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Speaker 2: On here today?

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Speaker 3: You're not interested in armed now? No, look, we're going

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Speaker 3: to do this thing.

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Speaker 2: We're going to have a conversation.

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Speaker 4: Hey, film spotters Adam and Josh here. You know, we

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Speaker 4: were looking at the calendar and I noticed Josh that

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Speaker 4: the forty year Old Virgin is turning twenty this year,

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Speaker 4: a movie that Sam and I reviewed that first year

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Speaker 4: of Film Spotting episode thirty one. We both raved about

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Speaker 4: the film turning twenty. A big Blu ray release is

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Speaker 4: happening on August twelfth, and it's actually going to be

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Speaker 4: back in theaters on August twenty seconds. So we thought, well,

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Speaker 4: maybe we could revisit the review, but we never like

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Speaker 4: going that far back into the archive. Baby. Instead, we'd

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Speaker 4: take a look at a recent top five where the

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Speaker 4: forty year Old Virgin was mentioned.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean Sam seemed a little hesitant. I don't know.

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Speaker 6: I'm sure you guys had smart things to say about

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Speaker 6: the forty year old Virgin.

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Speaker 5: Can't believe that's twenty.

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Speaker 6: That was, you know, the start of the Appatow era, really,

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Speaker 6: or at least at the very beginning, these big studio

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Speaker 6: raunchy comedies that had a little bit of heart to

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Speaker 6: them as well. So, yeah, twenty years ago and now

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Speaker 6: we get to reconsider it with this Blu ray release.

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Speaker 4: We are going to share with you now our top

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Speaker 4: five twenty first century comedies from episode six two. Forty

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Speaker 4: year old Vision ranking pretty high on my list. And

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Speaker 4: things to say about the forty year old Virgin, I

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Speaker 4: make no promises. Of course, you can find episode thirty

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Speaker 4: the future too, Josh, and you get bonus content. We

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Speaker 4: recently recorded an episode and dropped an episode of us

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Speaker 4: taking a look at burn after reading revisiting that con

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Speaker 4: Filmspottingfamily dot com. And here are those top five twenty

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Speaker 4: first century comedies.

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Speaker 6: Hey, Adam and Josh.

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Speaker 7: This is Nate Goss, a longtime listener calling out of

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Speaker 7: the Verbs of Chicago, also co host of the Can

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Speaker 7: We Still Be Friends?

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Speaker 1: Podcast?

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Speaker 7: And my pick my favorite pick of twenty first century comedy.

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Speaker 7: So it's got to be Idiocracy, you might judge two

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Speaker 7: thousand and six movie that is as When on Twitter,

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Speaker 7: slowly becoming a documentary, and I remember seeing it for

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Speaker 7: the first time when I just heard it with a

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Speaker 7: and I remember just laughing phil hard and not understanding

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Speaker 7: why no one else was talking about it. But here

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Speaker 7: and in a lot of ways, more and more funny.

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Speaker 4: So that's my vote.

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Speaker 7: For top five, and my vote this year for president

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Speaker 7: is going to have to be Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew,

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Speaker 7: Herbert Camacho. Love the show, guys, keep it up.

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Speaker 4: Thanks, Thank you, Nate. A great way to kick off

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Speaker 4: officially here this top five our favorite comedies of the

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Speaker 4: twenty first century. His pick Idiocracy Mike Judge film reviewed

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Speaker 4: of film spotting. There are some hilarious moments in that

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Speaker 4: film alas not quite make the cut for me, Josh.

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Speaker 4: Okay, So we have set up throughout the show already.

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Speaker 4: The BBC list that inspired this top five, they were

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Speaker 6: Down, well, I now understand why I wasn't asked to

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Speaker 6: There's a very simple reason why I love comedy and

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Speaker 4: So this is just one of the many reasons why

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Speaker 4: not like I disregard comedy completely when I put together

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Speaker 6: Yeah, we're not going to have the Cohen's on here,

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Speaker 4: No Pixar right as well, and even Paul Thomas Anderson.

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Speaker 4: Right, And if you were going to create sort of

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Speaker 4: back to our review of Young Frankenstein earlier, mel Brooks

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Speaker 4: But what I want to throw out to you before

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Speaker 4: Who would those directors be. Right now, let's not talk

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Speaker 11: Hey, guys, this is Michelle R. From Kenosha, Wisconsin. My

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Speaker 4: No movie has made me laugh more.

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Speaker 6: So I wish that I could find my original review

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Speaker 3: Hey, you guys, happy hour is from four to six?

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Speaker 3: Is there alcohol in this?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 7: God, honey, No. What kind of mother do you think

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Speaker 3: Why do you want a little bit? Because if you're

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Speaker 3: thank you. So you guys, what is the four to

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Speaker 4: What is the hot gossip? Tell me everything?

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Speaker 3: What are you guys listening to?

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Speaker 13: What's the cool jams?

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Speaker 8: Mom?

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Speaker 1: Could you go fix your hair?

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Speaker 4: You girls?

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Speaker 4: I love you so much.

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Speaker 6: Besides the laughs, the emotional accuracy here is just brilliant.

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Speaker 6: feeling that truth when me and Girls first came out,

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Speaker 6: I wasn't you know this was in two thousand and

439
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Speaker 6: four high school was I could still remember it fairly

440
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Speaker 6: well at that point. Now, though, with my oldest daughter

441
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Speaker 6: starting her first year of high school, I don't know

442
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Speaker 6: if I could beare to revisit this whole movie and

443
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Speaker 6: be reminded of just how complicated that social structure can be.

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Speaker 6: So Mean Girls my number four.

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Speaker 4: So now, of course, I'm regretting that we didn't share

446
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Speaker 4: our picks with each other ahead of time, which we

447
00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:24,760
Speaker 4: don't normally do, but there are exceptions, and I really

448
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Speaker 4: wanted to avoid having a pick on your list that

449
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Speaker 4: I hadn't seen. And despite having a female friend a

450
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Speaker 4: few years back being a gas that I'd never seen

451
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Speaker 4: Mean Girls and I want to see it, I just

452
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Speaker 4: haven't made the time. She even bought it for me

453
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Speaker 4: for Christmas the DVD, and I still haven't done it. No, Instead, Josh,

454
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Speaker 4: going back to Adam McKay and Talladega Knights. You had

455
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Speaker 4: to convince me that you might go with the other guys,

456
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Speaker 4: and so I watched that you did. I watched the

457
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Speaker 4: other guys and I like it good. I like it. It

458
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Speaker 4: did it did well. Adam McKay is a great director,

459
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Speaker 4: so yes, I know that.

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Speaker 6: Now, come to appreciate that. But few it's funny will

461
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Speaker 6: talk about the other but it is up there with

462
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Speaker 6: their best stuff.

