SETH MEYERS: “You look like Old Tintin.”
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WILL FERRELL: “When A Night at the Roxbury first came out, I went to the theater to watch it with an audience. I heard the kid in the front of me say, ‘Look at the tall one! He’s got a lazy eye!’ Which I don’t. I wanted to correct him, but instead I sat there in silence.”
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JOHN OLIVER: “Every week our writers produce scripts full of brutal jokes about me that would hurt deeply, if I had any feelings left.”
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JIMMY KIMMEL: “The first time I met Sarah Silverman was at the Friars Club roast of Hugh Hefner in 2001. She said, ‘Jimmy Kimmel, everyone. He’s fat and has no charisma. Watch your back, Danny Aiello!’ I exacted my revenge by dating her for eight years.”
Other highlights from the survey include Nick Kroll declaring that the biggest threat to comedy are “interview questions about threats to comedy” and Kimmel revealing that his worst heckler experience was when he “got hit in the face by a rainbow loom doing a show at JoAnn fabric.”
The full answers are worth a read for those interested in the inner thoughts of comedy’s best minds.
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