“Because also, sometimes things that are really funny on the day, when you look at them in post can feel too broad, you know? Sometimes not, but it's kind of weird how that can change.” KnowsFeelsLooksKindSometimesPostsBroads Author:Nicholas Stoller
“And sometimes you're not noticing a little eye movement that's hilarious. So it all kind of gets figured out in post. And that guy you were watching was this guy Murray Miller, who's actually not an actor, he's a writer that Rodney and I are friends with. He's just crazily funny, especially when hitting on people.” PeopleKindLittlesSometimesEyeGuyActorsMovementAll KindsPostsHittingThis GuyThat GuyNoticing Author:Nicholas Stoller
“But having said that, regardless to what reviews come out whatever, I like love the movie. I think it's great, and so people can think what they think about it, but I'm very happy with what we did. I'm really proud of whatever all the actors what we all kind of accomplished and so regardless of how well it does or whatever I'm very excited about it and I think we set out to do the thing and accomplished what we wanted to do. Our goal was met, so yeah.” PeopleThinkingWellsKindDoeSaidWantedActorsGoalProudMetsYeahExcitedAll KindsAccomplishedReviewsVery HappyLike Love Author:Nicholas Stoller
“I mean we certainly always shoot a lot of extra material, but our goal was to make kind of like a big kind of rock-and-roll road trip comedy that has heart and that has hopefully you feel bad for Russell and you feel bad for Aldeus and also I wanted to surprise people with some of the turns in the movie and I think when I watched it with audiences they certainly...the reactions made me think that we did and so all that I'm just very excited about it.” PeopleThinkingFeelsHeartKindMeanMadeBigsWantedTurnsGoalAudienceComedyRocksMaterialsSurpriseExcitedReactionsHopefullyExtrasRock And RollHaving HopeRoad Trip Author:Nicholas Stoller
“The Lampoon was definitely quite formative. You know there's a crazy like kind of network of comedy writers from The Lampoon that are, that kind of you know like Seinfeld and The Simpsons and a lot of shows kind of had a lot of kind of Lampoon writers and so that was very formative. I mean, to me I got interested in comedy writing at an early like reading like Dave Barry.” KnowsWritingKindMeanShowsReadingComedyCrazyDaveComedy Writing Author:Nicholas Stoller
“And writing comedy and it really taught me how to kind of like craft jokes, it sounds like weird but really focus on crafting jokes and trying to make the writing really sharp. At the same time I did improv comedy in college, and that helped with understanding the performance aspect of comedy, you know, because it's different when you improv something vs. when you write it and they're both kind of part of my process now.” KnowsWritingTryingKindDifferentProcessUnderstandingSoundComedyFocusTaughtCollegeJokesAspectPerformancesCraftsWriting ComedyImprov Comedy Author:Nicholas Stoller
“Yeah, because we wanted to go back to the original tone. It's one of the original movies like The Muppet Movie, Muppets Take Manhattan, The Great Muppet Caper. Those kinds of movies. So that was really important that we hit that tone and those have a lot of cameos in them and so Jason and I started asking people and everyone we asked just wants to do it.” PeopleWantKindImportantWantedAskingOriginalsYeahToneManhattanJasonMuppetCameosCapers Author:Nicholas Stoller
