Word: guys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Last year the new big guy did it. Chris Farley and John Candy...
...location of Africa. "It's weird with stand-up comedy," he says. "It doesn't really translate worldwide. I want to figure out how do I make it worldwide. Do a special in Africa. Can't beat that. Pull that off, then I will have done something." And the guy who got beaten up in grade school, who got whupped on his own TV show, who now rules American comedy, would finally be the undisputed comedic champion of the world...
...emergency jokes; James Allardice wrote the droll TV monologues that made Alfred Hitchcock a household deity. But these scribes were as anonymous as the Roman speechwriter who whispered into the dying Caesar's ear, "Say, 'Et tu, Brute?'" So it's nice that Vilanch, a wide guy with a blond mop that makes him look like an obscene Senor Wences puppet, is now (as one of his 1,500 T shirts reads) ALMOST FAMOUS, camping it up with Whoopi on the syndicated hit Hollywood Squares, for which he also serves as head writer...
...think part of the tryouts to be the new fat guy is to do Meat Loaf...
Weitzman would get 10% of my take, which seemed steep until I realized it was 10% of nothing. That felt like a small price for a guy to call me all the time and tell me I'm funny. Still, I wanted to be sure I had the very best manager telling me I'm funny. So I asked some writer friends for the names of their agents and called three of them...