Interview · moment 14 of 26
Woody Allen Stories: New York Stories Set and Pat Cooper's Meltdown
from Small Talk with Colin Quinn | The Tim Dillon Show #343 · #343
5 min
Guest
Colin tells two long Woody Allen stories: getting a small cop role in 'New York Stories' and being yelled at by a hostile second AD, and Pat Cooper's furious meltdown at Pips comedy club after being asked to improvise again for the camera after Woody Allen left.
- Tim cast as a cop in Woody Allen's 1987 film New York Stories while doing comedy at night and smoking three packs a day
- Second AD screams at Tim on first day for not knowing it's a Woody Allen movie; he shows up progressively later each day
- During his scene in Union Square Park playing a cop with an actress, Tim realizes he's bad and Woody can see it
- Woody Allen gives Tim a single piece of acting direction to try to save the scene
- Fifteen years later, Ray Garvey pitches Tim on a film project where Woody Allen will do stand-up comedy
- Tim doubts Woody Allen would leave to do stand-up in Brooklyn for Ray Garvey's project
- A month later, Woody Allen actually shows up to film stand-up comedy at Pips in Sheepshead Bay and brings Tim on stage
- Danny Aiello pulls up in his Jaguar and negotiates to use it in the scene; Pat Cooper arrives and complains about only getting a town car
- Woody Allen performs thirty minutes of brilliant improvisation, riffing freely on the room and everyone in it
- Production asks Pat Cooper to recreate his ad-lib performance, and Pat refuses, cursing out Woody Allen and leaving for Randazzo's clam bar
Woody AllenPat CooperPipsColin QuinnDanny AielloRandazzo'sNew York StoriesRay GarveyThe ImprovUnion Square ParkSheepshead Bay