From Huffington Post:

It’s rare that a piece of casting news elicits outright whooping, but the announcement that Michael K. Williams would be joining the cast of “Community” next season certainly comes close.

TV Guide broke the news that Williams, best known as the complex, shotgun-wielding Omar on “The Wire” and Chalky White on “Boardwalk Empire,” will play a biology professor on the brilliantly absurdist NBC comedy — the character’s “first teaching job” after being released from prison.

“Community” creator Dan Harmon spoke with Vulture on Friday about what he had in store for next season, and mentioned that he hoped to add a sense of “groundedness and reality” to the series.

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