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"FacebookPinterest\n\nJames Franco is the most envied film student in the known universe.This feature-length mega-star-studded film was James Franco's response to the prompt: Make a 7-minute short documentary about a person working under pressure. It's like if Kofi Annan decided to coach a college Model UN club and was like \"I'm just like you guys! I'm just here to learn about the other side of the international diplomacy process!\"The Monday pitch meeting is funny, but mostly hot air. Will Forte calmly explained to the Franco-cam that what happens at the pitch meeting is \"50 percent bullshit and 50 percent actual pitches.\"Become friends with John Mulaney.Very late at night, while almost everyone else was exhausted and freaking out finishing scripts, John was distinctly un-drained and merry and hilarious. And he ends up with something like this.Comedic actors enjoy making jokes while being videotaped. Bill Hader does a killer Willem Dafoe impersonation and can lip-synch the HELL out of Prince's \"I Would Die 4 U.\" To himself. In the mirror.Bomb at the table read and you'll never see airtime.Just ask Casey Wilson and Bobby Moynihan about their Liza Minnelli sketch.John Malkovich, the host of Franco's chosen week, appreciates a good fart joke.Fifty sketches are commissioned each week. Only nine make it on air.And yet somehow writer Akiva Schaeffer singlehandedly sweet-talked NBC's legal department into allowing this to go on the air uncensored.Money is no object if a sketch bombs during dress rehearsal.The studio got stuck with a full-scale rooftop and New York City skyline when Will Forte's joke didn't land.If your student project gets a sold-out screening at Tribeca, it gets a guaranteed check-plus.For the Internet record, when asked how his professors assessed the project, he flashed a several-million-dollar smile and said he \"passed.\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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