I'd like Hard C to be a modern day National Lampoon -- a name that is immediately recognized as a standard for unique subversive comedy.
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I'm doing comedy development at National Lampoon.
But don't expect a lampoon of the Lone Star state. Dallas is a very sophisticated city, ... and I've been blown away by how nice people are. They have links to government and oil, and they own nuclear power plants. And, in the movie, we are going to meet some new, interesting international counterparts.
In the early days, it was like Second City , or National Lampoon , that kind of created Saturday Night Live , and it seems now, for the most part, there are stand-ups who are hired and brought into the show because they have the ability to come up with the one-liner.
He called me one day in Toronto. My wife and I had moved back from Los Angeles after the kids were born they have a son and a daughter, and I knew who he was and was a big fan of his work, going back to his National Lampoon days. And he said 'I'm doing a movie. Do you want to write it with me' And so I went down to his place in Idaho and from day one, it was amazing how we clicked. These films are great ensemble pieces with people who are so adept at doing this kind of work.
I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn't make any mistakes, and you learned what collaboration was.
The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the w
I loved the old stories in National Lampoon, like the original story the movie Vacation was based on. I used to laugh at them until I cried.
Getting into the Lampoon was like a Boy Scout initiation or something - they'd be very cruel to you until you made someone laugh, then they welcomed you into the fold.