Couple good interviews with Joel.
Art of the Title, as its name implies, focuses on the opening titles of the show. Some good talk about how great it is that everything is clearly handmade and rough around the edges.
Geekadelphia has a more general CT interview (I guess they've got a show coming up there). I thought the most interesting bit was where Joel laid out the principal difference between CT and RiffTrax:
I think people do that, it’s my impression that they think it’s a marketing thing. That if you have seen this movie you might want to see someone riff on it.
So we don’t really do that. I see MST3K and Cinematic Titanic working another side of the street.
To me what I think people like about MST3K and Cinematic Titanic is that we show movies they haven’t seen before. So it’s kind of like a new place, which is part of the value and mystique in it. So we are a lot like your tour guides in this place.
Take something like Manos: The Hands of Fate, when I watch that show it’s not even my favorite riff. But because the movie is so strange and unusual, it just has this bizarre attraction for people.
Ties right into what I was saying last week: Manos is just this fascinating, weird fucking thing that I never would have heard of if not for MST3K. I love RiffTrax, and I love the idea of taking the piss out of blockbusters, but watching Fast and Furious doesn't introduce you to anything new or different that you haven't seen before.
(Course, RiffTrax DOES do quite a lot of weird little ephemera, it's just that it uses those for the shorts, not the features.)