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Speaker 4: I mean, Farrell is great, Wallberg is great. All the

464
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Speaker 4: scenes with Eva Mendez are fantastic. Everything about that whole

465
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Speaker 4: dynamic is great. But here's why the other guys is

466
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Speaker 4: worth saying. To go off on a little tangent here

467
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Speaker 4: for this one scene, the best sequence in the film

468
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Speaker 4: by far. Michael Keaton plays their captain. Almost every scene

469
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Speaker 4: he's in I crack up. But there's one in particular,

470
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Speaker 4: and I'm trying to remember, now, is it Wahlberg or

471
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Speaker 4: Farrell who gets into a fight with another cop at awake? Basically, well,

472
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Speaker 4: and Wahlberg is the hothead, right, so I've seen him.

473
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Speaker 4: They get into a fight at a wake. So you

474
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Speaker 4: have a group of cops standing in a circle, just

475
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Speaker 4: like a school you heard fight, But since it's awake,

476
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Speaker 4: they're trying to be quiet and respectful, so they're like,

477
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Speaker 4: get him, get it, but they're whispering. And then that's

478
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Speaker 4: funny enough, But then Michael Keaton comes in and he

479
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Speaker 4: tries to break it up. And the way he breaks

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Speaker 4: it up by yelling but whispering. I was laughing so

481
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Speaker 4: hard watching it that I was thinking to myself, they

482
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Speaker 4: must have done fifty seven takes of this, because how

483
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Speaker 4: anybody else in that circle could have watched Keaton do

484
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Speaker 4: that so seriously and not just lose it. They'd have

485
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Speaker 4: to be the best actors of all time. That scene

486
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Speaker 4: is amazing.

487
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Speaker 5: See now you make me wish I put the other

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Speaker 5: guys up.

489
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Speaker 4: Plus this was hard, Yeah, it was so The moral

490
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Speaker 4: of the story is I still need to see Me

491
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Speaker 4: and Girls. My Number four is a film that came

492
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Speaker 4: out in twenty ten. It actually started as a BBC

493
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Speaker 4: series that was edited into a film. Michael Winterbottom the director.

494
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Speaker 4: The movie is The Trip Coogan and Rob Brydon, where

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Speaker 4: it's these two great comedians and comedic actors playing versions

496
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Speaker 4: of themselves for sure, as they go around the English

497
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Speaker 4: countryside on a trip being paid for. I believe by

498
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Speaker 4: the Guardian Coogan's been sent out and you can't bring

499
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Speaker 4: his love interest along with them. I think they've just

500
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Speaker 4: had a falling out, so he brings Rob Brydon along

501
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:09,359
Speaker 4: with him. Now we really could just play one great

502
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Speaker 4: scene from all of these movies and shut up and

503
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Speaker 4: probably what we should have done here, And I will

504
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Speaker 4: get to that eventually with one of these picks. But

505
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Speaker 4: the Michael Kaine scene where they're sitting over a meal

506
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Speaker 4: and they go back and forth over how to properly

507
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Speaker 4: do Michael Kine is among the scenes that made me

508
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Speaker 4: laugh the most I can think of, certainly of the

509
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Speaker 4: past fifteen or sixteen years.

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Speaker 14: Well, broadsheet journalists have described my impressions as stunningly accurate.

511
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Speaker 2: Well, they're wrong. I've not heard of Michael Kaine, but

512
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Speaker 2: I assume it would be something along the lines of

513
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Speaker 2: my hi'm's Michael Kay.

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Speaker 14: That is where you were so wrong. You could look

515
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Speaker 14: at my life video, because that's the very thing I

516
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Speaker 14: don't do. I say that he used to tell.

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Speaker 5: That Michael Kain.

518
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Speaker 14: Okay, I say, Michael Kay, and used to talk like

519
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Speaker 14: this in the nineteen sixties, right, But that has changed.

520
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Speaker 14: And I say that over the years, who's voice has

521
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Speaker 14: cap down cepho act let me finish, and all of

522
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Speaker 14: the cigars and the brandy don't let me finish? It

523
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Speaker 14: can now be heard. I've not finished in the bat

524
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Speaker 14: of the voice, and the voice now well I've still

525
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Speaker 14: not finished the voice of panicing. Yeah, because you look

526
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Speaker 14: like you're a back of bloody chalk. Let me finish, right,

527
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Speaker 14: so Michael Kat's voice down in the Batman movies, added

528
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Speaker 14: Harry Brown. I can't go fast because Michael Kaine talks very,

529
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Speaker 14: very slowly.

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Speaker 4: What made me really laugh more than anything in this film,

531
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Speaker 4: and I noted this during a review back in twenty

532
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Speaker 4: ten when this came out, is watching them when they

533
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Speaker 4: actually do crack each other up, because you hear in

534
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Speaker 4: that Michael Kine scene how they really are kind of

535
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Speaker 4: fighting with each other in a way. They're trying to

536
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Speaker 4: one up each other so much throughout the whole film

537
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Speaker 4: that when they actually do make the other guy laugh,

538
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Speaker 4: those are the really rewarding, amusing moments in the film

539
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Speaker 4: because they're each other's toughest critics by far, and they're

540
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Speaker 4: brutally honest with each other. So when someone else does

541
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Speaker 4: something that is genuinely brilliant, well they have to they

542
00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:11,399
Speaker 4: have to applaud, They have to give them that. So

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Speaker 4: I love that, But I do also love the way

544
00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:18,439
Speaker 4: that reality and fantasy line blurs again playing themselves, they

545
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Speaker 4: are versions, certainly it's heightened but it is them and

546
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Speaker 4: it's their personas. So the humor comes out of the

547
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Speaker 4: honesty of a lot of those moments they're tapping into

548
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Speaker 4: some genuine antagonism. I think it's fair to assume that

549
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Speaker 4: exists between them, and we get those kind of moments.

550
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Speaker 4: Then when they go to the cemetery where Keats and

551
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Speaker 4: Shelley are buried, and they get into a conversation about

552
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Speaker 4: how they would eulogize the other person.

553
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Speaker 2: But of course, let's not remember a man who is lost,

554
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Speaker 2: desperately trying to legitimize his life by doing silly voices

555
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Speaker 2: constantly and not confronting the truth. Let's remmer the other

556
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Speaker 2: side of Rob, the Rob Brydon, the entertainer, the Rob

557
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Speaker 2: Brydon who gave some levity to our life and helps

558
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Speaker 2: us avoid confronting the harsh realities and helps us avoid

559
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Speaker 2: looking at the brutal reality of what life is about

560
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Speaker 2: some of the characters. Of the characters who can forget

561
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Speaker 2: his Tom Jones impression? Who can forget that I think.

562
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Speaker 5: I'd better die now?

