My brain switches gears, because when you’re doing stand-up, it’s like you’re alone but you’re with a room full of people.
#KEY MICHAEL SERIES#
Do you have to switch gears in your brain when moving between acting in a series and doing your own show like “Black Mitzvah.” Tiffany, you’re also known for your stand-up. So we get to make up things as we go along. Tony McNamara, our showrunner, he’s a genius and our show prides itself on being historically inaccurate. So she’s trying to get everything done in those months that she has left. Season 2 picks up where she is in power and the big question is now that you have the power, how are you going to handle that power? Is she up to the challenge? Is she a good leader? Catherine is also pregnant in the second season and the baby’s is almost a ticking time bomb because she knows, once this baby’s out, I could definitely be killed. He’s not very nice.” She has a lot of ideas for the country and wants to start this coup. It’s like for anybody who doesn’t like musicals.Įlle Fanning: The trajectory of her character in the first season is pretty A to B: She comes to Russia, she’s very naive and learns, “OK, I need to kill my husband. He’s just trying to figure out what the hell’s going on. He did such a wonderful balancing act of creating a show that had a character at its core who gets to comment on everything that’s happening, but not in an ironic, meta way. turned the concept into a couple who was on the rocks in their relationship, and then they find this place and can’t leave until they find out what true love is. Keegan-Michael Key: “Brigadoon” was about these two guys that find this magical place that only appears every hundred years. It’s a musical comedy that parodies classics like “Brigadoon” and “The Music Man.”
Keegan, “Schmigadoon” is a great example of a unique series. The wide range of comedic styles your shows represent says something about the vibrant state of TV. Elle Fanning of Hulu’s historical satire “The Great,” Tiffany Haddish of AppleTV+’s mock murder mystery “Afterparty,” Keegan-Michael Key of AppleTV+’s paradoxical musical “Schmigadoon,” Natasha Lyonne of Netflix’s mind-bending “Russian Doll,” Craig Robinson from the Peacock’s snake-killing series “Killing It” and Tyler James Williams of ABC’s back-to-school comedy “Abbott Elementary” spoke with Times TV critic Lorraine Ali about the rhythms of the form, the comedy brain switch and, well, Joe Pesci. Six talented performers from the most talked-about television comedies of the season recently gathered in the Los Angeles Times Kitchen to discuss the art of laughter.
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