, you know, it's cool. In fact, I take that as a huge, huge compliment because I have all the respect in the world for him. I've yet to meet him. But, you know, he obviously works very hard to be where he's at. And he does a great job doing it. So, hey, man, I think that's a cool compliment. I'd love to be in that position. And I think, you know, it's good work towards it and cool to have more of a, you know, with this, we've got more of the record, you know, singing stuff behind it. And for me, that's kind of, kind of a dream. Even better yet than just the movie or just the show. So, it's kind of cool. Yeah, absolutely, man. And, yeah, as soon as I read it, I was like, you know what? He does kind of look like Zach in some kind of angles, but not so much. It's the hair. It's the hair. I figured that out. I figured that out. Yeah, it's the hair. All right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I got lots of it in the hair. I would, to be honest, but I guess you don't see that. But it's all good. And you guys have worked with the hit maker, Des and Charles. You guys worked with him. That has been cool for you. Yeah. Actually, I got to flat Nashville when we were doing a pilot a year ago to record with him. And that was an experience. It was this amazing studio. It's literally in a cabin in Nashville, up in the woods, you know, away from everything. I kid you not. We're sitting out on the deck, you know, five feet away from recording studio. And I see a deer just chilling in another deer just chilling next to him. I mean, I remember the last time I saw deer in my life. I mean, it was pretty awesome. It was pretty awesome to be up there and do that. And then recently we worked him again, you know, down here in LA. And he's just a miracle maker. He's an amazing, amazing what he does. And so that was definitely, that was definitely unreal. It was such a pleasure. Yeah. It's just, it's amazing how far you guys have come. Because another interesting thing that you got, you had auditioned for this part two years ago. Yeah. That's right. Yeah. It's been about two years. It was a year of auditioning before we did the first pilot, which was, I think it was three screen tests. Or, and then we did a fourth screen test and more of this. I think they did four national tours and saw about 15,000 kids, they say. So, and I think I was in the very first audition in LA. But it was cool, man. It was definitely, definitely worth the wait. Let me tell you that much. How was the audition process? It was interesting. I think, you know, back in the day, I'm sure they don't want me to say this, but they called it the boy band boot camp. And we really turned into the anti-boy band, so to speak, you know, really on the show. Because we're not, we're not striving to recreate anything like that. It's not like four guys and choreographs. Dance moves all the time. Of course, you have bits and pieces of that. It's more of like a music group, like Pop Rock coming together. But back in the day, you know, it was also being created. And that's just what they called it. And it was, for example, the first screen test, they flew out from across the country, maybe 40 kids. And put us up in hotels for three days. For like six in the morning until six or eight or ten at night of just, you know, dance, rotate to singing, rotate to acting, cut people, cut people, cut people, cut them. It was really, it was like, like American Idol, not in that sense. It was so much like how the show represented in the first episode. And it just got smaller and smaller each screen test. And different people came in and a couple of the same people were there. And eventually, to be honest, it was very, very slow until four or five months ago. And we finally cast Kendall. And what he came on board, everything was like, all right, we got the floor and we've been running with it since. And it's been an unreal experience. Wow, man. And it's looking like it's paying off now. So, you know, I watched the special preview of the show. It was very cool, very, very different than what you would expect, like you said, from the boy band type of programs. It's like Entourage Me, it's making the band, which it turns into a comedic spin. Yeah, I like that. So, it's very unique to Nickelodeon and it's really, really cool to, you know, be much of the opportunity to bring that. So, you got, I got to have this because I know everybody wants to know. You guys do hang out outside of the show, correct? Yes, I just had lunch with Kendall because we actually had a, we got off earlier than 10 o'clock at night. So, if you can call lunch at five o'clock lunch, we did that. Top cup lunch. Yeah, lunch enough. We didn't have time when you're on a backstage. Oh, man, after my own heart, I eat any