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Most Painfully Unfunny Comedy | 1998
Norm Macdonald once called this movie "box-office poison" in an interview with Conan O'Brien and Courtney Thorne-Smith in May of 1997, prior to this movie's release.
Jim Carrey was considered for the role of Edison.
In the same Conan interview, Norm MacDonald made a joke that the 'board' in "Chairman of the Board" is spelled B-O-R-E-D. In the movie, Edison makes kind of the same joke where he says to the boardroom people, "This must be the boardroom... you guys look pretty bored."
On their "Chewin' It" Podcast, Steve Lemme and Kevin Heffernan said that Trimark chose to produce this movie over Broken Lizard's movies Puddle Cruiser (1996) and Super Troopers (2001) because executives thought "Chairman" would be more successful. Trimark vice president Phil Goldfine felt Carrot Top had "the ability to become the next Jim Carrey". He also thought Carrot Top had "the potential to become Trimark's tentpole" and that he was "just incredibly funny". Three years after the film, Trimark then became defunct and folded into Lions Gate before it could finance the Broken Lizard projects.
In a two week limited release, the film opened to 30th place in its opening weekend, grossing $181,233 from 196 theaters (averaging just $925 per screen). In the film's second weekend, it slid down to 54th place, grossing $43,770 from 188 theaters (losing 75% of its gross and pulling in only $233 per screen). The film made a total of $306,715 at the box office.
"Ty: And don't forget the handy dandy ketchup helper. Edison: Over eleven sold. Ty: And your grandmother bought ten of them. Edison: I thought you guys liked my inventions. Ty: We love them, the problem is the rest of the world doesn't."
"Edison: I'm telling you guys there's not enough radiation in those TV dinners to make somebody a walking night light. Zak: I used to have a night light, used to have a house."
