comic genius

the always-great av club interviews chris elliott. imo, get a life is one of the funniest tv shows of all time.

Maybe there's something in a guy that's never grown up, and he's living in a Leave It To Beaver sort of world, but he's an adult. What's funny is that what I pitched to Fox was essentially that. At the time, that movie Big was out. I sort of said it was like Big: a guy with a kid's heart, a kid's mind. What they really got was a retarded adult, who, you know, lives with his retarded parents.