time of the day and I call it lunch. That's great. Yeah, for sure. I have lunch at five in the morning, lunch at five in the afternoon, six lunch at five. Oh, yeah. I'm a huge fan of food, as you can tell. Oh, man. Why are we not best friends, dude? I'm serious. My whole life in existence is eating. I'm not going to show folks. I'm pretty sure that's, in fact, crafty are my best friends. Craft services, you provide the food on set. We're really, really good friends. And they know that if I don't eat it pretty much every break, I don't do well. So, it's pretty much, it's like we got five minutes, James, and over you're at your craft services. Yep, I'm there. It's great. It's great. I wish. That's probably the biggest perk of being on stage. A long hour is all that, yeah, I can get old, but hey, there's food there, 24/7, so I love it. Yeah, once the next flight out to Los Angeles again, so I can be around that food. James, good, man. You are, if you're by inviting, come on set anytime you want, buddy. Come eat some food. We even get catering in the production office for lunch, hey? I'm already sold on the food, dude. You don't have to say any more. I'm right there. I'm right there for you. Well, for the food, but I'm there for you, too. You know, I'll pretend like it's more of a friendship thing than a food thing, even though I know better, but to make myself feel good, I'm going to, on pretend like you actually like me for me, you know? That's cool. Yeah, yeah. We'll go with that. Oh, God. So what do you like to do in your spare time if you have any? You know, I've learned a cherished spare time. Let me tell you, weekends when we get them, we'll be called weekends for a reason. No, and I love, I try and hit the beach at least once a week if I can. You know, these days maybe every couple of weeks, but I grew up surfing, and for me, that's one of my biggest, you know, past times biggest way to relax and just let my mind go. As well as, you know, exercising and training, like I've gotten into climbing pretty recently, and I was able to go and do about Whitney last June, and I'm kind of working towards doing a Mount Rainier, maybe next winter, or sometimes in the next year. So, yeah, I'm not at the beach doing that. I'm usually training with a couple of my really good friends for me. That's not really, it's nice. It's a completely different world, you know, gets you to sweat a little bit and get you to take your mind off of, you know, the normal day-to-day stuff. Yes. And I don't know if many people know this, and if they do, then it shows how much I don't know as a host because I don't know, probably. You are a B&F researcher. When I was younger, I did that, yeah. You did that, yeah. When I was younger. This is like the hugest thing here on the East Coast. I mean, everybody that I know that I'm friends with are B&F researchers. You have no idea how much we love B&F. That's like our thing. I feel like I shouldn't call myself a BMX racer when all of them are probably ten times better than I am. But, you know, when I was younger for a couple of years there, I definitely was very much so into that race with a couple, you know, a bunch of local competitions in San Diego. You know, when I was younger, it was like my big investment. I spent, you know, $500 on a nice diamond back, bombshell for it. I still have that bike, which I love. And, you know, it was a lot of fun. Nice. Very, very nice. And you saw my old BMX bike, like just my first mongoose, like really heavy. You know, just when I was fun, tiny little bike to set. So now when I'm around set and need to get from place to place, I ride this tiny little thing just jumping over things. And everybody freaks out like I'm going to hurt myself, but it's a lot of fun. Are you like saying, "Oh, God, I should be wearing pads on my knees and arms." Because I'm going to just injure myself very, very fast. I don't worry about it, but, of course, it's the one time that I'm like, "Oh, I'm going to be fine that I go out there and jump over something and fall." It's always when you're trying to act confident and cocky. Like, "Oh, dude, come on. I used to do this for a living that you missed the pedal and scrape your leg." And you get that told you so look and you walk away like it doesn't hurt, then it actually hurt. Yeah. It's like I think you see on the TV show, you get up and then it's like, "Yeah, I'm fine. I'm cool." And then everybody walks away and you're like, "Oh, you're crying. You're in tears." But as long as you can hold it, as long as you can hold a lot of people and see you, then it's totally okay. You're still really family. You realize now that the people here in this, they'll probably be going like, "I wonder if he actually hurts himself, he holds it in, and then