In My Perfect Console nodigt Simon Parkin, schrijver voor de videogamecriticus van de krant New Yorker en The Observer, gasten uit de wereld van gaming, film en televisie, muziek, komedie en meer uit om de vijf videogames te kiezen waarop ze graag willen vereeuwigen. hun eigen fictieve spelmachine, en bespreken wat hun keuzes voor hen betekenen.
“Heel modern en zijn tijd ver vooruit…een geschenk.” – DE GIER VAN NEW YORK
“Charmant, inzichtelijk.” — DE BESCHERMER.
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In My Perfect Console, Simon Parkin, award-winning author video game critic for The Observer invites well-known guests from the worlds of gaming, film and television, music, comedy and more to pick the five video games they would like to immortalise on a fictional games machine. They discuss those five games in chronological order of release, interspersed with biographical chat about the guest’s life and career –– a lens that often leads to new and unexpected insights.
“Thoroughly modern and ahead of its time…a gift.” – NEW YORK’S VULTURE
“Charming, insightful.” — THE GUARDIAN
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Before the start of My Perfect Console’s fourth season, we revisit a classic early episode with comedian, writer and podcaster, Heather Anne Campbell.
My guest today is an Emmy-nominated writer, sketch comedian, voice actor and performer. As a teenager she studied improv comedy at the famous ImprovOlympic studio in her home city of Chicago, training that prepared her for when she later starred on Whose Line Is It Anyway and the sketch comedy show Key and Peele.
She has worked on the writing staff of Saturday Night Live, The Twilight Zone and, most recently, the sixth season of Rick & Morty. Throughout her career she has also written and talked about video games, not least in her current role as one of the hosts of the popular games-related podcast, Get Played. “Comedy and video-games are the same thing: fantasies within set rules,” she once said. “I love both of them, equally. When I can marry the two in some future project, I’ll be complete.”
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