Tom Cruise is a total riot in Tropic Thunder and apparently the early positive response to his fat, hairy, balding part in the film has given him the confidence to pursue more comedic roles. HR says he may end up doing a comedy called Food Fight.

In it, Cruise would play a snooty New York chef forced to work at a school cafeteria. So it’s not just Tom Cruise doing comedy, but Tom Cruise doing a comedy with a bunch of kids. Tom Cruise in the radioactive roast beef version of School of Rock. Is anybody else worried that he may be able to brainwash his underage castmates into joining Scientology? Actually, stage moms being what they are, their parents might consider a place in L. Ron Hubbard’s cult a golden opportunity. Maybe by joining they’ll get little Timmy a spot in Battlefield Earth: The New Batch, or whatever the next Hubbard-based movie ends up being.