Well, i'm hard at work editing this re-make. The screening party on February 21 will tell me whether or not all this work has paid off. I don't want to consider myself jaded, but it's pretty hard to shock me, so I don't know how some of this material will affect people. What I mean is, I don't know if someone will find the gag hysterical because it's so over-the-top, or the viewer will just laugh because the gag is amusing (but neutral on a visceral level). That's why i love these screening parties. I get to see reactions and then to interview viewers.
I never get tired of viewers/fans coming up to me at horror conventions (and in normal life) who cite their favorite lines and scenes. There are bits of dialogue, or DELIVERY of dialogue, that stays with them - stuff I never imagined would amuse people so much. It's great to see how some things hit people so intensely. When I was at a music event with George Stiso (he played one of the Polak brothers in Stereotypes...), someone came up to him and asked him, in an accent , "Excuse me, but do you know what is a silver fish?" (imitating George's character).
I've befriended lots of vendors at horror conventions, and at a recent one a vendor told me how he can't get a line out of his head. It was from the character I played in Spooked, when I was in blackface. The line was, "Don't hate... masturbate!" It was such a simple line with such a silly delivery, but this guy thought it was really amusing. When I wrote that bit I was sort of exaggerating the simple folk-solutions to life's problems, sort of the poor man's proverb kind of thing, in a bad rhyme. I had no idea that it would become a highlight to some people.
So I am wondering which pieces of dialogue from THE WORST HORROR MOVIE EVER MADE are going to stick in your mind. As our social climate becomes more leftist-fascist... ha ha, that may be too extreme a term for "politically correct" - what I mean to say is that as the model of "policticaly-correct" gets ever more unrealistic, my humor has to match that on the opposite side, being ever more politically-INcorrect. But I do have to admit that my favorite kind of humor is absurdist, and second to that is slapstick (to be specific, Laurel and Hardy - whcih may shock you - they are not offensive at all).