Joel Hodgson
Joel Hodgson
Joel Gordon Hodgsonis an American writer, comedian and television actor. He is best known for creating Mystery Science Theater 3000and starring in it as the character Joel Robinson. In 2007, MST3K was listed as "one of the top 100 television shows of all time" by Time.com. Between 2007-13, Hodgson was part of the "movie riffing" project Cinematic Titanic with several of his fellow MST3K alumni, performing live and producing content for DVDs and direct download. He also serves as Creative...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntertainer
Date of Birth20 February 1960
CountryUnited States of America
A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious.
A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater.
Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies.
If you notice any of the press from when I was with the show, I would always deny it being the year 3000.
Eventually I got asked to be in a Michael J. Fox sitcom called High School U.S.A. I didn’t think it was funny and said no. They doubled the money, and that kind of offended me. I realized, oh, that’s right, my opinion means nothing in Hollywood. I’d seen other people compromise, and I felt that once you gave up on what you wanted to do, you couldn’t go back. It was selling out. So I decided to go back to Minneapolis.
Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences.
So the actual riffing came out of us just sitting there and doing it the way I think some people think we really did it, which is all spontaneously, and it really was.
The first twenty shows at TV 23 were really a workshop.
South Park started as a little video Christmas card.
Sometimes I go into my own little world. It's okay, they know me there.