Sometime around 2007, David Wain, the comedic architect behind Wet Hot American Summer and founding father of The State, is in a New York editing suite trying to piece together Role Models. 🎬
Next door, Mike Myers is editing a movie of his own. And through the drywall, Wain can hear Myers ruthlessly destroying another human being.
This incredible piece of unfiltered Hollywood lore didn’t surface on a sanitized late-night couch or in a glossy memoir.
It dropped casually in the middle of an Encino backyard, while Wain was eating an Astro Pop shoved into a glass of Italian ice. 🌴🍧
The source is
@perfectparfaitshow , a YouTube series hosted by Hunter Cope (
@huntercopelovesyou ) that operates as a beautifully unhinged fever dream disguised as a culinary quest.
The 27-minute interview runs on pure deadpan absurdity. But nestled right in the middle is the Myers anecdote, which arrives after Cope attempts to clear his own conscience. 😂
Cope apologizes for a time as a naive 24-year-old when he gave unsolicited, incredibly dumb feedback to Wain during the Role Models edit. Wain accepts the apology, but immediately pivots to a much more intense editing room horror story.
Mike Myers, presumably deep into Guru Pitka mode, verbally dismantles his director (who would have been first-timer Marco Schnabel) so thoroughly that comedy veteran David Wain assumes he is dressing down a 22-year-old coffee fetcher. 🤷♂️
That is the exact kind of unfiltered industry story that makes The Perfect Parfait required viewing.
Later in the episode, Wain casually drops a great detail about his own directing ambitions. When asked what genre he thinks he could excel at but hasn’t tackled yet, he doesn’t pivot to a Marvel movie or a prestige Oscar drama. 🍿
His answer? A 1970s-style conspiracy thriller, specifically name-dropping The Manchurian Candidate and The Conversation.
Honestly? Give David Wain a blank check and let him make a paranoia-fueled thriller right now. 👍
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