SCRATCH the SURFACE with EJ Scott

Alison Lohman was kind enough to spend some time with me in my kitchen and chat with me about her amazing career and life. we talk about her start in theater at a very young age doing musicals in Pal…

Herb Koss and I have something in common, we love watching improv. And thats how we met. I was improvising and watching improv regularly at iOWest in Hollywood over a decade ago. Herb is 84 years old…

Dave Hill makes his first appearance on StS and Matt Jones returns after three years. I asked them to come on to talk about their friendship and writing partnership. Together they've been performing …

Simone Missick and I got together while she was visiting Los Angeles and we talk about getting the role of Misty Knight in Luke Cage, meeting her husband, the possibility of having kids, moving back …

I was able to get two thirds of the comedy team, the Katydids on the podcast which is not too shabby. The Katydids is an all female comedy group from Chicago who all have similar names. What could ha…

Paul Vallaincourt and Lindsey Stoddart were my first two long form improv teachers at iO west in Los Angeles in 2003. It was Pauls level one class but Lindsey sat in as a substitute when he was unabl…

Cole Stratton and Vanessa Ragland have been the hosts of the very successful podcast "Pop My Culture" on Nerdist. They just retired the show and I invited them on  to talk about the start of the show…

Andy St Clair is a talented improvisor and writer from Chicago. He talks with me about performing at The Second City in Chicago, decisions to leave and move to Los Angeles, being host of the Treasure…

Scott Adsit has almost 100 acting credits to his name on IMDB. But I know him best as one of my favorite improvisors. He was kind enough to spend some time with me while he was visiting LA. We had a …

Michael Ausiello is a successful tv critic co founding the website tvline.com. Michale is coming out with a memoir soon of his love and marriage with his husband, Kit. The memoir also goes into losin…

Mike Bertrando and I are friends from way back to 2003. We met through the improv community in Los Angles, but he now lives in Brooklyn, NY. We meet yup in Brooklyn to talk about lots of stuff includ…

Ryan Suffern and I have known each other for some time through the improv community. And in 2012 he was kind enough to offer his editing and directing services to help me make the documentary RUNNING…

John Reynolds is an improvisor I knew a little in Chicago. He had me over his place in Brooklyn, NY where we talked about Chicago, improv, comedy, growing up in Madison, Wisconsin, working on Strange…

Brian Fischler had me at his apartment in Queens, NY where talked about going blind and being blind from Retinitis Pigmentosa, guide dog school for his dog Nash, living alone, dating, doing stand up …

Fabian Nicieza was kind enough to let me drop by his place of work in NYC and talk to me about his life and career. We talked about a lot of things including helping create Deadpool with Rob Liefeld,…

John Timothy was my teacher at UCB in NYC. We had a good talk about comedy, teaching, improv, politics, Japanese culture, growing up in Indiana, the controversial grading system at UCB, coming from a…

Garret Dillahunt and Michelle Hurd are a real life married couple who are also successful actors in both TV and movies. This is their first ever interview together and we had a great conversation tal…

Eva Solveig is a model and actress from Iceland who got my attention on a very funny show on truth called Jon Glaser Loves Gear. We talk about growing up in Iceland, studying acting in London, winnin…

James Dwyer was my teacher recently at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York City. We had some laughs as we talked about improv, comedy, his strict Catholic upbringing, the UCB grading sys…

Adam Burke talks to me while he makes a trip to New York from Chicago. We talk about being from Northern Ireland, living in Dallas, not having a drivers license, stand up comedy, getting divorced, lo…