ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How do you get feedback when a special goes live on Netflix?
Will you be checking Twitter reactions and stuff?
Each of your specials seems to demarcate a distinct point in your life or worldview.
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Whats changed in your life since the last special?
Now I have a daughter that Im not trying to keep alive.
I have a daughter that I actually have to contend with as a personality and as a growing intellect.
How conscious am I of the mistakes I made, that my parents made?
Instead of new parent, its worried parent, if that makes sense.
Is that still a problem for you?
It wasnt out of any meanness, it was out of clumsiness.
Now, I gotta say people have passed the threshold.
And people are very aware of that and they try not to do it now.
There are still people that do it, but theyre a very shrinking minority.
People just know thats a shorthand way to show youre an idiot.
Youve had a couple books out recently.
Whats the difference between crafting a special and crafting a book?
Theyre such different disciplines.
With a book, you dont get any feedback until you hand it in to an editor.
For weeks and months, youre sitting there completing your pages everyday.
You dont go up every night and read your pages, is what Im saying.
You kind of sit there, and do that stuff.
So you have the one-two punch of both the audience and then your friends either laughing or not.
Do you have plans for any more books in the near future?
It kind of de-motivates you because youve already talked about it so much.
And then when you sit down its like, Didnt I already write this?
So Im trying to keep that silent.
So why not apply it?
Theres plenty of bad movies out there!
So lets do it.
How does it compare to something likeHonest Trailersin that respect?
I fing love Honest Trailers.
But heres whats great about Honest Trailers: Theyre not even making fun.
Half of them are about movies that are great that they love.
But its like, you never see the flaws in something clearer than when its something you love.
He had it in his garage.
Thats how obsessive he was.
And that leads to better comedy.
It took an outsider to do it.
It wasnt that J.J. Abrams continued the story or enriched the characters.
People were like, The Force Awakensis a remake of the originalStar Wars…
He recreated the excitement of seeingStar Warsfor the first time!
Thats all he did.
Thats all he had to do with that first one.
And the movie I assume will end with handing them over to Leia.
Thatll be a really fun, action-packed movie.
Could you fing imagine that?
Ive even heard an idea floating out there thats just like, Get Kenobi.
Wouldnt he send people out?
Where does he know where to find all these bounty hunters?
Wouldnt he immediately go, First order of business, we have to kill this guy.
We cant get Yoda, hes too powerful, but we can get this guy.
Find him for me.
And then it becomes like a Western.
Its a fing Western.
Its a cat-and-mouse Western, but done with swords and pistols.
You also referenceBlade Runnera lot in your comedy.
The whole theme of the movie has been wiped away.
Thats a really poignant story that you throw out the window if hes also an android.
Well, then f it, whats the point of this movie?
Oh no, youre totally wrong.
(Laughs) I never thought of that.
Is he gonna doAmerican Graffiti 2018where he gets run over by a couple of street racers?
Theyll never let Indiana Jones die, but yeah, holy f, what if thats what hes doing?
Thatd be an amazing plot for a movie.
How do you relate that to now, when were in the age of Donald Trump?
I dont want to sound paranoid, but the Trump thing really isnt funny anymore.
A friend of mine pointed out that they keep leading off every newscast with President Trump?
This is the same thing they did with the California recall election.
Arnold was like, Im gonna run, and everyone was like, Ah ha ha.
But every newscast began with Governor Schwarzenegger?
That part is a little frightening to me.
Its at best 10 minutes of material, and its the same fing joke.
I can write material about other stuff, thank you.
I dont need Trump to be president to have an act.
Its crazy, and its not fing funny.
I just, ugh, what a horrible human being.
Youre abig presence on Twitter.
Is there any relationship between Twitter and your comedy?
You know, there really isnt.
If I treated it as anything else, it would really stink.
