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What happened when Will Arnett performed at real comedy clubs for film Is This Thing On?Credit: The Independent
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00:00We loaded in background players who were, you know, working on the film, but the direction was, laugh if you want to, don't if you don't, this is it, there's no, and we didn't really, and we never sweetened the sound, we never added laughter in the final edit, we never did anything, so it was all real, or not real, when it was silent, it was silent, which is terrifying, and I had a lot of moments of those, and yeah, it was cool, man, you know, I'd spent a few weeks doing stand-up, like six weeks before we started shooting, so I'd had some experience working on all those segments that were
00:29my character Alex does stand up in the film, and it was weird to go back, you know, I probably went up six, eight times at least, as if it was my, I'd get introduced as Alex Novak at the Comedy Cellar in New York, and they'd go, please welcome the first time Alex Novak, and I'd go out and do the first set again, as if it was my first time, awkward, man.
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