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I was imagining films in my head and trying to gather friends together to make movies since I was a kid. I tried to do comedy skits and a horror film. ”
I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy. ”
In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me. ”
Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste. ”
I've experienced plenty of times when something I think is funny doesn't do very well. And there are times when something I don't think is funny makes the audience laugh so hard. ”
I always think everyone else is funnier than me. I look at other comedians and I say, 'I wish I was that good.' People think I'm funny, and I say, 'I'm not.' ”
In movies, you don't get reactions: Live, when you do a joke, you know in a second whether it's good or bad. But in a movie, since no one is allowed to laugh or do anything, when you're done with a scene, you're left asking, 'Was that funny?' ”
My real name is Scott Thompson. I could have gone by that name, but when I started doing comedy I thought I needed to go by something that has a little more of a hook. ”
The first time I walked by a crap table, I felt kind of funny. ”
Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire. ”