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Keith Crofford has served as Lazzo's co-executive producer since 1994. Since 2006, Lazzo appeared in Seth Green 's Robot Chicken nine times, in which he voiced a parody of himself from 2006 to 2007, and later Clark Duke voicing Lazzo from 2008 to 2018. On December 16, 2019, Lazzo retired from the company. [8] .
May 18, 2020. Mike Lazzo, the Atlanta TV executive who came up with the concept of Adult Swim nearly 20 years ago, left WarnerMedia earlier this year. Recently, WarnerMedia announced his...
- An Unlikely Origin
- Finding Adult Swim
- The Meeting
- Creating Robot Chicken
- Stop Motion 101
- How Robot Chicken Became Robot Chicken
- The Star Wars Episode
- How The Robot Chicken Sausage Gets Made
- A Special Writers’ Room
- Looking Back (and Forward) from Season 10
Seth Green (co-creator): Matt and I became friends when he was the editorial director for Wizard Entertainment, which was the premier authority on all things genre before any of that became vogue, back when loving toys and comics was relegated to conventions and basement conversations. Matt Senreich (co-creator): I had read in Entertainment Weekly ...
Robot Chicken did eventually find its place in the TV landscape, but it wasn’t an easy process. It took years of pitching as Seth and Matt realized the full potential of stop-motion sketches. Seth Green:We really thought we had something, even though we weren’t sure what it was or what the outlet could be. So Matt and I spent the next four years sh...
In the entire history of Robot Chicken, there’s only one moment that’s disputed: The first meeting between the show’s creators and Adult Swim. Maybe Matt and Seth are trolling. Maybe Adult Swim’s executives just refuse to admit how “spartan” their first office really was. Here’s both sides of that meeting so you can decide for yourself. Matt Senrei...
Getting a contract was the easy part. Now, Matt, Seth, and the rest of the team had to turn 45 minutes of stop motion into a full season (and, eventually, 10 seasons). As you’ll see, the first season of Robot Chicken was a learning process, to say the least. Matt Senreich: All of a sudden we were writing. There was no pause. It was myself and Seth ...
The biggest struggle was mastering stop motion and figuring out how to turn regular old toys into usable puppets. At first, the guys just went through a lot of action figures. Seth Green: At the early onset we just animated toys, and the difficulty is that toys are not meant to withstand the rigors of animation. Matt Senreich: They lost their posab...
Even coming up with a name for the show proved to be difficult. And when they finally landed on one that the network actually liked, it was completely by chance. Matt Senreich: When we started writing the first season, they wanted a name. We were like four or five episodes into the show and we didn’t have a name or a title sequence. We kept submitt...
By Season 2, the Robot Chicken team was feeling a lot more comfortable, but something was about to happen that would change the course of the show forever. Seth Green: We love Star Wars, and it’s obviously ripe for parody. By the second season we had done two different sketches. One was about some silly interpretations of spoilers. The other was wh...
Here’s how the Robot Chicken team creates each sketch, episode, and season. Matt Senreich:It starts with the writing. Once the writing happens, it gets put to storyboards and voices at the same time. Then that goes to the editing room where we build what’s called the animatic, which is the voices laid down. So you basically see the whole episode be...
What started as a handful of guys eating Chinese food and cracking Star Wars jokes has expanded into a full-staffed writers’ room with a rotating team. In addition to the original crew, Robot Chicken regularly brings in fresh faces, many of who go on to great things of their own. Seth Green: We consistently bring in younger and newer writers. The b...
Finally, as the Season 10 premiere looms, the creators, cast, and executives behind Robot Chickenreflect on how they got here, what comes next, and how it feels to play with action figures professionally for 15 years straight. Seth Green: I never expected to get here. This was something that Matt and I were making for ourselves that we were conside...
- Jake Kleinman
Mike Lazzo and Keith Crofford oversaw operations for the building for most of its existence. On December 16, 2019, co-founder Lazzo retired from the company, [2] with business partner and co-founder Crofford retiring the following year. [3] . Michael Ouweleen was named president of Adult Swim on April 29, 2020. [4]
Jan 9, 2020 · Both senior vice president Keith Crofford and senior vice president and director of programming Jason DeMarco remain with Adult Swim. Lazzo has been instrumental to the development of Cartoon Network since its inception.
Retrieved 2020-04-05. Coast To Coast was created by Mike Lazzo, a Cartoon Network producer who would go on—with Keith Crofford—to found Williams Street, the in-house production company responsible for most of Adult Swim's original programming. ^ a b P., Ken (2004-10-25).
Jul 8, 2003 · That got us approval, so at that point I hired Keith [Crofford], who I knew as a line producer here in town. And Keith knew Matt [Harrigan] – although, ironically, Matt and I had worked...