he cries when people walk away." Like a little girl. Like a little girl. It's more of the like, "Oh, it didn't hurt at all than walk away and just like sit down like that really hurts." Oh, God, I'm insane. More of like laughing about how stupid I was laughing myself like, "Oh, that was cool. Turn around." I'm like, "Ah, it's not smart." Nope, that was not a smart thing to do. No, not at all. My leg's bleeding. It was great. Oh, look, there's stuff losing out of my leg right now. Yeah, if that's not painful, thank you so much. Something happened yesterday, we're doing a hockey scene and we do this little stunt work, but I'm supposed to get checked into the counter. And I was supposed to just like take my shoulder on the counter and be nothing, but of course there are things to break and I was allowed to knock things over. So we go full out and I end up going on top of the counter and falling or whatever. And little I realized I'd get up and I'd scrape my arm. It was like a five inch like gnarly, I mean, pretty gnarly scrape going down my arm. And I get up and I'm like, "Yeah, they kind of hurt." I'm like hiding it, you know, to walk away because I want them to let me do it again next time. And I'm just like, "Boy, it is really pretty bad." But it was one of the total fake moments like, "Oh, dude, I'm fine." Like, "You got hurt." It looks like you got hurt. I'm like, "Dude, come on. I was fine. I walk away." We're the bandages. Seriously, let's cover this up right now. Yeah, right. Don't let them write it up. They won't let me do this again. There's so much fun. There's a lot of that in the audience. Oh, yeah. And I totally was an idiot, but it was a lot of fun. Hopefully look it. I will. I will never see that about you unless I see you in person and you actually do that in front of my face. Then I will call you an idiot. Awesome. Well, you know, if I ever end up trying to show off doing something I'm not very good at, you'll find out. We'll see. That's true. That's true. You'll probably hear it here first, people. But I'll come back to you just to tell you the often stupid things I do on a daily basis. Nice. I've got to ask this too. What James Mazzo and James Diamond, are there any similarities between the two? Do you see yourself in James Diamond, vice versa? You know, I think every actor puts a tiny bit of himself in every character, so absolutely. You know, James Diamond-- Not just the fact that you look just like him. You know, we look very, very similar. I think James Diamond has a little bit more wrinkle than it's faced up. On occasion. On occasion. No one's about that. You know, if I had to say one or the other, I'd say James Mazzo is just slightly more handsome. But that's just me. Maybe it's my bias. You're allowed to have it. There you go. But you know what? James Diamond is very fashionable, always dressed up even when he's casual, when he's trying to make whatever he's got look good, and I think he generally does. When I wake up, I pretty much find whatever's mostly clean and put it on to go to perfectly clean. Are you trying to say that you're not one of the tightest, cleanest people around? Okay, actually, I'm a very, I'm a very hygienic person, so it will be clean, but it's probably going to be folded up on the ground somewhere. I don't really put things away because I don't have time. If I had time, I'd promise I'd be much more neat and clean, but I don't. So things end up partially folded but clean in, I don't know, various places. Often, I dress in my car because I just wear my PJs out and shower on set half the time, which is quite nice. You know, but one big difference, you know, James Diamond, there's a bunch of jokes about in the show how he's always like doing his hair and combing it and putting product in it, which is ironic since literally when I get this set even for the show, they don't put product in my hair, like rarely do they do anything in a real life I never do. However, in fact, and you can quote me on this and you can check it out, I take less time and hair and makeup than any of the guys. No joke. So that's a bit of a difference between the character and myself, but, you know, I think we're both trying to have fun. Both are very motivated. You know, that's something I try to bring to the character to reflect that he has such a motivation, but James Diamond is a little, he doesn't know the best ways to go about things sometimes. He may be even a little airheaded sometimes because he wants it so bad he will make a fool out of himself. I have no problem making a fool out of myself for work, but on a daily basis I try and maybe play it a little more cool. Okay. That's where the Blonde sets in, right? Ah, the inner Blonde sets in. The inner Blonde sets in. Yeah, the highlights are