SCRATCH the SURFACE with EJ Scott

Derek Miller was one of my very first improv coaches in 2004 in Los Angeles. He and his family are moving to London, England and I wanted to have a chat before he left. We talk acting, Chicago, famil…

Chris Claremont has been writing comic books for around 50 years!! He has written some of the most influential and memorable X-Men comics ever!! He had me over to his home where we talked about his l…

Bryan and Bradford Manning were told they were going blind from an eye disease called Stargardt Disease when they were kids. I met up with them in NYC and talked with them about learning at an early …

Brian Stack was kind enough to talk with me at his office in NYC where he writes for the Stephen Colbert Late Show on CBS. We talk about a lot of things including working for Conan O'Brien for 20 yea…

John Lutz was very kind in letting me interview him while I was visiting New York at his work in 30 Rockefeller Plaza. We talk about a lot of stuff including working on SNL, what it was like dealing …

Taran Killam and Paul Brittain make their triumphant return to Scratch the Surface, but this time they come in together to promote the film Killing Gunther available on iTunes and Amazon Prime Video.…

Matt Marr and I met many years ago at an improv theater called iO West. We knew each other a little bit and then lost touch after I moved to Chicago and then back to LA. Anyway in that time we both s…

Michael Ausiello is use to writing and critiquing television shows about fictional drama. But in his book writing debut Michale opens up about his relationship with his husband and the cancer that to…

Beth Dover and I first met in class at Second City Los Angeles in 2003. She joins me in my kitchen to catch up and talk about finding love with a actor/comedian Joe LoTruglio, marriage, motherhood, f…

Marc Evan Jackson is recognizable from dozens of different things ranging from commercials, television, film and voice over. Marc and I talk about everything this episode! Including, being born and r…

Amy Acker joins me in the kitchen to talk about her amazing life and career. Including growing up in Dallas, Texas, being the oldest of four kids, being bit by a spider that caused her to be paralyze…

Brian Huskey is an improviser, writer, actor who started out on a very different path. He's from North Carolina where he thought he'd probably be a photographer until he met Rob Corddry in New York C…

Anson Mount was kind enough to let me meet up with him at his hotel while he was in Los Angeles promoting the upcoming Marvel's Inhumans TV show on ABC. He plays the iconic character: Black Bolt. Bla…

Danielle MacDonald is the lead in a great new independent film called Patti Cake$ (out August 18th in NY and LA). I got to go to an early screening of the film and meet Danielle. I loved the film and…

Gabriel Luna is the new GHOST RIDER!!! And I couldn't be happier! Last season on Agents of SHIELD on ABC he did a fantastic job playing Robbie Reyes a man that made a deal with a demon and now his he…

Elizabeth Lucas-Smith and I met in San Francisco back in 2007. 10 years later we meet up (outside of San Fran) and continue a talk we started a decade ago. We talk about  the hereditary and degenerat…

Arthur Adams and Joyce Chin are legendary comic book artists that have been around for a long time. They met up with me in San Francisco to talk comics, love, family, art and so much more!!! Special …

Peter Chelsom is a writer and director of many films and has worked with some of the all time greats. He was kind enough to come and talk with me about his impressive life and career and talk about s…

Tyler Bates took a couple of hours out of his busy schedule to talk with me about growing up in a haunted house, losing his mother in a car accident, music, composing, how he joined Marilyn Manson, w…

Adrian Wenner and Ethan Sandler are guys I know from performing live comedy on the iOWest stage in Hollywood in the early and mid 2000's. They were kind enough to come to the house and talk with me a…