David Wain and Ken Marino Courtesy of THINKFilm

DW: The truth is, she was just down for it. She thought it was funny and was very committed and took it very seriously and was asking all the right questions about what am I thinking here. As we did with every story, we tried to take our very silly premise and think it though and execute it as seriously and as artfully as we could.

Was anything too over the top and you had to pull back a bit?
DW: Not really. If we thought it was funny, we left it in. If we thought it wasn't funny, we took it out. That's the only barometer that means anything, I think, in comedy. Certainly in a rated-R movie like this, you know, if you're easily offended you shouldn't even bother. But if you're not easily offended, we think you'll think it's funny.

There was quite a strong sense of structure to the whole thing, as well as some madcap adlibbing. Will we see some of those scenes on the DVD later?
KM: Definitely. There's especially lots of thing that were extra jokes, longer, and other tangents. Each piece was for the most part longer. We had to cut it down to get the whole movie to flow, so it didn't get bogged down or so it wasn't a two-and-a-half hour movie. We're excited about it for the DVD, putting each piece, putting a complete piece, a longer version of each piece.

DW: There's a lot of random — you could call it random — non-sequitur, absurdist humor, but there's probably far more method to the madness than might be apparent. Every single thing is poured over and every structural element. We actually carefully made the choices as to when to break convention and when to break the rules and when to stick to the rules and when to wink, when to break the fourth wall.

How much fun was it shooting that final scene?
DW: The musical number, it was fun and very, very logistically complicated because in no chance would we ever have gotten the whole cast in one place at one time. So, basically, like, for example, we're shooting Oliver Platt in the house where Arnold was shot and then at the end of the day put up a green sheet, and he would just sing just his part in the musical number, and then we had to edit all of that together into one so it looked like everybody was in one place at one time and including the bow at the end where everybody bows hand in hand.

KM: If you look in the back row of the bow when we're all bowing, there's a guy who was playing bass or just guitar, and it's completely out of proportion so he looks like he's nine feet tall.

DW: Probably a little bit of [the musical number] was shot every day of our shoot.