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"Well, this should be a bit fun! Community is in Comic-Con&amp;#039;s legendary Hall H this year for a celebration of its fandom - which sounds very nice, doesn&amp;#039;t it? We&amp;#039;re expecting a bunch of the stars plus execs Dan Harmon and Chris McKenna, so join us back here at 1.50pm PT / 4.50pm ET / 9.50pm BST to find out what&amp;#039;s going on...  15:00That&amp;#039;s a wrap for this panel, then - who else is looking forward to the new season of Community? 14:59Danny says he wants to discover that Jamie Lee Curtis is Abed&amp;#039;s mom! &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m just excited to be surprised - I like not knowing what we&amp;#039;re doing.&amp;quot; Ken and Alison are goofing around next to him as he speaks, to the extent that now Ken is sucking Alison&amp;#039;s finger. Danny keeps speaking, until Alison goes and gives him a wet willy in his ear! 14:57Ken says he&amp;#039;ll do whatever Dan wants him to do (&amp;quot;Boring,&amp;quot; Alison jokes.) Oh, and he shouts out to Joel - they tried to rearrange his schedule, but he just could not get off work. Alison says Joel texted her asking if they could move Comic-Con to New York! They also shout out to Donald Glover, who&amp;#039;s also unavailable. 14:56Alison wants to see Annie be &amp;quot;empowered&amp;quot; in some way - she&amp;#039;s always been ambitious and gung-ho but she got &amp;quot;real interested in boys&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;I feel like she&amp;#039;s had an interesting journey - I&amp;#039;d love to see her find that ambition again and go with it,&amp;quot; she says. 14:56What new thing do the stars want to see their characters do this season? Jim says his &amp;quot;first passion is cagefighting&amp;quot; - eek! He says he likes the way the Dean is always surprising - he wants to see him shift into a new fascination. Yvette wants to meet Shirley&amp;#039;s sister - it&amp;#039;s not a good relationship and she&amp;#039;d like to see that on screen. &amp;quot;Sherri Shepherd is probably available,&amp;quot; she jokes. 14:54Apparently friends of the peeing guy are in the audience - and say he hasn&amp;#039;t washed his hands since the encounter. &amp;quot;Please tell him to wash his hands,&amp;quot; Danny says. 14:53Danny says a gentleman was peeing next to him in a public restroom, looked over and went: &amp;quot;Whoa!&amp;quot; The guy then said: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m a huge Community fan&amp;quot; and offered his hand to shake - while they were both peeing. &amp;quot;He was like, &amp;#039;It&amp;#039;s cool, I haven&amp;#039;t touched my penis yet&amp;#039;,&amp;quot; he jokes. 14:52The next fan gets cheers for vowing to fund the Community movie Kickstarter! Anyway, his question - are the cast looking forward to being recognised as different characters in the future? Gillian says she&amp;#039;s just honoured to be part of a show people know and love. She says she doesn&amp;#039;t think she&amp;#039;ll ever again be part of a show that has such devoted fans: &amp;quot;You can call me Britta all you want.&amp;quot; 14:50What was the panel&amp;#039;s favourite set from the show? Dan loves the hallways because the bulletin boards are covered in things that give them ideas. Danny brings up the pillow fort! 14:48On to Chang, now - Dan says he&amp;#039;s been all over the map (&amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s the Gollum in our Middle-earth.&amp;quot;) He says Ken is &amp;quot;out of his mind&amp;quot; on camera, but admits that it&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;hit and miss&amp;quot; with Chang. He adds that he loved him as a security guard. &amp;quot;Obviously he&amp;#039;s going to be back and he&amp;#039;s going to be Chang-ing it up,&amp;quot; he says. 14:46Dan publicly stated that he didn&amp;#039;t agree with some of the season four choices. &amp;quot;I believe I said exactly that, yes,&amp;quot; Dan agrees. Will he undo any of those choices now? Dan says it&amp;#039;s not necessary - and wouldn&amp;#039;t be charismatic. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m going to keep following the trajectory,&amp;quot; he continues. Dan also clarifies that he was talking about his own experience of watching the show on his own podcast - he&amp;#039;s making Community to adjust for the &amp;quot;despicable person&amp;quot; he is! &amp;quot;I really want to make this good show for good people, so I apologise to you guys if I hurt any of your feelings when I said that stuff,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;A fan of Community does not have to be a fan of Dan Harmon - I am a creepy jerk.&amp;quot; 14:45The next fan wants to know how the panel cope with the misfortune that&amp;#039;s plagued Community! &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not making this up - the harder it gets the funnier the show gets,&amp;quot; Dan suggests. &amp;quot;I get really excited about it because the stories in the show get to resonate with the stories about the show.