Raw, Uncensored

September 18, 2015 3:07 AM

Emmy nominees Amy Schumer ('Inside Amy Schumer')Kate McKinnon ('Saturday Night Live') join Tracee Ellis Ross ('black-ish'), Lena Dunham ('Girls'), Gina Rodriguez ('Jane the Virgin'), and Ellie Kemper come together for The Hollywood Reporter's "Close Up" series' Comedy Actress Roundable. [1h9m] NSFW. Startlingly insightful on a giant number of topics.

Editorial: One of the best "people talking about things" shows I've watched probably all year.

posted by hippybear (7 comments total)

The sidebar has other of the "Raw, Uncensored" series of roundtables (these are the most current ones, mostly from August), and they are also worth watching, but none of them are as great as this.
posted by hippybear at 3:18 AM on September 18, 2015

I've watched a few of these over the last two years and I always found the women really great and the men boring. It's not intentional, I want to love all of them, and I don't know why it is. Just luck maybe?

Anyway, I haven't seen this one yet but now I will when I get home this evening, so thanks for pointing it out.
posted by shelleycat at 3:38 AM on September 18, 2015

I've watched a few of these over the last two years and I always found the women really great and the men boring....
posted by shelleycat at 6:38 AM on September 18

I actually liked the one with Bryan Cranston from last year or the year before, but man Kiefer Sutherland sounded so insufferable, and I enjoyed watching how much everyone was focusing on not reacting to him.
posted by glaucon at 4:27 AM on September 18, 2015

This year's Drama Writer's Roundtable was somehow oddly visceral. (There is no comedy writers roundtable, I guess because those are mostly Writers' Room sorts of projects?)
posted by hippybear at 4:47 AM on September 18, 2015

This is so great - thanks
posted by mumimor at 5:10 AM on September 18, 2015 [1 favorite]

I can seriously watch a roundtable discussion of any professionals talking about their passion for their work, unfortunately the only profession the media deems important enough to ever do this is pretending, says a lot about our culture.

If I'm Amy Schumer I go back to Inside Amy Schumer and immediately write a sketch about 4 female plumbers sitting around a table talking about the stereotypes and challenges of trying to make it in a male dominated profession - and the word "journey" is used in every other response.
posted by any major dude at 5:11 AM on September 18, 2015 [1 favorite]

Double
posted by gladly at 5:33 AM on September 18, 2015