![]() ![]() ![]() There was also a desire to set the show somewhere very cold and main street kind of opens up right onto the base of Lake Superior, and it's so vast and just the town sits against such an intense but also serene backdrop that it felt kind of thematically correct for the character and the show. So, it translated, but it allowed me to get excited about researching a new place. some overlapping historical and cultural stuff with Buffalo. The fact that I try to use local details makes it feel real for everybody and not just people where the show is set. ![]() There’s different feels to where you go to breakfast in different places, but that Saturday morning ritual, routine, I think, is pretty general. But I think anyone can relate to a lot of the stuff, like the breakfast episode. I grew up in Buffalo, so I feel like those are the details I know best, from my own experience. The more specific the better, I think, with comedy and writing. I hope the humor translates, but I don’t know. Pittsburgh’s a little out of the way from New York.ĭo you think you have a particular resonance in the Rust Belt and Midwest that you might not have in other parts of the country? I was super excited that it’s finally happening, so I can see Nick and Ed. I’ve never been to Pittsburgh, honest, but my friends Ed and Nick are there and I’ve been trying to make this show work for a while. I love performing in Chicago and Milwaukee because we shoot the show there and got a bunch of friends and it just kind of, I don't know, it's a nice place to be in the springtime. Presumably, you could tour anywhere in the United States. This interview has been edited and condensed for space and clarity. Instead, Casey James Solango will appear with Pera in Pittsburgh. Something about his earnest, unassuming presence, mild people-pleasing tendencies, and attention to the mundane details of the material world give him what I see as a distinctly Midwest/Rust Belt-inflected masculinity, although Pera was hesitant to locate himself within my regional generalizations.Īlthough Pera has been touring with Carmen Christopher, Christopher recently left the tour to pursue an exciting opportunity. Still holding his chunk of iron, he shows them the house without telling them he hasn’t put it up for sale. He decides the right thing to do is to honor the sign. In the series’ premiere, Joe Pera is in his living room in the middle of giving us a presentation on the regional significance of iron when a family of five arrives to tour his home, which mistakenly has a "For Sale" sign on the lawn. Pera’s research interests are central to the show, offering information on all manner of things, from Canadian rat control to beans and, more recently, chairs. "Įach 11-minute episode, with titles like “Joe Pera Talks You Back to Sleep,” “Joe Pera Waits With You,” and “Joe Pera Reads You the Church Announcements” (which is an absolutely precious piece about him hearing “Baba O’Riley” by The Who for the first time), begins with a direct address from Pera’s ponderous, sweet, and reverent small-town music teacher and often involves some aspect of the character’s deep knowledge of his hometown and nature. ![]() There’s something so funny - it’s just stating a fact. "There’s a joke Dan wrote that unlocks a lot of the humor: 'You know what I like most about barbecue? The smoky flavor.' It’s just literally that. "I like the directness of it," Pera tells the Los Angeles Times. Pera’s humor and the humor of the show, which he has repeatedly referred to as being “community-made,” is quite unlike anything else on stage or screen right now. His character is referred to in the newest season as “a person of integrity who likes to describe things,” which aptly gets at the show’s presentational tone. In the show, Pera plays a fictionalized version of himself, as a “soft-handed choir teacher who is just in awe of Michigan’s geological splendor” in Marquette, a university town in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Season 3 recently aired on Adult Swim and is available through various subscription streaming services. Photo: Joe Pera Pittsburgh City Paper called up comedian, writer, and actor Joe Pera, whose Spring in the Midwest and Rust Belt tour stops in Pittsburgh on Tue., May 10 at the Carnegie Library of Homestead, to discuss playing this region, doing your research, and what’s so funny about bodybuilders.Īlthough Pera has been doing stand-up since college, at the moment he’s perhaps best known for his TV show, Joe Pera Talks With You. ![]()
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