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TV: Family Tree: “The Box”

Source: The A.V. Club

Family Tree debuts tonight at 10:30 p.m. Eastern on HBO. No one has shaped the face of modern television comedy without actually contributing to the form firsthand like Christopher Guest. Guest didn’t invent the faux-documentary; his initial dabbling ...
Full article at: The A.V. Club  More like this  May 12 2013, 5:14pm CDT

Christopher Guest: “It becomes apparent in five seconds whether an improviser is going to bomb.”

Source: AlterNet.org

Christopher Guest, the director of "Waiting for Guffman" and "Best in Show," brings his very specific, finely crafted form of improvised comedy to television with "Family Tree" an eight-episode HBO series which ...
Full article at: AlterNet.org  More like this  May 12 2013, 4:57pm CDT

Christopher Guest: “It becomes apparent in five seconds whether an improviser is going to bomb.”

Source: Salon

Christopher Guest, the director of “Waiting for Guffman” and “Best in Show,” brings his very specific, finely crafted form of improvised comedy to television with “Family Tree” an eight-episode HBO series which begins Sunday and star ...
Full article at: Salon  More like this  May 12 2013, 2:57pm CDT

Granddaddy of the mock doc takes to TV

Source: Winnipeg Free Press

Chris O'Dowd, left, and Michael McKean play father and son in Christopher Guest's new HBO series. (RAY BURMISTON / HBO) Long before there was The Office, or Modern Family or Parks and Recreation or Trailer Par ...
Full article at: Winnipeg Free Press  More like this  May 12 2013, 9:30am CDT

All in the 'Family'

Source: New York Post

When filmmaker and actor Christopher Guest researched his family history following the death of his father, he discovered a copy of a diary written by one of his English ancestors, in 1797. The man wrote that he had studied ventrilo ...
Full article at: New York Post  More like this  May 11 2013, 9:22pm CDT

'Family Tree': Another branch of Christopher Guest's work

Source: TwinCities.com

the photo -- and, later, other objects in the chest. That research provides new views of his family, and of the strange turns that lives can take. Indeed, Guest has said the show will make a big leap after those first four telecas ...
Full article at: TwinCities.com  More like this  May 11 2013, 4:50pm CDT

'Family Tree' co-creator Christopher Guest on his new HBO comedy

Source: HitFix

Christopher Guest's new HBO comed series "Family Tools" starts off from an autobiographical place. Like the show's hero, Tom Chadwick (Chris O'Dowd), Guest once inherited a trunk of family mementos and became o ...
Full article at: HitFix  More like this  May 11 2013, 7:39am CDT

Q&A: Christopher Guest on Why You Won't See A-List Stars in Family Tree

Source: Esquire

"I'm more interested in what somebody can do in a situation where they have no script and nobody is telling them where to go and what to say than whether they're a movie star or famous." Without Christoph ...
Full article at: Esquire  More like this  May 11 2013, 7:22am CDT

With Family Tree, Spinal Tap creator Christopher Guest serves up heaps of fun

Source: Globe and Mail

There’s a small fuss going on about the upcoming series finale of the U.S. version of The Office . How will it end? And, as some people might well ponder, how do you actually end a pseudo-documentary with some sort of aut ...
Full article at: Globe and Mail  More like this  May 10 2013, 11:09pm CDT

This is genealogy: Christopher Guest’s “Family Tree” comes to HBO

Source: Salon

Christopher Guest, the deadpan master improviser and creator of such classics as “Waiting For Guffman” and “Best In Show,” has described his own sense of humor as “silliness framed in intelligence,” fart jokes delivered by people of a certain erudition, ...
Full article at: Salon  More like this  May 10 2013, 11:15am CDT


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