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Chris Gethard
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Christopher Paul Chris Gethard is an American actor, comedian, and writer. He is the host of The Chris Gethard Show, a show based in New York City since 2011. Gethard grew up in West Orange, New Jersey, the son of Martha and Jeremy Gethard, previously, Gethard served as an editorial assistant for the popular Weird NJ and Weird US publications. In addition to his books, Gethard is an actor who works largely out of Manhattans Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. He began taking classes at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in 2000 while he was a student at Rutgers University and he is in the longform improvisation team The Stepfathers. He organizes a show entitled The Nights of Our Lives. He has also been part of the UCB Theaters national touring company, an early noted work was entitled Darryl, a one-man show where he portrayed troubled baseball player Darryl Strawberry. Gethard also wrote the web series The Most Awkward Boy in the World which starred fellow Stepfathers member Zach Woods, Gethard was featured on Variety magazines Ten Comics to Watch in 2010 list. Gethard has appeared in multiple CollegeHumor. com videos and he has also appeared on Late Night with Conan OBrien, Hope and Faith and Comedy Centrals Crossballs. In April 2010, he was tapped as the lead, alongside Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell, in May 2012, during the CollegeHumor All-Nighter, Gethard announced he would be opening a strawberry farm in upper New Jersey. Gethard released his first comedy album, My Comedy Album, on April 22,2014 on New Jerseys Don Giovanni Records, during his run at the festival, he also recorded an episode of Stuart Goldsmiths Comedians Comedian Podcast, which was published in December 2016. Gethard currently hosts The Chris Gethard Show, a talkshow that airs on New York City public-access and is streaming around the world on Gethards website, the show began as a live piece at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in 2009. The show has grown to consist of both stage and filmed performances. As a child, Gethard admired comedians who seemed to be able to do whatever they wanted, such as Howard Stern, Andy Kaufman and this interest influenced the style of The Chris Gethard Show and Gethards comedic persona. The show is entirely self-funded and none of the performers are paid for their time and he met with a number of network producers, but the show was not picked up, the primary concern being its unpredictable nature and frequent swearing. In early 2014, Comedy Central ordered a pilot from TCGS, to be co-produced by Funny or Die, the pilot has since been taped, and was not picked up by Comedy Central. The show returned to MNN from April to January 2015, in its final MNN episode it was announced that the show had been picked up by Fusion, and will air 10 episodes in April. In 2013, Gethard was propositioned by the Independent Film Channel to write a pilot based on his book, in addition to writing his pilot, IFC gave Gethard a year to market for them at festivals and produce web content
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Chris Parnell
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Thomas Christopher Chris Parnell is an American actor, comedian, and singer. He is best known as a cast member on NBCs Saturday Night Live from 1998–2006 and he also voices Cyril Figgis on the FX comedy series Archer and Jerry Smith on the Adult Swim sci-fi comedy series Rick and Morty. Parnell was born in Memphis, Tennessee, to a Southern Baptist family and he graduated from Germantown High School and later attended the University of North Carolina School of the Arts where he received his BFA in Drama. After graduating, he moved back to Tennessee and taught acting, with a strong passion for performing, he eventually moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. While there, he began performing with The Groundlings, while on SNL, Parnell appeared in numerous sketches, and commercial parodies, and performed memorable impressions of various celebrities. Among his notable sketches are Lazy Sunday, a rap video he shot with Andy Samberg about buying cupcakes and going to see The Chronicles of Narnia and he has also performed raps about hosts Jennifer Garner, Britney Spears, Kirsten Dunst and Ashton Kutcher. In mid-2006, Michaels announced that four cast members would be fired due to budget cuts, on September 22,2006 it was announced that three cast members had been fired, Parnell, Horatio Sanz, and Finesse Mitchell. He had been with SNL for eight seasons, at the only four people had been cast members longer. He has since made uncredited appearances on the show, including parodying newscasters Tom Brokaw, Jim Lehrer. Parnell and his former SNL castmate Horatio Sanz starred together in Big Lake, Parnell voiced Fly in the animated film Hotel Transylvania and is a series regular on the FX animated series Archer. He is also known for his guest appearances as Dr. Leo Spaceman on 30 Rock, from 2011 to 2014, Parnell co-starred on the ABC comedy series Suburgatory where he played the husband of the character played by his former SNL castmate Ana Gasteyer. His role started out as recurring in the first season but he was bumped up to a regular in the second season. The series aired for three seasons on ABC and he provides the voice of the Progressive Box in commercials for Progressive Insurance. He voices Jerry on the Adult Swim show Rick & Morty, supafloss Incredibad Lazy Sunday Lazy Sunday 2 Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches Chris Parnell at the Internet Movie Database
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James Rebhorn
