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Joel Hodgson

"The first twenty shows at TV 23 were really a workshop."

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"When we did the pilot, I sort of pictured this guy pirating a signal and then this story unfolding of him building this satellite and these robots and watching these bad movies."
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"So the actual riffing came out of us just sitting there and doing it the way I think some people think we really did it, which is all spontaneously, and it really was."
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"But if you think you aren't creative that's cool, too. I think being around people who aren't creative is kind of refreshing and nice."
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"The internet is a total inversion of television. It's the opposite."
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