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Movies

'Pitch Perfect' Director in Talks for Tina Fey and Paula Pell's Movie 'The Nest'

by | February 4th, 2013

Director Jason Moore, who made his feature debut with this summer's surprise hit Pitch Perfect, is in negotiations to direct a new comedy called The Nest from Tina Fey and Paula Pell, according to Deadline. The movie was written by Pell and will be produced by Fey via her company Little Stranger Inc. The Nest follows two 30-something sisters who, after finding out their parents' house is for sale, decide to spend one final wild weekend in their childhood home, bonding, feuding, and growing up. Tina Fey may star in The Nest as one of the sisters. This will be Pell's first screenplay, but she's been dipping her [...]

Writing

Paula Pell, Lauryn Kahn, and Jay Baruchel Named Screenwriters to Watch

by | December 2nd, 2011

She's so much more than Pete's sleepy wife on 30 Rock! SNL writer Paula Pell has been named one of Variety's Screenwriters to Watch. She's done punch-up work on Bridesmaids and Judd Apatow's upcoming This Is Forty, so she's already basically the silent ninja of screenwriting, and next year Tina Fey will produce Pell's own script based on her teenage journals.

Lauryn Kahn was also named a writer to watch, no surprise after selling a script to Adam McKay from her assistant's chair. And so was Jay Baruchel and his writing partner Jesse Cabot for their work on Goon and the upcoming Baseballissimo, which [...]

Interviews

Talking to Paula Pell About Working at 'SNL' for 17 Years, Writing with Apatow, and Other Stuff

by | January 8th, 2013

One of the longest-serving SNL writers of all-time, Paula Pell has been writing for the show since 1995. The past couple years have seen her splitting her time between the seminal sketch series and a burgeoning career as a movie writer, working on scripts for Judd Apatow and Tina Fey and pitching jokes on Apatow-produced projects like Bridesmaids and This Is 40 (which she also produced and helped rewrite). I recently had the chance to talk to Pell about her decade-plus experiences at SNL , what it's been like transition from sketch to features, and how writing for Tina Fey and Judd Apatow has changed her writing habits.

What's [...]

Recaps

Parks and Rec Recap: "Ron and Tammys"

by | September 30th, 2011

Early in Parks and Rec’s run, when it was revealed that Tammy was the name of both of Ron Swanson’s ex-wives and also his mother, it created more questions than answers.  Two years later, we finally got to meet the last of the important Tammys in Ron’s life.  Going off past episodes with Megan Mullally’s Tammy 2 turning Ron into an id-indulging deviant, I was prepared to see Ron hit some new lows in last night’s show, but nothing prepared me for the polite, moustache-less nerd Tammy 1 causes him to morph into.

In her second appearance as Ron’s ex-wife, Tammy  1, Patricia Clarkson fills her role well in [...]

Tweetin

Follow Friday: @PerlaPell

by | July 27th, 2012

Everybody is a comedian on Twitter, but only a select few are worthy enough to have all of their witticisms transmitted to you, the ever busy comedy fan trying to navigate through an increasingly congested internet. Every Friday we'll make your life a little bit easier by introducing you to an individual who consistently makes us laugh. You're welcome.

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Paula Pell (@perlapell) is best known for being an Emmy award winning writer for SNL. Paula's been writing there for so long [...]

Casting Notices

Infinite Tammys: Paula Pell To Play Nick Offerman's Mom On Parks And Rec

by | August 16th, 2011

Maybe now that Paula Pell is cast as Nick Offerman's mom Tammy on Parks and Rec, I can get the disturbing image of her getting sleep-boned as 30 Rock's Paula Hornberger out of my head. Oh no, it's still there. The SNL writer, actress and sometimes 30 Rock scribe is set to play Ron Swanson's extremely Ron Swanson-esque mother in the coming season. Considering that Pell and Offerman are roughly the same age, and Mama Tammy won't be turning up in a flashback, I hope they don't age Pell at all, and instead depict her as preternaturally young through sheer force of will. And she should have the [...]

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