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Chewin' It with Kevin ad Steve

Jim Rash

Chewin' It with Kevin ad Steve

Kevin Heffernan and Steve Lemme

Improv, Comedy

4.9749 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2013

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Last year Jim Rash had the greatest year in showbiz. He won an Oscar for writing the Descendants, starred in the beloved show Community as Dean Pelton, AND he wrote and directed his own film, The Way Way Back, which sold big at Sundance and opens wide this wknd! Kevin & Steve chat w/ their old pal Jim on all these things and more (including coming up with a charming title for a new TV show they want to put together!) Give it your best CHEW!

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0:00.0

Hey, all right. Welcome back to another episode of Chewing It. This is Kevin Haffernan. On behalf of Steve Lemmy, thanks for joining us, everyone.

0:08.3

Greetings from Vancouver. We're just finishing up our tour up here, and I've lost my voice. God, I have one more show to go tonight, and I'm almost lost my voice here, so I'm trying to hang on to it.

0:20.7

Anyway, we've got a great episode here.

0:23.1

Our friend Jim Rash is joining us for a great chew.

0:29.9

You know Jim Rash, I mean, as the guy who's having the greatest year in show business.

0:34.3

Last year, he won an Oscar for The Descendants.

0:37.5

He wrote The Descendants, Alexander Payne's movie.

0:40.7

And he's having a great run on Community.

0:43.7

He plays Dean Pelton.

0:45.4

And he wrote and directed his own movie called The Way Way Back with Nat Faxon.

0:53.1

And that movie comes out wide this weekend. So that's pretty

0:57.5

awesome. You guys should all go out and see this movie. It's awesome. And it should now be a theater

1:04.2

near you this weekend. So check it out, please. And he's also got a new TV show coming out. If that

1:10.6

wasn't enough, he's got a show

1:13.0

he's hosting on the sundance channel called the writers room and uh it starts on july 29th and he sits

1:19.9

down with all kinds of different uh writers uh staffs from different tv shows like Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones and talks about

1:29.9

the writing room, which is awesome.

1:32.4

I'm going to tune into that.

1:33.7

So July 29th.

1:35.3

So check out all that stuff, way way back, and the writer's room.

1:41.4

Okay.

1:42.5

Hey, we finished our little stretch of shows, so not a huge amount of things to plug.

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