Joel Hodgson Quotes

If you notice any of the press from when I was with the show, I would always deny it being the year 3000.

I spend a lot of time thinking about what I do and how it fits into the scheme of things. I won't do something just because it's funny.

But if you think you aren't creative that's cool, too. I think being around people who aren't creative is kind of refreshing and nice.

South Park started as a little video Christmas card.

Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies.

The first twenty shows at TV 23 were really a workshop.

Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar.

A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious.

Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences.

Sometimes I go into my own little world. It's okay, they know me there.

So the actual riffing came out of us just sitting there and doing it the way I think some people think we really did it, which is all spontaneously, and it really was.

Eventually I got asked to be in a Michael J. Fox sitcom called High School U.S.A. I didn’t think it was funny and said no. They doubled the money, and that kind of offended me. I realized, oh, that’s right, my opinion means nothing in Hollywood. I’d seen other people compromise, and I felt that once you gave up on what you wanted to do, you couldn’t go back. It was selling out. So I decided to go back to Minneapolis.

A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater.