Joel Keller Freelance Writer

10Sep/110

Q&As and other fun from New York Mag’s Vulture Blog

Vulture logoOver the last few months, I've been making contributions to the "Chat Room" feature on New York Magazine's Vulture Blog... and not all of them have been about Breaking Bad! You can find my posts here.

Some highlights:

Jason Gann of Wilfred (9/8/11)

Jonathan Banks of Breaking Bad (8/5/11)

William Shatner (8/1/11)

Vince Gilligan of Breaking Bad (7/15/11)

20Jun/110

AV Club fun and games

AV ClubThe nice folks at The AV Club (the "serious" part of The Onion, if you have to know) have been kind enough to publish interviews and reviews from me since February. I've also been able to contribute to a few of their group pieces, which are always fun.

Most of my pieces for them can be found here, though that doesn't represent all of my work there.

Highlights:

Dick Van Dyke (6/9/11)

Wyatt Cenac (5/13/11)

Paul Reiser (4/14/11)

Chris Elliott (3/13/11)

Tom Colicchio (3/16/11)

Bruce Vilanch (2/23/11)

19Jun/110

TV Squad wrap-up

It was a fun ride for five and a half years, but my time at TV Squad and AOL came to an end in May. But I was a busy bee for them during that time (or a busy beaver, depending on your hurried species of choice), doing weekly recaps on a bunch of shows, including 'Glee' (whoo boy, did that get tough by the end of the season), 'Modern Family,' and -- of course -- 'How I Met Your Mother.'

You can read my posts here.

Some Q&As I did for them in 2011:

Mark Burnett (5/20/11)

Mike Schur of 'Parks and Recreation' (5/20/11)

Paul Lieberstein of 'The Office' (5/18/11)

Chris Colfer (5/17/11)

Damon Wayans (4/27/11)

Diane Lane (4/22/11)

Ryan Stiles (4/20/11)

Norm MacDonald (4/19/11)

Bill Lawrence (4/16/11)

Andy Cohen (4/7/11)

Bethenny Frankel (3/25/11)

John Oliver (3/23/11)

John Lithgow (3/17/11)

Heather Locklear (3/4/11)

Craig Ferguson (2/18/11)

William Shatner (2/3/11)

Stephen Merchant (1/21/11)

28Apr/100

More TV Squad Q&A fun

Here's some of the Q&As I've been doing at TV Squad lately:

Chris Colfer from 'Glee' (4/27/10)

Barry Levinson, who directed 'You Don't Know Jack' for HBO (4/23/10)

'Chuck' co-creator Chris Fedak (4/21/10)

Patrick Stewart (4/20/10)

David Cross
(4/7/10)

Andy Cohen of Bravo (3/18/10)

'Breaking Bad' creator Vince Gilligan (3/17/10)

Nick Offerman of 'Parks and Recreation'
(2/11/10)

Brian Williams (12/17/09)

Tracy Morgan (10/26/09)

Matthew Weiner of 'Mad Men' (10/9/09)

23Feb/09Off

The Daily Beast – Celebrities galore

The Daily Beast logoI recently started doing interviews with various entertainment luminaries at The Daily Beast.

Here is a collection of my posts.

Amy Poehler: The Very Funny Interview - Amy Poehler jokes around and talks about Parks and Recreation. (4/9/09)

Denis Leary to the Rescue - Denis Leary (along with co-creator Peter Tolan) talk about the upcoming season of Rescue Me, and Leary talks about his autism controversy and the continuing comparisons to Bill Hicks. (4/7/09)

Josh Schwartz on Life After Gossip Girl - The prolific producer talks about his new web series, Gossip Girl spoilers, working on Chuck, and teenage angst. (3/23/09)

Bryan Cranston: Daddy Runs a Meth Lab - The Emmy winner talks about Breaking Bad, directing himself, and being the original re-gifter. (3/8/09)

What Holly Hunter Owes Tony Soprano - The Oscar-winning actress talks about Saving Grace, and how cable changed her career. (2/27/09)

What's Eating Kevin Bacon? - the actor talks about his HBO movie Taking Chance, about getting past his Footloose image early on, and about finally putting Bernie Madoff to rest. (2/19/09)

Will TV Slay Joss Whedon? - The geek auteur talks about Dollhouse: the rewrites and reshoots, the Friday night slot, how he's confident that this isn't another Firefly, and if Dr. Horrible will get a sequel. (1/28/09)

23Feb/09Off

TV Squad Fun

TV Squad logoIf you folks didn't already know, I'm the Editor-in-Chief of the AOL-owned blog TV Squad. It's been a heck of a lot of fun, and it's given me a lot of chances to talk to the best and brightest in the world of TV... and spewing my opinions all over the place.

Here are my posts.

Most recent interviews:

Amy Ryan (6/9/09)

Doug Benson (4/20/09) (get it?)

Bobby Cannavale and Sarah Paulson (joint interview fun!) (3/30/09)

Megan Mullally (3/25/09)

Dylan Baker (3/13/09)

My favorite interviews:

Bob Newhart (12/4/08)

Eddie Izzard (11/2/08)

The guys from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (9/18/08)

Carter Bays of How I Met Your Mother (9/10/08)

Larry Willmore of The Daily Show (8/5/08)

Keith Olbermann (8/4/08)

Drew Carey (7/20/08)

Bill Lawrence of Scrubs (Warning: This one's an epic... 3 pages! But it's all great.) (5/22/08)

Penn Jillette (5/12/08)

Barry Williams (Greg Brady to you and me) (3/28/08)

Lewis Black (3/19/08)