Quotes & Jokes by David Cross / page 4
We get to see it! January 1st, 2000! We get to see... all those fundamentalist preachers having to do their backpedaling when the Armageddon doesn't occur.
There are really funny alternative comics and really funny straight comics who write and perform traditionally.
When we were on the bus doing the Mr. Show Hooray for America Tour there was a lot of laughter and a lot of pot smoking and a lot of speed metal listening and video game playing. Of course that was all Brian Posehn.
I'd be curious to find out, but I don't think people in the entertainment industry are proportionally more or less serious politically than anyone in the landscaping industry.
Sketches have characters, exits, entrances and are vastly different.
You have to have some level of attachment, you can still have passion and believe but it has to be softened somewhat.
Some of those heckling parts are just great on their own plus they happened at that moment so we had to include it.
And y'know, they're God's representatives, so that means... God fucks little boys.
And then Jesus answered him, Jesus said, 'Well, my son...that is when I was helping one of the other five billion people on the planet, you selfish fuck. C'mon! You were walking back to your Malibu beach colony home and stubbed your toe on some driftwood, it's not a fuckin' emergency, alright? There's other people with real problems.'
Then I will tape the sets and even though I'm not very successful sometimes I will try to cut out the fat and put the jokes closer together.
In New York there isn't that weird palpable competitive thing where it's friendly but everyone isn't trying to top one another with jokes when you're just hanging around.