THE PLANK JULY 23, 2009
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In an interview promoting his upcoming film Funny People, director Judd Apatow describes his original script for Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy:
Basically, it was about anchormen flying to an anchorman convention.
Mid-flight, they hit some sort of UPS plane and they crash into a
mountain and it becomes like the movie Alive. All the
anchormen start dying, they start eating each other. And occasionally,
the contents of the UPS plane — which was monkeys and throwing stars —
start attacking their base camp. And we sent that around, and it was so funny, but we couldn't get anyone to make it.
More excerpts from the interview are here, though be forewarned that if you read them you will never again look at Adam Sandler in the same light.
--Christopher Orr
3 comments
Who doesn't jerk off before going to Red Lobster?
- mghogwild
July 23, 2009 at 3:23pm
There was once a time when a whole bunch of things were considered out of bounds or off limits by comedians and advertising account exectutives.
Hardly anything is these days.
It's only a matter of time now before comedians are cracking jokes about natural disasters, mass shootings and epidemics. In real time as they are unfolding.
I can imagine a commercial aired during half time at the Super Bowl of people blown to bits in a terrorist attack.
A solemn announcer warns us, "In this day and age, no one is safe. Protect your family from disaster with a life insurance policy from...."
george
- iambiguous
July 23, 2009 at 8:19pm
George, has anyone ever told you how funny you are? Hilarious.
- mghogwild
July 24, 2009 at 10:35am