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This week, we talk to actor, writer, and comedian DC PIERSON (Community, Derrick Comedy & author of The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To) about the legendary THIS IS SPINAL TAP'! We discuss the genesis of the project and the trials of making the movie, the original 4 1/2-hour cut of the film and the significant changes throughout the film, the similarities/differences between the comedy & music world, why musicians want to be comedians and vice-versa, what makes a subject ripe for parody, what are the other great mock-rock comedies, losing your way to the stage IN REAL LIFE & the time Sub-Pop Records asked Chris to CUT HIS HAIR!So become lukewarm water with us on this week's Revolutions Per Movie!DC PIERSON:https://dcpierson.wpcomstaging.com/https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/102446/dc-pierson/REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE:Host Chris Slusarenko (Eyelids, Guided By Voices, owner of Clinton Street Video rental store) is joined by actors, musicians, comedians, writers & directors who each week pick out their favorite music documentary, musical, music-themed fiction film or music videos to discuss. Fun, weird, and insightful, Revolutions Per Movie is your deep dive into our life-long obsessions where music and film collide.The show is also a completely independent affair, so the best way to support it is through our Patreon at patreon.com/revolutionspermovie. By joining, you can get weekly bonus episodes, physical goods such as Flexidiscs, and other exclusive goods.Revolutions Per Movies releases new episodes every Thursday on any podcast app, and additional, exclusive bonus episodes every Sunday on our Patreon. If you like the show, please consider subscribing, rating, and reviewing it on your favorite podcast app. Thanks!SOCIALS:@revolutionspermovieX, BlueSky: @revpermovieTHEME by Eyelids 'My Caved In Mind'www.musicofeyelids.bandcamp.com ARTWORK by Jeff T. Owenshttps://linktr.ee/mymetalhand Click here to get EXCLUSIVE BONUS WEEKLY Revolutions Per Movie content on our Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The time has come. The All-Spark is up for grabs and that can only mean one thing: We gotta talk about Transformers, executively produced by one Mr. Steven Spielberg. Wampler and Vespe couldn't do it alone, though, so they called in the calvary in the form of the very funny comedian, author, and actor, DC Pierson (Mystery Team, The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To, Captain America: Winter Soldier). The plan is for DC to come back again and again until he's helped us cover every single one of the Transformers movies. In order to finish this journey, we must first take a step and that step is with the 2007 Michael Bay first film that kickstarted this shockingly huge franchise. We talk through this movie act by act, ridiculous moment by ridiculous moment, and weigh the blockbuster spectacle of the era it was released in against today's quite different landscape. There's not a whole lot of robots peeing on John Turturro on the big screen these days and that's a damn shame. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tony opens the show by talking about watching the Nats over the weekend and Patrick Corbin's big win, and he also talks about Rory's win in the FedEx Cup Championship. Michael Wilbon calls in to talk about his trip to Ireland, Northwestern's win over Nebraska, and also about taking part in Steph Curry's charity golf event in San Francisco. Liz Clarke of the Washington Post calls in from the US Open to talk about Serena Williams and her legacy to tennis as the US Open begins, and Tony closes out the show by opening up the Mailbag. Songs : Norwegian Soft Kitten “Eyes Closed” ; Cade Baccus “The Best I've Never Had” To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

