The Funniest ‘Deadpool’ Joke Was Cut, According To Ryan Reynold

With 2016 coming to an end, the entire cinematic community is looking back and reminiscing about their favorite films to have come to the big screen over the last 12 months. While it might not make every top 10 list, one of the most surprising films was Deadpool, which was released back in February to rave reviews and ultimately grossed the humungous amount of $782.6 million. Especially considering it cost just $58 million to make.

But Ryan Reynolds has now admitted to Entertainment Weekly that his favorite Deadpool joke actually never made it into the final edit of the film, and was instead sliced out by director Tim Miller.

Rather than keeping us in suspense over what he deemed to be Deadpool’s funniest line, Ryan Reynolds decided to tell the joke in all of its glory.

“Blind Al (Leslie Uggams) says something about our duplex we live in. I say, ‘This isn’t a duplex — it’s hepatitis holding still.’ That was one of my favorite lines, which is sorta slightly stolen from Funny Farm: ‘This ain’t a bridge — it’s termites holding hands.’ So I can’t take credit for it.”

During his discussion with Entertainment Weekly, Ryan Reynolds also revealed the full extent of how he and his co-stars would adjust and work on the script throughout the shoot. In fact, Reynolds confessed that he’d try between 10-15 new jokes while filming to see if they could improve upon what they had.

But Ryan Reynolds admitted that his own improvised jokes were nowhere near as impressive as his co-star, T.J. Miller’s, efforts. Ryan Reynolds waxed lyrical about the comedian’s on-set quips.

“In between takes I’m just looking at them and I’m trying different ones. I do improv but it’s nowhere near the caliber of [costar] T.J. Miller. His mouth should be in the Smithsonian. The rest of him is garbage. But his mouth is truly unbelievable.”

While Ryan Reynolds might make it sound as though production on Deadpool was somewhat of a hoot, he previously revealed that there were plenty of periods of anguish and long arguments between those involved during production, too. In fact, while talking to GQ Magazine just last month, Reyonlds admitted that he nearly had a nervous breakdown because of the stress of the film.

“Making the movie was very, very difficult. It was the most passionate group of individuals I’ve ever worked with in my life. And for whatever reason, that mercurial crazy burgoo of people is what made this thing work so well, not just because I had this vision and I saw it this way and it had to be this way. It worked because we all had that feeling. But there were vaguely scary fights in the post-production process that escalated quickly. Luckily, everybody’s grown up and at the end of the day enjoys and loves each other.”

During this same discussion Ryan Reynolds also seemed to hint at one of the reasons why director Tim Miller might have departed Deadpool 2, as he recalled how the duo would find themselves embroiled in impassioned arguments regarding every iota of the blockbuster.

“I know when I need to exert control, and I know when I need to let go of it. I’m not gonna go and sit with Tim Miller and say, ‘The visual effects of Deadpool need to be done this way.’ The man is a visual-effects wizard. But there are character and tone things that I know really well. And I’ve also been with this thing the longest out of anybody, aside from the guys that wrote the comics. Eleven years I’ve been trying to get this Sisyphus rock up the hill, and it kept rolling back on top of me. So I’m gonna be all the f*** over it from the moment it starts to the moment it finishes.”

The recent speculation is that Tim Miller left Deadpool 2 over the creative direction of the blockbuster, while it’s also believed that he and Ryan Reynolds were at odds over who they wanted to cast in the roles of Cable and Domino, both of whom are joining the sequel.

However, the show must go on, and Tim Miller has since been replaced by David Leitch (John Wick) as the director of Deadpool 2, and as recently as yesterday, it was alleged, via Comic Book, that the blockbuster would begin shooting in the June, 2017, which would suggest that it would be released either towards the end of 2018, or in early 2019.

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