When you call a movie "Dealin' With Idiots," it could really be about almost anything.
I actually said that at one of my son's baseball games when he was very young. I said, "I feel like I'm dealing with idiots."
I assume this movie, which you wrote, directed and star in, is based on your own experiences with crazy Little League parents.
You could also just say parents. Parents are a bit much. They are so superinvolved it makes me nuts. I mean, I couldn't love my children any more if I tried, but there comes a point where they gotta just be. They gotta just live.
Was the movie mostly improvised?
The movie was completely improvised. None of the actors even saw an outline or a script. I just told them before every scene what that scene was about.
Roger Ebert described your last film, "I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With," as "a must-see three-star movie." Did you take that as a backhanded compliment?
That was such an honor. I had dinner with him one night, and I told him how much that meant to me. At no point did I think that was a four-star movie. So for him to say a must-see three-star movie? I didn't think it was a backhanded compliment. I thought it was great.
You once said that you got into comedy because you were the funniest kid in school. Since then, you've worked with comedic giants from Larry David to Jon Stewart. Do you still feel like you're the funniest guy in the room?
Put it this way: I make all of them laugh hard. But I am not the funniest person in the room. Please, I am nowhere near as funny as Larry David or Eddie Murphy. Just because you make the all-star team doesn't mean you're gonna be in the Hall of Fame. And just because you're in the Hall of Fame doesn't mean you're the best baseball player. I'm totally comfortable not being as funny as Larry David.
Given your work on "Curb Your Enthusiasm," where you played Larry's manager, Jeff Greene, do people often confuse you, Jeff Garlin, and your character on TV?
The only thing that I have in common with my character on the show is that we look the same and we sound the same. But the character has no ethics and no integrity. And I strive to have ethics and integrity.
Yet you were recently arrested for breaking someone's car window during an altercation over a parking spot.
Which seemed like it came out of an episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm."
To be honest, yes.
Look, I can't talk about it because, even though there are no charges, I still have to meet with somebody from the city. So I don't want to be glib about something that's serious. But I can tell you that it's just so not sexy. And not what was portrayed. It was horrible being in jail, although I'm gonna have a great routine about it. But the greatest stress, for my family and myself, was that what was being written and talked about truly wasn't true.
A lot of comedians complain about people recording their acts on their phones, then posting new material that isn't ready for larger public consumption. Have you run up against that?
I hate cellphones. They are not for good, they're for evil. They're for gossip.
How about fans tweeting or blogging about what they've seen at a show? One such incident led to a recent controversy over comedians making rape jokes. Can those kinds of jokes ever be funny?
Comedians sometimes forget that there's an audience. You gotta be conscious that you're performing for other human beings. A comedian has no right to do rape jokes. Excuse me, I take that back. He does have a right to do rape jokes. But there are no rights for him in terms of not paying a price for it.
So you don't buy this argument that there's some sort of sanctity to the stand-up stage? That anything goes?
No. The word "sanctity" and stand-up comedy? The only thing that I demand of the audience is that they listen to what I'm saying. Other than that, they owe me nothing. They don't owe me a thing.
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