Seth Rogen Do not want to hear about how difficult it is to make comedies in the modern cultural climate.
Rogen, like cowrote and stars in upcoming Apple TV+ Hollywood forgery series “The Studio”, told Esquire that he believes to make funny movies and TV bark be difficult.
“The complaint that comedy is more difficult than it used to be is not a valid complaint. Maybe it was too easy before, ”Rogen said. “And why would it be? Why shouldn’t it be difficult? I like that my job is difficult, because I try to do something that requires a huge amount of resources and people’s time and energy … What do you wish you can say? What do you think has been taken from you? ”
He added, “It’s always fun when people are,” oh they could never make the “Diversity Day” episode of “The office“Today. ‘You can still look at it. “
Rogen is, of course, famous audition for playing Dwight in NBC -Sitcom; Rainn Wilson was thrown later. Not the point. Comedy during the last five, 10 and has certainly been drastically shifted among political movements. Even Rogen’s own 2014 function The “interview” changed the comedy genre and Hollywood as a whole forever.
The Kim Jong-Un-Mordsförbundet played Randall Park and the now decancled James Franco (Rogen has publicly distanced himself from Franco, formerly a regular employee); The “interview” ignited the North Korea terrorist threat and led to the notorious Sony E posthack.
“It really calibrated what I think is controversial,” said Rogen in 2023. “After that I was now I know what it is. Unless the president gives news conferences about it, it is controversy. If anyone gets angry with it on social media is it not controversy. Having as the UN must make a statement about it, it is a controversy. ”
He continued with his own career after the “interview”, “We could continue to make movies. What is crazy is now on TV, it is at FX at 14 it was at one point the most controversial thing in the world and now I turn channels on a Sunday afternoon and it just plays. I was worried that it would cause something longer than it
And Rogen is not the only author/director/producer who recognizes the cultural change in comedy. Ben Stiller said recently under New York Times ‘The Interview’ Podcast that it comic tone He became synonymous in the beginning and the mid -2000s have since been knocked out.
“You can look at the comedies of the 21st century, and they were one specific type of thingsOne tone, and there were many amazing things in the comedies that we don’t have now, ”Stiller said. “I don’t know if you could recreate it.”