&amp;quot; 14:42Chris&amp;#039;s favourite moment on the show was being a fan - and then getting a chance to work on it! Isn&amp;#039;t everyone feeling fuzzy? But his favourite episode creatively is &amp;#039;Dungeons &amp;amp; Dragons&amp;#039;. And Dan suggests that they&amp;#039;re going to do a D&amp;amp;D 2 episode! 14:41Dan says he&amp;#039;s excited about having Chris McKenna on the show again as well. &amp;quot;Go back to season one and you can mark the spot with a Sharpie when Chris starts working and everything explodes creatively,&amp;quot; he says. Isn&amp;#039;t that sweet? 14:41Any favourite moments from season four? There are gasps from the crowd when Chris Hardwick asks? &amp;quot;I saw you guys on Instagram,&amp;quot; Dan says, deadpan. &amp;quot;Looked like you were having a pretty good time.&amp;quot; 14:40What&amp;#039;s the panel&amp;#039;s proudest moment from the show? Yvette likes Law &amp;amp; Order and the puppets. Jim still loves &amp;#039;Remedial Chaos Theory&amp;#039; because it&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;wonderfully written&amp;quot;. Danny liked the conversation with Joel in &amp;#039;Critical Film Studies&amp;#039; - and gets applause for the answer. Alison likes the conversation she had with Donald in the &amp;#039;Troy&amp;#039;s Birthday&amp;#039; episode. &amp;quot;I remember thinking, &amp;#039;This is deep for a comedy on a network television show&amp;#039;,&amp;quot; she says. Ken has to go for &amp;#039;Modern Warfare&amp;#039;. 14:38Dan wants to know if Star-Burns is alive and coming back. As Dino points out, that&amp;#039;s kind of up to Dan... He&amp;#039;s actually a full-time writer on the show now. 14:38Um, Dino Stamatopoulos - aka Star-Burns - just stepped up to the mic to ask a question and got huge cheers from the crowd! 14:35We&amp;#039;re on to fan questions now! What was the panel&amp;#039;s favourite fan art or ideas? Yvette loved the nesting dolls, while Dan likes the music videos people make on YouTube. &amp;quot;They always make me squirt water out of my eyes,&amp;quot; he confesses. 14:34We&amp;#039;ve just been treated to a very funny gag reel, complete with Alison Brie rapping, Donald Glover mispronouncing words and Joel McHale&amp;#039;s butt crack. Yes, really. 14:31Some big news for Community - it&amp;#039;s coming to syndication! Gillian and Danny are doing an amazing &amp;#039;presentation&amp;#039; - full of awkward reading out and stilted moments. It&amp;#039;s very cute. Anyway, the show will be on Comedy Central on Fridays. You can go to www.communityontv.com to find out where else to watch. 14:29Dan&amp;#039;s still a bit flustered, so the audience shouts &amp;quot;We love you Dan&amp;quot; in unison! 14:29Dan&amp;#039;s suddenly gotten a bit scared of the size of the crowd. &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s how you unhinge Dan with positive reinforcement,&amp;quot; Chris Hardwick jokes, as the audience applauds. 14:28As for the Dean, he&amp;#039;s an &amp;quot;insanely emotional&amp;quot; character - the embodiment of everything you think you should keep secret about yourself. 14:27Dan again says Annie is a rip-off of Tracy Flick in Election, but Alison Brie &amp;quot;climbed into her&amp;quot; and made her her own. Britta&amp;#039;s a lot of Dan&amp;#039;s ex-girlfriends in one, but she does share his politics (she rants in the corner of a party but hasn&amp;#039;t read a lot). Abed is a lot of Dan (&amp;quot;listen to me!&amp;quot;) and Chang is &amp;quot;the guy from The Hangover&amp;quot;. Shirley is the part of Dan that&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;outspoken and idealistic&amp;quot; - and he wants to see her get in trouble for that. 14:26He jokes this isn&amp;#039;t a very Comic-Con answer. &amp;quot;Get ready for some grounded character work!&amp;quot; he yells. 14:25Are there any Easter Eggs that Dan can tease? &amp;quot;That wouldn&amp;#039;t make them very Eastery,&amp;quot; he points out. He jokes that the show is like a rescue dog - &amp;quot;it pees itself every time there&amp;#039;s lightning&amp;quot; - so he wants to give it a bone and make it understand he doesn&amp;#039;t want to hurt it. So the first few episodes will focus on the characters and making it seem &amp;quot;like these people live down the street again&amp;quot;. He wants to get back to Greendale, too. 14:24Has Dan written stuff for the show now? &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re taking a different approach in the writers&amp;#039; room this year,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re taking off all our clothes and singing to ourselves and waiting for a story to tell.&amp;quot; More seriously, he explains that they&amp;#039;re figuring out all the stories for the episodes first, but don&amp;#039;t have a full script for the first instalment yet. 14:23Chris is asking Jim about scripting an episode last season - what did that mean to him? &amp;quot;Of course it was a huge honour,&amp;quot; Jim says, adding that the Dean is a &amp;quot;gift of a role&amp;quot;. So the challenge was matching up to Chris and Dan, and paying homage to the series. 