I recently conducted a "round-robin" interview with a variety of well-known movie stars. How did I persuade them all to congregate in one place to answer my questions? Free pizza.
ERNEST BORGNINE: This sure is good pizza.
BIPED: Shut up. Tom Cruise--why are you such a big, fat idiot?
TOM CRUISE: I don't know.
MEL GIBSON: I know!
BIPED: What? You know why Tom Cruise is such a big, fat idiot, or why you yourself are such a big, fat idiot?
MEL GIBSON: Uhh..."D."
BIPED: Excuse me?
MEL GIBSON: "D. All of the above." (emits bug-eyed laugh)
JESSICA ALBA: This pizza is the best pizza I've ever--
BIPED: Shut up. Heath Ledger, what the hell makes you think that you will make a decent Joker in the new Batman movie?
HEATH LEDGER: Well, I'm quite the "joker" in real life. Just yesterday, I heard someone on the street say, "Call me a cab." So I yelled, "Okay--you're a cab!" Ha, ha!
BIPED: Kill yourself.
HEATH LEDGER: Okay. (leaves)
BIPED: Mel, what's your next film project?
MEL GIBSON: Something different--a children's story. It's called "Inside We Know, Outside We Grow." I want to do a family picture that kids can go see with their parents for a change.
BIPED: How many people get their guts ripped out in it?
MEL GIBSON: Thirty-five. No, wait, there's the "picnic" scene...uh, forty.
BIPED: Any beheadings? Dismemberments? Castrations?
MEL GIBSON: Hey, I have to save something for the sequel! (emits bug-eyed laugh)
ERNEST BORGNINE AND JESSICA ALBA: (in unison) Piz-ZA! Piz-ZA! Piz-ZA!
BIPED: What is it with you two?
ERNEST BORGNINE: We're getting married!
JESSICA ALBA: At Pizza Hut! And instead of rice, everyone will throw anchovies at us!
ERNEST BORGNINE: And our bed will be filled with pizzas so we can roll around on them while we're having sex!
JESSICA ALBA: SEX! SEX! SEX!
BIPED: Tom, why are you wearing a clown suit and clown makeup?
TOM CRUISE: Because I'm currently filming a new movie called "Fartso The Clown."
BIPED: Oh...so, you're playing the title role?
TOM CRUISE: No. "Fartso" will be played by Jude Law. Dustin Hoffman will portray his father, "Stinko."
BIPED: What part do you play?
TOM CRUISE: I'm directing it.
JESSICA ALBA: Can I be in it? (cuts monstrous fart)
TOM CRUISE: Yes.
JESSICA ALBA: YAAAAY!!!
ERNEST BORGNINE: I wanna [cuts even more monstrous fart] be in it, too!
TOM CRUISE: Okay. (rips deafening fart)
MEL GIBSON: I want to combine your movie with my movie, Tom. We could call it "Inside Fartso The Clown Knows, Outside Fartso The Clown Grows." (cuts fart that blows the seat of his pants off)
TOM CRUISE: Okay. (farts)
BIPED: I think this pizza has given everyone gas.
JESSICA ALBA: You know what I think?
BIPED: What?
JESSICA ALBA: (blasts a sustained, incredibly loud fart that sounds like the trumpet section of the Boston Pops Orchestra) Ha, ha!
TOM CRUISE: Anybody got any Bean-o? (farts percussively)
ERNEST BORGNINE: No, but I sure do love pizza! (rips a fart that sounds like a herd of wild elephants)
HEATH LEDGER: I'm back.
BIPED: I thought you killed yourself.
HEATH LEDGER: I was going to, but then I began to fart uncontrollably. (farts uncontrollably)
BIPED: Well, I'm sorta glad you didn't. I was just kidding before.
HEATH LEDGER: Whew...that was close. (farts)
TOM CRUISE: Would you like to be in our new movie? (farts)
HEATH LEDGER: Do I have to audition for it first? (launches a series of ear-splitting farts that shatter three half-inch-thick plate glass windows)
MEL GIBSON: You just did! (emits bug-eyed laugh and huge fart)
ERNEST BORGNINE AND JESSICA ALBA: (in unison) Ha, ha! (both continue to fart)
TOM CRUISE: Ha, ha--MEL! NO! Don't light that cigarette--
(Building explodes)
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Legend, oh legend, the third wheel legend...always in the way.