563
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Speaker 2: You can see think I'd better die now?

564
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Speaker 1: That's good?

565
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, Well I'll take her when you're doing

566
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Speaker 2: there'll be plenty of I'll do plenty of Tom Jones

567
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Speaker 2: when you're dead, don't worry about that.

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Speaker 4: Funny and brutal and brutally funny. And if you enjoyed

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Speaker 4: those scenes as much as I did, and you love

570
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Speaker 4: the riffing on impressions as much as I did, you

571
00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:53,919
Speaker 4: can watch more of it in the Trip to Italy

572
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:56,359
Speaker 4: from twenty fourteen, another movie I thought was hilarious, and

573
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Speaker 4: apparently there's a third one coming out. I didn't know

574
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Speaker 4: it Spain.

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Speaker 6: Maybe that will be my chance to finally catch up

576
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Speaker 6: on these You've got me here. Oh, I never saw

577
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Speaker 6: the Trip and wanted to correct that. When a Trip

578
00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:10,480
Speaker 6: to Italy came out, thought I could knock out both.

579
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Speaker 6: Didn't get to it, so I better get to it soon.

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Speaker 4: It's on Sam actually said. After I told him it

581
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Speaker 4: was going on my list, he said, yeah, you know what,

582
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Speaker 4: You've convinced me. It's going in my top five as well.

583
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Speaker 4: He was kind of ruling it out because it really

584
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Speaker 4: is more of a character study. I said, yeah, but again,

585
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Speaker 4: quantity and quality of laughs, the trip has it, so

586
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Speaker 4: my number four. Let's get to our number three picks here, Josh,

587
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Speaker 4: but to help us do that we will hear from

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Speaker 4: longtime listener David L. William Season Central Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 1: Hi, I'm spotting.

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Speaker 8: This is David L.

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Speaker 15: William trom Central Pa. And the best comedy of the

592
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Speaker 15: twenty first century is two thousand and nine's In the Loop.

593
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Speaker 15: Armando Ian and She's take on the Invasion of Iraq

594
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Speaker 15: is the funniest political film since Doctor Strangelove. It begins

595
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Speaker 15: with a British government official thing in an interview that

596
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Speaker 15: war is unforseeable, and then does everything to prove him wrong.

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Speaker 15: It is arc a sherbick and laugh out loud funny,

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Speaker 15: with a fantastically witty script that was nominated for an Oscar.

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Speaker 15: Peter Capaldi's Malcolm Tucker is a force of nature, maybe

600
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Speaker 15: the most profane character ever put on film, and I'd

601
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Speaker 15: love to quote some of his lines, but you would

602
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Speaker 15: just hear a string of beep in the Loop. If

603
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Speaker 15: not just the best comedy of the twenty first century,

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Speaker 15: it's one of my top ten comedies of all time.

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Speaker 16: Yes, where'd you think you are? In some regency costume drama?

606
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Speaker 16: This is a government department, not a jans Host novel. Malcolm,

607
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Speaker 16: allow me to pop a Johnty little bonnet on your

608
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Speaker 16: pub you and run out of the lubricated the horse.

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Speaker 6: David is so right about the doctor strange love vibes

610
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Speaker 6: in that one. I'd actually forgotten that until David brought

611
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Speaker 6: it up on Twitter and reminded me and looked up

612
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Speaker 6: my review, and yeah, I did enjoy that quinettle bit

613
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Speaker 6: when it came out. My number three is the one

614
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Speaker 6: that maybe crosses the line a little bit from pure comedy.

615
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Speaker 6: I went back and forth on whether or not to

616
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Speaker 6: include it. Unlike my first two picks, I can't say

617
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Speaker 6: that it ever really made me burst out in laughter,

618
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Speaker 6: but I was sort of It had me on a

619
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Speaker 6: low chuckle throughout, okay, and then eventually that would bubble

620
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Speaker 6: into an audible laugh here and there, and it was

621
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Speaker 6: just kind of always on this hum So I went

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Speaker 6: with it. It's Roy Anderson's songs from the second Floor.

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Speaker 4: I thought about it. Did you thought about it?

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Speaker 5: Good?

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Speaker 6: That is one we just saw. We just discovered it

626
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:21,600
Speaker 6: in our Contemporary Nordic Cinema Marathon. Now, for those who

627
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Speaker 6: didn't join us on that journey, and you really should,

628
00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:27,960
Speaker 6: you still can. Obviously, in our previous few episodes, we

629
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Speaker 6: found a couple of gems there. It's been a good trip.

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Speaker 6: This one was a series of droll, absurdist vignettes. We

631
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Speaker 6: talked in particular about the recently fired office worker who's

632
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Speaker 6: clinging to his boss's legs as he's being dragged down

633
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Speaker 6: this cold corporate hallway, as well as the magician who

634
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Speaker 6: ends up actually cutting into the audience member who he

635
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Speaker 6: was pretending to saw in half.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 6: I described Songs from the Second Floor as capturing the

638
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Speaker 6: world's last whimper. Yet on my website, where my reviews

639
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Speaker 6: are archived by genre, I filed it under comedy why

640
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:04,000
Speaker 6: it doesn't seem to make sense? But for some reason

641
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Speaker 6: and I mentioned this in our review of Songs from

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Speaker 6: the Second Floor. Every time that magician's victim would show

643
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Speaker 6: up in another segment and he'd WinCE while holding his side,

644
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 6: I'd laugh. I would just start chuckling. And I don't

645
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:18,800
Speaker 6: think it's that I'm cruel. I guess it could be that,

646
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Speaker 6: But it's more that Anderson has found a way in

647
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Speaker 6: this movie to take all of the world's collective angst

648
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 6: over life's little miseries and how those pile up on us,

649
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Speaker 6: and he.

650
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Speaker 5: Has these characters bear it.

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Speaker 6: In a way that makes us laugh, and then by

652
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:36,840
Speaker 6: laughing we feel a little bit of relief ourselves. So

653
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Speaker 6: maybe stretching things a bit, but I'm going to go

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Speaker 6: with Songs from the Second Floor.

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Speaker 4: Okay, a film that very well could come up a

656
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 4: little bit more when we get to our Nordic Cinema Awards.

657
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:48,719
Speaker 4: And yeah, if you haven't watched the film yet and

658
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:51,720
Speaker 4: you throw it in because of Josh putting it on

659
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:54,080
Speaker 4: this top five list, and you start watching it and think, well,

660
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:56,400
Speaker 4: Josh is crazy and it's a little bit of anold

661
00:31:56,720 --> 00:32:00,840
Speaker 4: crazy here before it happens pretty regularly, you might be right.

