First off he was about 10 minutes late. Once he showed up, Kevin and Bean started the Q&A. He was there to pimp the new DVD. They asked him about the Q&As he does at colleges. Mentions that he’s there for about 3 to 6 hours sometimes. Next, he mentioned that he now lives in the LA area which I was completely unaware of. They then asked about Scary Movie 3 and he revealed he’s just exec producing. He mentioned that he’ll have a go over with the script, but that he’s leaving most of the writing to the others (more to Brian Lynch and Zucker). They asked about Jersey Girl and Ben and Jen. Then about the video game. Really nothing new on that front. They closed the show with a pimp on the new DVD which is out next week.

“As we were raising money, we had to keep a small, little company of us doing it. As they were asking me questions and so forth, one day it just came out. They were like, ‘Why don’t you just direct this thing? You seem to know exactly what you want. You wrote this script. Nobody’s going to know this better than you.’ I thought, ‘Oh my God, am I ever going to get this chance again? I might as well take a stab at this.’ ”

Anderson, who also played the supporting role of Gil in “Now You Know,” had to learn Smith’s trick of directing himself. (Smith and his wife, Jennifer Schalbach Smith, have roles in “Now You Know.”)

“Going into it, I thought I had a pretty small part,” Anderson says. “But every day on the set, I’d be like, ‘Oh my God, I’m in this scene? I’m in this scene?’ I think my character was actually on about 65 pages of the script.”