‘Tiny Fugitives’ Writer Jacob Kaplan on Making a Raunchy, R-Rated Summer Camp Comedy Starring 12-Year-Olds: ‘Sometimes It’s Funnier if They Don’t Get What It Means’
“POV: It’s the 2011 middle school dance and I’m flirting with you HARD,” reads the caption on one of Jacob Kaplan ’s Instagram Reels.
The 28-year-old comedian has carved out a niche playing characters from our collective childhoods: “Kid whose sleepover you immediately want to leave,” “Kid trying to make conversation after being left alone with his friend’s parent,” “Kid telling a story from camp to his friends from home.”
The culmination of that work is “ Tiny Fugitives ,” an raunchy summer camp comedy starring a bunch of 12-year-olds and Johnny Knoxville. (Kaplan makes a cameo as a guitar-strumming counselor.) The film follows Jacob Udell (Benjamin Pajak), who believes he and his friends can stay at camp forever, if only they can evade the relentless 50-year-old counselor hunting them down. Popular on Variety
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