Random Punchline #1: “Every time you honk your horn, you’re being a piece of sh– a–hole. Yeah, I know, there’s the safety scenario, like when a kid runs in front of your car and you honk your horn and kill him.” – Louis CK, at the Just For Laughs Festival
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GET UP, STANDUP – FILMMAKERS FIND STARS IN MONTREAL
RANDOM PUNCHLINE (TOO SOON?): “For me, when Michael Jackson died, it was very like Diana’s death. (Pause). I couldn’t give a f—. Towards the end, he was a pale imitation of himself.” – Brit comic Jimmy Carr
Just For Laughs set to kick off
I’m in Montreal, home of the pre-eminent comedy festival in North America, Just For Laughs – a longtime “meet” market for standup comics and the people who put them onscreen.
I’ll be filing on my sitdown with Todd Phillips, director of what is now the highest-grossing R-rated comedy of all time, The Hangover – and the many interruptions on his Blackberry. (He simultaneously talked to me and negotiated, apparently successfully, for a certain HUGE A-list star to co-star with Zach Galifianakis in Phillips’ next comedy Due Date, which starts filming in nine weeks).