John Mulaney

You never want to live in the middle.

The middle's no fun at all.

And Birdamic and the guy, I can't remember the guy who did it, but I remember a couple things.

I explained to him, he was from like Vietnam or something, and he was explaining to me that these birds of prey

These hawks and these vultures, they come down and start attacking citizens in a beach town.

And I said, well, I don't think a vulture is a bird of prey.

I think it's a scavenger.

And he was like, I'm pretty sure it's a bird of prey.

And then I was like, I'm pretty sure it's a scavenger, technically.

uh vultures don't take down animals they just pick at their carcasses and he said i'm pretty sure it's a bird of prey and we looked it up and it was a scavenger so i fucked with this whole movie premise wait is this one of these movies that's so bad that it actually is a cult classic and people go to see it i think this one might be too bad to be a cult classic but the the point is is i think the fact that he's serious about it it's sort of like the uh was it william hung

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's James Wynn, I think is his name, or whatever it is.

But the point is this.

When someone is horrible about it but sincere, that's what you want.

So he's a bad example because he was so bad that he was good.

Right.

Well, I just remember there was a great moment when you basically said that his special effects really sucked, and did he mean them to be kind of campy, and he was totally lost and thought they were like the greatest special effects ever.

Well, you know, look, if I'd found out that he'd spent $10 million on Birdemic, I would have beaten him with a folding chair for the fact that he spent like $80,000 on it or whatever it was.

I give the guy a pass.

Let's put it that way.