2/12/2024 0 Comments Mark hamill talkin toons star wars![]() These characters that they've come up with – Jamison Burkwright is my character, and I've got my cohost Debbie Sue. We're satirizing the form of entertainment programming as much as we are the stars and the movies and the TV shows, I think. Even in my own career, you have to laugh or you just go nuts. IGNFF: So more satiric in a highbrow sense… HAMILL: Yeah, because there's a lot about show business you can laugh at – I do. But I won't try and compete with the harshest of those kind of new wave "You're fat, you're bald, your career was over 10 minutes ago" kind of humor. If there's wit behind it, go after the celebrities that are doing commercials… It's a fine line. ![]() I said, "Think Mad Magazine when you were 9 years old… Your perception of it." A lot of people, I think, skirt the line – they just take arbitrarily mean pot shots in the guise of humor. It's very smart and funny, and I think it's funny without going over the line, to the point where it could be a family comedy. It's got writers that used to write for Beavis & Butthead and Daria. I cocreated it, am an executive producer, and actually performed as one of the two co-hosts of this Entertainment Tonight or Access Hollywood… you know, "Hooray for Showbiz" type satire which I believe will be coming on in March of 2004… IGNFF: What's the commitment on that? HAMILL: Thirteen half-hours. The show I was producing for AMC was a little bit more what I was trying to do. I didn't realize it, because I wasn't intending to go back to live performing at this juncture – as Bush Sr. So that's a tremendous turn-on in and of itself, if you like playing live – which I do. If nothing else, you should come see her. ![]() It's exhilarating for a performer… It's just me and one other person – and it happens to be the legend that is Polly Bergen. In fact, it's as hard as a musical, with the choreography, but it's also a smart, Neil Simon-funny comedy. It's taxing because you're present – it's not like cutting a movie and test focus-grouping it and filling out forms. Launching a Broadway show is like no other endeavor. ![]() IGNFF: You've had some recent problems with your voice… You're a voice actor, you've done a Broadway show – how do you keep up with the pace, physically? HAMILL: Well, I don't – I'm under a doctor's care now. ![]()
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