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Wet Hot American Summer so far is a financial disappointment and money was lost on it. But perhaps it will find its audience in video, cable, etc, maybe over the course of years.
We thought we were going to go up against SNL on Saturday Nights - that would have changed things so much that it's almost impossible to speculate what might have happened.
We make shorts every week for STELLA - I've always enjoyed making little shorts with my friends and I don't intend to stop. Wet Hot was just a 90 minute short.
There are attempts and sketch shows all the time on network and cable. If there's a really great one, it makes a mark.
The State is made up of a number of very strong, always growing, evolving personalities, and it's probable that the all-for-one, one-for-all group mentality could only have lasted so long.
The reason we were not advertised was because CBS had no idea what to do with a weird one-off prime time special on a network that at the time was centered around 'Murder She Wrote' and other older-skewing shows.
Sundance is just a great place for your work to be seen. Not much more to say about it than that.
Obviously Mad TV, SNL are one kind of show, whereas The State belongs to the kind of show that is entirely conceived written and performed by a set group that existed before the TV show.
Mike Showalter and I wrote a movie called 'They Came Together' which is a spoof of NY Romantic Comedies that will hopefully be made by Universal.
It certainly isn't like it used to be, because the cost of marketing a film in this crowded business is astronomical.
I was hired to do this one great script called 'Cap'n Ricky' and that project is up in the air at the moment.
I love summer. Because it means I can wear a bikini top and shorts, even just to go shopping.
I don't believe in paying for sex. Which is why I'll never again pay for a woman's dinner.
This book-amber-clear, cool and with a good head-deserves a thoughtful swig even from people who never drink.
How much of our literature, our political life, our friendships and love affairs, depend on being able to talk peacefully in a bar!
I never lie. I believe everything I say, so it's not a lie.
The difference between good teachers and great teachers is that great teachers have mastered the art of teaching people things they didn't know they needed to learn.
Harold E. Wagoner
The great thing about being an architect is you can walk into your dreams.
Through my films, public appearances and even a couple of books, I've had the opportunities to share what I was learning along the way.