Wilford Brimley | Paula Pell on Good Hang
There is no one in real life I can mention this to so I thought I would explain it here:
In an old Armchair Expert episode, Dax talked about his Groundlings Wilford Brimley character and how there was an SNL Wilford sketch around the same time. And he thought it was a stolen idea because Wilford wasn’t in the public sphere (maybe he didn’t say “mad” but found it fishy or coincidental). And someone advised him something along the lines of “if you think that’s your only good idea, you should pursue suing/complaining about it but otherwise let it go.” And he let it go. (I very well could be getting these details wrong, while Wilford is brought up a lot on Armchair, this story was a few years ago.)
Today Paula Pell was on the Good Hang podcast and talked about writing the Wilford Brimley sketch for John Goodman and how she came to it.
I immediately thought of Dax’s story and just had to share my observation!