Amy Acker joins me in the kitchen to talk about her amazing life and career. Including growing up in Dallas, Texas, being the oldest of four kids, being bit by a spider that caused her to be paralyzed for two weeks, later that would affect her as a dancer and thats how she started acting instead, we talk about meeting her husband and his proposal to her and having two children, celebrating her 40th birthday, working with Joss Whedon, Drew Goddard, Richard Jenkins, Michael Emerson, Nathan Fillion...
Oct 14, 2017•1 hr 43 min
Brian Huskey is an improviser, writer, actor who started out on a very different path. He's from North Carolina where he thought he'd probably be a photographer until he met Rob Corddry in New York City. Taking improv at Upright Citizens Brigade Theater changed everything. We talk about growing up in North Carolina, not knowing his biological father until he was 17 then losing him a few years later, how horrible Trump is, getting divorced, having a daughter, working on Veep, Bob's Burgers, Peopl...
Oct 05, 2017•2 hr 6 min•Ep. 152
Anson Mount was kind enough to let me meet up with him at his hotel while he was in Los Angeles promoting the upcoming Marvel's Inhumans TV show on ABC. He plays the iconic character: Black Bolt. Black Bolt is mostly a mute because of his vocal powers. his voice can destroy. We talk about the challenges of playing a character that doesn't speak and the sign language he created to use on the show, we also talk about the possibility of life on other planets, his lead role as Cullen Bohannon on AMC...
Aug 30, 2017•1 hr 17 min
Danielle MacDonald is the lead in a great new independent film called Patti Cake$ (out August 18th in NY and LA). I got to go to an early screening of the film and meet Danielle. I loved the film and her performance in it. I was very impressed that an actress from Australia could play a rapper from New Jersey. Silly me. Well I thought she did such a great job I wanted to talk to her about it and her life. We talk about growing up in Australia, her decision to pop into acting and how she transiti...
Aug 14, 2017•1 hr 58 min
Gabriel Luna is the new GHOST RIDER!!! And I couldn't be happier! Last season on Agents of SHIELD on ABC he did a fantastic job playing Robbie Reyes a man that made a deal with a demon and now his head bursts into flames and does bad things to bad people. Gabriel talks with me about getting to play Ghost Rider, his own history and love of comic books, doing his father in an accident before he was born, being raised by a teenage mother, how his fathers death had an influence into getting into act...
Aug 07, 2017•2 hr•Ep. 149
Elizabeth Lucas-Smith and I met in San Francisco back in 2007. 10 years later we meet up (outside of San Fran) and continue a talk we started a decade ago. We talk about the hereditary and degenerative eye disease - Choroideremia. Its a disease that hits both of our lives and families very hard. She is a carrier of it and I am going blind from it. Liz recently had twin girls who will likely be carriers of the gene and she recently had her son tested and was found to have Choroideremia. We talk a...
Aug 03, 2017•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 148
Arthur Adams and Joyce Chin are legendary comic book artists that have been around for a long time. They met up with me in San Francisco to talk comics, love, family, art and so much more!!! Special appearance by their 6 year old daughter Alex. Please Listen! Please Share! Please Enjoy! Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast Instagram @ejscott1106 My website www.ejscott.com Charities to donate to www.crowdrise.com?7on7 RUNNING BLIND Documentary available on iTunes, Amazon and Google Play...
Jul 31, 2017•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 147
Peter Chelsom is a writer and director of many films and has worked with some of the all time greats. He was kind enough to come and talk with me about his impressive life and career and talk about some of the highs and lows of a career in movies. We talk about critics and how they are hurting the industry, his childhood in northern England, the loss of both his parents at a young age, studying acting, his transition from acting to directing, having children, getting married twice, working with ...
Jun 25, 2017•2 hr 21 min•Ep. 146
Tyler Bates took a couple of hours out of his busy schedule to talk with me about growing up in a haunted house, losing his mother in a car accident, music, composing, how he joined Marilyn Manson, working with Zack Snyder, James Gunn, Emilio Estevez, Chad Stahelski, meeting his wife, having kids, working own the upcoming Matrvel's The Punisher for Netflix, the pressures of his job and much more!!! Please Listen! Please Share! Please Enjoy! Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast Instagram @ejscott1106 My w...
Jun 17, 2017•2 hr 35 min
Adrian Wenner and Ethan Sandler are guys I know from performing live comedy on the iOWest stage in Hollywood in the early and mid 2000's. They were kind enough to come to the house and talk with me about their partnership and friendship, comedy, improv, Chicago, New York, Adrian attempt to get Trump to resign, each being married to hugely successful women (Adrian to producer and showrunner Betsy Thomas and Ethan to actress Kathryn Hahn). we talk about love and marriage and children and so much m...