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James Robert Rebhorn was an American character actor who appeared in over 100 films, television series, and plays. At the time of his death, he had recurring roles in the current series White Collar and he also appeared in films such as Scent of a Woman, Carlitos Way, Independence Day, My Cousin Vinny, and Meet the Parents. Rebhorn was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Ardell Frances and James Harry Rebhorn, Rebhorn moved to Anderson, Indiana, as a child and graduated from Madison Heights High School. A devout Lutheran, he attended Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, while there, he was a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. Richard S. Huffman was one of his instructors and directed him in a role in Aristophanes Lysistrata as well as Molières Tricks of Scapin. After graduating in 1970, Rebhorn moved to New York City, where he earned a Master of Fine Arts in acting from Columbia Universitys School of the Arts, an early performance was in Butterflies are Free at the Peterborough Players in New Hampshire in 1974. Rebhorn played Peter Latham in Forty Carats at the GasLight Dinner Theatre in Salt Lake City in the 1970s and he was known both for portraying WASP stereotypes, lawyers, politicians, doctors, and military men, as well as portraying individuals with criminal behavior. Tyler in White Squall, and a magnate in The Talented Mr. Ripley. One of his best known performances came in the popular 1996 film Independence Day and he acted in Scent of a Woman, and also played an expert witness in My Cousin Vinny. He appeared in Carlitos Way the following year, Rebhorn also played an FBI Agent in the 1994 film Guarding Tess. An earlier daytime role was as John Brady in Texas from 1981 to 1982, also in 1991, he played the role of Ezra in the television movie/pilot Plymouth. Another performance was a cameo in Madonnas video for her single Bad Girl along with Christopher Walken, in 1994, he appeared in an episode of the Nickelodeon series The Adventures of Pete & Pete, titled Farewell, My Little Viking as Mr. McFlemp. In 1998, he played the District Attorney in the two part finale of Seinfeld. He also appeared in supporting roles in Regarding Henry, The Game, The Talented Mr. Ripley, in 2004, he appeared in the television miniseries Reversible Errors. His role in the short lived and controversial NBC drama The Book of Daniel cast him as the father of the title character, more recently, he appeared in the Showtime series Homeland as Carrie Mathisons father. Rebhorn also appeared as a judge in Baby Mama, in the movie The Box, Rebhorn portrayed a NASA scientist. He had recurring roles on the series White Collar as Special Agent Reese Hughes, and also as Frank Mathison, Rebhorn co starred in the Comedy Central sitcom Big Lake in 2010. He played Max Kentons uncle in the movie Real Steel in 2011 and he starred as Oren in the miniseries Coma
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Multiple-camera setup
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The multiple-camera setup, multiple-camera mode of production, multi-camera or simply multicam is a method of filmmaking and video production. Several cameras—either film or professional video cameras—are employed on the set and it is often contrasted with single-camera setup, which uses one camera. In this way, multiple shots are obtained in a single take without having to start and this is more efficient for programs that are to be shown a short time after being shot as it reduces the time spent film editing or video editing the footage. It is also a necessity for regular, high-output shows like daily soap operas. It also reduces the complexity of tracking continuity issues that crop up when the scene is reshot from the different angles and it is an essential part of live television. These can be hidden from just one camera but can be more complicated to set up. Another drawback is in film usage—a four-camera setup will use up to four times as much film per take, while shooting, the director and assistant director create a line cut by instructing the technical director to switch between the feed from the individual cameras. In the case of sitcoms with studio audiences, this cut is typically displayed to them on studio monitors. The line cut might be refined later in editing, as often the output from all cameras is recorded, both separately and as a combined reference display called the q split. The camera currently being recorded to the cut is indicated by a tally light controlled by a camera control unit on the camera as a reference both for the actors and the camera operators. When sound came into the picture multiple cameras were used to film sets at a single time. Early sound was recorded onto wax discs that could not be edited, the BBC routinely used multiple cameras for their live television shows from 1936 onward. Desilus innovation was to use 35mm film instead of 16mm and to film with a multiple-camera setup before a studio audience. In the late 1970s, Garry Marshall was credited with adding the fourth camera to the multi-camera set-up for his series Mork & Mindy, soon after, many productions followed suit and now having four cameras is the norm for multi-camera situation comedies. The multiple-camera method gives the director less control over each shot but is faster, in television, multiple-camera is commonly used for sports programs, news programs, soap operas, talk shows, game shows, and some sitcoms. Before the pre-filmed continuing series became the dominant dramatic form on American television, multiple cameras can take different shots of a live situation as the action unfolds chronologically and is suitable for shows which require a live audience. For this reason, multiple camera productions can be filmed or taped much faster than single camera, multiple-camera sitcoms were more simplified but have been compared to theatre work due to its similar set-up and use of theatre-experienced actors and crew members. The majority of British sitcoms and dramas from the 1950s to the early 1990s were made using four cameras, unlike the United States, the development of completed filmed programming, using the single camera method, was limited for several decades
