Character Engineering
A thread on character engineering in American culture.
Zach Galifianakis
- Entertainment as Industry, and Comedy vs Drama (2014)
- Zach Galifianakis Feels More Like a Comic than an Actor (2019)
- Zach Galifianakis Bombs at Saturday Night Live (2019)
- Zach Galifianakis: Laugh or Take Offense; You Have to Choose (2019)
- Zach Galifianakis Feels Lucky to Have a Career (2019)
- Zach Galifianakis Feared Fame from 'The Hangover' (2019)
- Zach Galifianakis Hates Celebrity (2019)
Norm Macdonald
- Norm Macdonald Keeps Interrupting His Own Trump Story (2016)
- Norm Macdonald: Trump is playing a character (2016)
- Norm Macdonald talks Trump, Trudeau and the secrets to political comedy (2018)
- Remembering Norm Macdonald with Dave Chappelle, David Letterman and More | Netflix (2022)
Jeff Daniels
- Jeff Daniels Didn't Choose Acting—He Was Called & Told (2017)
- Why Jim Carrey Fought to Cast Jeff Daniels in 'Dumb and Dumber' (2017)
- Jeff Daniels Knew Dumb and Dumber Jeopardized Serious Roles (2017)
- Jeff Daniels Hit His 'Newsroom' Speech Out of the Park (2017)
- Jeff Daniels 'Aint Buyin What Hollywood is Sellin' (2017)
- Jeff Daniels Shares the Key to Drilling a Script (2017)
- Jeff Daniels: The Secret of the Lip, Revealed (2017)
- Jeff Daniels Sings An Ode To Clint Eastwood (2018)
American culture
- Vaudeville
- Huey Long (1985)
- Fireside chats
- Scout handshake
- The Wizard of Oz (1939)
- A Face in the Crowd (1957)
- The Andy Griffith Show
- The Americanization of Emily (1964)
- Tommy Boy (1995)
- Office Space (1999)
- Funny People (2009)
- Between Two Ferns bloopers (2021)
- The Presidents - Part Four (feat. Louis C.K.) (2022)
- Jiminy Glick Interviews Bill Hader (2024)
- ‘They’re dumb’: Nathan Fielder fires back at FAA over HBO show criticism (2025)
- Are People Starting To Hate The Savannah Bananas? (2025)