KIDS SAY THE DARNDEST THINGS TV

In one of the promos for the show, Tiffany asks a kid who has a bowling ball business, and she asks him about his sales pitch to his clients. At that point, the kids are generally done.” Are the jokes ‘too risqué’ for kids? Haddish said she spent “maybe 20 minutes” with the kids, and Schotz said, “You’re dealing with kids in elementary school, so the average is going to be somewhere between 15 and 30 minutes- is the max. The stars are children, and besides labor laws, there are also short attention spans to contend with. One day, we shot eight panels, among other things.” How much time do they spend with kids saying the darndest things? “Try putting yourself onstage with three six year-olds for 30 minutes at a time. “She’s doing a million different things all across the world, but Tiffany is focused,” he said. Producer Jack Martin said that the “middle” part can involve a lot of work: on one day, there were eight panels of kids to interview and film with.

“It’s like a late night talk show, but with kids.” I’ll interview all the children in the middle” she said. So we’ll do maybe one in the morning, one in the evening. “It’s basically five days of live audience, me doing opening monologues. In about five or 10 days, she said, they filmed the live studio audience segments, and then shot the other bits. Tiffany Haddish said it only required two weeks on her schedule total. That’s one way that ABC (and other networks) are able to land A-list talent to host shows, like Alec Baldwin hosting Match Game: it doesn’t take much time. In his review, he wrote that because she’s “a competitive comedian, can’t help but mug over the kids she’s supposed to be introducing, and redirects the conversation perpetually to her celebrity status,” and thus the kids “are supporting players to Haddish’s brash lead, and they either attempt to meet her energy in a manner that never seems uncoached or tap out, seeming vaguely unmoored by the situation and its chaos.” How quickly did it film? Variety’s Daniel D’Addario didn’t find Haddish’s skillset a fit for this series. Her presence could also have the opposite effect. She is also, of course, a star and a name people will recognize, and may tune in for her rather than the kids. And that is the dynamic that allows the comedy to come out.” Whether they’re high end, middle end, low end, she treats them all with such respect, and listens to what they have to say. She relates to these kids in a different way.

KIDS SAY THE DARNDEST THINGS TV

It didn’t sound like much, but it said it gave them identity.”įor him, as a reality TV producer, that story illustrated something critical for him: And she said if she ever had any amount of money, she would do something to create a foundation to help these kids and give them suitcases. “She grew up in foster care and went from house to house, and they gave her a garbage bag to go from place to place.

He told this story, paraphrasing what Haddish said in her act:

He told TV critics that, when Haddish’s name came up, “we went to her stand up act” to watch her perform. So, he has experience with these kinds of shows. Schotz, who’s producing under his new company Anvil 1893 (his earlier company was LMNO Productions), previously “created Seriously Funny Kids hosted by Heidi Klum for Lifetime and served as executive producer/creator of Kid’s Say the Darnest Things for CBS,” according to his bio. Tiffany Haddish, host of ABC’s revival of Kids Say the Darndest Things.

Kids say the darndest things