
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, the RHS Alumni Association is proud to present an evening with Andy Daly (RHS ’89) on Tuesday, December 14 from 7:30-8:30 PM on Zoom. Register here – https://www.rhsalumniassociation.org/rsvp.php
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, the RHS Alumni Association is proud to present an evening with Andy Daly (RHS ’89) on Tuesday, December 14 from 7:30-8:30 PM on Zoom. Register here – https://www.rhsalumniassociation.org/rsvp.php
Star on the rise for former Ridgewood resident Andy Daly
MAY 23, 2014 LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, MAY 23, 2014, 12:31 AM
BY LAURA HERZOG
STAFF WRITER
Andy Daly, the star of the new critically acclaimed Comedy Central series “Review,” is making a career out of playing outrageous, absurdly ridiculous characters – one of his favorites being a straight-laced, stuffy suburbanite with a cringe-worthy dark side that spirals out of control.
Ridgewood High School graduate Andy Daly is the star of the Comedy Central series “Review.”
And the star’s Ridgewood upbringing may have something to do with it.
It at least provided some inspiration for his “Review” character Forrest MacNeil, a critic who lives in the suburbs and reviews “life” for viewers of his TV show (within the actual show). In the just-completed first season, he manages to comically end his happy marriage, inadvertently cause the death of a beloved family member, and briefly get addicted to cocaine, among other catastrophes.
“It’s sort of hard to explain exactly, but yeah, the decision to have him be a very suburban guy with a wife and a kid on a tree-lined street … definitely feels like it comes out of my Ridgewood background,” said Daly, who graduated from Ridgewood High School (RHS) in 1989 and now lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two daughters.
“Of course – then he ends up being dragged into the gutter,” he observed.
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