Tonight, we record our final episode. And today is
@JoshMalina
's birthday. So I'm feeling a little sentimental (even more than usual), and looking back at some photos from along the way. Here's the first picture of us together, from 2012. Josh organized a meet-up via Twitter.
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Later that year, I organized a charity game night event, and Josh agreed not only to participate but to put together a team for it. Here we are on stage, with Josh's team of Michael Ian Black, Rob Delaney, Sara Silverman, and Rich Sommer. (I'm behind Rich Sommer's arm.)
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The event went so well that we decided to pitch it as a TV show—and we sold it! Here we are in Jan 2014, after taping the pilot. My first time meeting
@BradleyWhitford
. The show didn't go to series, but we still own it, so if any TV execs want to greenlight it…we're available.
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The TV show process was tough for me, as someone who came from DIY/punk music and was used to just being able to make things yourself. A year and a half later, with the show's fate still unknown, I pitched TWWW to Josh over email.
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A few days later, my friend Jada Yuan ran into Aaron Sorkin at an event, and I somehow managed to get her to take this picture of him WITH the picture of me + Josh + Brad. Technically, it was a photo of all of us together. She wrote about it in Vulture:
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And then, in March 2016, we were live. Josh announced it here:
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We did an interview for Weekend Edition a few days before the first episode came out.
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Oh, right! we took a "promo photo" in the parking lot of NPR by putting my camera on Josh's car and setting the auto-timer.
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More guests: Peter Smith & William Duffy, Bradley Whitford, Tommy Schlamme, Emily Procter.
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We did our first live taping three years ago (Jan 15) in SF.
@BradleyWhitford
joined us again. Here we are, backstage.
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It's pretty fun getting to be stuck in a room with these two. As you know.
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Once, Josh and I accidentally showed up to a taping with
@EliAttie
(our wonderful, most frequent guest) both wearing our new WWW shirts. Not cool, man.
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Live at the Ace Theatre in 2017. We'll be there tonight, once again, for our finale.
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With Martin Sheen! Martin's wife Janet made the t-shirt that Josh is wearing. And she made him put it on for this photo.
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We've gotten to travel around the world together. It's been the most fun journey, and I hope The West Wing Weekly's ending isn't the end of it. Happy birthday,
@JoshMalina
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@JoshMalina
Hard to say goodbye...Amazing live show - New York City, 4/23/18 - with Aaron Sorkin and Emily Procter, wearing our “What’s Next” merch (w/
@klavon_kat
+
@luveanmyers
)
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