#Making mr right cast vh1 movie#

For Bob, as he wrote, he says that he just tried to follow BenвЂ™s lead and hope вЂњhe wouldnвЂ™t notice I didnвЂ™t know what I was doing.вЂќ Two of his sketches that followed this same idea of mixing two pop-culture elements were the famous Manson/ Lassie sketch and the sketch that combined Francis Ford CoppolaвЂ™s Dracula with Woody AllenвЂ™s Husbands and Wives, which he co-wrote with Dino Stamatopoulos.ДЄccording to Apatow, once the sketches were written they were never read out loud until it was time to shoot them.

#Making mr right cast vh1 movie#

Ben says that his biggest influence on the show for him was SCTV in the way that they would take one concept from pop-culture and another very different concept and fuse them together, citing the opening sketch from the first episode in which Ben plays Eddie Munster in the movie Cape Fear as the perfect example of that technique. The writing also appears to have been done in a much different way from the traditional sketch show. Apatow doesnвЂ™t even call it вЂњcasting.вЂќ вЂњWe just said whoвЂ™s funny?вЂќ And they went out and got those people. Ben and Bob had worked together on SNL, Ben had made a short film that featured Andy Dick, Ben and Janeane had done stand-up together. It wasnвЂ™t a group that had been pieced together out of different submissions from different cities: everyone had worked together before. They talk about the difference between their show and other sketch shows in that the way that they had cast the show was very organic. The key idea that everyone seems to come back to again and again is the cast. The panel discussion then begins as moderated by Ron Simon, and it serves as a wonderful hodge-podge of reminiscing, catching up, and insights on what made this show different from all the other comedies on television.ДЇirst letвЂ™s talk about what made the show different, according to the people that made it. The whole thing is short and fun, and itвЂ™s nice to see the cast reunite with some original comedy, just as they did in The Cable Guy and would again in a Comedy Central special promoting the Ben Stiller Show DVDs. They call that a series? IвЂ™ve got eyebrows longer than that!вЂќ We also learn that after the show ended, Bob Odenkirk went back to barber school, Janeane moved to Ireland (as shown from footage from one of her movies) and Ben Stiller resurfaced as a Greenwich Village artist. (They even got Jim Forbes, the actual narrator to do it.) In the special we see interviews with Andy, Bob, Janeane and Ben as well as Eugene Levy who says about the show that it was вЂњbasically an SCTV rip off,вЂќ and on the showвЂ™s Emmy win: вЂњThat thing wins a trophy?! Three or four shows. One of the highlights of the night was a 10-minute video that was made as a parody of VH1вЂ™s Behind the Music to serve as a fake expose of all the drama that went on behind the scenes at the show. The evening begins with a screening of the very first episode of the show, as well as the 10th episode, which was the one that won the Emmy for writing that year after the show had already been canceled. Well, in 1999, seven years after the original airing of the show, the Paley Center got the original cast as well as Apatow, writers, producers and the director of the show to come together and discuss what made the show different and what made it such a cult classic. It would be redundant for me to say that the show was one of the cornerstones of the modern comedy nerdвЂ™s favorite things. ItвЂ™s very funny, and it features many of the comedy talents that you already enjoy.) In itвЂ™s short, 13 episode, Emmy-winning run it managed to launch the careers of Bob Odenkirk, Janeane Garafalo, Andy Dick, Stiller himself, as well as the behind-the-scenes talents of David Cross, Dino Stamatopoulos and Judd Apatow. (If you are one of the few who have not, I would kindly ask you to spend the time that you would use reading this article to research the best way for you to watch this program. I donвЂ™t think IвЂ™m going out on a limb here if I say that the bulk of the people reading this article have probably seen The Ben Stiller Show. (Seriously, itвЂ™s a library, so keep it down.) Each week, this column will highlight a new gem waiting for you at the Paley Library to quietly laugh at. Inside their vast archives of more than 120,000 television shows, commercials, and radio programs, there are thousands of important and funny programs waiting to be rediscovered by comedy nerds like you and me.

The Paley Center for Media, which has locations in both New York and LA, dedicates itself to the preservation of television and radio history.