On kevin_nealon ’s YouTube talk show, “Hiking with Kevin,” no subject is off limits. “It would be like an episode of ‘The Dick Cavett Show,’ if both interviewer and subject sweated profusely and were constantly winded,” Mike Sacks writes.
on Showtime’s “Weeds.” Here, Nealon acts as his own producer , cinematographer , and editor .
Using Kaufman, Williams, Steve Martin, and Albert Brooks as comedic lodestars, Nealon honed his own unique, surreal, deadpan style, creating slightly unhinged characters such as, a passive-aggressive straight arrow who has nothing of interest to say until a short, shocking interjection unmasks his true intentions. There was something—Hot sex!—intriguing about this nebbish. Nealon’s characters were meta, possibly disturbed, but, like the creator himself, highly likable.