Sam Morril and Mark Normand ask the question we all ask ourselves after good conversation makes you lose track of how many drinks you have had. We Might Be Drunk Podcast is two empire state comedians telling stories and talking life, New York City, intoxicating stories, and of course the past and present state of comedy.
In this week’s episode, Somebody I Used To Know star Alison Brie stops by and gives a lot of great movie recs, some Sam hasn’t seen. She tells the crazy story about her and Dave Franco hooking up, and she is just a cool lady and a good hang. Come hang with us for an hour and some change.
Somebody I Used To Know is currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
Sam Morril: Sam Morril is one of the fastest-rising stand-up comics in New York City and one of the best joke writers in the scene today. He is a regular on Comedy Central’s This Week at the Comedy Cellar, where he appears frequently when not touring cities across the nation. He was named one of Comedy Central’s Comics to Watch in 2011 and has performed multiple stand-up sets on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Late, Late Show with James Corden, and Conan. He’s also had stints on Last Comic Standing, America’s Got Talent, @midnight with Chris Hardwick, and Inside Amy Schumer. Recently detailed the re-opening of New York City comedy scene post-global pandemic in the 2021 documentary Sam Morril: Full Capacity.
Mark Normand: So far, Mark Normand has done a One-Hour Comedy Central special “Don’t Be Yourself”, a Comedy Central HALF HOUR special, has appeared on TBS’s CONAN 6 times, Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Showtime’s “Live at SXSW”, INSIDE AMY SCHUMER, TruTv, Best Week Ever, MTv, Last Comic Standing, @Midnight and released an album with Comedy Central records titled “Still Got It” (it’s not bad). This year, Mark took first place at the Great American Comedy Festival competition. In 2013 won Caroline’s March Madness competition, beating out 63 other comedians. And this is a real shocker for all of us, but he was also voted Village Voice’s “Best Comedian of 2013”, I know, right? In 2012, Mark appeared on “John Oliver’s New York Standup Show” on Comedy Central, and in 2011 was picked as one of Comedy Central’s “Comics to Watch.”
Mark was born and raised in New Orleans, LA surprisingly to two normal parents. As a kid he spent most of his time shooting short films and wetting the bed. He started doing comedy right after college and quickly moved to New York. Mark now does comedy clubs and colleges across the country and has been involved in many festivals including Portland, Seattle, DC, Boston, Vancouver, Melbourne and in 2013 was featured as a New Face at the Montreal Comedy Festival.
Mark was named one of Comedy Central’s Comics To Watch for the 2011 New York Comedy Festival. Mark was also named Esquire’s “Best New Comedians 2012”, Splitsider’s “Top 10 Up and Coming Comedians on Each Coast”, and Time Out New York’s “21 New York Comedy Scene Linchpins”.
This Week’s Special Guest:
Alison Brie: Alison Brie emerged as one of Hollywood’s most sought-after television actresses by simultaneously playing two very different roles on two very different series: an earnest and somewhat naive coed on eccentric cult comedy “Community” (NBC, 2009-14; Yahoo!, 2015) and the betrayed suburban wife of a 1960s advertising executive on the critically acclaimed drama “Mad Men” (AMC, 2007-15). Her remarkable flair for both comedy and drama proved that she was ready to tackle ever more exciting and higher profile roles. Alison Brie Schermerhorn was born on Dec. 29, 1983 in Pasadena, CA. She started performing at a young age, mostly at the Jewish Community Center in nearby Los Feliz. After Brie graduated from South Pasadena High School in 2001, she studied at the California Institute of the Arts, where she received a degree in drama. While pursuing her degree, Brie also attended the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, Scotland. After college, she continued to stage act while simultaneously going after TV and film roles. In 2006, she guest starred as a novice hairdresser on the popular series “Hannah Montana” (Disney 2006-2010). For her next project, Brie starred on “My Alibi” (ABC Family, 2008-09), based on the popular Web series that followed a group of high school kids who pull a large prank during first period and are locked up in one room until someone in the group confesses. With only a few acting credits to her name, Brie nabbed a juicy part on “Mad Men,” a stylish drama set in the 1960s that followed a chain-smoking, hard-drinking, womanizing executive (Jon Hamm) at one of Manhattan’s top advertising agencies. She played the tightly-wound Trudy Campbell, wife of junior executive Pete Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser). Brie’s role on the critically acclaimed drama series led to her being cast on “Community,” an ensemble comedy about a group of misfits at a community college in Colorado led by Joel McHale as a lawyer whose license was revoked and is now forced to return to school to earn a legitimate diploma. Brie’s role as Annie Edison, a straight-laced student who has just started exploring her wild side, landed her a spot on numerous “Sexiest Celebrity” lists and showcased a quirky, energetic comic persona. In 2011, she used her newly acquired fame to land a role as an overly ambitious personal assistant in the successful horror franchise “Scream 4,” which brought back to the fold many of the original film’s cast members, including Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette. She next starred in romantic comedy “Save the Date” (2012) and landed supporting roles in “The Five-Year Engagement” (2012), indie coming of age comedy-drama “The Kings of Summer” (2013) and animated hit “The Lego Movie” (2014). Brie starred opposite Jason Sudeikis in romantic comedy “Sleeping With Other People” (2015) and was the female lead in Will Ferrell-Kevin Hart comedy “Get Hard” (2015). As both “Community” and “Mad Men” wound down, Brie took on a recurring voice role as Diane Nguyen in animated comedy “BoJack Horseman” (Netflix 2014- ) and served as executive producer on the sitcom “Teachers” (TV Land 2016- ). On the big screen, she co-starred in romantic comedy “How To Be Single” (2016) and indie drama “A Family Man” (2016) before co-starring opposite Aubrey Plaza and Kate Micucci as a reluctant nun in the comedy “The Little Hours” (2017), set in a 14th-century Italian convent. That same year, she returned to television as the star of “GLOW” (Netflix 2017- ), a comedy-drama set in the real-life “Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling” circuit of the 1980s.
Somebody I Used To Know: Somebody I Used to Know was directed by Franco as well as co-written by him and Brie. This film marks the fourth collaboration between Franco and Brie with previous projects being The Rental, The Disaster Artist, and The Little Hours. In addition to Brie, Ellis, and Clemons, the film features an all-star ensemble cast that includes. Haley Joel Osment (The Sixth Sense, Pay It Forward), Danny Pudi (“Community,” Knights of Badassdom), and Julie Hagerty (Freddy Got Fingered, Airplane!).
