Kevin Smith on Opie and Anthony
Yesterday, if Opie and Anthony hadn’t already completely turned me away from Howard Stern, they did something to help their cause even further. They played directly into my superfan geekdom. They didn’t just have Kevin Smith on their show. He sat in and chatted for FOUR COMPLETE HOURS. He riffed with the boys from the beginning of the show all the way to 11:00 AM. He was not only a guest, but helped them conduct an interview with Dr. Smith and Gunnar Nelson from “Celebrity Fat Club.”
I am sorry to be gushing, but I love Kevin Smith. For those of you who don’t know him, he is a movie writer/director. Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Jersey Girl, and coming soon, Clerks 2. Apparently, I am not the only superfan either. At the end of the show, yesterday, Anthony said, “Thanks Kevin. I tried not to gush, but I am a huge fan of all your stuff” or something to that effect.
(Kevin Smith an Lil Jimmy Norton)
Anyway, I just thought I would share some things I learned from the show yesterday.
- For movie screenings there is a company that will do market research by bringing in random people and interviewing them. For Clerks 2, Kevin thinks that is pretty stupid because he is making the movie specifically for the fanbase that loved the first flick. Many comedies get smashed by critics and then make millions from audiences. At least someone else sees this disconnect.
- Kevin wanted to make Clerks 2 in no small part due to the debacle of releasing “Jersey Girl in the post-Gigli environment.” Kevin still stands behind Jersey Girl as a movie, and he still likes Ben Affleck, but he can’t deny how difficult it was to deal with the whole Gigli and Bennifer thing after it blew out of proportion. And yes, he did call it the “post-Gigli environment.”
- There is a sequel to the stellar An Evening With Kevin Smith which chronicled Kevin’s college speaking tour where he does 4-6 hours of Q&A at every stop. It sounds like an awful and boring idea for a DVD, but if you are even the tiniest fan of the movies, you will laugh your head off at this. The DVD never gets slow, and Kevin Smith is hilarious when he is working a crowd.
- Kevin Smith lost 70 pounds on some liquid diet
- Kevin Smith hates Reality TV
- On the new version of The Bad News Bears - Kevin talked to Quentin Tarantino, who really liked The Bad News Bears and likened it to a really great cover song. Kevin thought that was interesting, but doesn’t really buy it. Why not just watch the original, which still holds up?
- Rosario Dawson is totally hot in Clerks 2. Hot women with Dante and Randall? There is a novel concept.
- Jason Mewes (Jay of Jay and Silent Bob) was an out-of-his-mind drug addict in between movies including one story after wrapping Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back when he apparently went face down in a big pile of heroin before taking a photo with some cops. (He is going on three years of being clean and sober.)
That’s all I can remember right now, but it was definitely my favorite Opie and Anthony show of all time. And by the way, this is one of the things that really makes them great. They have a show where they can really just put their egos aside and let someone else have the spotlight. They choose their spots and don’t disappear or anything, but it makes for a more interesting experience with celebrities as they sit and talk comfortably. On other shows, guests have to race against the clock to get their plugs in and their stories out. On Opie and Anthony, as long as you are interesting, you can just sit in on the flow of the show.
And if you want to listen to Opie and Anthony you need XM Satellite Radio. Or, if you can pony up $2.95 you can download the show from Audible.com.
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I am an XM subscriber with a unit that can record shows. I hardly call that stealing, sir. Take it back.
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