Bob Dylan Pitched A Slapstick Comedy To HBO

Bob Dylan once pitched a slapstick comedy show to HBO, according to Seinfeld writer Larry Charles. “He brings out this very ornate beautiful box, like a sorcerer would, and he opens the box and dumps all these pieces of scrap paper on the table,” Charles said on Pete Holmes’ You Made It Weird podcast.More »

By on November 11, 2017

Bob Dylan once pitched a slapstick comedy show to HBO, according to Seinfeld writer Larry Charles. “He brings out this very ornate beautiful box, like a sorcerer would, and he opens the box and dumps all these pieces of scrap paper on the table,” Charles said on Pete Holmes’ You Made It Weird podcast. “Each little piece of paper had a line, like some kind of little line scribbled or a name scribbled – ‘Uncle Sweetheart,’ or a weird poetic line or an idea or whatever – and he was like, ‘I don’t know what to do with all this.'” “We wrote this very elaborate treatment for this slapstick comedy which was filled with surrealism and all kinds of things from his songs and stuff. So, we say to Bob, ‘If you come to HBO with us, we’ll definitely sell the project because they won’t have the balls to say no to your face,’ and he agrees.” The project was greenlit, though Dylan quickly backed out. The project eventually became the movie Masked and Anonymous. Copyright(c) 2017 RTTNews.com. All Rights ReservedLess «