FILM 1236: DEFENDING
YOUR LIFE
TRIVIA: In a scene set in a comedy
club, a terrible comedian performs a roast-style comedy act. This comedian asks
Daniel (writer/director lead Albert Brooks)
how Daniel died. Daniel says "on stage, like you." Daniel later jokes
that he can't leave before the end of the act because the guy on stage is his
father. "No, I'm kidding. That would be so sad for me." This entire
interaction is a dark and elaborate in-joke. Albert Brooks' father, Harry Parke, actually was
a comedian who died on stage at the Friar's Club, just after he finished his
roast style comedy routine.
The trams used throughout the film
are older ones from Universal Studios Hollywood.
The name of the purgatory-like
place was "Judgment City".
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