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Tuesday, October 11, 2005
This post is clean!
With the release of The Shroud of the Thwacker Chris Elliott, the star and co-creator of both Get A Life and Cabin Boy, has been on a publicity tour. That includes interviews for The Onion and Suicide Girls.
Both interviews go over the cult status both the TV show and the movie achieved. I'm glad that the comedy brilliance of Elliott and Adam Resnick is getting some due. I just hope this book will be a hit so that we might get a special edition Cabin Boy DVD (complete with all the mentions it garnered on Letterman's show) or a DVD release of "Action Family" and "FDR: A One Man Show," still some of the funniest comedy I've ever seen. Elliott talks about a complete series DVD for Get A Life but the DVDs that David Mirkin did seem to be holding that up. That's sad, because I enjoy both Elliott and Mirkin's contribution to comedy and wish that whatever is going on between them will end and we can all get some good laughs in.
Elliott is appearing at A Clean Well Lighted Place For Books Oct. 23rd. Chances are I'll be there so expect a post on that. I'm hoping a San Francisco appearance for Elliott will bring out Dan the Automator, he of Handsome Boy Modeling School and his solo album Wanna Buy a Monkey?
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In other “appeared on Letterman a lot in the 80’s” news, Alan David Doane did an interview with Harvey Pekar that has no official home. Listen to it here and you’ll be glad you did. It catches up on Pekar’s life after the American Splendor film as well as picks Pekar’s brain for what the future of comics might look like. And to be honest, I really dig Alan’s smooth radio host voice.
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