14:21Yvette names a fan in the audience - Lori Taylor - who was her first ever Shirley cosplay! &amp;quot;That was really cool,&amp;quot; she adds. 14:21Chris says Yvette is one of the most &amp;quot;gracious and sincere&amp;quot; people he&amp;#039;s met - isn&amp;#039;t that nice? But what are some fan interactions that she&amp;#039;s had that have meant a lot? &amp;quot;I get so overwhelmed when I look out and see your little faces,&amp;quot; she smiles, thanking the fans. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s never, ever, ever a small thing,&amp;quot; she adds. 14:20Alison says she loves playing Annie - she&amp;#039;s a &amp;quot;wonderful character&amp;quot;. She&amp;#039;s liked watching her evolve and devolve into a less mature human! &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s interesting working on a television show where you&amp;#039;re getting new information constantly,&amp;quot; she jokes, saying you&amp;#039;ll learn something you never knew about your character at any time. But that&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;exciting&amp;quot; to play. And she wants to see what Dan will do! 14:18Ken says he had &amp;quot;more Chang than Chow&amp;quot; when he went to Canada recently. &amp;quot;Just to see the genuine love that came out of it was really overwhelming,&amp;quot; he says. 14:18We&amp;#039;re joking now about Ken Jeong being a licensed physician. &amp;quot;I can write scripts,&amp;quot; he confirms, as Alison leans over to jokingly order some meds! Ken jokes that it might be a problem with fans: &amp;quot;These aren&amp;#039;t autographs!&amp;quot; 14:17What has Danny learned about Abed - where are we at with him? &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s not alone,&amp;quot; Danny says. He&amp;#039;s thrilled with this Comic-Con experience - &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s wonderful, because I get to connect with people all over the place now in the strangest possible ways,&amp;quot; he says. He says they are &amp;quot;truly surprised&amp;quot; to still be making the show - but thankful. 14:15Does Gillian ever feel secure with the show? Not for one single second! &amp;quot;But I had never had steady employment before this show so this is all I know,&amp;quot; she jokes. 14:15Dan confirms that the show will do an animated episode this season! But he says he doesn&amp;#039;t want to plan too hard - he says he over-planned season three. &amp;quot;We want to get back to that season one, season two feel of being very organic and knocking each episode out of the park,&amp;quot; he says. 14:14Dan says all of his previous plans from when he was working on the show are &amp;quot;out of the window&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;We have to reground, re-establish these characters, get back to the emotional basics and then have the most fun we&amp;#039;ve ever had,&amp;quot; he says. 14:14Dan&amp;#039;s back! What does that mean for the show? &amp;quot;New levels of anxiety that will trickle into the content,&amp;quot; Dan jokes, saying he feels a &amp;quot;tremendous amount of pressure&amp;quot;. He admits that going away and coming back makes him determined not to fail. He&amp;#039;ll make these 13 episodes count - they&amp;#039;re the most important in the show&amp;#039;s history - but he doesn&amp;#039;t see them as the last episodes. 14:12After a ridiculous video from star Joel McHale (it&amp;#039;s too hard even to explain, but it&amp;#039;s again a tribute to the &amp;#039;Six Seasons and a Movie&amp;#039; campaign), we meet moderator Chris Hardwick! He brings out the cast - Jim Rash, Yvette Nicole Brown, Alison Brie, Ken Jeong, Danny Pudi and Gillian Jacobs. They&amp;#039;re joined by execs Chris McKenna and Dan Harmon, obviously. 14:10Dan says it&amp;#039;s good to be back - &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve missed you&amp;quot; - and describes himself as a &amp;quot;billionaire playboy&amp;quot;. He jokes that he&amp;#039;s not saying that as a phoenix rising from the ashes of unemployment he crafts joy... and a lot more in that vein. He is going for it. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s not about us,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s about legacy. It&amp;#039;s about what we leave behind. It&amp;#039;s about six seasons and a movie.&amp;quot; Amazing. 14:08There&amp;#039;s an Iron Man on stage - oh wait, Jim Rash and Danny Pudi take off its helmet to reveal Dan Harmon! There is &amp;#039;80s metal, it is ridiculous, and I love it. 14:07We begin with an amazingly overblown trailer for Community - which turns into an adorably sweet tribute to the fans who have supported the show. &amp;quot;I wish I could French kiss each and every one of them,&amp;quot; Joel McHale says in the trailer. I&amp;#039;m right here, Joel. 14:04Hurrah - it&amp;#039;s finally time to begin the Community panel - and the lucky people in the audience have been given red cups as a treat! 13:58They&amp;#039;re still getting people into San Diego&amp;#039;s huge Hall H for this Community panel, so we&amp;#039;re running a little late. Hopefully it shouldn&amp;#039;t be too long! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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