Pauly Shore: 'Maybe I Could Become the West Coast's Woody Allen'

I read that you're working with MTV again.

We have a pilot reality show about me and my [make-believe] family. It's called The Shores. It's about me any my ex-girlfriend getting back together. She has two kids from a previous marriage and I have two kids that have been living with my dad in Vegas that no one knows about. It's going to be like The Osbournes meets The Brady Bunch.

In the '90s, you developed this free-wheeling, party boy image for MTV. Today the network continues to profit off of that image with shows like Jersey Shore. Do you feel remotely responsible for the Jersey Shore phenomenon?

Oh, I don't know. MTV has gone through so many different phases since I was on there. I feel responsible for being the first personality to break out of MTV because back in the '90s, MTV was very East Coast. And then they gave me a camera and they said, "Let this guy go crazy and rock and roll."

Tell me about this Slut Killer movie you're working on.

Slut Killer is something along the lines of what you mentioned, doing something different. I can't wait for Hollywood to come up with that role [for me]. I hope I get that call someday from Quentin Tarantino or a director you would never expect me to work with who says, "Hey, we want you to do something dramatic in this piece." But I can't wait for that. Slut Killer is an idea I came up with. It's basically a guy and he is a slut vigilante. He's a serial killer who kills girls who come to Vegas that are sluts -- that cheat on their husbands and their boyfriends.

Where did you get this idea?

It came from an idea that I developed -- say, I meet a girl on the road from a small town and I invite her to visit me in L.A. She comes out to L.A. and I introduce her to all of my friends and then she goes home. But then a week later, she moves to L.A. and she kind of starts stalking me. I kind of developed this from another idea I was working on and flipped it into Slut Killer.

Has that actually happened to you?

It did happen a long time ago. I would meet girls on the road -- I haven't done this in forever but back in my 20s and 30s but I would say, "Hey, come stay with me for the weekend." I would bring them out and they would say "Oh my God, this is awesome," and would want to move out there. You know what I mean? And I'd have to say, "No, sorry."

You've been doing stand-up for over 20 years. What is your writing process like now?

Right now, I'm really busy so I'm not writing every day. But when I am touring and in that comedy world, that is when I start writing by myself. I have worked with other writers before, but usually the idea for a bit stems from me and sometimes I'll give those ideas to other writers to see what they can come up with. Most of the time, it is just me f*cking around.

What do you think is your best joke?

I have a new joke where I start out saying, "I am 40. I am halfway done with my life. Who would have thought that Pauly Shore would ever utter the words, 'When I was your age?' Then I go into a rant about, "When I was your age, we didn't have Google maps. If we got lost, we got f*cking lost." I go into how I am all of a sudden an older person, and that's one of my new things I talk about.

Having come from such a legendary comedy background, what do you think of Last Comic Standing?

No comment.

Fair enough. Well, thanks Pauly. I can't wait to see you in a Quentin Tarantino film.

Well, if you title this "Quentin Tarantino, Call Me," that'd be great. I just think it's going to take someone like that. You know what I mean? I need something different. Like Bill Murray doing Lost in Translation, Robin Williams doing Good Will Hunting, Eddie Murphy doing -- what did he get an Oscar nomination for?

You need your Dreamgirls.

Right. But I'm not going to wait for the phone to ring. I'm going to keep busy.

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