Tom Shadyac

Mm-hmm.

But that is how I felt most of the great comedy people broke through, that Jim Carrey and Tom Shadyac found Ace Ventura and rewrote it or-

Right

...

They said hell no to John Landis.

Uh, they had to go with Tom Shadyac, who'd just come out with Ace Ventura because he was a hot comedy director, and a good choice in that matter.

And when Eddie wanted to do the whole thing where it wasn't just him playing Sherman Klump in the Rick Baker makeup and costume, but wanted to do the whole Klump family, he had to screen test all of them to prove he could do each role differently and be funny in the process.

He proved it, and then he went off, he made this movie.

So in that sense, Batman's biggest enemy is Bruce Wayne.

Or as the great theologian Pink says, "I'm a hazard to myself.

Don't let me get me.

I'm my own worst enemy." See, the presence of God is when we navigate ...

In other words, if you wanna be God, God will graciously let you be God, and you'll hate it.

You will hate it.

As the great theologian Tom Shadyac wrote in his movie Bruce Almighty.

[laughing] There's a guy named Bruce, and he wanted to be God, so God let him be God, and he successfully destro- destroyed seven square blocks of Buffalo in seven days just by giving everybody everything they always wanted.

Ooh

... would've been directed by Tom Shadyac.

And Tom Shadyac, as a surprise to absolutely no one, would've had, uh, the acting capabilities in the role of the Grinch, none other than his previous coworker, Jack Nicholson.

Wait, no, I've read that wrong.

What?

What?

How?

You mean to tell me Tom Shadyac, who directed Liar Liar-