{"id":821212,"date":"2025-01-20T05:12:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T11:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/20\/josh-gad-calls-this-2011-comedy-the-single-worst-movie-hes-ever-made\/"},"modified":"2025-01-20T05:12:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T11:12:01","slug":"josh-gad-calls-this-2011-comedy-the-single-worst-movie-hes-ever-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/20\/josh-gad-calls-this-2011-comedy-the-single-worst-movie-hes-ever-made\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Gad Calls This 2011 Comedy \u201cThe Single Worst Movie\u201d He\u2019s Ever Made"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Entertainment <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Actor, comedian, and <a href=\"https:\/\/comicbook.com\/tag\/grammy-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Grammy Award<\/a>-winning Broadway star <a href=\"https:\/\/comicbook.com\/tag\/josh-gad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Josh Gad<\/a> (<em><a href=\"https:\/\/comicbook.com\/movies\/news\/josh-gad-reveals-he-wants-book-of-mormon-movie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Book of Mormon<\/a><\/em>, <em>Frozen<\/em>) is opening up about his life and career in a new memoir titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gad-We-Trust-Tell-Some\/dp\/1668050528\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>In Gad We Trust<\/em>: <em>A Tell-Some<\/em><\/a>. Published just last week on January 14 (H\/T <em><a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/josh-gad-calls-this-spring-break-comedy-the-single-worst-film-i-have-made-8774635\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Entertainment Weekly<\/a><\/em>), the book includes candid revelations from Gad, including the movie he considers  \u201cthe single worst movie\u201d he\u2019s ever made: The 2011 comedy <em>Mardi Gras: Spring Break<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/comicbook.com\/movies\/news\/spaceballs-2-writer-josh-gad-offers-status-update-further-along-than-anyone-thought\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The <em>Spaceballs 2<\/em> co-writer<\/a> and star added he hoped he\u2019d never make another movie like it \u201cin my life.\u201d The comedy followed the actor\u2019s more successful romance dramedy project <em>Love &#038; Other Drugs<\/em>, also starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway. Gad shared that he had \u201cthe time of my life shooting in New Orleans with folks like the magnificent Regina Hall and our ferociously funny writer (and now lifelong friend) Josh Heald,\u201d but \u201cnonstop studio interference\u201d turned the \u201cexperience of making the film\u201d into a \u201cwaking nightmare.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><h2>Entertainment<br \/>\n\t\t\tVideos by ComicBook.com\t\t<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_3-0\">Gad explained they would \u201cliterally have scenes written by the studio head sent for us to do the next day.\u201d <em>Mardi Gras: Spring Break <\/em>was ruined for him, and apparently, the others involved: \u201cNothing made sense and, worse, it was all big, broad, meaningful comedy in which none of the creative team had any say.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_3-0\">Beyond the difficulties in shooting the film, Gad began to worry about becoming typecast if he continued to take on roles similar to his character Bump in <em>Mardi Gras: Spring Break<\/em>: \u201cWhat was worse, however, is that I began to grow really concerned that I was going down a path of playing the loud fat best friend in every project I was doing. While it was certainly starting to pay me more money than I had ever seen before, I was worried that I was getting into a situation of being typecast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny dreams I had of following in the footsteps of <a href=\"https:\/\/comicbook.com\/tag\/philip-seymour-hoffman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Philip Seymour Hoffman<\/a> or John Goodman were soon going to be dashed if I stayed on this path,\u201d Gad added. \u201cI knew I needed to branch out and attempt to have people see me in a new and unexpected way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Phil Dornfeld, <em>Mardi Gras: Spring Break<\/em> follows three college best friends, Mike (Nicholas D\u2019Agosto), Bump (Gad), and Scottie (Bret Harrison), who head to the annual Mardi Gras festival in New Orleans with Mike\u2019s girlfriend Erica (Danneel Ackles) tagging along. The road trip comedy also stars Arielle Kebbel and Carmen Electra. <\/p>\n<p><em><em>Mardi Gras: Spring Break<\/em> <\/em>is available to stream for free on Tubi. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/comicbook.com\/movies\/news\/josh-gad-calls-this-2011-comedy-the-single-worst-movie-hes-ever-made\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Kylie Hemmert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor, comedian, and Grammy Award-winning Broadway star Josh Gad ( The Book of Mormon , Frozen) is opening up about his life and career in a new memoir titled In Gad We Trust: A Tell-Some . Published just last week on January 14 (H\/T Entertainment Weekly ), the book includes candid revelations from Gad, including<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":821213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,1354,1798],"tags":[5691,12898],"class_list":{"0":"post-821212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calls","8":"category-comedy","9":"category-entertainment","10":"tag-calls","11":"tag-comedy"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}