And what's interesting about him as a comic character is that the custard pie hardly ever ends up on his face.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As an actor you have to get used to receiving gentle little pies in the face.
Marvel has such a huge slice of the pie.
Whatever happened to a good pie-in-the-face joke?
Some say that Cusk has no sense of humour, but expecting giggles from this writer would be akin to expecting sonnets from Benny Hill.
Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown?
I've heard every pie joke in the book. I'm still waiting for an original one.
In order for American Pie to have worked, you have to have a character who, even while he is humping a pie, the audience still likes.
Any comic is a very good actor. Look at Don Rickles. He is saying the same joke every night for 20 years and making it look like he just thought of it.
God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.
God's always got a custard pie up his sleeve.