Parks and Recreation (TV Show)

A Pair of Two-Person Shows, One Starring Comedy Couple Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally

Annapurna and Years to the Day, Reviewed

Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally Celebrate 10 Years Together By Returning to Where They Met: the Stage

See also: *Our Latest Theater Reviews *12 Comedy Acts to Watch in 2013 Ask someone to define "Hollywood marriage" -- as in the working-actor-to-working-actor kind -- and chances are the answer you get won't contain words like "stable" or "secure" or "long-term" or "a good bet." The longstanding tr ... More >>

They Act! They Sing!

Middle-Earth and the Iranian New Year: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Friday, March 15 The New Beverly Cinema is presenting a David O. Russell double feature starting at 7:30 p.m. Russell, whose Silver Linings Playbook recently won an Oscar for Jennifer Lawrence, first gained attention back in 1994 for his controversial fil ... More >>

How a USC Film Student Tried to Get Bill Murray to Star in His Film -- By Creating a Bill Murray Holiday

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage *Our Bill Murray Appreciation Day Slideshow *Our Report on Bill Murray Appreciation Day Christopher Guerrero, a 27-year-old USC grad student, wrote one of the main roles in his thesis film for actor Bill Murray. The problem is what it always is: Actually ge ... More >>

Can Holy Fuck Become a Stand-Up Comedy Empire? It's Starting With a Punk-Inspired Album

On any given night in Los Angeles, you can find free comedy shows taking place in bookstores, restaurants, bars and art galleries around the city. In the case of comedian Dave Ross's show Holy Fuck, the venue happens to be a movie theater, specifically the Downtown Independent, which he's managed to ... More >>

Sunday Night Sex Talks, a Storytelling Show That Does Not Allow Men in the Audience

See also: *10 Best Standup Comedy Shows in L.A. *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. Apparently the hormones that doctors give you when you donate eggs make you so horny that you want to be gang raped, rotating from man to man while lying on a giant lazy susan. Or so I l ... More >>

Aziz Ansari

Cinefamily's Everything Is Festival Preview: Cat Videos, Ladies Wrestling and Mystery Science Theater 3000

The chaotic, nostalgic Everything Is Festival comes of age

Scott Aukerman Talks Taking Comedy Bang! Bang! on Tour

See also: *Scott Aukerman Asks: Can an Intelligent Person Can Like Phish? *10 Comedy Acts to Watch in 2012 While most fans know Scott Aukerman's Comedy Bang! Bang! from his loopily inspired weekly podcast or aggressively absurd IFC faux-talk show, the franchise formerly known as Comedy Death Ray ac ... More >>

Rashida Jones on Celeste and Jesse Forever, Her Debut as a Screenwriter

In terms of looks, charisma, and talent, Rashida Jones should have been a star a long time ago. But in terms of what she's ready to offer Hollywood (and what Hollywood finally might be ready to let her accomplish), her belated ascent seems well-timed. Bittersweet breakup comedy Celeste and Jesse For ... More >>

Aubrey Plaza: Stare Appeal

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. Nobody does "jaded twentysomething" better than Aubrey Plaza. The 27-year-old NYU- and UCB-trained actress has mastered the art of the dry wit and judging stare. And that's no ... More >>

Father John Misty Just Quit Fleet Foxes: We Get High in His Van

Rufus Wainwright - Orpheum Theater - 5/12/12

By Oliver Wang Rufus Wainwright Orpheum Theater 5/12/12 See also: Exclusive: Rufus Wainwright On His New Album, "I've Done That Whole Ponderous, Psuedo-Genius Thing" Better than: ...the ham elevator next door at UMAMIcatessen At the Orpheum last night, Rufus Wainwright opened his show by beginn ... More >>

Father John Misty Just Quit Fleet Foxes: We Get High in His Van

Until January, Josh Tillman was the drummer from Fleet Foxes. When I meet him at Good Luck Bar in Los Feliz it's two weeks after the announcement of his departure from the band. Slumped over the bar, beer in hand, the bearded 6'4" singer-songwriter stands out; through somewhat of an awkward grin, he ... More >>

Friends With Kids Review

Two White Chicks Sitting Around Talking Funny

Ron Swanson Meets Dr. Seuss: Give Me Your Bacon & Eggs

Because cookies, video clips and hilarious interviews aren't enough, there is now a Ron Swanson T-shirt. And it's spectacular. Designed by Tom Trager, it imagines everyone's favorite Parks & Recreation character as the star of a Dr. Seuss book. Only instead of sharing and caring and positive values, ... More >>

Can an Intelligent Person Like Phish?

