I spent a month teaching Jay how to be Jay, during which time I accepted the fact that I'd never be able to pull off the role of Randal -- the part I'd written for myself in Clerks.

My most cherished responsibility as a bona fide indie filmmaker is to let everyone know the shot is always worth taking. It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential return is immeasurable.

Contrary to popular belief, filmmaker and king of the slacker comedy Kevin Smith only began smoking pot at age 38 after working with Seth Rogen on "Za...

Sometimes a joke doesn't get the response you hope, and other times it elicits a response you never would have anticipated. Certainly, we live in a su...

Eons ago, I saw Slacker and it made me think I could be a filmmaker. I've spent the last 20 years telling audiences they could be the same.

Film mogul Harvey Weinstein has cast a large shadow over the entertainment business since first hitting it big with "Pulp Fiction" in 1994 and more re...

This year at Comic-Con, many comedy films and TV shows held panels and screenings in an attempt to win over the all-powerful fan boys.

My life will always boil down to two eras: B.C. and A.D. B.C. stands for, of course, Before Clerks -- when I was just a fat guy, not The Fat Guy Who Made CLERKS. A.D. marks After Dante -- the existence I've led since Miramax bought my first flick back in 1994.

Back east in Jersey as a kid in the '70s, any time you went for a ride in a car with a non-predatory adult, chances are they were rockin' A.M. radio, blasting "the golden oldies."

This is Mewes, back with my second attempt at writing a Blog and my second successful hijacking of Kevin Smith's computer.

You know how funny you have to be with a drunken audience? Marginally. And that suits an un-funny man like myself just fine.

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Jay Mewes here, hijacking Kevin Smith's blog and computer to have a voice in something that I think about daily -- little girl going from teenager to adult. This means ELMO => SHAVING LEGS.