They just hand you bit after bit after bit, and they’re all funny. You show up, and there’s no goal other than goofiness. Basically, it’s four comedy people and all they want to do is do comedy stuff. It was doing Scott Aukerman’s Comedy Bang! Bang!. I would just stay up all night and sleep all day, every Saturday get completely trashed, and then start over again. We were on such an opposite schedule from the rest of the world. I felt like I was just young enough to be OK with how hard it was. You read about how it’s hard, you still just want it. I say that while also acknowledging that it was everything I had ever wanted to happen in my life. The schedule is so gruelling and mentally also gruelling. Do we really need to shoot this many scenes for a laser cat?” In his defense, he had a kid, so I get it. He’d be like, “I love that you guys put me in these, but I don’t want to do it anymore. Probably Bill Hader because we kept asking him to be in the digital shorts, and they would shoot until five in the morning. My Most Tortured Co-Star Rob Rich/Everett Collection Oh, and every Hallmark Christmas movie that came out this year. Pretty much every single Daniel Day-Lewis movie from the ’90s makes me cry. All those Daniel Day-Lewis movies from the ’90s. The ending of that movie, even thinking about it now I get teary. The last one that made me cry really hard was Portrait of a Lady on Fire. That makes sense.” It always struck me from the first page that there was a different kind of writing that exists and that was the first time I was seeing it for real. I was like, “I would do anything to be any of these parts.” They were like, “It’s cast. I just had heard that it had been written. I remember I read the script for The Social Network, and it wasn’t like anyone ever asked if I wanted to audition or anything. The Part I Always Wanted Merrick Morton/Columbia Pictures/Everett Collection If you know you’re going to do the work and you believe in what you’re doing, just get it made.” And I really took that to heart. I was an assistant at the late Gary Goldberg’s Ubu Productions ( Family Ties, Spin City), and one of the pieces of advice he gave me was, “ Always bet on yourself. A lot of people wait for permission to make something, and the truth is you really don’t need it. The best part about making a ton of things is you can get a lot of bad habits and ideas out of your system and see what works. It sounds so simple, but there were three of us to help motivate one another. When I left school and linked up with Akiva and Jorma - together we are The Lonely Island-we moved to LA and just made things. Probably during film school at NYU, I was struck by how few people actually made stuff and finished it. Deaths On Scripted Television Are "Overwhelmingly Violent" & Don't Show Full Range Of End-Of-Life Options, USC & End Well Study Finds
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