JK: I have a lot. My comedic inspiration is Harold Ramis, actually. I was on set for Year One. I was the person shooting all of the behind the scenes and all of the short films. Basically, all the stuff for the DVD. A lot of it got cancelled when the movie came out and did badly but being around Harold, I was in comedy awe twenty-four hours a day. He was the nicest person in the world, the quickest, funniest, smartest man. He knew everything about everything and always relished in intellectual pursuit. He found comedy in ways that I think were very original and unique and not obvious. If you look at his body of work, it’s some of the greatest, most original movies in the world.

 

DW: My wags would be: Jack Handy (do you remember him?), Chris Farley, and this writer, David Carr. He wrote this amazing book, it’s his memoir, The Night of the Gun. It’s an amazing, amazing book. I grew up going to Special Ed classes and have a hard time reading and I still blazed through that book. I loved that book. My girlfriend actually knows him so he wrote me a note that says “Here’s my drunk history of my life.” It kind of goes back to that first question, that history can be a subjective thing. He starts that book by saying, “I can tell you about my life but most people cast themselves as the hero. I am not the hero in this story and I’m going to prove it.” And he interviews people from his past, people he hasn’t talked with in over twenty years. He’s not hilarious but he does make me laugh. I’d also like to add Bob Odenkirk to that list. He’s kind of my mentor.