Denis Leary
Denis Leary
Denis Colin Learyis an American actor, a writer, a producer, a singer, and a comedian...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth18 August 1957
CityWorcester, MA
CountryUnited States of America
ideas band dysfunctional-family
When I clicked into this idea of doing a band and examining a band as a dysfunctional family, I wanted to reverse that Rescue Me formula.
character ideas actors
Good actors, especially when they know their character, will come in and either tell you in advance that they have an idea, or in the middle of the rehearsal or the scene they'll let it loose and you go, 'Ah that's great.'
smart ideas ashes
I wanted to get more serialized. I had this idea for an event that would click onto everybody's mortality. I said, "I want somebody to die." Fortunately for me, when I was toying with that idea, John Landgraf, who's the head of FX but also a very smart executive, came up with the idea of the ashes in the maracas. He called me up and said, "Listen, what about this, they get the ashes in a box and when they get them, they shake them and they sound like maracas." And I was like, "Okay, now I've got my throughline."
ideas hip-hop musical
We've always talked about doing something else and Campbell Scott is always busy and I'm always busy. But when we came up with the idea of doing the potato famine as a hip hop musical, I wanted somebody who was going to bring gravity.
diego emotional fear funny gets john leader ray smart thinks
Ray Romano gets the films' emotional moments, John the funny ones, but Diego makes it all happen. Diego is still a leader smart and strong, but he thinks he may be getting soft' because of his fear of the water.
blow five gonna last people shows
I will tell you that the last five shows are going to really blow people out of the water. There's gonna be a lot of head-spinning going on.
christmas high kite merry teeth
I'm high as a kite and my teeth are green, Merry f**kin' Christmas!
best humorous jim
Personally, I think Jim Henson said it best when he said "Anybody got an aspiren? I think I've got a cold.
both fire funny last stories true
Most of the stories that we do are true stories from the last 20 years in the fire department, both funny and tragic,
along bang beg bills bus cancer city curb death dog dollars goes hard hit leaves left life limp massive medical million mouth owe pay people power regain side speak step streets talk ten walk wife work
Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.
agree balloon everybody funny mean popping whether
I write what I think is funny and I write from a sense of popping a balloon or a sense of injustice, whether it's about yourself, or whether it's about something else. It's my worldview; it doesn't mean that everybody has to agree with it.
good guy knows
Crazy? ... Maybe. But that's a good kind of crazy. It's a guy who knows what he wants.
great hitting lines mapped next picked stride word
It's always great to get word that you've been picked up for another season, ... We're really hitting our stride and have great story lines already mapped out for next year.
bit jeff talking
When we'd get done, Jeff would tell me: 'This bit is good. This other bit has nothing to do with what we're talking about.'