Thursday, April 14, 2011

dazzling

If only any of it were an exaggeration.

Jenna: Me, my ass double, and a drill that once appeared on "Home Improvement" are currently starring in a feature film called "Take My Hand."
Jack: Really! Years ago Universal had a project by that name. It was a romantic comedy with Reese Witherspoon and Patrick Dempsey.
Jenna: Reese Witherspoon's just a likeable version of me.
Jack: Then she dropped out and it was rewritten as a buddy comedy with Dempsey and Josh Hartnett, but everyone fell asleep during the table read, so we moved it over to Telemundo, where they tried to turn it into a variety show hosted by a supermodel and a soccer ball with a mustache.
Jenna: I met that soccer ball once at a no-hands-allowed sex party!
Jack: Then after another round of rewrites it was picked up by our low-budget thriller/high-budget porno division Splatterflix, and now it's a horror movie starring (reading computer screen) "Any Blond Actress."
Jenna (proudly): Thank you!
Jack: Wait. That's our project? This is exactly what I was talking to Lemon about! Three years, millions on rewrites, $20,000 in first-class flights for the drill.

On top of the lines just being funny in themselves, there's the extra layer-of-funny that there's only one synaptic point at which they are actually even communicating in any meaningful way. Sheer brilliance.  Krakowski/the writing for Jenna are still the most underrated aspect of this show.

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