662
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:03,560
Speaker 4: But not only are a lot of the scenes that

663
00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:07,120
Speaker 4: you just mentioned, Josh really genuinely funny, if not laugh

664
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 4: out loud. It's not about jokes, but definitely absurd and

665
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:13,680
Speaker 4: makes you chuckle to yourself. That's probably a good description.

666
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 4: I would throw in the two scenes I highlighted during

667
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:21,440
Speaker 4: our discussion of that movie, I'll just say the cross convention,

668
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 4: oh yeah, the salesman convention and the scene I think

669
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:26,640
Speaker 4: it's the first one that takes place at the mental

670
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 4: hospital with the doctor who is watching this encounter between

671
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:33,880
Speaker 4: family members. Those two scenes those did genuinely make me

672
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:34,520
Speaker 4: laugh out loud.

673
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:36,480
Speaker 6: Well, and what's the goal of all the scenes we

674
00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 6: just mentioned? And I would say probably ninety percent of

675
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:41,640
Speaker 6: the film. The goal is to make you laugh, and

676
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 6: I think it's successful. So it may not look or

677
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:48,400
Speaker 6: move or sound exactly like the broad American comedies were

678
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:51,800
Speaker 6: used to, but it is certainly a comedy.

679
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:55,760
Speaker 4: Well, let's get to some more traditional laughs with my

680
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:57,720
Speaker 4: number three, and we're going to get to another voicemail

681
00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:00,720
Speaker 4: in this case, Josh, this isn't another option. John in

682
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 4: Salt Lake City has my number three pick.

683
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 17: I hate film spotting. This is John in Salt Lake City.

684
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:10,520
Speaker 17: My choice for the twenty first century comedy is definitely

685
00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 17: Role Models. It's the most interesting comedy in that that

686
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:17,440
Speaker 17: was kind of a dark time, because comedy was kind

687
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:21,320
Speaker 17: of headed down a really kind of dark, sarcastic, snarky pass.

688
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 1: And Role Models has that.

689
00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:27,600
Speaker 17: It's also super gross out and very adults, but it

690
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:33,000
Speaker 17: really rises above and I really appreciated that it had

691
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:35,480
Speaker 17: real wants that replaced the schnock in the face with

692
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 17: a really really easy set of targets, and it was

693
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 17: just I was smiling at the end, and I love it.

694
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Speaker 1: Oh, that's my choice.

695
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 4: Thank you John for that voicemail, and thank you for

696
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:48,760
Speaker 4: reminding me just how much I loved Role Models. That

697
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 4: is the two thousand and eight comedy directed by David Wayne.

698
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:54,440
Speaker 4: He was a co writer on the film as well

699
00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:57,680
Speaker 4: Sean Williams, Scott Paul Rudd, the stars in that movie.

700
00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:02,120
Speaker 4: They play two dudes who are punished basically for a

701
00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:04,320
Speaker 4: few different offenses, and they have to do one hundred

702
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 4: and fifty hours of community service, so they have to

703
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:09,480
Speaker 4: be role models for some younger kids. They're the bigs

704
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:14,400
Speaker 4: to the littles in Jane Lynch's Little Program, and a

705
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:16,480
Speaker 4: lot of what John said I think is dead on,

706
00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:18,960
Speaker 4: of course, about what makes Role Models a really good

707
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:22,000
Speaker 4: and really interesting film, where there is something about the

708
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:25,319
Speaker 4: movie that is sweet and uplifting by the end of it,

709
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:27,880
Speaker 4: and it works at the end of the film despite

710
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:31,080
Speaker 4: the fact, Josh, that there's still that really strong rebellious

711
00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:33,920
Speaker 4: spirit to it that we've had throughout the whole film,

712
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:37,160
Speaker 4: and we get wonderful moments like a dinner table scene

713
00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 4: where Rudd finally recognizes in his little Christopher mintz Ploss,

714
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:45,520
Speaker 4: who plays Augie, a kid who plays those fantasy games

715
00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:49,359
Speaker 4: and jo dragons. He's got the swords and all that stuff. Well,

716
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 4: I think dungeons the dragons just takes place all in

717
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:54,799
Speaker 4: your head, doesn't it. He's actually full blown dressed up.

718
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 5: I don't know.

719
00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:59,399
Speaker 4: We are losing our NERD credentials here, Josh. But that's

720
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:02,360
Speaker 4: a wonderful scene. And there are lots of little wonderful

721
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:06,879
Speaker 4: war moments in this film that all said. It's hysterically

722
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 4: funny because of scenes like this one.

723
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 3: It's drawing there, Oh, Beyonce, she's smoking. I want to

724
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:17,040
Speaker 3: take my pants off.

725
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:19,319
Speaker 12: What whoa? Whoa?

726
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:23,920
Speaker 6: All right, Ronnie, that's enough trying to grab my joint language, Ronnie.

727
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:27,240
Speaker 4: My language is English, and this my trying to grab

728
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:28,400
Speaker 4: all my hang Dad.

729
00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:30,920
Speaker 3: Got my own hang down to touch kid.

730
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:33,480
Speaker 5: Oh, he has one of the handful of the ball Oky.

731
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:34,360
Speaker 5: That's racist.

732
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:36,279
Speaker 3: Well, I trust you too, will work this out. I'm

733
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:37,359
Speaker 3: not going to micromanage.

734
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 6: Not my modus operone.

735
00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:40,640
Speaker 4: Now. I don't know how much of that scene we

736
00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:42,799
Speaker 4: were actually able to play on the radio, or how

737
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:46,280
Speaker 4: much we had to bleep, but hilarious stuff. Sean Williams

738
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 4: Scott proving in this film and a few others that

739
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 4: we probably didn't fully appreciate him after all, being introduced

740
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:55,240
Speaker 4: to him as Stiffler in the American Pie movies, because

741
00:35:55,280 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 4: he's really a legitimately good comedic actor, really funny guy.

742
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, a movie that almost made my list, the Promotion,

743
00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:05,600
Speaker 6: which he's in with John c Riley. He absolutely holds

744
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:08,000
Speaker 6: both the comedy and the dramedy there. I'm glad you

745
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:10,280
Speaker 6: went with the role models though for the Wayne film,

746
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:13,279
Speaker 6: I think the one that you most often hear is

747
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:16,480
Speaker 6: what Hot American Summer. People just have such a relationship

748
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:19,759
Speaker 6: with that picture. But I enjoy Role Models probably the

749
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:23,440
Speaker 6: most of his and wander Lust too, is really really strong.

750
00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:25,879
Speaker 6: So he is one of those names in that tier

751
00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 6: you were talking about at the start of our list.

752
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:30,520
Speaker 4: Well, then it worked out very well that I reached

753
00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:33,080
Speaker 4: out to David Wayne, and I thought, as one of

754
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 4: those directors in one of those tiers, we should get

755
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 4: his perspective on his favorite comedy of the twenty first century,

756
00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 4: and I did not see his pick coming. Let's hear it.

