Over at the Olivia Pope & Associates set, we're like middle school children. Every time there's a cut in the action, we joke and dance around; there's show tunes and fart noises.
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I remember one time when all the nuns in my Catholic grade school got around in a semicircle, me and Mom in the middle, and they said, 'Mrs. Farley, the children at school are laughing at Christopher, not with him.' I thought, 'Who cares? As long as they're laughing.'
I always performed as a kid to make my family laugh and was more concerned with making kids at school laugh than I was about the lessons.
Most of the stuff I do on the show comes out of me just trying to make my friends laugh.
It's great, because different groups of kids can laugh at each other and still enjoy the show.
I love the idea that we put in jokes the kids don't get. And that later, when they grow up and read a few books and go to college and watch the show again, they can get it on a completely different level.
Some children's music is aimed just at kids, and it can be very childlike.
Kids have awkward moments.
I didn't want to do a throwaway, mindless movie with fart jokes just to make 6-year-olds laugh. I want to provide my children with some substance.
Old School has humongous laughs all the way through it.
Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap.