Children's Hospital: Rob Corddry

Rob Corddry debuted on The Daily Show in 2002 and quickly became one of the show's most popular correspondents. Corddry has appeared in dozens of features films, notably Old School, Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story, and, most recently, Hot Tub Time Machine. Rob is the creator, writer, and star of Children's Hospital, now airing on Adult Swim. Watch a full episode here. After watching a few episodes of the show, my first question is: Does your character just wear clown makeup or is he actually, genetically, a clown?Well, it's a good question. It's a question that will probably be answered in season three but I will say that in the world of Children's Hospital, statistically speaking, one out of ten people are clowns. Too bad there's no way of telling. Well there are telltale signs. Spinning bowties, tiny dogs, and oversized pants - it's not very PC to call it out. You have to let them open up in their own time.That's understandable. You shot the Children's Hospital web series during the 2007 WGA strike. Had you wanted to do web content, or was the strike the main motivation to produce for the web? It was pretty much born out of the strike, and the idea. At the time, I didn't feel the idea was conducive to television. The shortest shows were twenty-two minutes and I really didn't think this kind of humor would sustain itself for that long. So the show wouldn't translate to a half-hour of television. It really wouldn't because you would be beholden to character development and plot structure, which really doesn't interest me. [Laughs]Just in this series, or in general? Well, it depends. I learn by doing. The more I write, the more I try and write in a very traditional way. I'm slowly learning how to do it � it's a lot harder. It's a lot more fun to write just eleven minutes of jokes.Do think you the show's blatant disregard for continuity will ever hurt it? For instance, in one episode you make a joke that the hospital (whose exterior has yet to be seen) is located in Brazil. We actually bring it up in the new season a couple of times. And we were even considering, in season three, to just leave the hospital for a coffee break and actually shoot for a day in Brazil. Just leave the hospital and trudge through the crazy streets of Rio de Janeiro � dodging bullets, getting papayas, making drug deals.












Written 2010-07-19 11:45:40
by Ben Joseph
from New York University
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