Allison Jones: Nerd Hunter


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Jones began her career with the two-beats-and-a-punch-line sitcoms of the nineteen-eighties, but, in working with Feig and the director Judd Apatow, she was required to try something revolutionary: find comedic actors who, more than just delivering jokes, could improvise and riff on their lines, creating something altogether different from what was on the page.

Iโ€™ve seen Allison Jonesโ€™ name in the credits of so many of my favorite shows for years. This bio rounds out the picture a little bit for me on who this incredible person is.

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