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Emmy schmemmy, NBC's Community is going to the Con, July 24

By April MacIntyre Jul 8, 2010, 20:28 GMT

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Emmys can suck it: NBC's comedy "Community", overlooked in this year's nominee list, will be representing at Comic-Con in San Diego.

Comic-Con used to be a Valhalla for graphic novel and comic fans, especially genre buffs.

Now it has been taken over by networks and studios hawking their TV shows and films, a crowded, colorful precursor for the TCA's (Television Critics' Association) press tour where TV writers can actually sit down and interview someone without Jar Jar Binks or Elvis StormTrooper looking over their shoulder.

NBC is part of the network hordes and will have the cast and creative team from “Community” for booth signing and animated discussion and Q&A session about what's in store for viewers this fall! 
 
Saturday, July 24, 2010

Booth Signing – 12noon-1:00pm

Panel – 3:00pm-4:00pm

Signing will take place at the Sony Booth #4313  - Panel will take place at the Hilton Bayfront, Indigo Ballroom

Cast members Joel McHale (The Soup), Chevy Chase (Hot Tub Time Machine), Donald Glover (30 Rock), Yvette Nicole Brown (Rules of Engagement), Danny Pudi (Greek), Gillian Jacobs (Choke), Alison Brie (Mad Men) and executive producers Dan Harmon (The Sarah Silverman Program), Joe Russo (Arrested Development), Anthony Russo (Arrested Development), Neil Goldman (Scrubs), Garrett Donovan (Scrubs) and Russ Krasnoff (The Soloist)

The A.V. Club’s Todd VanDerWerff will moderate the panel.

Premise of Community

Described as a "smart comedy series about a band of misfits who attend Greendale Community College.  At the center of the group is Jeff Winger (Joel McHale, "The Soup"), a fast-talking lawyer whose degree has been revoked.  With some help from his fellow classmates, Winger forms a study group who eventually learn more about themselves than their course work."