A Kind of A Show
“I had just completed five short films with Scott McCabe about two guys sitting at the loneliest bar in the world. After I did these five shorts, acting in front of the camera became a lot more fun me. I don’t really think I can act, but I can say words that I write for myself in a very specific way!”
“After 'The Bar Series,' I just started thinking about creating the stuff that I wanted to do. I became an audience of one. You know, what would I like to find out there on the internet and what would entertain me. Then Scott McCabe entered a project with Tory Stanton in the New York Television Festival, which got them a whole bunch of meetings and people talking to them! I thought, ‘great, I can do that too!’ ”
“So I came up my first idea of using ‘The Bar’ shorts as the element of a television thing, but I eventually backed away from that and went back to my love of David Letterman. I thought, ‘what if a guy like me could enter this internet age and do his own talk show on the internet, even though he had no real skill or talent with such things!’ So that just made complete sense for me as an idea, and then I thought of how much fun it would be, to act in something like that myself!”
“Directing and acting the pilot, 'A Kind of a Show' really was a load of fun. We shot it all in one day, here at my house in San Francisco. All thirteen pages in a single day! Thirteen pages in twelve hours, now that’s not bad going really?”
“When we were doing the talk show thing with Scott as the cameraman, there was this one small line that was so funny, that when it was over, I just kept on laughing and laughing. I guess that’s the whole point to doing pilots like 'A Kind of a Show', they just keep you laughing!”