757
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:48,080
Speaker 13: Perhaps it's generational, but for me, there haven't been so

758
00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:51,200
Speaker 13: many classic pure comedies in the twenty first century so far.

759
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 13: Along the lines of my all time favorites, including The

760
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:58,280
Speaker 13: Graduate Tutsi, Woody Allen's Best Ones, Animal House, Pink Panther, Airplane,

761
00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 13: Flirting with Disaster, et cetera. I think part of it

762
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:02,920
Speaker 13: might be that a lot of the real creative energy

763
00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:05,200
Speaker 13: and narrative comedy these days has moved to TV and

764
00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:07,879
Speaker 13: to the Web. With that said, if I really think

765
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:10,280
Speaker 13: about what movie made me laugh the most and hardest

766
00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:12,720
Speaker 13: this century, I'd have to go with mcgroober from Yorma

767
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:17,279
Speaker 13: Toconi and Will Forte unabashedly stupid yet obsessively tight and

768
00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:20,600
Speaker 13: crafted under the surface. Honorable mention has to go to

769
00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:23,080
Speaker 13: the Jackass movies, which also had me laughing hard from

770
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:25,920
Speaker 13: beginning to end, even though it's kind of cheating. And

771
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:29,919
Speaker 13: final honorable mention goes to Tommy Wiseau's unintentionally funny movie

772
00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:32,480
Speaker 13: The Room, which is the only movie I've ever seen

773
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 13: that illicits giant roars of laughter on nearly every line

774
00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:37,040
Speaker 13: of dialogue.

775
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 6: Well, I guess if David Wayne has gone out on

776
00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:41,279
Speaker 6: this limb already, it's safe for me to go out

777
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 6: and say that I really like the Jackass film.

778
00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:45,680
Speaker 4: Still No, I do as well. At least one of

779
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:48,759
Speaker 4: them was reviewed here on the show and favorably. But

780
00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:52,240
Speaker 4: I'm with David. Thank you for that wonderful voicemail because

781
00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:55,560
Speaker 4: it prompted me to do more homework. No, didn't watch

782
00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:59,000
Speaker 4: me Girls, but I did watch mcgroober in preparation for

783
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:03,719
Speaker 4: this list, and he's absolutely right. It's hysterical. Mcgruber is

784
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:05,280
Speaker 4: a really funny film. Did you see it, Josh?

785
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:06,360
Speaker 5: I still need to see it.

786
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:09,240
Speaker 6: I'm going to do it before I see pop Star Smart.

787
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:12,000
Speaker 4: I think that does make sense. Directed by Jorma Taconi,

788
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 4: who is part of that Lonely Island group, And I

789
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:17,080
Speaker 4: thought pop Star was really good and really well directed

790
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:19,400
Speaker 4: and well conceived all around. And you can go back

791
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:22,279
Speaker 4: to mcgroober and see that he certainly knows what he's doing.

792
00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:25,160
Speaker 4: Pop Star wasn't an anomaly at all. And just real quick,

793
00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:28,680
Speaker 4: I have to say my favorite favorite line in the movie. Mcgroober,

794
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 4: who has been out of civilization for like a decade

795
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:36,439
Speaker 4: and is a huge dork to begin with, so isn't

796
00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:41,600
Speaker 4: really in touch with anything cool. He drives this Mazda convertible,

797
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:44,160
Speaker 4: this red Mazda convertible that he thinks is like a

798
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:46,400
Speaker 4: hot car, and everybody makes fun of him for it,

799
00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:49,560
Speaker 4: and he's got one of those old car stereos that

800
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:52,279
Speaker 4: he takes out. Oh yeah when he gets out of

801
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 4: his car those oh yeah, I did do so it

802
00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:58,680
Speaker 4: doesn't get stolen, but he takes it to another level,

803
00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:01,799
Speaker 4: Josh like he pulls up to talk to someone and

804
00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:04,200
Speaker 4: just gets out of the car and is standing behind it.

805
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:07,320
Speaker 4: He pulls the stereot if he walks into a restaurant

806
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 4: or a party, he brings it with him. It doesn't

807
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:12,080
Speaker 4: matter where he's going, which leads to the best line

808
00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:15,000
Speaker 4: of the film. When some bouncers destroy it, he says,

809
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:19,080
Speaker 4: that is a blow punkd you oh be a bloupunked.

810
00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:22,960
Speaker 6: Well, it was one of the better brakers exactly.

811
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 4: That's why it's funny. And that concludes Adam does lines

812
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:29,879
Speaker 4: from mcgruber. Let's get to You're number two.

813
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:33,520
Speaker 6: Cedar Rapids knew it was coming. Yep, yep, absolutely. I

814
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 6: mean think about it this way. Some of our best

815
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:41,279
Speaker 6: comedies turn on minor moral dilemmas. Think of Jack Lemons, C. C.

816
00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:44,239
Speaker 6: Baxter in the apartment. I'm talking your language here are

817
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:47,840
Speaker 6: I see Cedar Rapids as working in the tradition of

818
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:49,920
Speaker 6: a movie like that and this is pretty much what

819
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:52,960
Speaker 6: we've got at. Helms plays Tim Lippy, a mild mannered

820
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:56,000
Speaker 6: insurance agent who's sent to his first business convention and

821
00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:59,360
Speaker 6: is shocked, just shocked. He can't believe how regular people

822
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:02,719
Speaker 6: behave when they're away from home. Helms is so good here.

823
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:05,160
Speaker 6: I'm not gonna say he's Jack Lemon, but really his

824
00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:08,719
Speaker 6: naivete and the way he commits to it and his

825
00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:13,760
Speaker 6: excruciating normalcy, I think is something we don't often see

826
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:18,239
Speaker 6: on screen. We see nerds, or we see guys who

827
00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:19,120
Speaker 6: are idiots.

828
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:20,080
Speaker 5: But just to.

829
00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:24,799
Speaker 6: See a painfully normal, everyday guy played like this is

830
00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:26,839
Speaker 6: a rarity, and he still manages to be funny while

831
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 6: doing it too. The movie that was almost stolen by

832
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:33,080
Speaker 6: its supporting cast, we have Anne Hayesh, who is revelatory

833
00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:35,440
Speaker 6: to me in this movie, never thought of her this

834
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:37,600
Speaker 6: way before. She plays a married mom who's looking to

835
00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:40,719
Speaker 6: have her own sort of fun at this convention. And

836
00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:43,239
Speaker 6: then John c Riley, who, if it's not clear by now,

837
00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:47,879
Speaker 6: I consider a comic national treasure. He is the convention's

838
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:52,279
Speaker 6: notorious partier who tries to turn every year into Marty

839
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:53,359
Speaker 6: Grass who.

