Interviewing Brian Volk-Weiss of "The Toys That Made Us" (& So Much More)

For almost a decade, the highest identify in comedy specials and docu-series has been Brian Volk-Weiss. If you’ve gotten any streaming companies, you little question have seen his identify on the finish of some of the best choices within the enterprise. Brian was beneficiant sufficient to reply a couple of questions from a random blogger (me) that determined to hassle him one afternoon.

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Brian Volk-Weiss has produced or directed comedy for a who’s who of the stand-up world. From Dave Chapelle to Pete Davidson, Brian has labored with a legendary assortment of skills and produced a number of Grammy Award-winning choices. On the small display, sequence like “The Toys That Made Us”, “Behind the Attraction”, and “Icons Unearthed” have analyzed and celebrated popular culture nostalgia with a way of heat, whimsy, and wonderfulness few have achieved.

Q: Your docuseries like “The Toys that Made Us” and “Behind the Attraction” are as humorous as they’re informative. Do you draw in your work producing comedy specials for that humor?

A: Yes, completely, and for primarily two causes. The first is that I’ve been in love with documentaries my entire life, even when 90 % needed to be seen in a movie show, and after years of watching docs on enjoyable topics deal with them just like the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, I knew that if I used to be ever given the prospect to make my very own docs I’d give them a way of humor and pleasure. The second motive is that when “Toys That Made Us” was inexperienced lit I employed the individuals I’d liked from my comedy background and after they began enhancing and writing the voice overs, I inspired them to push the humor (and pathos) as a lot as doable.

Q: As far as your gathering habits are involved, are you an “Unpackager” or a “Leave it in the Box” kinda man?

A: 99 % of my assortment is unboxed.

Q: What was your go-to style to gather as a child?

A: Sci-fi

Q: Toy corporations appear to have shifted in the previous couple of years to recreating the basic look and packaging of toys from the 80s and 90s. Do you see any tendencies in toys and gathering on the horizon?

A: The solely pattern I see for positive is extra doubling down on nostalgia-based toys and a unbroken enchancment each in articulation and facial sculpts.

Q: Personal query, I gotta ask. “Down to Earth with Zac Efron” was not solely informative and useful to world cultural points, it featured my primary man crush, “The Zefron.” How pleasant is Zac Efron in actual life?

A: He’s a real artist.

Q: What initiatives do you’ve gotten arising that we must be looking out for?

A: Season 5 of “A Toy Store Near You” , season 2 of “Down to Earth with Zac Efron”, season 2 of “Icons Unearthed”, heaps and much of get up specials, and of course we’re engaged on many exhibits that we sadly can’t speak about but.