Because now, when I hear Beauty and the Beast, I think only of the live-action Josh Gad version. But, you know what, when I was writing the short story, I kind of forgot about that. I wrote it with Marika and Mulaney, like I wrote most sketches. That’s true! I wrote a sketch for Gerard Butler.
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Simon Rich: I’ve become completely obsessed with the live-action version of Beauty and the Beast, and I had no choice but to become obsessed with it because my daughter was, so I had to truly force myself to learn how to love that film.īut you also wrote a Beauty and the Beast sketch at Saturday Night Live.
Let’s start with the obvious first question: Are you obsessed with Beauty and the Beast ? There’s a story in the book that sounds very autobiographical that would lead me to believe you are obsessed with Beauty and the Beast. (Unfortunately, the whole hat thing did not come up.) With the book now out on shelves, Polygon spoke to Rich about the never-ending quest of making the funny. His latest, New Teeth, finds the author once again dreaming big and dreaming weird, imagining everything from a woman raised by wolves reuniting with her family for the holidays and a wayward half-man, half-ape superhero finding his way in the world. Rich is the author of several collections, including Ant Farm, Spoiled Brats, The Last Girlfriend on Earth, and Hits & Misses. At SNL he’d pick up a few Emmys before jumping to a stint at Pixar, creating Men Seeking Women for FX and Miracle Workers for TBS, and adapting one of his own stories into the Seth Rogen vehicle An American Pickle.īut every few years, Rich returns to his original, formal stomping ground: the short story. With a taste for the absurd and a tough of magical realism, his oddball sketches quickly became favorites of Comedy People Who Might Corner You at a Bar in Brooklyn. Emerging from the time-honored comedic pipeline of the Harvard Lampoon, the writer found himself with a two-book deal right out of college, then landed a job at Saturday Night Live at the age of 24. Rich also does a bit of everything in the entertainment industry.
He rarely sports them outside where anyone would notice, but from what I understand, at home, he’s sporting no less than eight to 12 hats.
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