Max Greenfield, Jake Johnson and Lamorne Morris
Truth be told, Max Greenfield, Jake Johnson and Lamorne Morris don't exactly come across as guys who'd frequent a fancy barbershop — the sort of post-ironic place where straight-razor shaves are administered by hipsters at $40 a pop. But when they gather at L.A.'s Baxter Finley early on a Saturday morning, the New Girl costars manage to quickly break the ice with a rapid-fire stream of inside jokes — and some sloppily applied shaving cream — demonstrating a camaraderie and conversational shorthand that makes it tough to believe they've been working together for only a single season on Fox's freshman hit. Here's what the trio have to say about getting groomed for sitcom stardom.
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Ron Perlman
The timing couldn't be better for this week's announcement by FX that the current — and best to date — season of Sons of Anarchy is being expanded by an extra episode (No. 14 will now air Dec. 6).
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Zooey Deschanel
If it feels like a month of Tuesdays since Fox aired new episodes of freshman breakout comedy New Girl (as well as Glee and Raising Hope), you're not far off.
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Zooey Deschanel
There's music in the air on the Los Angeles set of Fox's breakout comedy New Girl. Inside the trailer of star Zooey Deschanel, an electric ukulele rests on the couch. "It's my backup from when I was touring," she says. "Sometimes I'll just sing at lunch for people." She even installed a karaoke machine in the show's hair-and-makeup trailer. Creator Liz Meriwether says with a laugh, "I have gone to makeup at four in the morning and there's this music pumping, she's dancing, and I'm like, 'How do you still have enough energy?'"
The cast and crew of New Girl have plenty to sing about these days. The show's premiere episode opened to 10 million viewers on September 20, building on lead-in Glee and benefiting from a bold Fox strategy: making the episode available on iTunes more than a week in advance. "It feels like...
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