First Draft Episode #202: D.C. Pierson D.C. Pierson, comedian, writer, filmmaker and author of The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To and Crap Kingdom, and co-writer and star of indie comedy movie Mystery Team, talks about getting more vulnerable with age, using his fiction to explore the gap between what we expect of the world and what turns out to be true, and being sick of not finishing things. Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode Dan Eckman and Meggie McFadden are two comedians D.C. has worked with for years, in part on an adaptation of D.C.’s first book, The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To D.C. loved the cover of his dad’s copy of Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton Rubber Soul was the one Beatles album D.C.’s family had on cassette or CD In conjunction with the documentary The Beatles Anthology, detailed compilations of Beatles ephemera were released in three double-CD sets: Anthology 1, Anthology 2, and Anthology 3. D.C. listened to these more than the regular Beatles albums, which means he listened to a lot of alternate versions of songs and random studio chatter. He credits that with jumpstarting much of his curiosity as a storyteller. While D.C. attended the Rita and Burton Goldberg School of Dramatic Writing at NYU’s Tisch Institute of Performing Arts, one of his teachers was Charlie Rubin, who wrote for Seinfeld and In Living Color, and was a showrunner for Law & Order: Criminal Intent Derick was D.C.’s improv group which formed at NYU, made up of D.C. Pierson, Dominic Dierkes, Donald Glover, Dan Eckman, and Maggie McFadden Mystery Team was a fully independently-made movie that the Derick Comedy group made, which had a screening at Sundance, and led the group to move to Los Angeles Upright Citizens Brigade improv theater is where D.C. honed his comedy and performing chops during and after college The concept for Mystery Team is basically: what if characters from Encyclopedia Brown never really grew out of their idealized, 1950s childhood, and kept trying to solve crimes? Donald shared what he learned writing for 30 Rock (with Tina Fey, Robert Carlock, Matt Hubbard, Kay Cannon) with his Derick Comedy friends to help them write a tight script for Mystery Team Nathan Rabin, who wrote for The A.V. Club at the time, wrote a glowing review there for Mystery Team that D.C. credits with helping the movie gain momentum A passing encouraging comment from comedian, actor, writer, and musician Eliza Skinner gave D.C. the boost he needed to start writing a book Dianne McGunigle, manager and a producer of Atlanta, was D.C. agent at the time that he wrote a first draft of The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep… and she read it quickly, a favor for which D.C. is forever grateful Gerry Howard, who edited David Foster Wallace’s The Broom of the System and Girl with Curious Hair, as well as Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life, was the editor D.C. worked with for The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep… D.C. was starstruck to be going to the offices where Sloane Crosley—essayist and writer known for I Was Told There’d Be Cake, How Did You Get This Number and her newest, Look Alive Out There—also worked. The Los Angeles Times gave The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep… a lovely review D.C. was inspired by psychologist Carol Dweck’s book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success One of D.C.’s favorite English teachers sent him Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham provided a quote that summed up what he likes to explore in all his writing To me, Crap Kingdom is asking, “What if Lord of the Rings was deeply uncool?” Stephen King’s On Writing is one of the writing books that has inspired D.C. in his fiction process One of D.C.’s earliest imrpov teachers, Owen Burke, referred to the following passage from Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia, on the endurance of human thought and creation: “We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by piece, or be written again in another language. Ancient cures for diseases will reveal themselves once more. Mathematical discoveries glimpsed and lost to view will have their time again. You do not suppose, my lady, that if all of Archimedes had been hiding in the great library of Alexandria, we would be at a loss for a corkscrew?” D.C. sometimes teaches at Writing Pad, a writing program offered online and in L.A./S.F. Subscribe To First Draft with Sarah Enni Every Tuesday, I speak to storytellers like Veronica Roth, author of Divergent; Linda Holmes, author and host of NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast; Jonny Sun, internet superstar, illustrator of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Gmorning, Gnight! and author and illustrator of Everyone’s an Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too;  Michael Dante  DiMartino, co-creator of Avatar: The Last Airbender; John August, screenwriter of Big Fish, Charlie’s Angels, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; or Rhett Miller, musician and frontman for The Old 97s. Together, we take deep dives on their careers and creative works. Don’t miss an episode! Subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. It’s free! Participate To leave a voicemail for a future episode, call 818-533-1998. Or you can email the show at firstdraftwithsarahenni@gmail.com. Rate, Review, and Recommend How do you like the show? 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Just the simple thought of the idea of cats makes one's chest start to seize, eyes water, and throat tickle. That's just our starting point with cats. And then there's that flippant attitude, that needlessness, that absolute independence that seemingly say "I never wanted to be domesticated. Why have you done this to me?" So what is there to say about cats? DC Pierson thinks they are wonderful creatures. So let's hear him out. Our guest, DC Pierson is an author and comedian known for lots of fantastic cameos on TV and in movies and his books "Crap Kingdom" and "The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To." He is a talented and kind son of a bitch who we all in the UCB community revere and love! If you’ve got any questions, comments, or concerns about the current, past, or future Make Me Like It podcasts, shoot Dan and Kelly an email at littlepuppyquestions@gmail.com! Theme Music by John Haskell Logo Art by Darin Shuler

Just the simple thought of the idea of cats makes one's chest start to seize, eyes water, and throat tickle. That's just our starting point with cats. And then there's that flippant attitude, that needlessness, that absolute independence that seemingly say "I never wanted to be domesticated. Why have you done this to me?" So what is there to say about cats? DC Pierson thinks they are wonderful creatures. So let's hear him out. Our guest, DC Pierson is an author and comedian known for lots of fantastic cameos on TV and in movies and his books "Crap Kingdom" and "The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To." He is a talented and kind son of a bitch who we all in the UCB community revere and love! If you've got any questions, comments, or concerns about the current, past, or future Make Me Like It podcasts, shoot Dan and Kelly an email at littlepuppyquestions@gmail.com! Theme Music by John Haskell Logo Art by Darin Shuler See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

VO superstar Maurice LaMarche (Pinky & The Brain, The Simpsons, Adventure Time, every single cartoon ever) chats about his brief appearance on Batman, why he left stand-up to pursue voice over, and what it takes to be the go-to Hollywood fake burp pro and funniest impressionist around. I also sit down with author and comedian DC Pierson (Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Crap Kingdom, The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To) to watch and dig into The Man Who Killed Batman. Sponsored by The Ace Chemical Plant! Rate + Subscribe in iTunes. Donate on PayPal at btaspodcast@gmail.com. Follow @btaspodcast on Twitter for updates. More at www.BTASpodcat.com.

