Here’s Danny DeVito playing Ghandi in an Inside the Actors Studio-parody Funny or Die video directed by Pulitzer-winning writer/director/playwright David Mamet. You know, in case you were wondering what that might be like. It’s hard to say why David Mamet is doing Funny or Die parodies now, but in David Mamet’s hands, it’s less a straight parody than a meditation on the recent rise in sequels and remakes (in the form of Danny DeVito talking about a fictional remake of a famous Ben Kingsley role, obviously). I wouldn’t call it traditionally funny (I smiled a few times) but it’s definitely David Mamety. This wins the David Mamet-memorial Oscar for David Mametiness.
[hat tip: Examiner]
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Mmm, fully of Mamety goodness.
Curry is for closers. Meh. Martin Jarvis is getting work, that’s nice.
It’s as if Gandhi mistook Subhas Chandra Bose for a dish of kaddu ki sabzi.
I’m not feeling the magic today. Here’s a little dog confused by an escalator: [www.youtube.com]
This only has a chance of working if he parodies himself. Mamety menace and vulgarity required.
It’s always Sunny in India
Throw Dharma From The Train
Death to Siddhartha
India Attacks!
Were they covering DeVito in chocolate or did I get this erection under false pretenses?
/Dreaming of a Rhea Pearlnecklace
I actually saw Mamet speak once and he totally used complete sentences and everything. No idea why he writes dialogue the way he does.
If they keep the mustache, Mamet can direct DeVito in The Lorax. “I speak . . . I speak, y’understand, for the . . . if a fella, maybe he’s a Onceler, maybe he isn’t . . . because we’re talking about WHAT here, fucking TREES?”