A little over a week ago, I got to visit the set of one of the best shows on television: NBC’s Community. As I said yesterday when I posted a bunch of behind the scenes photos from the set, I learned a lot about the upcoming third season and it all sounds great. Since I know most of you don’t want to be spoiled, I’ll just leave you with a hint of what’s to come. While last season was about Pierce (Chevy Chase) being the antagonist of the group, the third season is about outside antagonists…

While on set, I got to participate in group interviews with the cast. While I debated which one to post first, I decided to go with the one that had the least spoilers: Joel McHale (Jeff) and Alison Brie (Annie). During the interview they talked about the way the show is put together, the amount of Emmy’s the show has gotten, what’s in store for the third season, if there will be paintball, the additions of Michael K. Williams and John Goodman and how their characters impact the show, McHale talks about taping The Soup during Community and Brie talks briefly about Mad Men, and a lot more. Hit the jump to watch.

community_nbc_tv_show_wallapper_01Remember, Community returns on September 22nd at 8/7c and the second season hits DVD tomorrow. If you’re not yet watching, do yourself a favor and pick up the DVDs. You’ll love them.

Joel McHale and Alison Brie Time Index

* :25 Talk about their process in getting the jokes just right in each scene.
* 1:59 How relatable do they think the show is during the current economic situation in our country?
* 3:29 Talk about the picture from set that featured the banner “Congratulations Community 0 Emmy Nominations” the day after the nominations were announced.
* 4:31 What do they think the Academy is missing or what don’t they get about the show?
* 6:27 McHale talks about juggling so many different jobs at the same time and if Ryan Seacrest is taking a hit out on him.
* 7:45 McHale talks about taping The Soup during Community and Brie talks briefly about Mad Men.
* 8:57 Has showrunner Dan Harmon talked about what goals he has for the new season? Brie says they’re trying to move away from doing as many big conceptual episodes as last season.
* 10:00 Talk about the addition of Michael K. Williams and John Goodman and how their characters impact the show.
* 11:41 Will there be paintball this season?
* 12:19 How different is the working environment compared to working on Mad Men or The Soup? {Collider.com}

Woot! Season 2 of Community comes out on DVD September 13th, while Season 3 premieres September 22nd. Here is a sneek peak at Season 3, and a Remix of Season 2!

I have added an exclusive new scan of Alison in the September 09, 2011 issue of Entertainment Weekly, where she poses with Joel Mchale. The photo looks like it was taken at Comic Con 2010.

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Magazine Scans > 2011 > Entertainment Weekly – September 09, 2011

You can vote for Alison in the Entertainment Weekly Awards, where actors who were snubbed from the Emmy’s are nominated. Vote for Alison as Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy on the EW facebook page.

Chris Colfer and Brad Falchuk (“Glee”); Jon Cryer (Brighton Beach Memoirs); Mitzi Gaynor (“South Pacific,” “Anything Goes”); Paul Reubens (The Pee-wee Herman Show); and costume designer Bob Mackie are among the list of presenters for the upcoming 2011 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, according to Deadline.com.

The awards show will be held Sept. 10 at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles and will air Sept. 17 at 8 PM ET on ReelzChannel.

The Primetime Creative Arts Emmys are largely dedicated to key technical disciplines and behind-the-scenes crafts essential to television production such as art direction, cinematography, hairstyling, makeup, music, picture editing, sound editing and mixing, special visual effects, stunts and more. Awards will be presented by pairings of showrunners with talent from the shows they produce.

