Ch. 18: Andrew Law, Writer | Marques Ray, Actor

The Good Place: The Podcast

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4.9 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Comedy writer Andrew Law and actor Marques Ray shoot the shirt with host Marc Evan Jackson. They talk about the joy of writing jokes for Tahani, Ted Danson’s acting chops, how Michael’s existential crisis hilariously presents itself and a shirt-ton more funny anecdotes and behind-the-scenes stories.

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0:00.0	Hi there! Welcome to the Good Place, the podcast.
0:06.7	Janet, what's a podcast?
0:08.9	A podcast is a thing humans invented to procrastinate from doing important things,
0:13.6	like actual work or spending time with their families.
0:16.9	Meet! Enjoy this week's episode.
0:19.7	Welcome to the Good Place, the podcast. I'm Mark Evan Jackson. I play Sean.
0:30.7	Today we're talking about Chapter 18, Season 2, Episode 4, existential crisis.
0:35.5	Directed by Beth McCarthy Miller, written by Andrew Law, including guest cast,
0:39.4	Tia Sircar, Leslie Grossman, Steve Berg, Marcus Ray, Noelle E. Parker, Drew Brooks,
0:44.4	Doc Farrow, and Tom Byer. Michael faces the idea of mortality for the first time.
0:49.8	Eleanor and Cheedy have to help him through an existential crisis and hide it from Vicki,
0:53.9	who has planned a competing magical party to torture Tahani.
0:57.2	Despite her insider knowledge, Vicki is successful at bringing Tahani down,
1:01.2	so Jason Cheers are up. Michael brings Janet to the party dressed up as Genette,
1:05.4	and Eleanor eventually talks him down from his crisis by explaining that,
1:09.1	quote, we're all a little bit sad all the time, and that you need death to appreciate life.
1:13.8	In a series of flashbacks, we see moments from Eleanor's life where she deals with,
1:17.3	or refuses to deal with, death. My guest today, our writer of the episode, Andrew Law,
1:22.3	and Marcus Ray, who plays Tomas and Quinston. Marcus and Andrew, welcome. Everything is great.
1:27.8	Thank you. Thanks for having us. Thank you so much for being here. When I was rewatching this episode,
1:33.0	I was, we opened on Vicki at Michael's desk. She has all the power. She's in control.
1:37.7	She mentions Gunner and the party, the planned party for his thing to compete with Tahani.
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