Dan Harmon is a seasoned writer for film and television. He is the creator and executive producer of NBC’s COMMUNITY, co-creator of Adult Swim’s animated series, RICK AND MORTY, and co-creator of Comedy Central’s THE SARAH SILVERMAN PROGRAM. Harmon co-wrote the Academy Award nominated film, MONSTER HOUSE and the now famously failed television comedy pilot, HEAT VISION AND JACK, with writing partner Rob Schrab. He and Schrab founded Channel 101, a website celebrating innovative new web series. Dan also performs a weekly live show and recorded podcast, called HARMONTOWN, with special guests at Meltdown Comics in Hollywood. Starburns Industries recently premiered the movie at the South By South West Film Festival.
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Dan Harmon, Scott Adsit to headline the Chicago Improv Fest | Chicago Tribune | March 9, 2017
Dan Harmon and Scott Adsit will headline the 20th annual Chicago Improv Festival, coming up March 27 to April 2.
Harmon, creator of the TV show “Community,” will perform a live version of his podcast “Harmontown” April 1. Adsit, a Northbrook native and Second City-alum known for playing Pete Hornberger on “30 Rock,” will be receiving a Spotlight Award at the festival and performing in two shows: Susan Messing’s “Messing with a Friend” with Kevin Dorff on March 30 and with Mama’s Boy, featuring Nancy Hayden and Jaime Moyer, on March 31.
Other headlining shows include: former SNL writer Katie Rich and Holly Laurent; Sheldon featuring Rob Belushi and Jon Barinholtz; Antoine McKay and Friends; Frangela with Frances Callier and Angela Shelton; Slotnick, Katz and Lehr featuring Joey Slotnick, Lauren Katz and John Lehr; and Two More featuring Kevin Dorff and TJ Jagodowski.
This year’s festival features more than 145 improv groups. Shows will be held at Stage 773, the Athenaeum Theatre, The Annoyance Theatre and Second City’s e.t.c. Theater. For the full lineup and tickets, visit chicagoimprovfestival.
Dan Harmon provides update on Rick and Morty’s third season | Polygon | Jan 25, 2017
Before giving the 15-tweet long update, Harmon spoke to Indiewire at Sundanceabout his career. When asked about the show, Harmon admitted that the series was late because he and co-creator Justin Roiland couldn’t agree on where they wanted to go with the season.
“If Justin were here, he’d agree,” Harmon said. “He and I would go, ‘Yeah, we fucked up,’ and it’s hard to put your finger on how we fucked up. Rick and Morty keeps taking longer and longer to write, and I don’t know why.
“We have fights all the time and then we have fights about why we’re having fights.”
Harmon’s remarks led to reports that it was because of in-house fighting that Rick and Morty’s third season kept getting delayed. Harmon took to Twitter today to clarify his comments. He added they don’t want to provide any specifics on episodes in the pipeline because of two reasons: fear their writers or artists would be harassed, and scheduling effectively comes down to Adult Swim executives.
Harmon also clarified that he and Roiland never fought, instead suggesting perhaps that was the problem.
“We respect and terrify each other and always want the other to be happy,” Harmon wrote.
The creator ended his Twitter thread by reminding fans that constantly asking when the third season would arrive wouldn’t accomplish anything other than making them seem “15 and dumb.”
File this one under “comedy??”
First off, none of this is safe for work in any way—if you scroll down, you will be reading some language. Second off, if you worship Dan Harmon, creator of Community and Rick and Morty, you might want to stop here, because even your fellow Harmon-worshippersthink it makes him look really small.
The story here is that Harmon was on a plane yesterday, possibly drunk, and someone insulted him on Twitter. This happens to famous people all the time. It even happens to non-famous people all the time. Twitter is essentially a cauldron of self-promotion, links, and insults, and there is no escape. Dan Harmon has surely been insulted on Twitter before—it’s part of the shitty bargain. This time, though, something snapped, and he caved to a dark desire to “inflict genuine pain.”
Unfortunately, his nemesis has protected all his/her tweets, so we can’t see the original spark, but Harmon’s responses tell us plenty all by themselves.
(UPDATE: From the comments, here’s the unforgivable, incendiary tweet that set Harmon off: “Uhhh ok? I guess you’re drunker than expected. That’s ok. But this isn’t that great of an idea?”)
It goes on from there, and you can revisit the whole debacle at Harmon’s Twitter feed. The interesting thing here is that his victim’s Twitter handle was “Bird Person,” which is a Rick and Morty character, so he’s at least nominally a Harmon fan.
The gist of Harmon’s insults, as you see above (and which went on interminably), is that because he’s famous, the hatred he piles on this Twitter user will be the most attention said Twitter user ever gets—i.e. the highlight of his life. This, of course, is based on the fundamentally Hollywood-American belief that a human being’s value derives chiefly from whatever fame he’s able to muster in this life. That seems to the milieu Harmon is most comfortable inhabiting…for better or worse. (Hint: Worse.)
There are also a few self-aggrandizing threats.
And so on. Late last night, now sober, he took stock.
So…what the hell just happened? Obviously we witnessed an incredible explosion of insecurity, narcissism, and anger from a man who is both creatively talented and insanely thin-skinned. More than anything, my takeaway is that Dan Harmon is deeply unhappy. I love a good trolling, but this flew beyond that category within like, three tweets. Hopefully this is a passing moment of counterproductive chest-thumping for Harmon, and not the start of an emotional breakdown that ends with him smashing into walls in an asylum.