for James Diamond, so that there's a difference again. I got you. There you go. There you go. Now you guys are going to be doing a summer concert tour, is that right, next year? Most likely nothing is set in stone at all, in fact, everybody is focusing on the show at first. But I'd imagine as soon as we finish the first season, which, you know, will be sometime maybe during the summer, we could, we're definitely going to go and do a tour. I'm not sure when exactly or how many stops or any of that, but after the first season we'll definitely, definitely go and perform somewhere sometime. Nice. There you go. I know that's really specific. So now you can go tell everybody exactly where to be at what time, but, you know, I try. Oh, I will tell them that. I'll just say, oh, just listen to the show, dude. Yeah. Just like you can repeat it, but I'm not listening to that. So we'll get hints and events in the show day night, yeah, you know? That's exactly it. Now, when you did, when you did all those plays, when you did Les Mis and Footloos and everything like that. Love Footloos, by the way, Footloos is my favorite thing to do, and in my high school day. Yeah. Very much fun. That looks absolutely amazing. And of course, this is my bias talking, so I'm allowed to have it, right? Right? Yeah, momentarily, at least I'm going to take it away for you. That power soon enough. But since you're on the same page as me, then you're good. Thank you very much. What's the biggest difference doing those, and then when you're doing a big time rush because, you know, you're basically on stage in front of the audience, and it's like right there alive and in the moment, and if you mess up, then, hello, how do I bounce back from that? You know, kind of feeling. Well, actually, that was always one of my favorite parts when things went wrong on stage. It was always that little challenge of who's the quickest, who's got the way to keep moving without people noticing. That's what's really fun about the stage, and you get to perform in a pharma live audience, which is just invigorating. I mean, there's nothing like it, so when we go out and we do sing, and I get to sing in front of people and perform, I mean, it's the best feeling in the world. Whoever you do, you know, the same script over and over and over again, where in the show, you know, on TV, we get to have a new script every week, and we get to do new material and learn new material and study it and be on location and change. And that's amazing, and that is so much fun, so they both definitely have their ups and downs. You know, I'd say it's more immediate gratification when you're on stage and you're in front of people, but it's more amazing the long run looking at TV because you just see so many people go into that production, and everything that's done behind the scenes and in post-reduction after it's done, then to watch it afterwards and be like, "Oh, wow, that was really cool. How it all comes together." Absolutely, man. Now, tell us one thing, tell us one thing that you think that most people will not know that you did that they'll be interested to know of you. Most people would not know about me, but they'd be interested to know about how interested they'll be, but when I was younger, I wore sandals for pretty much two years straight. I almost never wore shoes except for when I performed because I didn't need to, and I hated putting on shoes, and for some reason, now that I'm in LA, I rarely ever wear sandals anymore because that does not have to be as much as I want to be, which makes me a little sad, but it won't work. See, I'm like the complete opposite. I don't wear sandals, I wear shoes, and the only time I'll wear sandals is if I am in California. So, yes, that makes sense. That's like the poor opposite, dude. But I wasn't in California, man, I skated in sandals, and people used to freak out about that. I ran and said, "It's not like long runs, but I didn't need to wear shoes. Why take the time?" What did you fear that you tripped in sandals if you ran, dude? When you wore them as much as I did, it was like being a bare feet. I don't know. I was actually like a pro at sandals. Most people, we had to sneak up on somebody when you're a little kid, we're really loud. I was like, "Shh, I could feel down first," and so I was kind of amazing at wearing sandals if I could say so. I was really good at it. Yeah, that confidence is coming through again, right? I know. You know what? I've got to say, I'm a professional sandalware. I think that is an amazing talent. You may not think so, but hey, I'm going to keep this confidence about it. You should have that printed on a t-shirt. I wear sandals well. That's right. Show it off. Show it off. If it worked the next time. Show it off