{"id":388,"date":"2012-02-21T00:26:42","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T08:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=388"},"modified":"2012-02-21T00:26:42","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T08:26:42","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s1e3-family-guyization-with-jordan-morris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=388","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S1E3: Family-Guyization with Jordan Morris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-389\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"jordanmorris\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/2012\/02\/jordanmorris.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/2012\/02\/jordanmorris.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/2012\/02\/jordanmorris-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Colin Marshall sits down at Fat Dog in West Hollywood with comedian and actor Jordan Morris, co-host of the comedy podcast <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maximumfun.org\/shows\/jordan-jesse-go\"><em>Jordan, Jesse, Go!<\/em><\/a>, writer on the web series <em>MyMusic<\/em>, former host of Fuel TV&#8217;s <em>The Daily Habit<\/em>, and creator of satirical commercials for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/29349121\">Gamewave<\/a>&#8221; and the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/videos\/36ec5c38aa\/action-circle-from-jordan_morris\">Action Circle<\/a>.&#8221; They talk about growing up in Orange County with the solace of ska music; <em>The Simpsons<\/em>&#8216; un-overstatable influence on the current generation of young comedy writers; whether and how &#8220;Family-Guyization&#8221; is affecting comedic culture; the usefulness of college as &#8220;a place to be bad for a while&#8221;; how those who move to Los Angeles from other major cities have gone blind to their hometowns&#8217; sources of suckiness; the prohibitive cost of a bedazzled T-shirt; what kind of a golden calf Conan O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s show represents for today&#8217;s comedic minds; &#8220;gab podcasts&#8221; and the rapidly diminishing viability thereof; the temptation to pander to your audience, whichever audience your medium determines you have; whether working at an &#8220;action sports&#8221; channel made for a living hell; how and why fifteen-year-olds maintain their alienness to non-fifteen-year-olds; and how best to satirize the troubled relationship some hardcore gamers have with human sexuality.<\/p>\n<p>Download the interview from <em>Notebook on Cities and Culture\u2019<\/em>s feed <a href=\"http:\/\/colinmarshall.libsyn.com\/webpage\/s1e3-family-guyization-with-jordan-morris\">here<\/a> on iTunes <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/notebook-on-cities-culture\/id266539442\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Photo: Pat Weir)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Marshall sits down at Fat Dog in West Hollywood with comedian and actor Jordan Morris, co-host of the comedy podcast Jordan, Jesse, Go!, writer on the web series MyMusic, former host of Fuel TV&#8217;s The Daily Habit, and creator of satirical commercials for &#8220;Gamewave&#8221; and the &#8220;Action Circle.&#8221; They talk about growing up in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notebook-on-cities-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}