One of the wonderful things about Portlandia - and I'm not just blowing smoke, although I can blow smoke, but I'm not - is that there is an expansive feeling to each segment. It's not reductive. It doesn't seem like sketch comedy.
I watched American TV shows: Starsky & Hutch, Dallas, Rockford Files, Bonanza. And for many summers growing up, I worked on my aunt and uncle's farm … - Scott Raab
I watched American TV shows: Starsky & Hutch, Dallas, Rockford Files, Bonanza. And for many summers growing up, I worked on my aunt and uncle's farm …
- Scott Raab
My mother never criticized any idea I had. She thought anybody could have anything. Even if I was in a poor family that worked at Ford Motor Company … - Scott Raab
My mother never criticized any idea I had. She thought anybody could have anything. Even if I was in a poor family that worked at Ford Motor Company …
As a viewer I came of age during a time when cast members were prone to fistfights. So I may be carrying a little of that kind of image in my head. - Scott Raab
As a viewer I came of age during a time when cast members were prone to fistfights. So I may be carrying a little of that kind of image in my head.
Actors are the neediest people you're ever going to meet. And their relationship to real life, tenuous though it is because of all the wranglers, the… - Scott Raab
Actors are the neediest people you're ever going to meet. And their relationship to real life, tenuous though it is because of all the wranglers, the…
When you do something bad and you know you can do it, only you know you can do it. And do it while it's hot, man. - Scott Raab
When you do something bad and you know you can do it, only you know you can do it. And do it while it's hot, man.
For each show, we do maybe 15 versions before it goes on air. So I know every show microscopically. - Scott Raab
For each show, we do maybe 15 versions before it goes on air. So I know every show microscopically.
My dad is a little Scottish guy with tattoos all over his arms. - Scott Raab
My dad is a little Scottish guy with tattoos all over his arms.
When we went to war at the Falklands, Buck Kernan had to shake each man's hand as we boarded a boat for war. - Scott Raab
When we went to war at the Falklands, Buck Kernan had to shake each man's hand as we boarded a boat for war.
The Clash, in particular, transcends any category. - Scott Raab
The Clash, in particular, transcends any category.
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