Jun 14, 2017•1 hr 43 min
Alison Lohman was kind enough to spend some time with me in my kitchen and chat with me about her amazing career and life. we talk about her start in theater at a very young age doing musicals in Palm Springs area, working with directors like Tim Burton, Ridley Scott, Sam Raimi and actors like Nicolas Cage, Ewan McGregor, Sam Rockwell, Robin Wright, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rene Zellweger, Justin Long. How she has stepped into teaching acting and now teaching online, meeting and falling in love with h...
Jun 10, 2017•1 hr 47 min
Herb Koss and I have something in common, we love watching improv. And thats how we met. I was improvising and watching improv regularly at iOWest in Hollywood over a decade ago. Herb is 84 years old now and I thought since I haven't gotten to talk to him in a while that he would be a great guest to talk to. Herb talks to me about traveling the world over and over, never being married but was almost engaged a couple times, never had children, his time in the service and how that started his care...
Jun 09, 2017•1 hr 9 min
Dave Hill makes his first appearance on StS and Matt Jones returns after three years. I asked them to come on to talk about their friendship and writing partnership. Together they've been performing improv as a two p[erson show for several years, that turned into writing together and now they have a movie that they wrote, directed and star in together called the Night is Young. Available digitally pretty much everywhere. We talk about the process of making the film and the challenges they encoun...
May 31, 2017•1 hr 43 min
Simone Missick and I got together while she was visiting Los Angeles and we talk about getting the role of Misty Knight in Luke Cage, meeting her husband, the possibility of having kids, moving back and forth from LA to NY, her taking her dog everywhere with her, having Ben Kingsley and Alan. Rickman for acting teachers, working with Kerry Washington, working with Liev Schreiber on Ray Donovan, doing a love scene with Mike Colter and so much more!!! Please Listen! Please Share! Please Enjoy! Twi...
May 11, 2017•1 hr 41 min
I was able to get two thirds of the comedy team, the Katydids on the podcast which is not too shabby. The Katydids is an all female comedy group from Chicago who all have similar names. What could have been a fly by night gimmick has turned into a successful tour de force! They write, produce and star in the TV Land hit sitcom - TEACHERS. They just got a green light for a third season! We talk about the formation of the Katydids, and the evolution from occasional improv show to everybody moving ...
May 08, 2017•1 hr 34 min
Paul Vallaincourt and Lindsey Stoddart were my first two long form improv teachers at iO west in Los Angeles in 2003. It was Pauls level one class but Lindsey sat in as a substitute when he was unable to teacher a class. They were kind enough to come over the house and talk with me about improv, how they met when he was her teacher, Lindsey's stalker, Pauls adoption, becoming parents, Lindsey's acting roles on the Office, Bobs Burgers, The Ring, Desperate Housewives, The Sarah Silverman Program,...
May 04, 2017•1 hr 50 min
Cole Stratton and Vanessa Ragland have been the hosts of the very successful podcast "Pop My Culture" on Nerdist. They just retired the show and I invited them on to talk about the start of the show and why they are stopping it. We also talk about Vanessa having a baby, Cole being co founder of the very successful San Francisco Sketchfest, some of the ups and downs of hosting the podcast and their celebrity guests, Coles involvement with Rifftrax, Vanessa's time at the Groundlings, how there may...
May 01, 2017•1 hr 50 min
Andy St Clair is a talented improvisor and writer from Chicago. He talks with me about performing at The Second City in Chicago, decisions to leave and move to Los Angeles, being host of the Treasure Hunters Roadshow and the guilt he felt from that, trying to develop a show at MYV for over a year and it falling apart, but getting his current job writing on Dr Ken through that experience, writing on Comedy Centrals Brickleberry, appearing on Arrested Development and Cougar Town, getting engaged, ...
Apr 28, 2017•2 hr 31 min
Scott Adsit has almost 100 acting credits to his name on IMDB. But I know him best as one of my favorite improvisors. He was kind enough to spend some time with me while he was visiting LA. We had a lot to talk about. We talked about comedy, improv, Chicago, being a nerd, being written and drawn into the Marvel comics universe, Trump, the loss of his father, performing at The Second City MainStage in Chicago, auditioning for Saturday Night Live and not getting hired, getting a call from Tina Fey...
Apr 24, 2017•2 hr 17 min
Michael Ausiello is a successful tv critic co founding the website tvline.com. Michale is coming out with a memoir soon of his love and marriage with his husband, Kit. The memoir also goes into losing Kit to cancer. Michael was good enough to meet up with me in Brooklyn and talk about the book writing process and writing under such tragic circumstances, we also talk about his coming out to his family, dating since Kits passing, lots of television talk, how he started in writing, meeting celebrit...
