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See more awards ». Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission. Writing comedy is not a scientific or mathematical endeavor — except, perhaps, when it comes to devising ways to insult Jonah Ryan, who is played by the extremely tall six-foot-four and thin Timothy Simons. Some choice ones: Oddzilla, Jonahrrhea, tall stack of failed pancakes, the bad guy from Indiana Jones only taller, undercooked pool noodle, overcooked pool noodle, Leaning Tower of Loser, upright train accident, and Garbage Pail Adult.
Sometimes the insults evolve as the writers revise. From the original draft of the script:. Furlong : Cheeto-flavored Christ! You will not desecrate my convention with any of that Muslim-math nonsense. They also punch up the Muslim-math line. The table-read version:. Furlong : There is no record. I think the script was 90 pages long for a half-hour show. We shot 56 pages of it in one day. You got a lot done. And our record for the most we ever did was that day, which was I like the fact that the show just went darker and darker and darker until the end.
But whenever people ask me about very specific character things Oh my god. Do you remember what your reaction was when you first read that line? The first time we read it was during the table read. This would happen a fair amount: There would be a certain line—a lot of times it would be like a Kent [Davison, played by Gary Cole] line because Kent lines are so specific and very coarse—but there would be moments when [a line] would just shut a read-through down, where everybody would laugh so hard and so long that whoever was timing the read-through would just have to stop because it just would add too many minutes to the read-through.
And that was definitely one of those moments. Heads on desks, gasping-for-breath laughter from everybody. That happened a lot because the writers are really fucking funny. When you actually had to act it out, did it feel weird to say it in front of all those kids?
I think they were going to try to figure out a way for me to not say it in front of the kids, but also have it look like I did. But then in rehearsal, the first rehearsal, I just said it because nobody told me not to. You know what I mean? I am a firm believer that all children and babies in films should be played by people 18 or older, adults, and we should all just buy into that. Oh yeah, American Sniper. But no, even that is too far. It should just be edited.
I want to make sure the actor gets a job. OK, to bring it back to Jonah Ryan: Did you add to the character? Do you draw any inspiration from real life? I just tried to take out any sense of social grace, any sense of morality, and just have someone who is ruled by proximity to power.
That is ultimately the only thing that he cared about the entire time he was on that show. It was fun to give him enough humanity for you to feel bad for him but only if he was always able to pull the rug out from under you and make you regret feeling bad for him. Like when he got cancer, recovered, but then continued to fake having cancer?
He has cancer—this is a great test for whether or not you have empathy.
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