at the studio. I'd like to talk about the professional sandalware. The sandalwearing ability, if you have it. I rocked the sandal, that's pretty much how you're going to put it. I rocked the sandal. That'd be a funny t-shirt. Yes, it would. It'd be exactly. No, it'd be funny. Sometimes. Not often. All right. All right. I'll give you that. You've been moderately comedic tonight. Yeah. Thank you very much. All the back-handed gestures, I really want to be great friends, but we're just being so mean to each other. But we'll keep talking. We'll see how it goes. Wait a minute. When we do that, are we friends now? I think so. I think it's one of those love-hate things, but it's more you just goofing on each other. Like, you know, best friends, you mess with each other. That's what happens. That's what I do. I think that's it. I think that's it. Wow. Yeah. We're closer than we thought. I think so. And I think the love for the food just brought us together. I think that works. Honestly, that's an inseparable bond. If anybody can eat, like I can eat, and I kind of sense that you might be able to. Seriously, any time you want to hang out, let's go get food. Absolutely, dude. And before you go, I'd love for you to do a promo for us, for this show here. Of course. Say anything that you would like except it has to include your name and buzzworthy radio in it. Say anything that I'd like. All right, should I make it pretty simple? You can make it as simple as you want. All right. Just go ahead right now. Yeah. Yeah. Let's go ahead. Hey, what's up, guys? This is James Maslow, and you're listening to Buzzworthy Radio. Help to see you around. Cool, cool. Simple. Simple to the point. I like it. Cool, man. Cool, man. So, listen. You are welcome back on the show anytime you want. I'd love to have you back on the show. Absolutely. As well as the rest of the crew, obviously, but, you know, you got first did, so. Well, thank you very much, man. I really appreciate it. Hey, yeah, maybe before, you know, the beginning of the year in January, we're going to have our premiere. So maybe we can talk right before after that. That'd be cool. Absolutely. I would love to. Thanks so much, Jim. All right, man. I really appreciate it. It's been a pleasure talking to you, man. I hope it's out to you real soon. Absolutely. You take care, man. You too. Bye. Bye. We have a little bit of a look at the show. We have a little bit of a look at the show. We have a little bit of a look at the show. We have a little bit of a look at the show. We have a little bit of a look at the show. We have a little bit of a look at the show. We have a little bit of a look at the show. We have a little bit of a look at the show. We have a little bit of a look at the show. We have a little bit of a look at the show. We have a little bit of a look at the show. We have a little bit of a look at the show. We have a little bit of a look at the show. We have a little bit of a look at the show. We have a little bit of a look at the show. We are going to take a short break. We are going to take a little break here. When we come back, we are going to be joined by Julian Jacobs, who played the role of RITA on NBC's new comedy series Community. We'll be right back. Hi. This is Dr. Blochstein. You're listening to Buzzworthy Radio on Blah. What? No, I can't do it like he does it. I just can't. Alright, I'll try. It is Buzzworthy Radio for you to get the latest buzz on all your favorite shows inside. Buzzworthy. God, that hurts my voice. Can't get enough of Buzzworthy Radio. Knock on down to www.buzzworthyradio.net To get the latest news, I'm upcoming guests, past shows and videos of all your favorite stars. Keep getting the latest buzz with Buzzworthy. I'm Allison Brie from NBC's Community and AMC's Madness. And you're listening to Ballworthy Radio. And welcome back to Ballworthy Radio. Yeah, we had Allison, that was the wonderful and talented Allison Brie from the Community and AMC's Madness, who did that lovely promo for us. Back story to that quick back story. Reason why that was said is because when we were trying to tell her the name of the show, she thought we were saying "Balled" instead of "Buzz." So she was like, "Wait, you got him. What is it you're saying?" And I was like, "Yeah, Buzzworthy, what you did you said?" And I was like, "I thought you said Ballworthy." And I was like, "Why would you name your show Ballworthy Radio?" And I was like, "Maybe we need some balls, but I don't know." But she did this one. And I said in honor of the fact that we were having Jillian Jacob from the show, we've got to play that promo. So we finally played it on the show. So there it was. I'm glad you enjoyed it. I enjoyed it. She's always so much fun in the show. So it was great. We love to