Joel Hodgson
Joel Hodgson
Joel Gordon Hodgsonis an American writer, comedian and television actor. He is best known for creating Mystery Science Theater 3000and starring in it as the character Joel Robinson. In 2007, MST3K was listed as "one of the top 100 television shows of all time" by Time.com. Between 2007-13, Hodgson was part of the "movie riffing" project Cinematic Titanic with several of his fellow MST3K alumni, performing live and producing content for DVDs and direct download. He also serves as Creative...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntertainer
Date of Birth20 February 1960
CountryUnited States of America
The internet is a total inversion of television. It's the opposite.
They would hear 3000 and think it was the year 3000, I was hoping it would sort of disorient them and prepare them for the strange message they were about to receive.
Then we tried to come up with ideas for the sketches, and then, when we actually shot the movie, we really just sat down - never previewed the movie - we just really winged it.
The name Crow was inspired by a number of things. I thought it would be cool to have a robot with sort of a Native American feel to it.
Then a friend of Jim's suggested we make a theme song to explain the story, and this is where the Mads came from. Josh and I wrote it into the theme song.
Besides, it doesn't make any sense to have these characters living in the year 3000 when all their points of reference are from the pop culture of the 80's and the 90's.
Well, really the way worked was that I had probably built fifty robots before Mystery Science Theater, and I had sold them in a store in Minneapolis in a store called Props, which was kind of a high end gift shop.
South Park started as a little video Christmas card.
The first twenty shows at TV 23 were really a workshop.
Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences.
Eventually I got asked to be in a Michael J. Fox sitcom called High School U.S.A. I didn’t think it was funny and said no. They doubled the money, and that kind of offended me. I realized, oh, that’s right, my opinion means nothing in Hollywood. I’d seen other people compromise, and I felt that once you gave up on what you wanted to do, you couldn’t go back. It was selling out. So I decided to go back to Minneapolis.
If you notice any of the press from when I was with the show, I would always deny it being the year 3000.
A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater.
A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious.