Bet You Didn’t Know: Secrets Behind The Making Of “The Nutty Professor”
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Veronica Wells
The Comedy Club
And since we feel like we know Sherman so well within the first couple of scenes, it’s heartbreaking to watch him sit in the comedy club and be heckled by the performer on stage. This is very intentional. In fact, it was so important to Murphy that it was one of the first scenes he wrote for the film. He told the Milwaukee Journal that this scene was actually bigger than the movie, it was a cultural critique.
“That guy is a parody of a contemporary comic, the kind that comes out with his pants hanging down and starts attacking people in the audience but doesn’t actually have an act.”
We don’t have to name names, y’all know which type of folks he’s talking about.
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