We don't judge anybody if they're offended, we're just having a good time.
"Paul Provenza" is an actor, comedian, filmmaker, and self-professed skeptic based in Los Angeles.
More Paul Provenza on Wikipedia.Though it's justified because they're a private company, it's also based on hypocrisy because [AMC] showed Irreversible, which basically has a 15-minute scene of violent anal rape, so what about that?
There are many people who say it was Johnny's favorite ever.
As we set about to edit, I watched 150 hours of footage over and over for a period of months. I had to figure out what hanging out with these artists doing this joke meant. In that process some ideas began to emerge: craft and art, freedom and creativity, boundaries and taboos, etc. So we used comics' performances that illustrated those ideas. We wanted to show rather than tell.
Penn and I conceived the film together.
[Hackett] told it on the Tonight Show during a commercial and when they came back from commercial break [Johnny] Carson was just busting a gut for like four minutes trying to get his **** together.
We didn't choose the joke because it's filthy! We chose it because of the structure!
We're familiar with the notion of musicians reinterpreting the same song over and over, but we don't ever hear that with comedians.
I was surprised how deeply that affected us. Every comedian will say Johnny was just the biggest influence on their life.
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