When you spoke with Dean Ray in the documentary, for example, when people say something like, “Hey, you got fat”, it’s pretty hard not to take that personally, no matter how much you realise you’re a public person or personality. Ben: One bit that didn’t make it in the doco...
For readers of Vic and Laurel's web site, I also highly recommend the hard-to-find The Wrong Box, which features every major British comedian in an "economic lottery" theme (I don't want to give anything away), and also the 1960's period piece, The Magic Christian (written by Terry...
it’s very, very alarming to give notes to Paddy Chayefsky, who I idolized, or Neil Simon. I was having lunch with Ray Bradbury at the Disney commissary and I said
A couple years ago, I wrote about howthere is an ideal age for a comedian’s persona. To use a Happy Madison–verse example, Rodney Dangerfield famously needed to be an old guy before a large audiencegothim. WatchingPixels— a movie in which Sandler and a band of former ’80s arcade s...