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With aworld tour with Eric Wareheim on the wayand the 11th (!)
(The trial itselfstreamed over multiple hours on Adult Swims website.)
So, the idea to treat it as a documentary that someone else might make came into being.
How do you expect people who arent familiar withOn Cinemato react to the movie?
But we did show it to people that havent kept up with all of our shenanigans.
And everyone just took it at face value and seemed to really like it and laughed and were intrigued.
Hopefully, itll be satisfying.
Its still going to be a niche comedy because of the kind of comedy it is anyway.
Its not a feel-good movie.
Its not a movie where, you know, theres sympathetic characters.
And there are a lot of George Burns references.[Laughs.]
Were you expecting that?No, we didnt know what to expect.
I think most people, if somebody comes up, theyre kind of already disinterested a little bit.
Youre already distracted and not really super-invested in whether I am [running] or not.
]I think partly thats to do with going into San Bernardino.
Of course, we didnt use everything we shot.
There were things that didnt work out, and there were people that werent cooperative or interested in talking.
People dont really challenge you in the moment.
And I certainly noticed that a lot.
This kind of Staten Islandtype guy that was always cracking jokes.
I said, Do you know whos moving in?
Im not gonna start, like, screaming in his face, you know?
Do you think about those fans as youre writing for your character?
I dont think about them in that way.
The commercial his campaign manager didwhere he was smoking.
That was something we always passed around.
We love that kind of poorly made [ad].
Also, that very stark, tough-guy messaging that isnt reflective of how complicated the world actually is.
You know, when people talk in such black-and-white, stark terms about how to fix problems.
Thats so pervasive everywhere, I think.
Its a petty thing to worry about, and I think its generally used as a compliment.
I dont think its meant as a derogatory term.
We use a different set of tools, you know?
But ultimately, I feel a connection fromMister AmericatoSpinal Tapin a very real way.
Its playing things a little drier and also sort of focusing on the comedy of failure.
And I see a total direct line between that and my town hall appearance in the movie.
Its the same shit, you know?
And I dont think youd ever call Christopher Guest or any of those guys anti-humor or anti-comedy.
Its just a different way of doing it.
I dont think thats what this is at all.
The New YorkTimesis gonna use shortcuts to describe things for their audience that they might not understand.
But our director Eric said, Could have been worse.
They could have called you a humorist, which is worse than being an anti-humorist.
