Like every comedian, if I heard a joke that I thought would work, I used it.
You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.
In some ways, I think 'Pulp Fiction' hurt cinema in a very, very minor, small way. It did a massive amount of good. But it also made it impossible to make a movie even remotely like it without someone comparing it to 'Pulp Fiction.'
There was a part of me that felt afraid of people in Hollywood going: '**** Hollywood with their total lack of originality!'.
Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic.
You do look at a lot of movies and many characters seem to be interchangeable.
I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.
I think more than anything, as a comedian, I grow tired of the unoriginality of 'crazy cat lady' jokes. It's a hacky joke based on an already-played-out stereotype.
