Name: Tom Green Wanted to Make "Freddy Got Fingered" the Craziest Movie of All Time
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Tom Green Wanted to Make "Freddy Got Fingered" the Craziest Movie of All Time' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-02-21. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Tom Green Wanted to Make "Freddy Got Fingered" the Craziest Movie of All Time' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-02-21. Transcript available.

You know, I made this movie, Freddy Got Fingered, which was, you know, not
critically, completely embraced.
So, you know, so it's like, I wanted to explain myself a bit, but then, you
know, at the same time, there's a lot of people now that like the movie,
believe it or not.
So I didn't want to completely, you know...
And hate the critics now.
Yeah, yeah. So it's sort of like, it was a very tricky balancing act.
But, you know, Freddy Got Fingered, of course, was a idiotic movie, you know,
purposefully so.
Yeah. Did you guys make that yourselves?
Yeah, I wrote it with my friend, Derek, and we, I directed it.
You did? Was it your first time you'd ever directed a movie?
It was, yeah.
Wow.
It was, but it was, we had a budget, you know, it was 20th Century Fox.
We had, you know, because the show was doing good on MTV.
So they, they let me direct it, you know, they let me do that, which was, you
know, probably a mistake.
But no, they, no, it was, you know, we really pushed it to make it like, we
were, you know, we were in our 20s, you know.
So the, the idea was, let's make this the craziest movie ever made.
You know, it's literally, we actually believed that we could do something like
that, you know.
And, and so it gets complicated because then, you know, how do you define
failure?
You know, like it's, it, it, it, it came out Roger Ebert and, uh, it wasn't Siskel.
It was the other guy.
He had another guy there.
Oh yeah, the second street.
Ebert and Roper.
Yeah, Ebert and Roper, they sent that guy in.
Yeah.
Even he didn't like it.
He didn't?
Even Roper didn't like it.
I mean, it wasn't even Siskel.
It was, it was Roper, whoever that guy was.
But it was, they, uh, they, uh, you know, trashed it.
And, uh, you're kind of thinking at the time, man, this is devastating.
You know, Ebert and Roper are trashing my film, you know, but, um, and, and you
think, oh, you start to question, you know, every sort of choice you've made,
you know?
I don't know.
This guy looks like he also likes canned sardines at the same time.
So, and it is these days who would, nobody even trusts the critics anyway.
So it's kind of funny now that it's like, yeah, at the time, like it was the
end of, you know, the line.
If these guys trashed your movie, you know, it's like my first movie and, and
it was every, all this stuff riding on.
And then these come on, just destroyed it.
And I remember just sitting there like watching this, just thinking, oh my gosh,
this is it.
You know, this is the end.
But, you know, it's, it wasn't, you know, I just kept going, kept doing my
thing.
And, uh, and you look back at it and go, it's kind of funny now that they, they
didn't like it.
You know?
Yeah.
It's kind of awesome that they didn't.
It's weird.
Cause there's a weird sort of counterintuitiveness to it.
Cause we set out to make a movie that those guys would not like.
And then when they don't like it, you're upset about it.
Yeah.
It's like, I kind of thought that they would sort of see the irony and go,
I know we're not supposed to like this, but actually this kid's pretty clever,
you know?
No, no, no.
They didn't say that, you know?
What was the budget on that movie?
Do you remember?
$14 million.
Wow.
They spent on that.
Plus an additional 10 on, uh, you know, promotion and marketing and stuff.
Yeah.
And you know what?
I will say it made it all back on DVD.
Remember DVD?
Yeah.
Remember they used to put DVDs out?
So I think I've, I heard it made 35 million on DVD.
So we actually was a profitable move, profitable movie.
Yeah.
Made 14 million at the box.
I'm here defending it now.
It made for, it made its money back.
No, it looked.
It made its money back.
No, but it did.
So it did make its money back.
But you know, Ebert and Roper aren't going to tell you that though.
Yeah.
They're not going to tell you that.
Well, it wasn't the Titanic, you know, no, no, no, exactly.
It was, I mean, it was in a way, but in the sense that it, you know, it bombed,
but
you know, no, it was, it was, it's funny.
It's funny though, because there was a long period of time there where I was
made to feel
like it was a really bad decision.
And then in the last like 10 years, it's like, you know, all I hear are people
saying
they love it.
You know, someone today showed me they had a x-ray cat tattoo, you know, like
it's a
character in the movie, you know?
So it's like, it's, it is a little confusing when you talk about sort of, I
mean, your question
was how do you handle things like failure and things like that?
It's like, you know, it's kind of the more of those kinds of things you go
through, the
more you kind of learn to kind of embrace it in a way.
It's kind of, it's almost a good thing, you know?
It's kind of, it's kind of the more you kind of think about it.
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