Comedy Legend David Zucker Reveals Untold Stories Behind Ryan Reynolds, Matt Stone, Trey Parker, and Hollywood’s Hidden Secrets
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One of the things that I’ve seen from writers, I get a lot of scripts. I run a screenwriting contest. And one of the things I, I, I do think people think spoofs are an easy cause you can just grab a joke from anything. But one of the biggest problems I see when I read someone spoof is it often, when you can pull a chainsaw out of your pocket, you know, there’s not a lot of stakes, there’s not, you’re not concerned that the person is actually going to die. If they can always just pull a machine gun out of your things. How do you get around stuff like that? How do you keep the tone and the stakes in line with a spoof?
