And I needed those glasses. That was a fight. The studio didn't want me to wear them but I got them. I also wanted it to be sort of a Clark Kent/Superman thing so the kids wouldn't be confused.
I can tell you now what I couldn't tell the studio then: Purely in case the movie was like a monster smash, I would have gotten too recognized.
I couldn't do any of my other characters, you know? But I could have done the lady. Church Lady's Malibu Beach party is an idea I have for a movie, too. Yes.
I don't know if I could physically do it. I was there at 2:30 or 3:00 a.m. for, five, six hours of makeup, and then a 14-hour day because we didn't have that many days to shoot it.
I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.
I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.
I knew that I'd be sitting there at one point next to my kids, so I wanted to do something that they could tolerate.
I recently found out about this other super movie star. He only works from about 11:00 to 4:00, so all his movies take like 120 days. But this was a lot of stuff to do in 35 days.
I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.
I've never really worked on them. Just once in a while one hits me and makes me laugh. My Al Gore was sort of like a gay Gomer Pyle.
It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.
That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.
This movie will actually increase the sex life of parents everywhere because they can put this on, with the 45 minutes of extras and they've got almost two hours to do whatever they've got to do while the kids watch the movie.
We didn't even think about it, you know? I used to collect laser discs, and you'd have some college professor analyzing It's a Wonderful Life or Citizen Kane, and now it is pretty funny - the idea of commentary for a silly kid's movie, you know?
You trying putting Bob Hope in a modern corporate movie now and get him up at 4:00 a.m. and get him on the set for 20 hours a day.
Dana had a guest appearance in You Don't Know Jack Vol. 2 CD-ROM game.
Dana is from the same hometown as David Lynch.
Dana had a cameo in Moby's video for the song, "We Are All Made of Stars."
Dana formerly worked as a busboy at a Holiday Inn.
Dana has been called one of the finest celebrity impersonators since Rich Little.
Dana was nominated for an American Comedy Award in 2001 for his guest appearance on Saturday Night Live (1975) in the category of "Funniest Male Guest Appearance in a TV Series."
Dana was nominated for an Emmy Award five times for his work on Saturday Night Live (1975) in 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, and 1993. The category was "Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program." He won the award in 1993.
Dana won an American Comedy Award three times for his work on Saturday Night Live in the category of "Funniest Supporting Male Performer in a TV Series" in 1989, 1990, and 1991.
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