have her back on any time. So I was wondering if you're listening right now. Come back to the show. We'd love to have you back here. But right now, we're about to listen to wonderful and talented Jillian Jacobs on our show, which aired yesterday. Actually, not aired, but it was taped yesterday. So here it is, Jillian Jacobs. We are joining it right now by the wonderful Jillian Jacobs, who plays Brida on NBC's community. How are you? Good morning. Hi. How are you? I'm great. How are you? Doing very well. Thanks for joining us this morning. Thank you for having me. Absolutely. So describe Brida for us. All right. Well, I would say that Brida is a girl who seems pretty tough on the outside, but maybe is a lot more vulnerable on the inside than she would like to let on. She dropped out of high school. So she got her GED, and she's trying to get her life on track, and she's at Greendale Community College trying to do that. Okay. Very good. Actually, it's funny. I thought about the Brida and NBC's on last week, simply because I thought they were the most funny ones I've ever seen, simply because it was about the sex talks. The great news. I was like, "Wow." You know, doing that whole episode around the STD Fair really brought up some interesting conversations on set, but it was really fun to shoot those scenes with Alice in an event where we were breaking into the Dean's office and, you know, getting caught. It was a really fun episode. Oh, absolutely. I mean, it was seriously funny where everybody could just say the word. I'm going to say it now because I'm around Phoenix, but she couldn't. It was just, "No." This is interesting. I love the "Go to this place." I just thought that was the most comical episode so far of this show. I mean, every show has been really funny, but it's pretty much, I think, broke the mold simply because of that, so... Oh, God. I'm glad you liked it. Thank you. Absolutely. Absolutely. And the episode that's supposed to airs on tonight's lineup, there's a Christmas party that's supposed to be thrown inside on that one a little bit 'cause I know Anthony Michael Hall, who everybody knows from the '80s movies. He's my favorite weird client, "16 Candle," and, of course, having a re-roll in the dead zone. He's got to be kept starting in tonight's episodes. A little bit of a leg working on him in tonight's episode and what's going down in tonight's episode. Well, it was pretty amazing because it was the first time that he and Chevy Chase had really worked together since vacation when he played his son. So, it was... That was like a very surreal pop-cultural moment to watch them see each other for the first time in, you know, 20-something years. And it was really fun. He plays this really mean, aggressive bully, which is kind of the antithesis of all of his parts from the '80s, you know? And he picks a fight with Abed and Jeff, and the whole gang gets involved. It was really, really fun. And, yeah, Shirley's character is trying to throw a Christmas party without realizing that not everybody in the cast is Christian, and so you have a lot of conflict with people of different faiths coming together around the holiday season. And, you know, it's our mixture of sweetness and absurd silliness that we do in communities. Absolutely. I can't wait to see that. Jay, what's Brita? What's Brita since he's not half? And everybody at my Christian, what's Brita? Well, I don't think it's too hard to guess that Brita is an atheist. She's the atheist of the group, but... Oh, I'm going to be fun. (laughter) So, yeah, we're going to watch Shirley grapple with the fact that she has a very diverse study group. Interesting. I'm not late to see that. I'm not late to be fun. And the other thing I also wanted to bring up is besides doing community, you're also seen in the good wife, right? Oh, yeah, yeah. I did the pilot of the good wife as well, yeah. With Julianna Margalee's love for another planet. Yes. And what is she doing in that one? Who are you in that? Well, I played her assistant in the pilot, and if, you know, if community hadn't made it to air, then I would have been a recurring character on that show, so I was very lucky to do two pilots this year. And the show's terrific, you know, and I felt really lucky to be a part of that one as well. Sorry, I couldn't do both, but I don't think it's humanly possible to be on two television shows that shoot out opposite coats. Opposite and opposite networks, too. Yes, that probably is also a hindrance, but, yeah, that's a great show. So that's pretty cool. That is really cool that you did that. Very happy for you. And how did you, how did you get into the world at being something I found you, or was it something that you always wanted to do? My mom signed me up for an acting