Comedy Legend David Zucker Reveals Untold Stories Behind Ryan Reynolds, Matt Stone, Trey Parker, and Hollywood’s Hidden Secrets
Ashley
And so just take, I just want to touch on a couple of things you mentioned there. Like, for instance, were you and your brother always doing comedy? Were you just natural performers or did it gravitate towards comedy? Did you do drama, horror? Was there other things or just comedy is what you guys always loved from an early age?
David Zucker
We were class clowns in high school, and grade school, and comedy is the only thing we ever wanted to do. I think Jerry had ambitions to go beyond that, and he did. And he did a movie called First Night, and he did Ghost, and he produced something, a script that Bruce Rubin had. And so, Jerry has done some serious work and done well with it. But I have not been interested in anything except comedy, and not many people can do it. So, the challenge is to get people to believe in doing something new and original. So, Hollywood wants to do just what’s been done before. So, people doing it, they don’t know what they’re doing, they’re not original, and it was just stupid.
