SCRATCH the SURFACE with EJ Scott

Pat Finn was best friends with Chris Farley. Chris Farley was and is a comedy legend and icon. A new documentary is coming out July 27, 2015 with some of the people closest to Chris. Including his fa…

David Mack is one of comic books most prolific and talented artists. We talk about his work with wrter Brian Michael Bendis, how he helped Bendis get a job at Marvel, how Joe Quesada hired David to w…

Kristin Bauer van Straten was born Kristin Neubauer. She started out in Wisconsin thinking she would be a graphic artist and then one day in her 20's decided she wanted to try acting. She received im…

"Dead of July" is hard to categorize. Part comedy, part thriller, part love story, part horror movie. Inspired by RL Stine's books "Fear Street" books, Matthew Scott Mongomery wrote this play very qu…

Drew Goddard has worked on all my favorite shows and some of my favorite movies. We talk Buffy the Vampire Slayer and getting work on that, and how he got to choose which show (Buffy or Angel) to wor…

Marco Ramirez is only 32 years old but making a huge splash in the entertainment industry. He is currently the co-showrunner of Season 2 of the hit Netflix series Marvel's Daredevil. We talk about be…

Bill Corbett is a third of the comedy powerhouse known as Rifftrax. Where all the guys cut their teeth making fun of bad movies on Mystery Science 3000 that aired on Comedy Central (Comedy Channel at…

Timothy Simons plays a great asshole as Jonah Ryan on HBO's VEEP. But in real life he's a super nice guy with a family from Maine. Tim and I talk about growing up in Maine, being bullied in school, g…

Chris Hardwick is a jack of all trades. He is a host, writer, stand-up comic, producer, author, gamer, podcaster, musician, and much much more! Chris and I talk about his start on Singled Out, his si…

Married couple, Tara Buck and Chris Pierce, are a power couple covering acting and music. Tara has been an actress going back to the 90s working on shows like Party of Five and X-Files and more recen…

Kay Cannon has written a #1 movie at the box office... twice! Pitch Perfect and Pitch Perfect 2 are movies that can not and should not be ignored. They are fun, funny, smart, heart felt films that ar…

Adam Rifkin comes over and sits at the kitchen table with me to talk movies, filmmaking, mistakes made he has learned from, being cousins with Ike Barinholtz from MADTv and the Mindy Project, losing …

Matt Walsh is a stand out comedian among stand out comedians on the HBO show VEEP. But he didnt start out wanting to do comedy. He started out as a psychologist. During this interview I think Matt us…

Deborah Ann Woll is best known to the public as Jessica Hamby from HBO's True Blood, but that may soon change thanks to her role as Karen Page on Marvel's Daredevil on Netflix. We talk in depth on he…

Elden Henson has been acting since he was a little kid. Now he plays Foggy Nelson in Marvel's Daredevil for Netflix. Elden talks to me about falling in love quickly with his wife, actress Kira Sternb…

Christos Gage and Ruth Fletcher Gage are staff writers for the new Marvel's Daredevil for Netflix. They are married and have been writing partners for a long time. We talk about how they met in colle…

Jeph Loeb is a multi Eisner Award Winning comic book writer that has transitioned into one of the most important guys at Marvel. He runs the television department. He was kind enough to come to my ho…

Steven DeKnight started his career teaching English as a Second Language. A job that was suppose to last 6 months lasted 6 years. Until he finally got a break writing for MTV's Undressed show. That h…

Joe Quesada is known in the comic book world as a living legend. He's one of the best artists the medium has seen and now hes one of the guys that has a lot of say and sway in an incredibly successfu…

Steven Yeun moved to Canada from Seoul, South Korea when he was a yound kid, then shortly afterwards to Michigan. Steven talks about difficulty making a major move like that and how he reacted as a k…