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Colin is an energy vampire, who feeds by sapping peoples energy with long rants and bad jokes.
How would Colin Robinson be handling social distancing right now?He would be protesting the shutdowns.
Thats definitely an area that he would gravitate toward: anything that annoys other people.
Also, he would definitely be going to stores without wearing a mask, coughing near people.
Everything that assholes are doing now.
Living in L.A., youre going to meet a lot of people that get on your nerves.
For a lot of these rants, I just have to tap into my own knowledge base.
Usually those things get cut out.
How do you negotiate that?Its an interesting balance.
Colin is an arrogant moron.
Hes the person that you get stuck talking to at the DMV.
But hes relatively harmless to people he likes.
That familiarity has bred some love.
Im showing that Colin isnt just this murderous maniac that wants to kill everyone in his path.
He needs people to stay alive to keep feeding on them.
Was any of that improvised?That was one of the more choreographed things Ive done on the show.
That was Jemaine and our cinematographer D.J.
I think what we did seven or eight takes was the most Ive done on the show.
What I said was improvised, but every beat of that shot was methodically planned out.
Colin Robinson is definitely the most mysterious character of the four main vampires.
Its kind of fun to make it up as youre going.
I know youre not supposed to say that on a TV show when there are millions of dollars involved.
Jemaine knows this world forward and backward, and he definitely is the arbiter for the rules.
But there really isnt an entire backlog of energy vampire stories that go back hundreds of years.
So we kind of make it up as we go along.
Like he was a music manager in the 70s for rock bands.
But overall, I would say its a blank slate.
When we do theOscar Special, its my favorite night of the year.
As long as Im in character, I dont feel vulnerable.
Its also the closest thing we have to amateur television thats on every single day.
Theres that familiarity that is interesting to me.
Playing around in that local-news world is really fun.
Thats what makes us all laugh.
The real world is infinitely funnier than anything that anyone could script.
Jason Woliner actually had him join our Zoom watch party.
Ive never seen so many cynical asshole comedians with bigger smiles on their faces.
Theres another person that you should look up:Gail Chord Schuler.
Just do a deep dive into her world.
That interests me more than sitting down and watching most shows.