Comedian Harris Wittels is witty and thoughtful; his writing for NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation hinges on his subtle sensibilities. He's also a huge fan of Phish, a band with which those characteristics are not usually associated. Having attended some 70 Phish shows over the years, he counts hims ... More >>

That Nick Offerman Has Carved Quite a Career for Himself

That Nick Offerman Has Carved Quite a Career for Himself

Ron Swanson Cookies: Holy Meat Tornado!

Whipped BakeshopThe Special Edition Ron Swanson Cookie Set.​We didn't think anyone could love Ron Swanson more than we do. We were wrong. Philadelphia bakery Whipped Bakeshop created a Special Edition Ron Swanson Cookie Set featuring vanilla shortbread cookies inspired by everyone's favorite c ... More >>

Ron Swanson of Parks & Rec vs. Nick Offerman: The Food Interview

The Ron Swanson food pyramid.​Like the character he plays on Parks & Recreation, Nick Offerman is a man with a magnificent mustache. Something of a libertarian, most certainly a contrarian and definitely not a vegetarian, Ron Swanson is the gruff but goofy patriarch who viewers have come to id ... More >>

Top 5 Food T-Shirts That Don't Cost $85 and Aren't Designed by Alexander Wang

Hot coffee became haute coffee as Starbucks debuted a line of high-fashion t-shirts designed by the likes of Sophie Theallet, Billy Reid and Alexander Wang. The ugliest of the shirts, which cost $85 apiece, is undoubtedly the Wang creation. The theoretically unisex shirt features "a coffee spill ill ... More >>

Ron Swanson vs. Food: A Parks and Rec Culinary Montage

A montage of Ron Swanson ("Give me all the bacon and eggs you have. Do you understand?") and food. Or, something to watch while you're stuck inside with the AC blasting getting very hungry because your significant other has forbidden you to turn on the oven during a Los Angeles heat wave. If you'r ... More >>

Emmy Nominations Day: 10 Standard Types of Reactions From Award Show Nominees

Tina Fey got nominated this year! (Or at least we assume -- we haven't checked yet)​ Guess what? HBO dominated the Emmys again. Another way the Emmys are predictable: the nominees' reactions. Or at least how they convey their reactions. We don't really know people's real reactions -- we know ... More >>

10 Comedy Truths Revealed by Kate Walsh, Adam Scott, Jeffrey Tambor and Others at iO West's Improv Festival

Katie Harker/iO WestKate Walsh reveals at IO West's Improv Comedy Festival that she had back surgery so she can run on the beach naked in slo-mo.​ Over the last nine years, iO West's Los Angeles Improv Comedy Festival has become a love-in; a time when neophyte and master improvisers commemo ... More >>

Community Gathering

Community Gathering: Interview With Show's Creator Dan Harmon

Gillian Jacobs and Joel McHale in Community​ Do you watch Community? You should, if you like funny, ensemble-based shows like 30 Rock and Parks & Recreation. Or even if you enjoy Two and a Half Men. Community creator Dan Harmon and the Nerdist folks invite fans and would-be fans to Meltdown C ... More >>

Vegan Bacon: Your Parks and Rec Scene of the Day

Fans of Parks and Recreation, Amy Poehler's comedy series on NBC, already know that the show provides hilarious proof of The Midwest As Dystopia. What some of us didn't realize until it became the topic of lunch conversation was that it also delves into food commentary. If you didn't see the epis ... More >>

Funny, You Don't Look Famous

Aziz Ansari on Backstage Riders, the Quest for Good Indian, & Being a Spice Pansy

Colin Patrick Smith​ Since our investigation of how that grande dame of comedy, Kathy Griffin, uses Twitter as a culinary concierge when she's on the road, we've noticed that many of our favorite comedians tweet an awful lot about food (and podcast about it and blog and tumble and all the rest ... More >>

Safe? Not Ansari

LA People 2009: The Lovable Douche Bag — Parks and Recreation's Aziz Ansari

Buddies with Kanye, filming with Adam Sandler and Seth Rogan, the standup guy is making his name as Amy Poehler's new right-hand man

NBC's Bad Sitcom, Lionsgate's Badass Battle and IATSE's Badly Handled Contract