First, They didn’t let us in until 6:50, and the doors were supposed to open at 6:30. With at least a hundred people pretending to be your close personal friends in a building with no AC, you can imagine how comfortable it was. It was to see Kevin Smith, so it wasn’t as bad.
When Kevin came out, the place went nuts. I’ve known that Kevin is a genius since I first saw “Mallrats”, but it’s wonderful to see that his audience still loves him after that movie (just kidding, it was the first one I saw, and possibly the funniest).
It was a pretty relaxed setting, as he showed up in his usual apparel of jeans and a zip up sweat shirt. He’s a cool dude, no doubt about it.
One of the first questions asked, was by some a-hole who had the nerve to ask why the special effects at the end of “Dogma” were so crappy. The dude almost got lynched. Everyone was booing, and of course Kev let him have it some. Another memorable moment was when this guy got up to leave about 30 minutes into the Q&A session. Kevin asked where he was going, and he said a meeting. Then Kevin asked what kind of meeting was more important than hearing him speak, and he said a Frat meeting. Kevin then said something about the first order of business was see which girls the frat had molested. Funny stuff, but it was hard to hear cause everyone was booing the guy. He left with his head hung low, and his feelings hurt. It was wonderful.
After a bunch of questions, Kevin actually showed us the second episode from Clerks: The Cartoon! If I’m not supposed to mention that, then forget I said anything. It was funny as hell! I hate Disney even more for giving my hero and role model the run around. If I ever see Eisner, I have an assasin’s bullet waiting for him. What a dick…
Kevin stuck around till about 11:00, and signed some autographs. another funny thing that happened was when a girl asked him to wave at her while she took a picture, cause she had to leave early. He said okay, and counted to three. On three, when the girl was getting ready to take the picture, Kevin flicked her the bird.
In the school paper, they had a cover story on him and how his career even got started and a recap of the lecture. Pretty cool stuff. They had the 5 dumbest questions asked, also. Here they are, in order…
1) If you could direct a porno, what characters from “Star Wars” would you cast?
2) Do you want to smoke a bowl afterwards?
3) Why do you make fun of New Jersey in your films?
4) Will you cast me in your next film?
5) What’s wrong with being a “drama fag”?
For the last one, he mentioned how Jeff Anderson was a regular guy, and not a “drama fag”, and yet he still got cast in “Clerks”. Some girl got upset, and Kevin defended his words by saying he was a “drama fag” in high school.
Another highlight was when Kevin started talking about “King Gimp”, the handicaped dude who went ape shit at the Oscars. He went to Towson, and when Kevin said how funny it was that the camera guy stayed on him as long as he did while he was flipping out, the dude’s trainer or something stood up and took offense. Kevin defended himself and said that he thought the reaction was brilliant, showing real emotion, and told the lady if she sees him again, to tell “King Gimp” that the “Clerks” guy thought he was cool.
The last, and possibly most interesting tidbit, is an interview with Mewes. Don’t ask me how they got him, but I thought it was pretty funny. He talks about how he was stoned for the entire filming of “Clerks”, and how he had to work harder at being “Jay” for “Dogma”. I’ll finish with a quote from Mewes…
“Around the time of ‘Clerks’ I was pretty much ‘Jay’ 100 percent, you know, like smoking pot and all, so it wasn’t really that hard,” Mewes said. “
