Production house m ss ng p eces has brought L.A.-based comedy directing team Nick & Charles aboard its roster. The duo had previously been repped in the ad arena by Gifted Youth, the commercial arm of Funny Or Die.
Ari Kuschnir, founder of m ss ng p eces, said, “Nick & Charles are funny dudes with funny ideas. They came out of Funny or Die and Adult Swim where they wrote and directed really funny stuff all the time. They make spots and they get Internet humor. I really like them and they expand our comedy offering which is super exciting.”
Nick & Charles’ combined writing, VFX, and directing skills drew the attention of Funny Or Die where under the mentorship of comedy Adam McKay and Will Ferrell, they honed their craft, successfully delivering dozens of hit videos and pieces of branded content. As former staff writer/directors at Funny or Die, Nick & Charles helmed many of the site’s most popular projects over the last few years including the notable sketch “Don Cheadle as Captain Planet” and the viral “HUVR Tech” hover-board prank, both of which garnered tens of millions of views.
Nick & Charles have worked with such actors as Jim Carrey, John Goodman, Marion Cotillard, Gerard Butler and Charlize Theron, just to name a few. Since leaving Funny Or Die, they’ve directed projects for Comedy Central, ABC, Adult Swim, and IFC. Nick & Charles’ recent Adult Swim special “Lords of Synth” made waves online and underscores their thinking-outside-the-box approach to storytelling.
Carrie Coon Relishes Being Part Of An Ensemble–From “The Gilded Age” To “His Three Daughters”
It can be hard to catch Carrie Coon on her own.
She is far more likely to be found in the thick of an ensemble. That could be on TV, in "The Gilded Age," for which she was just Emmy nominated, or in the upcoming season of "The White Lotus," which she recently shot in Thailand. Or it could be in films, most relevantly, Azazel Jacobs' new drama, "His Three Daughters," in which Coon stars alongside Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen as sisters caring for their dying father.
But on a recent, bright late-summer morning, Coon is sitting on a bench in the bucolic northeast Westchester town of Pound Ridge. A few years back, she and her husband, the playwright Tracy Letts, moved near here with their two young children, drawn by the long rows of stone walls and a particularly good BLT from a nearby cafe that Letts, after biting into, declared must be within 15 miles of where they lived.
In a few days, they would both fly to Los Angeles for the Emmys (Letts was nominated for his performance in "Winning Time" ). But Coon, 43, was then largely enmeshed in the day-to-day life of raising a family, along with their nightly movie viewings, which Letts pulls from his extensive DVD collection. The previous night's choice: "Once Around," with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus.
Coon met Letts during her breakthrough performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" on Broadway in 2012. She played the heavy-drinking housewife Honey. It was the first role that Coon read and knew, viscerally, she had to play. Immediately after saying this, Coon sighs.
"It sounds like something some diva would say in a movie from the '50s," Coon says. "I just walked around in my apartment in my slip and I had pearls and a little brandy. I made a grocery list and I just did... Read More