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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If you've ever been offended by any particular word, you'll probably hear it 100 times in this movie.
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This is a look at a particular world of artists, and when it comes to words, well, that's our currency. In terms of mindset, we'll entertain almost any idea. We're trying to be creative. There's nothing about any given word that's better or worse than other given word. A word is a word.
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Everybody did an amazing job of letting their hair down and being fearless,
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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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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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Johnny can't gain his composure, Ed McMahon is doing his characteristic bull moose guffaw, the band -- the instruments are banging into one another -- the audience is in tears, and every time Johnny would try to gain his composure, he would look at Buddy and it would start all over again.
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We met at the free clinic. She's there three times a week.
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He was a huge champion of the idea and a big cheerleader for the movie, and this is where it gets heartbreaking, ... We were supposed to bring it over to his house and screen it for him right after Sundance, and he died while we were at Sundance.
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He has a rich history with this joke. This joke was his favorite joke in the world,
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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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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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When I was a young comic just starting out, I was very cautious, as I didn't want to alienate people. George Carlin's bravery became a benchmark. I became perfectly fine with alienating some people in the audience. That just comes with the territory.
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George Carlin maintained that anything and everything is funny given the right context. This context also includes your own history with a given group. What I can get away with and where I can go is not a problem with my audience because they know me.