he comes up with characters that are profoundly silly. >> when we were on "snl" together, chris did a movie with marty and harry called synchronized swimming. >> i've been directing theater, shakespeare in the park. >> that's where the character was sort of born. me, you know, right out of the navy fresh off a destroyer with a dance belt and a tube of chapstick basically. not much to call my own and being slammed down for 10 or so years, off, off, off broadway and then enough is enough. okay? i get the joke. >> chris surrounds himself with funny people, eugene, katherine o'hara. >> if there is an empty space, say a line. >> chris works in miniature.