“Will Adsit be working on FransTime with you?”
Yes, he will be a gig part of the writing and producing and performing.
“Do you still pray. (I am assuming you did at one point being raised Catholic)”
Greek Orthodox. And yes, sometimes I catch myself praying when I’m scared.
“Has [as] picked up of a full season of FrankensTime or do you need to make a pilot to see how the audience reacts?”
We’re writing ten scripts and then they will decide how many they’ll want to produce. I did that with Orel and they gave me all ten.
“How exactly did you end up writing for the show Lucky Louie? I saw an episode the other day and it said that you wrote it. Sorry this isn't Moral Orel related but I really love that show.”
Louie and I wrote on Conan together. We shared an office. We’ve written together on a few shows after that. We’re still good friends.
“my question is, are clay's lost commandments a way of coping with his mom's death? or does he just do it because his mom did?”
Well, first they started as a joke about laziness in parenting and forcing your own ideas on religion. But then when I wrote Passing, I gave the genesis of the idea. Now, it’s become all three reasons.
“also, forgive me if already mentioned, other your experiences with religion, did you incorporate any personal aspects of the people you know (or knew) into any of the characters, or are they just characters you came up with?”
Yeah, I always try to use personal experience in whatever I write. The one that comes to mind right now is that my daughter Tigger, who was three years old at the time, said to me, out of the blue:
“Daddy, when I’m thirsty, I feel how I feel when I’m alone.”
That was her line. It blew me away, mostly because we never left her alone. But there was something about it which rang true. I knew what she meant. An emptiness. A longing. So I ended up giving Shapey that line because it fit perfectly. Shapey’s aloneness mixed with his desire to be breast fed. It was perfect. And Tigger, now nine years old, read her own line just the way I remembered her saying it: with a touch of sadness.
“According to wikipedia, it says you wrote a spec script for the Simpsons. What was it about?”
I wrote it 1990 and it was about Marge wanting another baby and Homer being sterile because of his job at the power plant. At first, he was resistant to having another kid, but then when he finds out he can’t, he over-compensates his dad-ness by building crazy extensions on the Treehouse. Finally, Lisa sees that he’s freaking out and tells him that he’s a great dad and doesn’t have to constantly prove it to himself or them.
I did submit it to the show, but it was during the time that David Merkin was running the show and he sacrificed sweet storylines for jokes. They never did it, and I think the sterile part has been since used on the show, early on, but I think it was just coincidence.
“Why was "Maturity"'s airing delayed, while "Charity" was aired normally? I mean, if you had to ban/delay/censor an episode, wouldn't it be the crack one rather than the maturity juice one?”
Yeah, I thought the same thing. I think it was because the crack one was so silly and Maturity was much darker. At one point, Sal hits his wife, which I think was the problem. We ended up cutting that part, which I’m glad we did.
“If you were a Moral Orel fan with the chance to ask Dino Stamatopoulos a meaningful question, what would you ask?”
You guys are doing fine.
“Hey Dino, do you have any questions you'd like to ask us?”
I’d like to ask everyone how old they are, but I don’t think I’m allowed. Not that it matters. Just curious. if I think of something else, believe me, I’ll ask it.
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