"Believe me, I've done movies that are just the lowest of the low. It doesn't matter how cheap a joke you're going for or how cheap a situation, if you're doing it smart, then it's quite valid and good. Those are the rules that have kept this theater going in Chicago since 1959, and have kept it going in Toronto since 1973 doing eight shows a week, and is: Always work at the top of your intelligence level. You go into the theater and you're given these kind of golden rules of comedy that work for The Second City theater. "Maybe it was the influence that Second City had on me that kind of honed my perception of comedy. I mean, as a kid, if I was reading Noel Coward I wouldn't turn to somebody and say, 'You've got to read this! It's hysterical!'" I don't think I really got into anything more sophisticated until much later in my life. I loved all the cheap stuff - Abbott and Costello, I was a huge fan of Jerry Lewis, Martin and Lewis - when I was a kid. And this became kind of infectious it just got around.Įugene Levy with Jason Biggs and the now-infamous defaced pie in one of his most popular recurring roles as Jim's dad in American Pie. And he said, 'I gotta show this to my friends over at the next table.' So he took the book and passed it around and people started laughing. "So I would write these things in my little notebook, which I entitled 'Poetry Pros and Cons,' and at some point somebody in the cafeteria said, 'What are you writing in there?' He looked over to see it, and I got kind of defensive because I thought, 'Nobody is going to find this funny, this is just for me.' He said, 'No, let me see it,' and then he started laughing. I would title something: 'Insect Asides.' And then I would write: 'Spider spider spin your web/clean your cleats and scratch your head/don't eat figs, tomatoes or spaghetti/just lie around and throw confetti.' "In high school I took an old notebook and I had these weird little stories or poems. I didn't want to change the lines, but I quickly learned that he wants you to open up in places and just go a little wild in an improvisational sense." I didn't know that when I started shooting. Perry’s next film as writer-director-star, Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds, is set for release February 24 from Lionsgate." an amazing improviser, and he encourages improvising from all the cast in the movie.
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The actress also recurs on the TV sports comedy Blue Mountain State. Richards is coming off an arc on NBC’s 30 Rock and last year and her autobiography The Real Girl Next Door hit the New York Times best-seller charts.
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He broke out as an actor with the Jessica Alba movie Honey. Miller, who is known for his rap work under his stage name Romeo, last appeared in Jumping the Broom, the ensemble drama directed by Salim Akil. Levy, who has appeared in more than 50 films, will next be seen in Goon, a hockey comedy that stars Seann William Scott and Jay Baruchel, and he will reprise his role from the American Pie films in April’s American Reunion. Perry, who wrote the script and is directing, produces with Paul Hall and Ozzie Areu. John Amos plays Jake’s father in the film, and Marla Gibbs appears as Madea’s neighbor. Rounding out the cast are Emmy-winning actress Doris Roberts as George’s mother, Tom Arnold as his business associate Walter, Danielle Campbell and Devan Leos as the family’s youngsters – for whom Madea has plenty of valuable lessons lined up. Miller will play a man who believes Levy is responsible for his church’s investments being wiped out and wants to take the law into his own hands. Levy will play a man who, after his investment company goes belly up due to embezzling, is put in witness protection with his family, which is forced to move from a wealthy Connecticut neighborhood to Madea’s home in the South.
The movie, which begins shooting in Atlanta next week and again features Perry as the gun-toting, sassy-mouthed character, will be distributed by Lionsgate. Eugene Levy, Romeo Miller and Denise Richards will star alongside Tyler Perry in the hit filmmaker’s latest film project, Madea’s Witness Protection.
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