Jon Benjamin Has A Van

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Premiers tonight. And tomorrow night.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/jon-benjamin,57471/

AVC: After the last time we spoke, you mentioned after the interview that the show shifted from how it was originally conceived. How so?

JB: It started when we made the pilot. It's not entirely different, but we built on what we did in the pilot and changed it from there. When it got ordered to a series, we didn't completely change it, but we took the elements of the pilot and expanded on them. We added the whole story element—how the story breaks down, or how I become part of the fake story that I'm doing—in some fashion. We expanded on that part without telling Comedy Central, who were, um, not unpleasantly surprised by that. Initially, [the first episode] wasn't the pilot. It was a different show: a couple street pieces and a couple interviews, and that was it. It never went anywhere else.

AVC: What was the attraction to add the secondary story, the show-within-a-show element?

JB: Well, we wanted to fuck over Comedy Central. No, no, we started writing and realized that if we did 10 of those episodes, it would become boring for us. At least it was for me. Leo Allen, who I worked with and wrote the show with—we started writing a bunch of interview sketches in the room, and after a week we were like, "Wow. We wrote a lot of these." It felt like the show wouldn't be as exciting to us if we did 10 of those. Basically, we had decided to write the last episode first, where we would completely go away from the formula of the first nine—we decided, "Let's write that one first so we have it out of the way and can return to writing what we're supposed to write," figuring that Comedy Central won't care by episode 10 that we're writing something totally different. So we did that, and because we enjoyed it, we did more of that. It's like doing cocaine. Once you do it once, you're like, "Wow that's enjoyable, let's do it again!" But it's not for everybody. Writing. Not cocaine. Cocaine is for everybody.

[Saul Goodman]

Enjoying it so far, and I especially appreciate how they're mocking TV journalism.  Some reviews are ripping it to shreds, but duh-and/or-hello, I'm a total Jon Benjamin apologist.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Enjoying it so far, and I especially appreciate how they're mocking TV journalism.  Some reviews are ripping it to shreds, but duh-and/or-hello, I'm a total Jon Benjamin apologist.

I've only managed to catch the last half of last night's Little Little Italy episode but it confirmed my suspicion that Jon Benjamin is the shit.

"She's a grown woman!"

[Bort]

Enjoying it so far, and I especially appreciate how they're mocking TV journalism.  Some reviews are ripping it to shreds, but duh-and/or-hello, I'm a total Jon Benjamin apologist.

I've only managed to catch the last half of last night's Little Little Italy episode but it confirmed my suspicion that Jon Benjamin is the shit.

"She's a grown woman!"

And yet you gave me shit about my love of the criminally underrated Home Movies?

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Enjoying it so far, and I especially appreciate how they're mocking TV journalism.  Some reviews are ripping it to shreds, but duh-and/or-hello, I'm a total Jon Benjamin apologist.

I've only managed to catch the last half of last night's Little Little Italy episode but it confirmed my suspicion that Jon Benjamin is the shit.

"She's a grown woman!"

And yet you gave me shit about my love of the criminally underrated Home Movies?

No... I just said that no one else in the world has ever watched Home Movies, so your hip references to it are dropped in vain

[Bort]

Enjoying it so far, and I especially appreciate how they're mocking TV journalism.  Some reviews are ripping it to shreds, but duh-and/or-hello, I'm a total Jon Benjamin apologist.

I've only managed to catch the last half of last night's Little Little Italy episode but it confirmed my suspicion that Jon Benjamin is the shit.

"She's a grown woman!"

And yet you gave me shit about my love of the criminally underrated Home Movies?

No... I just said that no one else in the world has ever watched Home Movies, so your hip references to it are dropped in vain

I'm sure Brendan Small's mother watched it and found my hip reference hilarious.

[SKO]

Enjoying it so far, and I especially appreciate how they're mocking TV journalism.  Some reviews are ripping it to shreds, but duh-and/or-hello, I'm a total Jon Benjamin apologist.

I've only managed to catch the last half of last night's Little Little Italy episode but it confirmed my suspicion that Jon Benjamin is the shit.

"She's a grown woman!"

And yet you gave me shit about my love of the criminally underrated Home Movies?

No... I just said that no one else in the world has ever watched Home Movies, so your hip references to it are dropped in vain

I'm sure Brendan Small's mother watched it and found my hip reference hilarious.

This sausage could go to war and die for it's country.

[Bort]

Enjoying it so far, and I especially appreciate how they're mocking TV journalism.  Some reviews are ripping it to shreds, but duh-and/or-hello, I'm a total Jon Benjamin apologist.

I've only managed to catch the last half of last night's Little Little Italy episode but it confirmed my suspicion that Jon Benjamin is the shit.

"She's a grown woman!"

And yet you gave me shit about my love of the criminally underrated Home Movies?

No... I just said that no one else in the world has ever watched Home Movies, so your hip references to it are dropped in vain

I'm sure Brendan Small's mother watched it and found my hip reference hilarious.

This sausage could go to war and die for it's country.

See, Tank? The show made it all the way to Iowa!

[CT III]

Enjoying it so far, and I especially appreciate how they're mocking TV journalism.  Some reviews are ripping it to shreds, but duh-and/or-hello, I'm a total Jon Benjamin apologist.

I've only managed to catch the last half of last night's Little Little Italy episode but it confirmed my suspicion that Jon Benjamin is the shit.

"She's a grown woman!"

And yet you gave me shit about my love of the criminally underrated Home Movies?

No... I just said that no one else in the world has ever watched Home Movies, so your hip references to it are dropped in vain

I'm sure Brendan Small's mother watched it and found my hip reference hilarious.

This sausage could go to war and die for it's country.

See, Tank? The show made it all the way to Iowa!

Actually, it was just animated there in sweatshops.  Even cheaper than Korea!

[Saul Goodman]

Good episode this week.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

This doesn't really seem like the sort of show destined to be picked up for a second season, but the were-Jew-musclebear was the stuff of genius.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

(The blood on the bedsheets was a particularly nice touch.)