Inside the Casting on Streaming Comedy’s Most Chaotic Improv Show, ‘Very Important People’

Given Sam Reich’s love of spoofing reality series as extremely intricate “Game Changer” episodes, it was perhaps inevitable that the worlds of the comedy streaming service Dropout and unscripted television would start to merge a little. Even behind the scenes, CEO Reich’s streamer has pulled in a veteran from the world of unscripted TV to help expand the Dropout Universe ever closer to “Avengers: Endgame” scale and beyond.

Casting director Jazzy Collins came from a reality TV background on “The Traitors” and “The Circle.” Her first job for Dropout was casting “Monét’s Slumber Party,” and she has since cast the streamer’s flagship series, including “Make Some Noise” and “Very Important People.”

An improvised interview show that might be taking place on a public access channel inside Double Hell, “Very Important People” presents an especially interesting casting challenge: It offers neither straightforward improv games nor a straightforwardly scripted character to play.