But “it can be tough when you’re trying to do comedy and you’re censored so much. “My comedy isn’t affected I don’t cross too many lines,” he said.
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I asked him about the dark clouds raining down the sleet of political correctness over Comedyland and he said he was a little worried about it, but only as an observer. The Crew is designed to be an easy watch that doesn’t demand too much of the audience - it’s essentially Netflix’s Monday night CBS sitcom - and James’s comedy won’t alienate anybody. “When you worry about, ‘Hey, can we do this or do that,’ they’re like, ‘Just do it,’ ‘Absolutely.’” But “Netflix just does their thing, they give you the reins and they let you go,” he says. With network sitcoms, James bemoans “what you have to go through to get notes from everybody and all the way down the line and everybody’s gotta weigh and in you gotta please everybody.” It’s not uncommon for the suits to flag a joke in advance for potentially scaring the advertisers. “It’s much different and much better for me, for sure,” he says. He feels liberated by the Netflix management style, which amounts to: We trust you. the athletes, the sponsors, the pit crew, the teams, the competitiveness, the fans. a whole different world, from the RVs that move in, it’s the tailgating in the center.
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And I recommend it for anybody who hasn’t done it. “You don’t know how much goes into this sport. A decade ago, however, he was asked to be grand marshal at a NASCAR event and was gobsmacked by the energy level, which can only be hinted at by the televised coverage: “It’s insane when you go there,” he says. As a kid, James even dressed up like Petty once for Halloween: “with the cowboy hat and the mustache and the glasses.” Still, other sports were more important to him growing up.
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James says he’s learned a lot of fascinating stuff about the racing game, which he has been following since he was a kid and his favorite driver was Richard Petty. Under showrunner Jeff Lowell, The Crew is being made with the enthusiastic participation of NASCAR, and promises to be drenched with insider detail. But he notes that The Crew is something of a change of pace for him because it’s a workplace comedy as opposed to a domestic one like his earlier efforts The King of Queens and Kevin Can Wait (whose showrunner was our National Review colleague Rob Long). In the new show, James is sticking to his brand of genial, harmless comedy (the first scene sets the pace when fighting crew members drop everything to participate in the one undertaking everybody can agree on - saluting the flag for the National Anthem). Now nobody thinks of Netflix as a demotion. Major filmmakers such as Alfonso Cuarón and Martin Scorsese followed Sandler’s lead with Oscar-caliber projects. Sandler’s movies turned out to be perfect for Netflix - his comedy with Jennifer Aniston, Murder Mystery, was the streamer’s No. But Sandler turned out to have excellent foresight: It wasn’t just his comedies that were dying out in theaters, it was comedy movies in general, except for the kind wrapped up in animated movies or superhero-style spectacles.
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TV movies? It sounded like he was washed up. Warner execs blamed good weather for the film’s box-office failure, but Hollywood thought Sandler’s brand of comedy had grown stale.įour months later, Sandler and Netflix announced a startling deal - he would make his next four pictures for the streaming service. So Sandler took it to Warner Bros., where it, too, underperformed.
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A hack of Sony emails later revealed that the suits were saying things like, “He isn’t the guy he once was and nobody can make that better for him.” Sony apparently rejected Sandler’s next movie, Blended, in which he reunited with his frequent costar Drew Barrymore. But the relationship had begun fraying as some of Sandler’s recent films (notably, Jack and Jill, in which Sandler put on a dress, and That’s My Boy, in which he played Andy Samberg’s dad) hadn’t panned out.