A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece, anywhere, is that it gets on YouTube and gets around. It's always something you're thinking about unconsciously.
Part of why I think I have so much fun working in the mockumentary genre is that you can cut to pretty much anything at any time. People are now so conditioned to watch documentaries - they know how they operate, and that you can introduce a new character by cutting to them, and now they're in it. Similarly, being able to treat a sidebar idea that has nothing to do with your main story really seriously, the way the rest of it is being treated - all the pomp and circumstances lend themselves, I feel, to making comedy feel really earned and funnier and weirder.
I too turned to Webster's Dictionary and it defined Harvard University as a season for gathering crops.
Class Day is a terrible name for a day when you don't have to go to any class.
I remember my dad turning to me - my dad loves to turn to me and explain why things are funny. He used to do that with Seinfeld all the time. He did it with Colombo, too, set the scene.
If you're someone who's making film or TV or music, or any kind of art form now, there's a billion outlets and they all have an opinion.
Comedy always works better when you're tracking the story and you care about the characters. That's why there's a lot of movies where there's not a ton of jokes, but you get huge laughs because there's a moment of relief.
I didn't realize how much people liked to bash SNL until I was on. I've always just liked it, and I've always watched it and been into it.
Marketing is always a tricky thing with a rated R movie. Sometimes people just get what it is and they want to come see it, and sometimes you have to explain it more.
Obviously, SNL has a lot of viewers, but the potential for a movie is through the roof.
Genndy [Tartakovsky] is so good at directing and so wonderful with animation.
I used to stay up at night and sneak into the TV room, past my parents, who were asleep, to watch Saturday Night's 'Main Event.' That's how I started watching SNL. On accident.
If I watch an episode of SNL, and there's one thing that I liked, then that's a good episode.
I'm a big Letterman fan.
I've been lucky enough to be part of some great ensembles in theater - I'd been doing theater since college.
Well, basically, when you get SNL, everyone wants to take a meeting, just in case you end up being good.
