Story – Robert McKee's Creative Storytelling Magazine Issue 005 – Drew Carey | Page 16

MCKEE
INTERVIEWS
RUSSELL BRAND
did a two-day workshop in Madrid with Spanish comics for
MTV and Paramount because
they, they wanted stand-up
comics to develop a TV series
in Spain in the Spanish language. I was surprised by how
good they were. My first take,
because I’m full of prejudice,
was, “Well, Spanish stand-up
comics…really?” But when I
got there, they were great, and
their favorite subject was religion, and they did some wonderful material. They sent me a
whole DVD called Divine Comedy, and it was all great jokes
about religion. If you had to be
restricted to one subject like
that—religion, politics, military…
RB: Oh, I think I’d find that very
difficult. For me, if it was one subject, it would be embarrassing. It
would be something moral like
that.
RM: That’s so English.
RB: In the end, y