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Walk Hard Talk: Cox, Puns 'n' Yucks

Thu., Dec. 20, 2007 12:12 PM PST by Caroline Kepnes

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Judd Apatow and Jake Kasdan's Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story is a send-up of Ray and Walk the Line. John C. Reilly plays a singer named Dewey Cox. Get it? And then he shoots (heehee) to fame off a song called "Walk Hard." You can imagine the potential for innuendos and puns. So, without further ado, the Cox pun-count chart will begin, as I share my experience interviewing the cast. And yes, of course the count will go limp and evolve into a recap of Hard facts. But hey, that's life, right?

Cue the Cox Puns!

1. A journalizer asks Reilly about his "favorite Cox phase." Insert nervous, canned laughter here. Reilly liked playing a teenager. And he's right; that's one of the best parts of the movie. He's also excited about his first make-out scene ever, with The Office's Jenna Fischer. Wow, JCR has never made out onscreen? That's hard to believe. D'oh!

2. JCR makes a reference to the tour he is doing, Cox Across America. Everybody laughs, a little too hard. I'm over it already.

3. When Reilly (as Cox) played the Roxy nightclub here in L.A., they renamed the joint the "Coxy." Now that's more like it.

4., 5. and 6. Kasdan sits down, and we are all transported to Pun City. No, the MPAA didn't ask him to "cut" the exposed member, and on and on. I can't keep up. And he is shocked when someone mentions his other movie, the bitingly funny The TV Set. So depressing that Set gets no love. Rent it people.

7. Naturally, Judd Apatow stays away from puns and instead just theorizes. Consider this: "When something is not funny at all, it's not honest." Amen. Think about that after you see Atonement, people. And about the WGA strike: "I won't even play with my children. It's too creative." Ha!

8. I ask Tim Meadows, Matt Besser and the ever-appealing Chris Parnell about a big orgy scene in the movie. A journalizer interjects, "Was it hard?" Everyone cackles. All three guys almost blush a little; the scene really is something. It features both cock and Cox—just not one in the same, if you catch my drift.

Walk Hard: Jenna Fischer, John C. Reilly

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9. The publicist announces, in extreme seriousness, that Jenna doesn't do her own singing in the movie. Um, yeah that was obvious. And frankly, who gives a damn? Jenna bangs the comedy out of the Cox-dominated park. She knows how to lick an ice cream cone and she channels Reese Witherspoon—something fierce.