Adam McKay, vet of Second City and i.O., as well as founding member of the Upright Citizens Brigade, is the director of Will Farrell's latest, Talladega Nights. He spoke to Fresh Air's Terry Gross in 2004, about his and Farrell's previous effort, Anchorman.

In the interview he talks about his street theater stunt-pulling days in Chicago with the UCB, including a tale about Horatio Sanz getting arrested for staging a fake protest and North and Damen involving plastic guns and tiki torches, and McKay advertising his own suicide, culminating in throwing a CPR dummy off a five story building, and McKay's friends paying the Grim Reaper to recover his soul.