Brian Posehn Thinks "The Sarah Silverman Program" Is Done

[JamesG]

Brian Posehn Thinks "The Sarah Silverman Program" Is Done
Posted Apr 13th 2010
by Nick Zaino


Brian, one half of the gay couple Brian and Steve on "The Sarah Silverman Program", is a big fuzzy nerd. Which is okay, because that's also the personality of the man who plays him, Brian Posehn.


We almost didn't get to see Brian and Steve again this year. Silverman and Comedy Central were at odds over the show's budget, until the LOGO network came in and threw in more money to make the production possible.

Posehn isn't sure there will be a season four... I caught up with him by phone last week.






I was going to ask if you and Steve [Agee] were both kind of playing yourselves.

We are, yeah. And that came from Sarah being great friends with us and knowing what we do. Neither one of us had to audition for the part. She asked us to do the pilot. And, of course, she cast her sister as her sister.

I think she was just going for that. I think it pays off. I think it comes off in the show that we're all really good friends. When they cast our show they knew that we would all get along, they knew that we would all play well on each other because we do in real life. Nobody makes me laugh like Sarah.








Considering that this season almost didn't happen, was there a sense of urgency about writing and shooting this season?

I feel like, if anything, we all went, you know what? We're lucky to have this at a certain point. Let's just do what makes us laugh even more than season one and season two.

And I feel like it gave us freedom - because I actually was involved in the writing process this year, I wrote the last episode of the season. And it's sort of, in a crazy season, I wrote the craziest episode. We broke a lot of rules we had for season one and season two.

I love that about the show. It reminded me of working on "Mr. Show", where, any rules that other shows go by, we don't go by. Whatever's funny, if we like it today, we like it at the end of the day, and we like it again tomorrow, that's what's going to stick.








After the "robot baby" episode, do you see you and Steve making any more attempts to have a kid, or moving to a state where they can be married?

Well, I think we're probably done with the show. But if we do a spinoff, which is something that's been talked about, I think it would be something that would come up again.

Bringing it back to life, you know? It lived once, it's not impossible that it could live again.




Those are the rules of horror movies.
There has to be a head somewhere buried under the shed. You can just see the lights come on again.

Right. Or even the hand. We'll let Wes Craven produce "Bri and and Steve, The TV Show".








Do you feel like this is the last season of the show, then?

Yeah. Yeah. But we felt that kind of going in. Just because it was so tough to get them to give us the money to do the third season, we had to jump through so many hoops.

I don't know. I'm also a negative person. I'm not going to be the blue sky-er, you know. I feel like we're lucky to have done what we've done, and I would be very happy to come back and do a season four.

But I'd also be completely surprised if it happened.

http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/04/13/br...ogram-is-done/

[Marth22]

Very cool interview, this guy is one of my favorite characters on The Sarah Silverman Program. You know what SSP had a great run I loved every episode

Originally Posted by JamesG

Brian Posehn Thinks "The Sarah Silverman Program" Is Done
Posted Apr 13th 2010
by Nick Zaino


Brian, one half of the gay couple Brian and Steve on "The Sarah Silverman Program", is a big fuzzy nerd. Which is okay, because that's also the personality of the man who plays him, Brian Posehn.


We almost didn't get to see Brian and Steve again this year. Silverman and Comedy Central were at odds over the show's budget, until the LOGO network came in and threw in more money to make the production possible.

Posehn isn't sure there will be a season four... I caught up with him by phone last week.






I was going to ask if you and Steve [Agee] were both kind of playing yourselves.

We are, yeah. And that came from Sarah being great friends with us and knowing what we do. Neither one of us had to audition for the part. She asked us to do the pilot. And, of course, she cast her sister as her sister.

I think she was just going for that. I think it pays off. I think it comes off in the show that we're all really good friends. When they cast our show they knew that we would all get along, they knew that we would all play well on each other because we do in real life. Nobody makes me laugh like Sarah.








Considering that this season almost didn't happen, was there a sense of urgency about writing and shooting this season?

I feel like, if anything, we all went, you know what? We're lucky to have this at a certain point. Let's just do what makes us laugh even more than season one and season two.

And I feel like it gave us freedom - because I actually was involved in the writing process this year, I wrote the last episode of the season. And it's sort of, in a crazy season, I wrote the craziest episode. We broke a lot of rules we had for season one and season two.

I love that about the show. It reminded me of working on "Mr. Show", where, any rules that other shows go by, we don't go by. Whatever's funny, if we like it today, we like it at the end of the day, and we like it again tomorrow, that's what's going to stick.








After the "robot baby" episode, do you see you and Steve making any more attempts to have a kid, or moving to a state where they can be married?

Well, I think we're probably done with the show. But if we do a spinoff, which is something that's been talked about, I think it would be something that would come up again.

Bringing it back to life, you know? It lived once, it's not impossible that it could live again.




Those are the rules of horror movies.
There has to be a head somewhere buried under the shed. You can just see the lights come on again.

Right. Or even the hand. We'll let Wes Craven produce "Bri and and Steve, The TV Show".








Do you feel like this is the last season of the show, then?

Yeah. Yeah. But we felt that kind of going in. Just because it was so tough to get them to give us the money to do the third season, we had to jump through so many hoops.

I don't know. I'm also a negative person. I'm not going to be the blue sky-er, you know. I feel like we're lucky to have done what we've done, and I would be very happy to come back and do a season four.

But I'd also be completely surprised if it happened.

http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/04/13/br...ogram-is-done/