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 Palm Springs area, working with directors like Tim Burton, Ridley Scott, Sam Raimi and actors like Nicolas Cage, Ewan McGregor, Sam Rockwell, Robin Wright, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rene Zellweger, Justin Long. How she has stepped into teaching acting and now teaching online, meeting and falling in love with her husband, writer, director, stunt guy, Mark Neveldine and his unusual proposal. Mark even joins us at the end to give his version of the story. Why she chose to step away from acting full time to be a mother, and so much more!!! Please Listen! Please Share! Please Enjoy! Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast Instagram @ejscott1106@gmail.com My website www.ejscott.com Charities to donate to www.crowdrise.com/7on7 RUNNING BLIND Documentary available on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play

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 now and I thought since I haven't gotten to talk to him in a while that he would be a great guest to talk to. Herb talks to me about traveling the world over and over, never being married but was almost engaged a couple times, never had children, his time in the service and how that started his career in helping people, his partnership and friendship with a blind man that he travels the world with, how and why he got interested in improv and so much more!! Please Listen! Please Share! Please Enjoy! Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast Instagram @ejscott1106 My website www.ejscott.com Charities to donate to www.crowdrise.com/7on7 RUNNING BLIND Documentary available on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play

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 improv as a two p[erson show for several years, that turned into writing together and now they have a movie that they wrote, directed and star in together called the Night is Young. Available digitally pretty much everywhere. We talk about the process of making the film and the challenges they encountered along the way, improvising, Matt talks about leaving the show MOM, becoming a dad, Dave talks about going to Princeton, and so much more!! Many laughs are had. Please Listen! Please Share! Please Enjoy! Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast Instagram @ejscott1106 My website www.ejscott.com Charities to donate to www.crowdrise.com/7on7 RUNNING BLIND documentary available on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play

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 and forth from LA to NY, her taking her dog everywhere with her, having Ben Kingsley and Alan. Rickman for acting teachers, working with Kerry Washington, working with Liev Schreiber on Ray Donovan, doing a love scene with Mike Colter and so much more!!! Please Listen! Please Share! Please Enjoy! Twitter @ejscott EJPodcast Instagram  @ejscott1106 My website www.ejscott.com Charities to donate to www.crowdrise.com/7on7 RUNNING BLIND Documentary available on iTunes, Google Play, Amazon 

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 have been a fly by night gimmick has turned into a successful tour de force! They write, produce and star in the TV Land hit sitcom - TEACHERS. They just got a green light for a third season! We talk about the formation of the Katydids, and the evolution from occasional improv show to everybody moving to Los Angeles and making a real go of show business! We talk about pregnancy, marriage, engagements, quitting jobs, being single, the writing process, the search for show runners, the multiple celebrity guest stars omniscience's their show, who was great and who was less great, premonitions and so much more!!! Please Listen! Please Share! Please Enjoy! Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast Instagram @ejscott1106 My website www.ejscott.com Charities to donate to www.crowdrise.com/7on7 RUNNING BLIND documentary available on iTune

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 unable to teacher a class. They were kind enough to come over the house and talk with me about improv, how they met when he was her teacher, Lindsey's stalker, Pauls adoption, becoming parents, Lindsey's acting roles on the Office, Bobs Burgers, The Ring, Desperate Housewives, The Sarah Silverman Program, and Pauls producing and involvement with WWE Tough Enough, Girls Behaving Badly, Ozzy and Jack Osbourne, Paris Hilton, and so much more!!! Please Listen! Please Share! Please Enjoy!! Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast Instagram @ejscott1106 My website www.ejscott.com Charities to donate to www.crowdrise.com/7of7 RUNNING BLIND Documentary available on iTunes, Google Play, Amazon

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 and why they are stopping it. We also talk about Vanessa having a baby, Cole being co founder of the very successful San Francisco Sketchfest, some of the ups and downs of hosting the podcast and their celebrity guests, Coles involvement with Rifftrax, Vanessa's time at the Groundlings, how there may not be a "Scratch the Surface" podcast without PMC and so much more!!! Please Listen! Please Share! Please Enjoy!! Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast Instagram @ejscott1106 My website www.ejscott.com Charities to donate to www.crowdrise.com/7on7 RUNNING BLIND documentary available on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play

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 Hunters Roadshow and the guilt he felt from that, trying to develop a show at MYV for over a year and it falling apart, but getting his current job writing on Dr Ken through that experience, writing on Comedy Centrals Brickleberry, appearing on Arrested Development and Cougar Town, getting engaged, auditioning for SNL and so much more!!! Please Listen! Please Share! Please Enjoy! Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast Instagram @ejscott1106 My website www.ejscott.com Charities to donate to www.crowdrise.com/7on7 RUNNING BLIND Documentary available omniscience's iTunes, Google Play, Amazon

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 lot to talk about. We talked about comedy, improv, Chicago, being a nerd, being written and drawn into the Marvel comics universe, Trump, the loss of his father, performing at The Second City MainStage in Chicago, auditioning for Saturday Night Live and not getting hired, getting a call from Tina Fey about a job on 30 Rock, dating, meeting his girlfriend, starting Moral Orel with Dino Stamatopoulos, voicing Baymax in Disney's Big Hero 6, humping Florence Henderson, working with Carrie Fisher, getting a "free" education at Columbia in Chicago thanks to Sheldon Patinkin, working with Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Steven Soderbergh, Will Ferrell, Christopher Guest, Billy Bob Thornton, Garry Handling, Warren Beatty, Bill Murray, Melissa McCarthy, Russell Brand and so much more!!! Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast

