And you have burned so very brightly, Roy.
We just did a bunch of concept drawings about what JFK or Joan of Arc would be like.
I dont remember ever pitching a story, Lord tells EW.
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Chris would just say, Ah, they date and stuff.
And people would laugh and understand the show.
For his part, Miller saysClone Highhelped teach the duo what they know about filmmaking.
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It was basically our film school, Miller says.
We learned how to edit and how to do all that cinematic stuff on the fly.
We keep ripping ourselves off from stuff we learned making that show.
It comes up all the time.
We use that a lot.
Emotional is perhaps the key word forClone High.
Even the school principal, Scudworth, is the most emotional person in the whole thing.
I really started relating to how frustrating that is, to feel like you never catch a break.
I guess the discovery ofClone Highis that emotionality in comedy can really help you win.
Its the common thread.
In addition to teaching themselves filmmaking techniques, Lord and Miller got help onClone Highfrom producer Bill Lawrence.
In fact, theClone Highwriters would sometimes convene in the same empty hospitalScrubsused for filming.
It was really funny.
Unfortunately, the magic was cut short.
Perhaps fitting with the series strange energy,Clone Highhas one of the wackiest endings of all one-season shows.
After news of the shows Gandhi depiction reached India,people reacted strongly.
They held hunger-strike protests and wanted to revoke MTVs broadcasting license in India.
I remember that I was vacation in Costa Rica with no access to the internet.
I was like, Wow, I guess any publicity is good publicity?
I guess not all publicity is good publicity, as it turns out.
It was a really crazy story, but they didnt want us to talk about it at all.
We were sort of gagged about it for years, about the protests in India, the whole thing.
It was really crazy, I have to say.
Reflecting back now, Lawrence admits the Gandhi character probably could have been handled better.
It might have been in our best interests to have that be someone other than Gandhi.
But you know, we were just a bunch of dumb comedy writers.
After such an ignominious end,Clone Highseemed destined to fade into obscurity.
inspired a bevy of parodies andremix videos.
People could actually start finding weird stuff like that, that had been forgotten.
Lawrence has a different view.
That wasClone Highto a T. Whats always amazing to me is, I created a bunch of TV shows.
It always drives me insane.
Its the show we most often think about revisiting.
Next time, on a very specialClone High…
