THE TV COMEDY CABAL

If you are a comedy nerd who still mourns Arrested Development, who watches every live-action show on Adult Swim, and who’s addicted to comedy podcasts like Comedy Bang Bang, there’s a cabal of performers you can’t escape. (Not that you would want to. There’s a reason they keep getting the work.) Many of them have a shared background in the Groundlings or at the Upright Citizens Brigade theaters in New York and Los Angeles. Many of them also pop up in ensemble comedies like My Idiot Brother and I Love You, Man. It’s a group whose members’ reliable good taste means that, when you see them guesting on sitcoms, it assures you that you’re consuming the right shows. And now, a mathematical investigation into who among this group of actors makes the most sitcom appearances — as well as which sitcoms employ the most of them — has refined a mess of data into a snapshot of the truly most valuable actors AND the most unmissable TV comedies…..(READ THE REST)

via GRANTLAND by Tara Ariano and David T. Cole