840
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:55,560
Speaker 5: Wasn't get wasted jo Jo.

841
00:40:57,680 --> 00:41:01,200
Speaker 6: Haven't check out those studs Ostrowski.

842
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:05,040
Speaker 5: Oh, ron Ronald, do you look fantastic?

843
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:08,719
Speaker 3: This one squeezing a little firect?

844
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:13,840
Speaker 4: Oh ye oh so good? Oh let me.

845
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:16,360
Speaker 6: Sealed?

846
00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:17,239
Speaker 1: You know this game?

847
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:20,320
Speaker 4: Oh that's right from the fitness center.

848
00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:23,000
Speaker 7: Yeah, I was really naughty with you down there.

849
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:23,920
Speaker 2: I'm really sorry too.

850
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:24,759
Speaker 13: Oh no, she's not.

851
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:27,920
Speaker 3: Oh no, I'm not shots. Let's do it.

852
00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:28,399
Speaker 1: What do you want?

853
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:28,680
Speaker 16: Guys.

854
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:32,759
Speaker 6: What's really unique about Cedar Rapids, I think is the

855
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:36,960
Speaker 6: level of complications that it brings to this morality play again,

856
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:40,840
Speaker 6: like the Apartment. When Tim gets embroiled in the convention's

857
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:43,640
Speaker 6: annual awards ceremony, he finds out how corrupted they are

858
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:46,280
Speaker 6: and kind of gets caught up in it. It's actually

859
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:50,000
Speaker 6: these misbehaving new friends who help him find his moral compass.

860
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:52,160
Speaker 6: So it's not one of these bad behavior comedies that

861
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:54,759
Speaker 6: lets his characters run wild for ninety minutes and then

862
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:58,080
Speaker 6: hypocritically tries to punish them. This is so much better

863
00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:00,160
Speaker 6: than that. So once more, I'm going to bag the

864
00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:01,600
Speaker 6: job for Cedar Rapids.

865
00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:03,640
Speaker 4: And I can't complain about that as much as I

866
00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:06,120
Speaker 4: like to, because I really like Cedar Rapids quite a bit.

867
00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:09,600
Speaker 4: And I especially like it if it's the de facto,

868
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 4: super obvious Larsen choice for this list, and it means

869
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:14,840
Speaker 4: that I'm not going to hear the words casadae me

870
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:16,239
Speaker 4: padre with your number one.

871
00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:17,960
Speaker 5: We've got another pick. What are you talking about?

872
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:21,880
Speaker 4: Just trying to play the groundwork here, Josh, you have

873
00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:23,719
Speaker 4: an out if you want to take it. But I

874
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:26,600
Speaker 4: like the comparison as well to C. C. Baxter because

875
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:30,200
Speaker 4: it's interesting that in that movie, Jack Lemon starts out

876
00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:34,520
Speaker 4: as a pretty nice and seemingly decent guy who nevertheless

877
00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:36,440
Speaker 4: has to figure out how to be a mensch, and

878
00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:39,760
Speaker 4: Tim Lippy is a mensch already from the very beginning.

879
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:42,040
Speaker 4: He's a really good guy who's getting more and more

880
00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:44,680
Speaker 4: corrupted as the movie goes on. My number two is

881
00:42:44,719 --> 00:42:46,600
Speaker 4: a movie I haven't seen since it came out, so

882
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:49,000
Speaker 4: I can't say how gut bustingly funny it is. I

883
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:52,480
Speaker 4: don't really remember, but I do remember just thinking it

884
00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:56,560
Speaker 4: was so consistently clever it is, and when I see

885
00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:58,759
Speaker 4: scenes from it or I'm prepping for a list, I'm

886
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 4: always reminded of that. And it comes from one of

887
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:04,600
Speaker 4: those top tier directors, Edgar Wright, and his Shawn of

888
00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:06,960
Speaker 4: the Dead. I have said this on the show before.

889
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:09,600
Speaker 4: Of Course, I have never been a big horror guy,

890
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:12,320
Speaker 4: so it wasn't a case where I watched Shaann of

891
00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:14,839
Speaker 4: the Dead and thought, Wow, I've been looking for this

892
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:17,719
Speaker 4: movie that was going to send up horror films or

893
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:20,520
Speaker 4: be a send up of zombie movies, and thinking about it,

894
00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:22,600
Speaker 4: I go back to Young Frankenstein a little bit. We

895
00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:25,839
Speaker 4: talked about how the accuracy of that movie and how

896
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:30,520
Speaker 4: it really succeeds because of how lovingly they pay tribute

897
00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:33,720
Speaker 4: to movies like the James Whale Frankenstein. This is another

898
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:36,400
Speaker 4: case of that where it's not Scream and Screams a

899
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:40,400
Speaker 4: perfectly fine movie, but that's one that's just overtly self referential.

900
00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:43,200
Speaker 4: All the jokes are based on our understanding of horror

901
00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:45,800
Speaker 4: movies and their tropes, and a lot of the humor

902
00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:49,200
Speaker 4: comes from you getting those references. But this is a film,

903
00:43:49,239 --> 00:43:51,279
Speaker 4: Shanna Dead, that works completely on its own as a

904
00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:54,600
Speaker 4: buddy movie, as a pseudo thriller, as a sort of

905
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:57,360
Speaker 4: coming of age movie, certainly as a character study. And

906
00:43:57,360 --> 00:43:59,800
Speaker 4: I think that can be said of all of Wright's

907
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:01,920
Speaker 4: film films. The other thing I like about right on

908
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:03,680
Speaker 4: this list and why I wanted to make sure he

909
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:05,640
Speaker 4: was here. This is also something that's come up a

910
00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:07,879
Speaker 4: few times over the past couple of years on the show,

911
00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:10,560
Speaker 4: is how I think safe to say, unlike all the

912
00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:12,920
Speaker 4: others on this list, he is as a director of

913
00:44:13,040 --> 00:44:16,360
Speaker 4: visual humorous. Yeah, the editing, the pace of the cutting,

914
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:19,760
Speaker 4: the types of cuts, the shots themselves, his use of space,

915
00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:22,840
Speaker 4: what's in the frame and what's outside the frame. What

916
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:25,680
Speaker 4: we know is there, but sometimes a character doesn't. That's

917
00:44:25,680 --> 00:44:28,840
Speaker 4: where a good chunk of his humor derives. And I

918
00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:31,759
Speaker 4: think we need to be sure to praise filmmakers like

919
00:44:31,800 --> 00:44:34,080
Speaker 4: that who are really using the medium and not just

920
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:37,400
Speaker 4: writing a lot of really funny jokes or funny scenes.