Other presenters include Chuck Lorre (“Two and a Half Men”); Connie Britton and Jason Katims (“Friday Night Lights”); Alison Brie and Dan Harmon (“Community”); Phil Keoghan and Bertram Van Munster (“The Amazing Race”); Noah Wyle and Robert Rodat (“Falling Skies”); Nick Tweed Simmons and Gene Simmons (“Gene Simmons: Family Jewels”); Kiernan Shipka and Matthew Weiner (“Mad Men”); Rebecca Romijn and Paul Scheer (“NTSF:SD:SUV”); Priscilla Presley and Steve Binder (“Elvis’ ’68 Comeback Special”); H. Jon Benjamin and Adam Reed (“Archer”); and Jeff Probst and Mark Burnett (“Survivor”). {playbill.com}

I have added an exclusive new scan of Alison in the Fall 2011 issue of Los Angeles Confidential! She has done a gorgeous new shoot and interview. Bigger copy soon! EDIT: Replaced with High Quality!

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Magazine Scans > 2011 > L.A. Confidential – Fall 2011

Alison’s also just tweeted about a recent shoot with Rolling Stone on the beach, so hopefully we’ll get to see that soon too !

I replaced and added even more photos in HQ of Alison at the “NBC Universal Press Tour All Star Party” on August 1. She looks awesome !

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Appearances > 2011 > NBC Universal Press Tour All Star Party – August 1

…Brie was wearing a leggy white skirt and black heels for the NBC party, with her hair done up all cute. Even with costars like Chevy Chase coming over to give her a kiss, she gave me her complete attention.

Q: I get such a happy feeling when I watch you on Community because I feel like you are just going all out to make us happy, whether it’s playing Annie as her nervous self or sexing it up as the gunfighting paintballer.

Alison Brie: Thank you for saying that. I think Annie as a character is someone who throws herself into whatever she’s doing and that’s why she’s fun to play. I guess I am that way as well, so whatever they throw at me on the show, I really want to do it 100% and go all the way. That’s kind of what’s great about our show, that we’re not locked into one thing and our character doesn’t stay the same all the time. You get these different outlets to play a sexier version of the character or a more neurotic version of the character.

Q: Well, original Annie is no less sexy.

AB: [Laugh] Thank you. Well, good. It’s just a lot of fun. I find it more fun to go all out with it so I’m glad that you enjoy watching that as well.

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Q: What do you get to do in season three?

AB: Well, we just started so it’s early on. I think we’re going to see a little bit more of the badass side of Annie. We might get some darker sides of her, some bits of her drug-addled past and how that is affecting her still. She may have some darker Adderall moments maybe surface.

Q: Is this all in the first episode?

AB: No, no, it’s not. I’m giving you secrets. I’m giving you scoop. There’s some good stuff for shippers, shippers of any kind. We’re two episodes in and I already feel like Annie’s having moments with a number of characters. So that’s good.

Q: Do you feel like you get two characters since they named the monkey Annie’s Boobs?

AB: No, I don’t take any ownership in Annie’s Boobs. She is her own character. She’s an amazing actor.

Q: What do the throngs of adoring male fans do for your ego?

AB: [Laughs] They’re great. They make me feel awesome. I love them. I will never begrudge loving fans.

Q: Do you get it a lot more constantly now that you’re on Twitter?

AB: Twitter is great because it is a direct throughline to fans. I would assume it’s what it would be like when people would get fan mail. It’s sort of like instant fan mail, or weird creepy things. You never know what you’re going to get.

Q: Was there a weird creepy one that’s funny enough to repeat?

AB: I mean, requests for like my underwear are always interesting.

Q: Who thinks they’re actually going to get a pair?

AB: I don’t know! More often I think that they think that I probably just don’t read it. What I would say to those people is I read almost all of people’s responses. I just don’t have time to respond to them usually.

Q: How many @mentions do you get a day?

AB: It depends. If there’s something of note that day like a GQ spread is issued, it might be hundreds. If I haven’t tweeted in a while, it might be 15. You never know.

Q: Your tweets are very provocative. Do you come up with them off the cuff or are they well planned?

AB: Usually they come right off the top of my head but then I will sit and agonize over grammar, because there’s nothing worse than a grammatical error in a tweet. You will never hear the end of it. {screenjunkies.com}

Alison will be on Ustream LIVE this Sunday July 24th, from 3-4 p PST. Thanks to Akio for the heads up !