Q: In the scene that we just watched, it appeared Richard was the hard ass of the two parents and Mary pretend like she is but then she kind of softens up.

JCR: You can't make too many assumptions about what you see because we are literally completely changing stuff up not doing the script anymore. We are making a whole big pallet of things to choose from and they both, Richard is really upset because we just got in a fight in this scene but he is by no means the hard ass in this movie both parents...

WF: trade off at times.

JCR: The reason that they are able to stay where they are at in their lives is because both parents let it go on. 

Q: Can you talk about the freedom of working in R rated environment and not having to hold back.

WF: We just kind of both came from doing R movies before this, but still I've never gotten to work with Adam in this setting. It is great to not have to edit yourself in that way just because Anchorman and Talladega we were always like "Is that too much? Do we need to find an alt for that?" That being said, we still find ourselves trying to do a couple takes that are a little less stocked with the F word just in case we have F word overload. We are like addicts who finally get to say bad words.  

Q: Do you think the environment is changing at all in comedy that films are being made that are R rated.

WF: In regards to comedy? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think with the success of like every summer there has been a couple R rated comedies that have done so well I think it is so nice to see that people are turning out to see these movies and it doesn't seem to be as big a stigma with the studios anymore. You know PG-13 used to guarantee a certain box office success and I'm sure they could pull up the statistics to still support that in a way, but it is nice that these other really creative movies that also happen to be R rated are getting a nice shot.

JCR: You know the cable TV effect too, you know watch Bill Maher or Jon Stewart, these guys say basically whatever they want even if they beep it out it used to be they couldn't even say it to get beeped. I think that is part of it and I think also just so much of media in general is PG like regular radio and regular TV. It is so controlled for so long and I think people have a craving for the truth or like honest expression and people swear more often than they did at least it seems like they do.

WF: It is funny when you get comments back like "That was rated R? Why was it rated R? It didn't seem that bad." So I think it is a comment on the rating system as well.

JCR: There is something too about the background of a lot of the people who are doing these kind of R rated comedies now, I know – this is probably true of the Groundlings. I don't know them, but I've heard Adam say...I say "Man, we go really dark sometimes with the language or the scenarios we just let our minds go wherever. So that's the rule of improv is not about limiting where you are going to go with it, you follow it all the way to the conclusion you are heading toward and that's what he said "Oh man, at UCB (Upright Citizens Brigade) or whatever there isn't a show that goes by without abortion or anal sex or whatever. These are the taboo subjects that come up in comedy. That's what people go for so it is not so much that we want to be more racy for that reason. We just start improv-ing and coming up with crazy scenarios and end up doing stuff that is more on the edge and it is not so family friendly.

WF: Whether or not we ultimately have it in the movie, it allows you to explore and then come back to another area. 

Q: We were talking to someone earlier who said the comedy in this is in general darker. Is that true is maybe a little harder in concept?

WF: I'm not the best one to ask because I never understand. I will watch a movie that is quote unquote dark and not get the qualification of what is dark and what is not.

JCR: It doesn't seem dark to me [laughs]. It is about two guys who are sort of stuck in their childhood, you know. So it has a certain innocence to it, but I guess we do swear and stuff so if that is dark, that doesn't seem dark to me. What is darker to me is a movie about dismemberment and taking people hostage and torturing them.  

Q: There is none of that in this film?

JCR: Dismemberment? No. Hostages? No.

WF: No, I don't think so. 

Q: Well, you still have a few more days on the shoot so you could.

WF: Yeah, we could add that in.

Q: Can you talk about leaving the nest yourselves? Were you the types to drag your feet?

JCR: No, I couldn't wait to get out.

WF: I could totally relate to this. I lived at home for three years after college. I had the benefit of a very patient mother who was like alright.

JCR: You had a cozier situation, I had five brothers and sisters so by the time I could at all get out I wanted my own space, which I never had at home. 

Q: Was that right at 18?

JCR: Yeah. 

Q: Do you guys plan to work together again? Maybe Land of the Lost?

JCR: You got something for John Reilly in that?

WF: We are probably going to do a musical together. Fiddler II.

JCR: Hello Dollies or Two Dollies.  

Q: We haven't had a chance to talk to you since, I'm going to take you back a month or two – there was a coach who went crazy at a press conference saying "I am a man!"

WF: Yeah, I saw that press conference. 

Q: A lot of us were talking about how it was you. Did you get a chance to see that?

WF: Yes, it was the guy commenting about the article written about a student athlete. Yes, I saw it but I did not have the reaction of "that's me" but I did see it, but I didn't really have a reaction to it either way you know it is something, it is a prime example of something we wouldn't have had access to 10 years ago now everything is out there for everyone's eyes to see.  

Q: Maybe you were just doing a bit at a press conference, but you had mentioned doing Anchorman II with like foreign correspondents. Is that a reality at all?

WF: No

JCR: Sounds like a bit.

WF: Not as of yet, no.  

Q: Did Land of the Lost come because of your name in Jay and Silent Bob or was that totally serendipitous?

WF: Yeah, totally random completely. I worked with the same management who had the rights to – with Sid and Marty Croft blah, blah, blah, yeah.  

Q: Are you going to do that as an action comedy or straight comedy or maybe something more serious?

WF: It is going to be very serious; it is going to be kind of on the tone of the English Patient, but with dinosaurs, horribly frighteningly realistic dinosaurs. In fact we only survive for 12 minutes in the movie the rest is mostly just action shots of dinosaurs communicating through sleezestacks. It is going to be more like a nature documentary.   

Q: Is it going to be a parody of a spoof of?

WF: It is going to be kind of hopefully like Jurassic Park, it is not going to be a spoof in terms of the look it is going to be as real as possible and hopefully funny.

JCR: Will Ferrell reacting to real dinosaurs that sounds funny to me.