Dean Lorey is a writer and producer probably best known for his role as co-executive producer of Arrested Development. He’s also worked on My Wife and Kids and was the screenwriter of the films Major Payne and Friday the 13th Part 9: Jason Goes to Hell. Currently, he’s the creator/showrunner of truTV’s Those Who Can’t, which premieres Thursday night at 10:30 p.m. EST.
Dean was nice enough to take a few minutes out of his busy schedule recently to answer a few questions from us.
1. You walk into a bar. What do you order from the bartender?
A Tito’s vodka and world peace — although I’d settle for the vodka.
2. Who’s your favorite person to follow on Twitter and/or Instagram?
Instagram is all about Dr. Woo. His single needle tattoo artistry is off the charts. I have three of them and am jonesing for a fourth…
3. What’s currently waiting for you on your DVR?
The second season of Fargo has been staring at me like an angry, abandoned lover for months. I hear there are aliens…
4. It’s your last meal — what are you going out with?
Pappardelle pasta at Pepolini’s in NYC, my favorite Italian place. If I’m going to the big dirt nap in the sky, I’m going there in New York on a cloud of carbs.
5. What websites do you visit on a regular basis?
Deadline Hollywood, The A.V. Club, Birth.Movies.Death., Suicide Girls (what?), Vulture, along with all the usual ones we hate to love.
6. What’s the most frequently played song on your mobile device?
Probably “Monster” from Kanye’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Love that whole album.
7. The first face that comes to mind when you think “punchable”?
Whoever cut me off last in traffic. And Donald Trump.
8. What’s the last thing you Googled?
“How do you fill out an Uproxx form plus naked boobs”
9. Dogs or cats?
Dogs. But I have a Boston Terrier, which is the most cat-like dog ever, so maybe dogs that are one litter box away from being cats.
10. Best concert of your life was…?
This is going to sound obnoxious but screw it. I was a friend of Clarence Clemons and a couple buddies and I went to San Sebastian, Spain to see Clarence and the E-Street band play in a giant stadium. We sat alone, right in front of the stage before the concert began, while the band did a sound check. Amazing.
11. What book are you most likely to give as a gift?
Romance for Men by Jack Icefloe Jackson. The filthiest, most disgusting book ever written. Don’t send me hate mail.
12. What’s the nicest thing anyone has ever done for you?
Any time someone doesn’t fart in a car, I’m grateful. And I appreciated my father not insisting I become an orthodontist, because my braces cost a fortune and he always felt that orthodontia was the fast lane to crazy wealth.
13. South Park or Family Guy?
South Park. And have you seen 6 Days to Air: the making of South Park? If not, go watch it right now then come back to this. I’ll listen to “Monster” while I wait.
14. You have an entire day to do whatever you want. What would you do?
Walk the streets of NYC with an endless supply of pizza in hand.
15. What movie can you not resist watching if it’s on?
Goodfellas. “One dog goes one way, the other dog goes the other way and this guy is saying ‘Whaddaya want from me?’”
16. The sports team or teams you’re most passionate about?
Hogwart’s Quidditch team, Gryffindor house.
17. Where did you eat the best meal of your life?
In a movie theater watching Star Wars for the first time. I was 10 years old. The meal was popcorn.
18. The last movie you saw in a theater?
The Hateful Eight. 70mm, with intermission. Loved it.
19. Who was your first celebrity crush?
Erin Gray, in her lycra spandex bodysuit, starring in the TV show Buck Rogers. She pulled me through puberty. Later, she acted in Friday the 13th Part 9: Jason Goes to Hell, which I wrote. That pulled me through my second puberty.
20. What would you cook if Nic Cage was coming to your house for dinner?
Easy. Bangers and Mash. Bubbles and squeak. Smoked eel pie. And a lovely bunch of coconuts.