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 losing Kit to cancer. Michael was good enough to meet up with me in Brooklyn and talk about the book writing process and writing under such tragic circumstances, we also talk about his coming out to his family, dating since Kits passing, lots of television talk, how he started in writing, meeting celebrities and so much more!!! Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast Instagram @ejscott1106 My website www.ejscott.com Charities to donate to www.crowdrise.com/7on7 RUNNING BLIND Documentary available on iTunes, Google Play, Amazon

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 including comedy, improv, Chicago, doing ayahuasca and how that changed his life, growing up in Pennsylvania, dating, not wanting children, traveling around the world, the ups and downs of being a struggling actor and so much more!! Please Listen! Please Share! Please Enjoy! Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast Instagram @ejscott1106 My website www.ejscott.com Charities to donate to www.crowdrise.com/7on7 RUNNING BLIND Documentary available on iTunes, Google Play, Amazon

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 BLIND about my 12 marathons in 2012. Now he has a big movie coming to theaters April 21st called FINDING OSCAR. An important documentary about the massacres in Guatemala. We talk in depth about the making of that film as well as working on other projects. We also talk about improv, comedy, Chicago, getting married and having a family and how priorities shift with age and responsibility, working closely with Steven Spielberg, Frank Marshall, Eric Bana, Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise and much more!! Please Listen! Please Share! Please Enjoy! Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast Instagram @ejscott1106 My website www.ejscott.com Charities to donate to www.crowdrise.com/7on7 RUNNING BLIND Documentary available on iTunes, Google Play, Amazon 

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 Stranger Things, winning a SAG award, his role on Search Party on TBS, relationships and so much more!! Please Listen, Please Share, Please Enjoy!!! Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast Instagram @ejscott1106 My website www.ejscott.com Charities to donate to www.crowdrise.com/7on7 RUNNING BLIND documentary on Amazon, iTunes, Google Play

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 comedy, fundraising, having his own podcast and so much more!!! Please Listen, Please Share, Please Enjoy!!! Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast Instagram @ejscott1106 My website www.ejscott.com charities to donate to www.crowdrise.com/7on7 RUNNING BLIND Documentary available on iTunes, amazon, google play

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, , politics, being an immigrant from Argentina, his mothers Alzheimers and taking care of her, being a "cynical optimist", learning English from comics, writing and editing comics, living in New Jersey, closing down a company and laying off friends at Acclaim Comics formerly Valiant, his parents divorce, working at Marvel and leaving Marvel and so much more!!!! Please Listen, Please Share, Please Enjoy!!!  Twittert @ejscott @EJPodcast Instagram @ejscott1106 My website www.ejscott.com Charities to donate to  www.crowdrise.com/7on7 RUNNING BLIND documentary available on iTunes, amazon, google play 

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 family of doctors, politics, Trump, divorced parents, therapy, dating, trying to get a job in comedy, making a mockumentary film about politics and so much more!!! Please Listen, Please Share, Please Enjoy!!! Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast Instagram @ejscott1106 My website www.ejscott.com Charities to donate to www.crowdrise.com/7on7 RUNNING BLIND documentary available on iTunes, Google Play, Amazon 

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 talking about how they met, how they manage to stay together even though their jobs often separate them, trump, theater, tv/film, Garret losing a sibling to a drunk driving accident, Michelle talks about being a woman of color in the acting world, getting married in Italy and in City Hall in NYC, Daredevil, Blindspot, Ash vs Evil Dead, Deadwood, Raising Hope, The Mindy Project, Bruce Campbell, Ike Barinholtz and so much more!!!! Please Listen, Please Share, Please Enjoy!! Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast Instagram @ejscott1106 My website www.ejscott.com Charities to donate to www.crowdrise.com/7on7 RUNNING BLIND Documentary available on Amazon, iTunes, Google Play

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, winning the green card lottery to get into the United States, dating in Iceland and trying not to date a relative, recently splitting from her husband, being an illustrator, parents splitting as a kid, switching around her name, being vegan and so much more!!!Please Listen, Please Share, Please Enjoy!! Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast Instagram @ejscott1106 My website www.ejscott.com Charities to donate to www.crowdrise.com/7on7 RUNNING BLIND documentary available on iTunes, Google Play, Amazon

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 system, dating, growing up in New Jersey, ASMR videos, working on Master of None and Difficult People on Hulu, politics, petition he started to have Congress shit in Jason Chaffetz' mouth and so much more!!! Please Listen, Please Share, Please Enjoy!! Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast Instagram @ejscott1106 My website www.ejscott.com Charities to donate to www.crowdrise.com/7on7 RUNNING BLIND documentary available on iTunes, Google Play, Amazon

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, losing a parent, politics, Donald Trump and so much more!!! Please Listen, Please Share, Please Enjoy!! Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast Instagram @ejscott1106 My website www.ejscott.com RUNNING BLIND Documentary on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play Charities to donate to  www.crowdrise.com/7on7