《广告狂人》结局中的嬉皮士主演了这部16分钟的关于猫的单人音乐剧

我敢肯定，在我最喜欢的电视剧和电影中，有几十个角色演员一次又一次地出现，我从来没有注意到。但我总能看到布莱特·盖尔曼客串的样子。这位演员兼喜剧演员曾出演过几部成人游泳节目、一部哈罗德和库马尔的电影、《刚下船》、《克罗尔秀》和许多情景喜剧。他的表情并不是特别独特，但那张脸却深深烙进了我的脑海，因为他长达17分钟的关于猫的单人音乐剧。...

我敢肯定，在我最喜欢的电视剧和电影中，有几十个角色演员一次又一次地出现，我从来没有注意到。但我总能看到布莱特·盖尔曼客串的样子。这位演员兼喜剧演员曾出演过几部**游泳节目、一部哈罗德和库马尔的电影、《刚下船》、《克罗尔秀》和许多情景喜剧。他的表情并不是特别独特，但那张脸却深深烙进了我的脑海，因为他长达17分钟的关于猫的单人音乐剧。

盖尔曼最初写这部音乐剧是作为一个半小时的喜剧节目，但我第一次看到的HBO的短命滑稽或死亡的例行程序。这部音乐剧，正如标题所说，是关于1000只猫的故事。事实上，它包含了1000个故事，它们分布在9000个生命中。

Gelman在接受Splitsider采访时谈到了“1000只猫”的起源：

Gelman: Yeah, I'd been doing that as a live show at UCB for like eight years. Right out of college in '99, I started writing it, and then I started doing it. Jason [Woliner] came and saw it, and he was like, "I love this." And then, a couple years later, Funny Or Die asked Jason what he wanted to do for their HBO show, and Jason said, "This is one of the things I want to do." Originally, the show was a half-hour. Andrew Steele at Funny Or Die was the first person who came and saw it and gave it the green light and told Adam McKay and then Adam saw it and gave it the final green light. To give Andrew Steele credit, he's like, "Well, we've gotta cut it down to 12 minutes." And then, we made it 17 minutes, and he was like, "I love it. Don't cut this down at all."

This special and that are the only things that I've been the lead of on TV. It's cool that it's both with Jason. There's similarities to them. They blur the lines between funny and drama in a lot of ways. It's just like committing without irony to the reality of it, even though the reality is completely ridiculous. Both characters are very insane psychotic people. They both have a lot of problems.

Splitsider: What did you have to cut out of the half-hour version of "1000 Cats"?

Gelman: You know, I think the version on HBO is better than the live version. If I ever did it again live and wanted to make it longer, I would probably rewrite parts that we ended up cutting out. It also was better because we performed it at The Orpheum in front of a bunch of people who were wearing tuxedos and had been told not to laugh. Jason got on stage and was like, "Everyone, what you're about to see, this is not funny. It's a very important event." I don't think they would have thought it was funny anyway. They were just like, "What the **** is this?"

一定要阅读Splitsider的完整访谈，然后在网站上四处转转。这个地方有一堆你可能从未听说过的喜剧演员的优秀作品，其中一些经常出现在你最喜欢的电视节目的外围。