Paul Provenza
Paul Provenza
Paul Provenzais a television presenter and actor, actor on stage, radio panelist, stand-up comedian, filmmaker, and skeptic based in Los Angeles. He has appeared on several podcasts and in recent years has interviewed other stand-up comedians. In 2005 he became a director, in 2010 an author and in 2011 he started producing for comedy festivals and television...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth31 July 1957
CountryUnited States of America
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The joke is the comedy equivalent of jazz. It's raunchy, it's free of constraints, yet has a simple 'melody' to hold on to. It's about where you take it, not where it's going. If that is not a workable definition of art, I don't know what is.
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Everybody did an amazing job of letting their hair down and being fearless,
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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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We don't judge anybody if they're offended, we're just having a good time,
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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.
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We're familiar with the notion of musicians reinterpreting the same song over and over, but we don't ever hear that with comedians,
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If you can handle some raw language, come on in, and have a great time with us. To each his own.
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If you've ever been offended by any particular word, you'll probably hear it 100 times in this movie.
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I don't know if the audience wants to hear it,
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Gary is awesome, he's amazing, ... The music in the movie alludes to jazz, bebop and pop but has an improvisational feel and he did an amazing job with just a few minutes.
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There are a lot of movies out there for you, but there is room on the shelf for something that's free and liberating as well, ... If you don't like dirty jokes, if you don't like rough language, I highly recommend the penguin movie because they dress really nicely.
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There are many people who say it was Johnny's favorite ever.
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We didn't shoot it like a real movie, ... We never set up lights, we didn't do anything elaborate with sound, we never did makeup or anything like that, because every time something like that happens, it's another layer of artifice.
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We met at the free clinic. She's there three times a week.