SCRATCH the SURFACE with EJ Scott

Charlie Cox can be seen this April 10, 2015 as the title character of Marvel's Daredevil for Netflix. Daredevil is a 13 episode show that starts a 60 episode arc crossing over some of Marvel's more s…

Jason Chin wasnt very well known outside of the Chicago comedy scene but he meant a lot to the hundreds or thousands of lives he touched. Jason passed away at the age of 46 on January 8, 2015. Jason …

Joel Murray has developed a nice resume over the years in film and television. Racking up credits on Mad Men, Shameless, Dharma and Greg, One Crazy Summer, The Artist and many more. He also happens t…

Janina Gavankar did two podcasts with me that nobody has ever heard due to my only two major technical issues doing all these podcasts. There are only 2 podcasts that I have been unable to make publi…

AJ Tesler is a guy I know from the improv world. We were at Improv Olympic at the same time in the mid 2000's. Now AJ is married and has a little girl with Rett Syndrome. RS is a regressing neurologi…

Jordan Klepper and I met some years back in Chicago. I knew him as a hilarious improvisor. Now hes a hilarious on air correspondant for The Daily Show on Comedy Central with Jon Stewart. We talk abou…

Susan Messing is a woman I only heard about for years while I was hanging out in the Los Angeles improv scene. Shes a Chicago Improv Rock Star and when I moved to Chicago in 2008-2011, I got to have …

Noah and Linda are Chicago improv staples. They also happen to be married to each. We talk about where they each come from, their backgrounds, how they met, age difference, why they eloped in Vegas o…

Opus Moreschi is a multi Emmy Award winning writer for The Colbert Report. I sit down with Opus at his apartment in Brooklyn where we talk about his younger life where he and his family lived in diff…

Denis O'Hare became a beloved villain on HBO's True Blood a few years ago. Since then he has been nominated for an Emmy for American Horror Story, married long time boyfriend, adopted a baby with his…

Jon Hein helped coin the phrase "Jump the Shark" from an episode of Happy Days years and made a life and career out of it that lead him to working on The Howad Stern Show both on and off mic. We talk…

Brian "Bucky" Buckner has been show runner of HBO's True Blood for almost the last two seasons. He has been a writer on the show since day one. We talk about The writer's room, getting hired and work…

Adina Porter and Gregg Daniel drop by the kitchen to talk all things True Blood plus day jobs in Switzerland, meeting Robert DeNiro, advice for daughters, Aaoron Sorkin, House, losing loved ones, div…

Gregg Fienberg has been with True Blood since episode one until the very end. But you probably never saw his face. He is the executive producer. He worked with Alan Ball and took care of most of the …

Nathan Parsons plays James on the seventh and final season of True Blood. We talk about his Texas background, playing a gay character, being a voice over actor at a young age, being home schooled, be…

Ashley Hinshaw plays Brigette on the seventh season of True Blood. We talk about her growing up in Indiana, leaving home to move to New York at age 16 to model for Abercombie and Fitch, meeting and d…

Riley Smith and Craig Chester are both newbies on the final season of True Blood. Craig writes two of the episodes (eps 5 and 7) and Riley appears in many of the episodes as Keith a vampire who gets …

Karolina Wydra plays Violet on HBO's True Blood. We talk about her life in Poland before she moved to the O.C. in California, her parents divorce, her fathers new marriage to a woman much younger, he…

Tony Hale is a scene stealer. His characters are so interesting and he plays them with such commitment its hard no to watch him when he's on screen. We talk about being bounced around when he was a k…

Shadaliza and Lynn have been running the Vault from the beginning of the hit HBO show TRUE BLOOD. They are die hard fans. And we talk about how they found each other online, what made them and still …