Chris Pratt is “not an enormous fan of mean-spirited humour.”
Jim O’Heir’s new ebook, Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship, Waffles, and Parks and Recreation, includes a candid dialogue along with his Parks and Recreation co-star Chris Pratt.
In the ebook, Pratt remembers moments when he felt the jokes directed at O’Heir’s character, Jerry Gergich, crossed a line from humorous to mean-spirited.
“I keep in mind you, notably greater than some others, worrying about among the Jerry bits being…imply,” O’Heir advised Pratt of their dialog.
“I keep in mind you saying, ‘Jimmy, you okay with these?’… Do you keep in mind that feeling in any respect?”
“I do, I do,” Pratt responded.
“I used to be involved in a few of these moments as a result of I care about you and I really like you, and I knew that there have been some jokes that have been, like, imply. But meaner than they have been humorous. If it’s a joke, it’s humorous. But if it’s imply for the sake of being imply, properly, I’m not an enormous fan of mean-spirited humor, and I simply needed to examine in on you.”
Throughout the seven seasons of the hit NBC sitcom, O’Heir’s character was typically the centre of jokes, with colleagues humorously misnaming him as Gary, Larry, Lenny, or Terry. In one occasion, Pratt remembers pushing again on a selected scene.
“There was that point you employ the printer, and it says one thing like, ‘Jerry sucks’ on a chunk of paper,” Pratt shared.
“I simply mentioned, ‘I don’t assume that’s humorous. I don’t find out about it.’ For probably the most half, I rolled with it, however there have been a few instances the place I feel it went too far, and I used to be involved for you.”
O’Heir assured Pratt that he didn’t take the jokes personally however expressed gratitude for Pratt’s thoughtfulness.
“Just so you realize, that meant the world to me. You checked in on me, [Amy Poehler] checked in on me, and it’s not like I anticipated everybody to examine in on me, however the truth that you probably did was so particular,” O’Heir mentioned.
“You have the largest coronary heart, and I don’t imply it from a medical perspective.”