class when I was in maybe third grade, and I just fell in love with it. And so basically, from there on out, I just tried to do as much as I could. I did plays and took acting classes and was basically in a play from third grade until I graduated high school as often as I could be. And then I studied acting and tried to get work as a professional actress. So I've been at this since I was about eight years old, I would say. Okay. And there was a couple of theater credits under your bell, one of which is a feminine ending, which you were in alongside Marcia Mason. Mm-hmm, yeah. That's a good one. Yeah, I know. Five-time Oscar nominee, Marcia Mason. It's very incredible. Nice. And doing theater in comparison to doing television shows that's scripted and on the small screen where you can do the retakes and everything, what states. She just did the thing for you where you feel like this is so much for rush that you have no idea what's going to happen because I know if I were on stage doing theater in front of people, I probably might choke. I might choke and I might mess up and I might trip on stage or anything, whereas, you know, if you're doing a scripted show, you know, you have the option of, if you do mess up, then you can, like, re-shoot the scene. Yeah. You can't re-shoot a scene when you're doing theater. Yeah, but, you know, the great thing about doing theater is that you always have the rest of your cast there supporting you so that you know what, no matter what happens, you're going to get through it, you know, because unless there's, you know, massive amounts of blood on stage, a play never stops. So I've, you know, I've seen people break limbs and the play keeps going or things fall down and the play keeps going or people in the audience have a heart attack and the play keeps going, so you really learn that, you know, you can basically get through just about anything. I think the only time I've been in a play that stopped is when the fire alarm went off and they made us evacuate the theater and we stood outside for 10 minutes with the audience, and then we went back in stage and just kept going from where we stopped. So, you definitely... I've never heard that out of a war. That's interesting. Yeah, it was pretty surreal. Yeah, and that was the night that all the critics were there, so every review of the play was like, "It was great for the first 10 minutes," and then the fire alarm went off, but we got through it. Nice. I never, never, like, wow. I'm kind of glad that it never went off in the... Well, I did some, so I was like, "Hmm, wow." That's a new one to look out for now. I'm going to... Whenever I go to the theater, I'm now going to be like, "Is this a fire alarm going to go off?" I know. Fire alarm going to go off. And doing a play with Marshall and he said, "Would you found out that you were going to do that play with her? What was your initial reaction?" I was thrilled. You know, that was a huge part for me. I was on stage the entire time, and I was in every single scene, and in between scenes, I would deliver monologues directly to the audience. So that shows a huge undertaking, and I was just really thrilled that they believed that I could do the part and that I was going to get to work with actors like Marsha and the rest of the cast, which were all terrific, terrific people. That was, you know, a huge challenge, and it was really exciting. Absolutely. And it's definitely paying off, because it was an actress, you know, he's doing... Doing theater with Marsha and Lisa, and now you're here in a starring role in community, which airs tonight, folks tonight, on NBC at 8 p.m. You'll be able to watch all the excitement with Anthony Michael Hall as a guest star in tonight's show. I want to thank Gillian and Jacob for joining us this morning. Thank you very much. It's great to have Greta on the show, and if you don't watch, if you don't watch Community, Joel McHale is going to Twitter at you until you watch the show. I'll just tell you how it's possible. I'll tell you how it's possible. Thank you so much for joining us this morning. Thank you for having me. Absolutely. Come back any time. Okay, thanks. Bye-bye. And that was Gillian, Jacob, to play the role of Greta on NBC's Community. You can watch that every Thursday night at 8 p.m., Eastern, and Pacific Coast time on NBC. You can catch full episodes of free at NBC.com and frugal.com in case you missed it live. But for now, we're going to sign off. We're going to be back on Tuesday at 10.30 a.m. Eastern Standard Time with Kendra from Bad Girl Club on Oxygen. She'll be joining us on Tuesday. So for now, I'm the Valjellie, signing off, making sure you get the latest buzz. With Buzzworthy Radio. 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