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Cinco Paul

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223 total appearances

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‘Schmigadoon!’ co-creator Cinco Paul satirizes Broadway

And the songs in that are so good.

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‘Schmigadoon!’ co-creator Cinco Paul satirizes Broadway

And then I have to say the Marx Brothers have played a huge role in my life.

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‘Schmigadoon!’ co-creator Cinco Paul satirizes Broadway

I'm sure that's why I ended up writing movies.

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‘Schmigadoon!’ co-creator Cinco Paul satirizes Broadway

I saw my first Marx Brothers movie when I was 10 on TV.

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‘Schmigadoon!’ co-creator Cinco Paul satirizes Broadway

And I fell in love with the Marx Brothers and became obsessed.

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‘Schmigadoon!’ co-creator Cinco Paul satirizes Broadway

And that really led to my love of movies and reading about movies.

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‘Schmigadoon!’ co-creator Cinco Paul satirizes Broadway

And then...

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‘Schmigadoon!’ co-creator Cinco Paul satirizes Broadway

starting to make my own with our family's Super 8 camera, which we'd gotten for home movies, you know, on vacation.

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‘Schmigadoon!’ co-creator Cinco Paul satirizes Broadway

And suddenly I used it just to make movies with all the neighborhood kids.

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‘Schmigadoon!’ co-creator Cinco Paul satirizes Broadway

Yeah, it's called Make Him Watch It, and we make each other watch a movie we've never seen before.

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‘Schmigadoon!’ co-creator Cinco Paul satirizes Broadway

It is.

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‘Schmigadoon!’ co-creator Cinco Paul satirizes Broadway

I wrote the song.

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‘Schmigadoon!’ co-creator Cinco Paul satirizes Broadway

So now that there's COVID-19, here's what we're gonna do.

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‘Schmigadoon!’ co-creator Cinco Paul satirizes Broadway

I mean, it probably came from my love of the Marx Brothers, you know, and a lot of their movies were kind of musicals.

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‘Schmigadoon!’ co-creator Cinco Paul satirizes Broadway

You know, the coconuts, animal crackers, horse feathers has a lot of songs in it.

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‘Schmigadoon!’ co-creator Cinco Paul satirizes Broadway

So I think that led to my love of these 1920s songs, you know, the Tin Pan Alley stuff.

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‘Schmigadoon!’ co-creator Cinco Paul satirizes Broadway

And from the time, I was a weird little kid, Terry, I have to say.

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‘Schmigadoon!’ co-creator Cinco Paul satirizes Broadway

Like to be a 10 or 11-year-old kid obsessed with that sort of music was very odd.

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‘Schmigadoon!’ co-creator Cinco Paul satirizes Broadway

But I just, I loved it from an early age.

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‘Schmigadoon!’ co-creator Cinco Paul satirizes Broadway

From your mouth to God's ears.