In which Matt welcomes back DC Pierson to the show for a discussion on improv comedy, his novel "The Boy who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To", and what it's like to be the modern day Bruce Vilanch.

DC Pierson stops by for a visit.  The comedian (Mystery Team, Derrick) and author (The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To, Crap Kingdom) plays the Christmas Quiz and may or may not talk about Jimmies Chicken Shack.

On today's show, I talk to comedian and author DC Pierson. DC is a member of Derrick, a sketch group that formed out of NYU's official sketch team Hammerkatz, that includes Donald Glover and Dominic Dierkes. Derrick was an early YouTube sensation, and in 2009, they released their first feature-length film "Mystery Team". DC is also the author of two young adult novels, The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To and his most recent Crap Kingdom.Check out the website for Beginnings, subscribe on iTunes, follow me on Twitter!

Author and comedian extraordinaire DC Pierson joins us to talk about his comic-book-buying past and the first story arc of the critically acclaimed and fan favorite sci-fi comic book, Saga. Written by Brian K. Vaughan with art by Fiona Staples, Saga has become one of the most consistently entertaining and original comics around today. DC Pierson is the author of the novels Crap Kingdom and The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To. He’s also a member of the comedy group Derrick, whose movie Mystery Team is worth your immediate attention. Visit DC’s website dcpierson.tumblr.com and follow him on Twitter at @DCpierson. You can purchase Saga #1-6 on Amazon or Comixology. You can also purchase DC’s newest book, Crap Kingdom on Amazon. Music: “Entertainment” by Phoenix "DC Pierson / Saga #1-6 (2012)" originally appeared at http://mattandbrettlovecomics.com/podcast/2013/saga.html

DC Pierson joins Jen this week to talk about his latest novel Crap Kingdom, which is about a teenager who discovers he's the Chosen One in a fantasy kingdom that to his disappointment turns out to be, well, crappy. DC also chats about his first book, The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To, and the various ways he interacts with his readers, from writing their names into custom rap songs if they pre-ordered Crap Kingdom, to replying directly to a query about his book on Yahoo Answers. Former theater nerds, current comedy nerds, really nerds of any kind will totally relate to DC's protagonists. And of course, idiot douchebags won't get it at all. If you're enjoying PrePopCulture, please rate/review it on iTunes, and like it on Facebook! Want to suggest a topic for an episode? Email prepopculture@gmail.com! Show notes: You can follow DC on Twitter, watch sketches by DERRICK comedy, see him in Shitty Jobs on Sundays at 11pm at Upright Citizens Brigade, and check out his weekly stand-up show Big Money on Thursdays at 7:30pm at The Virgil. Buy Crap Kingdom! Buy The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To! See DC at the LA Times Festival of Books on Sunday, April 21 at 1:30pm at the Young Adult Fiction: Guffaws & Giggles panel at the YA Stage. And check out the custom raps for people who pre-ordered Crap Kingdom! Theme song: Alps by Motorama is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) License.

Andy sits down with Derrick Comedy member, Mystery Team actor, writer, comedian, author of The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep & Never Had To (you get the idea) Mr.DC Pierson at the 2012 SXSW Festival. To read selections from the interview go to moviemaker.com and check out my column 'Directing on a Dime'. For more information on DC check him out at DCPierson.Com

Colin Marshall sits down in Hollywood with comedian, actor, and novelist DC Pierson, man behind the one-man show DC Pierson is Bad at Girls, one-third of the Mystery Team of Mystery Team, and the author of The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To. They talk about innate, unchanging age; teenage blogging; Daria; the compulsion to read criticism; moving to Los Angeles from New York; avoiding falling into the standard complaint-driven narratives of young New York writers who move to Los Angeles; whether and how Los Angeles is shinin'; the mysteries surrounding how many Hollywood residents earn their income; building things rather than tearing things down; becoming the butt of your own jokes; blogging one's first hundred days in Los Angeles; and the inherent criminality of existing in one's twenties. (Photo: Zac Wolf)

This week, DC Pierson (DERRICK Comedy, "The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To") joins Kumail and Emily to discuss some of the video game world's most bizarre and interesting mysteries. Alien demons in Mario Galaxy? A Russian game that only exists while you're playing it? Easter eggs from the dawn of time? All will be revealed! Plus we talk about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for, like, a while.

Writer/actor/comedian DC Pierson joins The Fort Podcast to talk about the last days of summer, the woes of Los Angeles traffic, Paradise Lost, the first days of AIDS and fears of flying. DC is a regular on NBC's "Community." He starred in the films "Mystery Team" and "Cherry," both available for streaming on netflix and in video stores everywhere. You can see DC in the upcomming films "Grass Roots" and "The To Do List." Pierson wrote a novel called "The Boy That Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To" which is available on Amazon. Kevin, Ed, Mike and DC perform two radio sketches: "Gypped" written by Ed Galvez and "Crashing Tin" written by Kevin Ford. DC also reveals his full name. Stick around for "The Fort Wrap Up" as the boys get into their usual personal conversations.