921
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:39,560
Speaker 6: That's absolutely right. It speaks to a little bit what

922
00:44:39,640 --> 00:44:42,600
Speaker 6: I was mentioning to Michael Phillips about maybe why the

923
00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:45,799
Speaker 6: BBC list didn't give more credit to comedies because they're

924
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:49,120
Speaker 6: not always this formally inventive. But it also makes me

925
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:52,319
Speaker 6: wish I could have revisited each of these films on

926
00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:55,120
Speaker 6: my list and think about them in those terms, right,

927
00:44:55,320 --> 00:44:57,880
Speaker 6: and really study them that way. I think maybe Songs

928
00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:02,040
Speaker 6: from the Second Floor is the one that absolutely uses

929
00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:04,919
Speaker 6: composition for gags. We talked about the comparison to Jacques

930
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:08,880
Speaker 6: Tati right when we reviewed it, so that is definitely

931
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:11,480
Speaker 6: a strength something that Edgar Wright has in his toolbox,

932
00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:12,719
Speaker 6: and I'm glad you met with Sean of the Dead.

933
00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:14,719
Speaker 6: I think if that's what I would have gone with.

934
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:17,799
Speaker 6: If I didn't go with it, it's probably because it

935
00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:20,000
Speaker 6: does work so well just as a horror film too.

936
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:22,359
Speaker 4: I thought about that. I almost wrote it off for

937
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:24,920
Speaker 4: that reason. But a lot of listeners, a lot of

938
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:27,040
Speaker 4: funny first mention it, and I do think it is

939
00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:29,200
Speaker 4: about the humor first and foremost. I think that's true

940
00:45:29,239 --> 00:45:31,200
Speaker 4: with all of his films, despite what else we get

941
00:45:31,239 --> 00:45:33,440
Speaker 4: from them, And to that point, I will mention that

942
00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:35,480
Speaker 4: sort of like what I was saying with Role Models,

943
00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:38,760
Speaker 4: this is a movie that has really sincere moments amidst

944
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:41,440
Speaker 4: all the humor, but more extreme right on both ends

945
00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:44,160
Speaker 4: of the spectrum. The humor is way more absurd, i'd say,

946
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:47,400
Speaker 4: than anything, of course that we get in Role Models.

947
00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:51,000
Speaker 4: But there's nothing in role Models anywhere near as emotionally

948
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:54,800
Speaker 4: raw as the standoff in the pub where these friends

949
00:45:55,239 --> 00:45:58,600
Speaker 4: have this standoff and they share a lot of really dark,

950
00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:01,080
Speaker 4: hidden truths or things that have been unset and then

951
00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:03,840
Speaker 4: Sean has to make a decision involving his mom that's

952
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:07,680
Speaker 4: legitimately heartbreaking in this spoof of zombie movies.

953
00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 5: Very much.

954
00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:11,919
Speaker 6: Tradition as well, and they make that work. Yeah, it's

955
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:14,759
Speaker 6: it's a really strong film. All right, we're at our

956
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:19,480
Speaker 6: number one picks. No it's not Padre, sorry, Adam. It

957
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:21,400
Speaker 6: is one that I share with Eddie from Austin, so

958
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:22,520
Speaker 6: I'll let him make the pick.

959
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:25,040
Speaker 1: Uh. You know, part of me badly wants to go

960
00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:28,839
Speaker 1: to that Radiocracy or Jackass number two, but I'm gonna

961
00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:30,680
Speaker 1: have to go with the one that also features the

962
00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:34,080
Speaker 1: best comedic performance I think, which would be a bore

963
00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:38,600
Speaker 1: at which you say what you will about descriptive parts. It's,

964
00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:42,480
Speaker 1: you know, totally hilarious start to finish, and there's the

965
00:46:42,520 --> 00:46:44,080
Speaker 1: thing that puts it over the top for me is

966
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:47,839
Speaker 1: that the palpable sense of danger you get from some

967
00:46:47,880 --> 00:46:51,239
Speaker 1: of those scenarios that that Baron Cohen puts himself in.

968
00:46:51,280 --> 00:46:55,799
Speaker 8: And it's just just tremendous. I cried laughing like three

969
00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:57,960
Speaker 8: at least three times watching it the first time, and

970
00:46:57,960 --> 00:47:00,640
Speaker 8: it's still makes me laugh, just this hard each time.

971
00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:02,000
Speaker 1: I since so.

972
00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:06,200
Speaker 8: Good luck with the list. I hope you guys find room.

973
00:47:06,239 --> 00:47:08,160
Speaker 8: Do you agree with me and have a good one.

974
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:11,960
Speaker 6: I am with Eddie and Michael Phillips, incidentally, who mentioned

975
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:15,240
Speaker 6: Boat as one of the comedies he might have picked

976
00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:17,880
Speaker 6: for this list in that Vulture article we talked about

977
00:47:18,120 --> 00:47:21,759
Speaker 6: that inspired the list from Jesse David Fox. He writes this,

978
00:47:21,960 --> 00:47:24,120
Speaker 6: so first, Brett needs to be on this list and

979
00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:27,040
Speaker 6: probably top fifty. Not only is it inventive in its

980
00:47:27,160 --> 00:47:30,240
Speaker 6: blending of completely fictional and real world elements, but Sasha

981
00:47:30,239 --> 00:47:33,400
Speaker 6: Baron Cohen created a brilliant, loudly hilarious title character and

982
00:47:33,520 --> 00:47:35,840
Speaker 6: fully realized universe for him to live in. It is

983
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:38,560
Speaker 6: both the greatest satire of post nine to eleven America

984
00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:41,919
Speaker 6: and a love letter to the country. Borett was, of course,

985
00:47:41,920 --> 00:47:44,560
Speaker 6: Sasha Baron Cohen's tour of America and the guys of

986
00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:47,800
Speaker 6: a boorish Kazakh television reporter. And then in these stunts

987
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:50,720
Speaker 6: and these interviews that he would do with actual people,

988
00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:56,680
Speaker 6: he would hilariously and cringe inducingly expose the intolerant underbelly

989
00:47:56,760 --> 00:48:00,680
Speaker 6: of contemporary America. I think you could argue that borat

990
00:48:00,719 --> 00:48:05,000
Speaker 6: is even more timely. If he visited the America of

991
00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:08,440
Speaker 6: twenty sixteen, I don't think he'd be as much of

992
00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:11,560
Speaker 6: a fish out of water. Maybe when he's randomly kissing

993
00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:13,399
Speaker 6: strangers on the subway, yeah, that wouldn't fly.

994
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:14,600
Speaker 5: But a lot of.

995
00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:18,120
Speaker 6: These scenes he wouldn't stand out as much. His brand

996
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:22,600
Speaker 6: of intolerance is more openly spoken in just these few years.

997
00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:24,439
Speaker 6: I think you can thank the Internet for a lot

998
00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:27,720
Speaker 6: of that, and you can also thank this year's election climate.

