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John Scalzi

John Scalzi

American author

Oct 13, 2026

18:32
And I was wondering if you can talk about that intersection between these horrific scenes and the fact that you can make people laugh and how that helps to temper the horror or does it temper the horror? Yeah.
18:44
Well, and it's a very interesting thing because, again, going back to using the tropes of body horror, right, where you have, like, the thing or you have the fly or you have, you know, invasion of the body snatchers or something like that, all these things that people have in their head.
19:01
But I would argue that while I'm using those horror tropes – and there have been stories – That rather comedically use a lot of horror tropes.
19:12
You have the Evil Dead movies.
19:14
You have Slither.
19:15
You have lots of stuff like that.
19:17
What I'm using them for is I'm using the tools of horror for the use of a story that is contemporary humor based.

32 MINS LATER

51:26
I was wondering if you could explain what the Joko Cruise is.
5:29
[laughs]
5:29
So she said, "Go to the West Cove Cinema," which is where I did.
5:34
And I sat down, like in the middle of the thing, and, and by the time that I had seen it, it'd already become a phenomenon and had been out for months and months and months.
5:41
Um, and I just hadn't gotten to it.
5:43
And I remember, you know, of course the credits roll and the, you know, John Williams, uh, fanfare happens.
5:50
Um, and then you see this spaceship zoom by, and immediately my brain is blown because it's the most realistic spaceship anybody's ever seen at that point.
6:00
And you're like-

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39:52
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