I don't know if it's the blend of comedy with a magical element, the combination of Aubrey Plaza, Mark Duplass and Jake Johnson, or the sweetness that's natural from the producers of Little Miss Sunshine, but I'm totally into this trailer for Safety Not Guaranteed, which comes out on June 8. Safety may not be guaranteed, but hilarity sure will be! (You're physically bent over and out of breath from laughter now, right? Because I think that was my best post ending ever.)
Aubrey Plaza isn't just funny, she's also the perfect love match for every insecure comedian in the world. Here's how she describes feeling when watching her performance in Safety Not Guaranteed for the first time at Sundance:
I have massive anxiety, insecurity issues, though, so I almost cried before it started and almost left, because I was like, I just don’t think I can do this. It was a tense experience. I think in the beginning I was still super nervous and I didn’t know where it was going to go, and I was like, Ah, my big fucking face everywhere! No! It was like a nightmare, a [...]
Last night Aubrey Plaza's Conan interview offered a teeny little sneak peek into the mind of Sharon Stone, which, as you might have guessed, seems like a psychic tornado of flashbulbs, couture and tooth bleach. "She kind of called me out on my own shit, a little bit," Plaza says of walking the red carpet with Stone, before channeling the Oscar-nominee as some sort of wire-hanger-wielding succubus. "She kept kind of whispering in my ear, 'If you want to be a movie star, you better smile and be fucking sunny. Give them what they want!'" Says the Parks and Rec actress, "She told me not to chew on [...]
…now that SNL's Fred Armisen, Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader and Seth Meyers have joined Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Russell Brand, and Reggie Watts for the March 4 event? Maybe a gallbladder or a couple yards of small intestine. Oh, also Parks & Rec's Aziz Ansari and Aubrey Plaza will be there. So we're getting into spleen/pancreas territory. What's that? Maya Rudolph, Bob Odenkirk, Hannibal Buress, Sarah Silverman, Kristen Wiig, Peter Serafinowicz and David Cross are going to be there too? Take my liver and my stomach. And lastly, Muppet commentators Statler & Waldorf will be in attendance. HEART.
Here's a pretty cool Kickstarter video for the Improv Everywhere movie, a feature-length documentary about the people and process behind the no-pants subway ride, the tuxedo-ruining Black Tie Beach, Mall Santa Musical, frozen Grand Central, and approximately one kagrillion other heart-warming and day-making pranks. The movie also features Aubrey Plaza and Nick Kroll and, if it's like this trailer, will probably make you feel good about art and comedy and humans. You can donate to get the project off the ground here.
The human need to eat on a regular basis drives so many of our decisions. Too many, if you ask me! During Aubrey Plaza's Letterman interview, the Parks and Rec actress recalls her gig as a elven party mascot, and the intense pressure put on her to force Donald Trump into a photo op. "The whole time they were really pressuring me, 'Get in there! Get in there with him,'" she explains Well, if Aubrey hadn't needed that $7/hour so badly, we here in America might never have learned to love that famous British elf, old What's His Name.
Here's Aubrey Plaza in a music video for "Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings," the new single from former Fleet Foxes drummer J. Tillman. She plays, in her words, "a crazy person who destroys the funeral" that she's attending. She also eats flowers and smokes apples and stands in billowing red smoke like a supernatural villainess. Just another crazy night at the Snake Pit for April Ludgate.
Megan Mullally stars in this Funny or Die video as Peggy Dvorak, the gardening and NPR-listening guru who's dedicated her life's work to turning happy tanned actresses into edgy, deep intellectuals. Her clients include Aubrey Plaza, Lizzy Caplan, Casey Wilson, Michaela Watkins and Lake Bell, but definitely not Ellie Kemper, because some girls just do not have what it takes. Incidentally, "donut hole" is my new go-to insult of all time.
Looks like our suggested titled, Boner Jamz, did not make it into the right hands after all. Per Bill Hader, his upcoming film The Hand Job has been renamed The To-Do List, which is sort of disappointing. “It is about a very type-A, valedictorian type of girl who decides she needs to be more sexually experienced before she goes to college," Hader said about the film, written and directed by spouse Maggie Carey. "I play her boss. She works at pool and there’s a whole big thing with her and me. Let’s just say I may not have the best intentions."
