What brought Novak from buildings to humor in his late teens was a realization that the he could make something bigger than the real world.

"I moved into film and writing, because there I could do things that were conceptually bigger than buildings are in actuality," Novak says.

He made a few bête noir student films with what he laughingly calls his leitmotif: "People getting killed because of messages they get in mass-produced food products."

But Novak once again shifted, discovering the kind of humor that he's selling today. By creating spectacles, he makes the stories, and lets the people and the nightly news tell them.

"It hasn't always been a dream of comedy, it's been a dream of making the biggest show I could," Novak says. "With that, I can affect what people talk about all day, what people dream about at night."

With investors' interests piqued, Novak is poised to stage his show on a much larger scale.

And even if his present plans fall through, Novak promises the show will go on.