Apr 21, 2017•1 hr 53 min
Mike Bertrando and I are friends from way back to 2003. We met through the improv community in Los Angles, but he now lives in Brooklyn, NY. We meet yup in Brooklyn to talk about lots of stuff including comedy, improv, Chicago, doing ayahuasca and how that changed his life, growing up in Pennsylvania, dating, not wanting children, traveling around the world, the ups and downs of being a struggling actor and so much more!! Please Listen! Please Share! Please Enjoy! Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast Ins...
Apr 19, 2017•1 hr 46 min
Ryan Suffern and I have known each other for some time through the improv community. And in 2012 he was kind enough to offer his editing and directing services to help me make the documentary RUNNING BLIND about my 12 marathons in 2012. Now he has a big movie coming to theaters April 21st called FINDING OSCAR. An important documentary about the massacres in Guatemala. We talk in depth about the making of that film as well as working on other projects. We also talk about improv, comedy, Chicago, ...
Apr 17, 2017•1 hr 57 min
John Reynolds is an improvisor I knew a little in Chicago. He had me over his place in Brooklyn, NY where we talked about Chicago, improv, comedy, growing up in Madison, Wisconsin, working on Stranger Things, winning a SAG award, his role on Search Party on TBS, relationships and so much more!! Please Listen, Please Share, Please Enjoy!!! Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast Instagram @ejscott1106 My website www.ejscott.com Charities to donate to www.crowdrise.com/7on7 RUNNING BLIND documentary on Amazon...
Apr 07, 2017•1 hr 28 min
Brian Fischler had me at his apartment in Queens, NY where talked about going blind and being blind from Retinitis Pigmentosa, guide dog school for his dog Nash, living alone, dating, doing stand up comedy, fundraising, having his own podcast and so much more!!! Please Listen, Please Share, Please Enjoy!!! Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast Instagram @ejscott1106 My website www.ejscott.com charities to donate to www.crowdrise.com/7on7 RUNNING BLIND Documentary available on iTunes, amazon, google play...
Apr 05, 2017•1 hr 18 min
Fabian Nicieza was kind enough to let me drop by his place of work in NYC and talk to me about his life and career. We talked about a lot of things including helping create Deadpool with Rob Liefeld, , politics, being an immigrant from Argentina, his mothers Alzheimers and taking care of her, being a "cynical optimist", learning English from comics, writing and editing comics, living in New Jersey, closing down a company and laying off friends at Acclaim Comics formerly Valiant, his parents divo...
Apr 03, 2017•1 hr 56 min
John Timothy was my teacher at UCB in NYC. We had a good talk about comedy, teaching, improv, politics, Japanese culture, growing up in Indiana, the controversial grading system at UCB, coming from a family of doctors, politics, Trump, divorced parents, therapy, dating, trying to get a job in comedy, making a mockumentary film about politics and so much more!!! Please Listen, Please Share, Please Enjoy!!! Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast Instagram @ejscott1106 My website www.ejscott.com Charities to ...
Mar 31, 2017•1 hr 23 min
Garret Dillahunt and Michelle Hurd are a real life married couple who are also successful actors in both TV and movies. This is their first ever interview together and we had a great conversation talking about how they met, how they manage to stay together even though their jobs often separate them, trump, theater, tv/film, Garret losing a sibling to a drunk driving accident, Michelle talks about being a woman of color in the acting world, getting married in Italy and in City Hall in NYC, Darede...
Mar 29, 2017•1 hr 23 min
Eva Solveig is a model and actress from Iceland who got my attention on a very funny show on truth called Jon Glaser Loves Gear. We talk about growing up in Iceland, studying acting in London, winning the green card lottery to get into the United States, dating in Iceland and trying not to date a relative, recently splitting from her husband, being an illustrator, parents splitting as a kid, switching around her name, being vegan and so much more!!!Please Listen, Please Share, Please Enjoy!! Twi...
Mar 24, 2017•58 min
James Dwyer was my teacher recently at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York City. We had some laughs as we talked about improv, comedy, his strict Catholic upbringing, the UCB grading system, dating, growing up in New Jersey, ASMR videos, working on Master of None and Difficult People on Hulu, politics, petition he started to have Congress shit in Jason Chaffetz' mouth and so much more!!! Please Listen, Please Share, Please Enjoy!! Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast Instagram @ejscott1106 M...
Mar 22, 2017•1 hr 13 min
Adam Burke talks to me while he makes a trip to New York from Chicago. We talk about being from Northern Ireland, living in Dallas, not having a drivers license, stand up comedy, getting divorced, losing a parent, politics, Donald Trump and so much more!!! Please Listen, Please Share, Please Enjoy!! Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast Instagram @ejscott1106 My website www.ejscott.com RUNNING BLIND Documentary on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play Charities to donate to www.crowdrise.com/7on7...
Mar 10, 2017•1 hr 1 min