999
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:31,160
Speaker 6: So if you were to rewatch that infamous speech he

1000
00:48:31,280 --> 00:48:35,200
Speaker 6: gives at the rodeo and the crowd's reaction, tell me

1001
00:48:35,880 --> 00:48:37,680
Speaker 6: this couldn't be mistaken for a Trump rally.

1002
00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:41,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, my name of Bora. I come from a Kazakhstan.

1003
00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:46,680
Speaker 12: Can I say at first we support your war? After all?

1004
00:48:50,880 --> 00:48:56,839
Speaker 12: May we show support the boys in you up? May

1005
00:48:57,000 --> 00:49:06,000
Speaker 12: you say and kill every single that at May it

1006
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:09,799
Speaker 12: judge bush and drink the love of every single man,

1007
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:10,480
Speaker 12: woman and.

1008
00:49:10,640 --> 00:49:11,560
Speaker 8: Child of ra.

1009
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:17,759
Speaker 12: May you be say that country so that for the

1010
00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:21,760
Speaker 12: next thousand years not even a single lizard will survive

1011
00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:22,760
Speaker 12: in their deserts.

1012
00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:28,160
Speaker 6: So that phrase Eddie used palpable sense of danger that

1013
00:49:28,320 --> 00:49:31,520
Speaker 6: is really there in that scene, and a lot of

1014
00:49:31,560 --> 00:49:34,640
Speaker 6: them in Borat So for that and you know, honestly

1015
00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:37,520
Speaker 6: also for the naked wrestling scene. Uh, Borad is my

1016
00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:39,280
Speaker 6: number one twenty first century comedy.

1017
00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:41,440
Speaker 4: Well, it's a really good pick, and it's a movie

1018
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:44,840
Speaker 4: that I remember reviewing favorably on the show. I remember

1019
00:49:45,080 --> 00:49:47,840
Speaker 4: laughing at it quite a bit, but I also remember

1020
00:49:47,840 --> 00:49:51,440
Speaker 4: there's just something about it that didn't sit well with me.

1021
00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:54,360
Speaker 4: There was something about some of the provocation. Maybe it

1022
00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:56,239
Speaker 4: was that it felt too forced, And I honestly don't know.

1023
00:49:56,280 --> 00:49:57,759
Speaker 4: I'd have to go back and listen to what I said,

1024
00:49:57,840 --> 00:50:00,279
Speaker 4: or look in my notes or revisit the movie, but

1025
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:01,880
Speaker 4: I just remember feeling like some of it was not

1026
00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:04,600
Speaker 4: only too forced, but some of it was mean spirited

1027
00:50:04,640 --> 00:50:07,520
Speaker 4: in a way. Well, that differs from the other types

1028
00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:10,719
Speaker 4: of mean spirited moments in the film. There's a distinction

1029
00:50:10,840 --> 00:50:14,319
Speaker 4: between some of them versus the other where maybe it's

1030
00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:17,080
Speaker 4: that the subjects are in on the joke, or sometimes

1031
00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:20,320
Speaker 4: the subjects are more worthy of his score and others

1032
00:50:20,360 --> 00:50:21,080
Speaker 4: don't seem to be.

1033
00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:24,799
Speaker 6: It's sort of the Colbert Show and Daily Show dynamic,

1034
00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:28,480
Speaker 6: right where those interviews you're always wondering what did they

1035
00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:31,920
Speaker 6: know beforehand? So that's definitely an element, and I remember

1036
00:50:31,960 --> 00:50:35,000
Speaker 6: having a bit of that experience as well. I also think, though,

1037
00:50:35,040 --> 00:50:38,239
Speaker 6: that Boat is not a movie that you should come

1038
00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:41,960
Speaker 6: out of feeling comfortable. I mean it should disturb you

1039
00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:43,719
Speaker 6: in some way. I know you're probably talking about a

1040
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:46,920
Speaker 6: little bit of a different way, but it is meant

1041
00:50:47,080 --> 00:50:50,279
Speaker 6: to provoke and put you in a state of under sure.

1042
00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:53,839
Speaker 4: It's one I need to revisit for sure. Okay. My

1043
00:50:54,320 --> 00:50:57,799
Speaker 4: number one is a film from a director who came

1044
00:50:57,920 --> 00:51:03,239
Speaker 4: up in our discussion of the tiers of current comedic filmmakers,

1045
00:51:03,320 --> 00:51:06,840
Speaker 4: and I really strongly considered Judd Apatow's Knocked Up for

1046
00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:10,840
Speaker 4: this list. I remember seeing that critic screening and losing

1047
00:51:10,840 --> 00:51:13,640
Speaker 4: my mind laughing at it. But I have to go

1048
00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:15,960
Speaker 4: back to the film that I think if you look,

1049
00:51:16,239 --> 00:51:19,040
Speaker 4: he'd had some success as a producer with Anchorman in

1050
00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:21,640
Speaker 4: two thousand and four, but it really was I believe

1051
00:51:21,680 --> 00:51:24,760
Speaker 4: two thousand and five that the fourty year Old Virgin

1052
00:51:24,960 --> 00:51:27,200
Speaker 4: came out the movie that really gave us. I know

1053
00:51:27,239 --> 00:51:28,920
Speaker 4: he'd been on The Daily Show, but the movie that

1054
00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:34,479
Speaker 4: gave us Steve Carell comedic genius. And this scene I said,

1055
00:51:34,520 --> 00:51:37,000
Speaker 4: sometimes you can just play a scene and you don't

1056
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:39,799
Speaker 4: really need to say anything else. That's what I'm gonna

1057
00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:42,800
Speaker 4: do here, because there were a lot of really funny

1058
00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:46,400
Speaker 4: moments in this movie. But this dialogue, this conversation, the

1059
00:51:46,480 --> 00:51:50,600
Speaker 4: guys night out. I think they're at the electronics store

1060
00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:53,880
Speaker 4: they work at that's always playing Michael McDonald music in

1061
00:51:53,960 --> 00:51:57,560
Speaker 4: the back room, and they're playing cards and they kind

1062
00:51:57,560 --> 00:52:01,600
Speaker 4: of forced Steve Carell to share sexual experiences.

1063
00:52:01,880 --> 00:52:05,000
Speaker 10: I dated this girl for a while and she was

1064
00:52:05,400 --> 00:52:09,680
Speaker 10: really a nasty freak. She just loved to get down

1065
00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:14,480
Speaker 10: with sex all the time. She was like anytime of day,

1066
00:52:14,600 --> 00:52:18,160
Speaker 10: she was like, yeah, let's go. I'm so nasty and

1067
00:52:18,239 --> 00:52:19,120
Speaker 10: I be nailing her.

1068
00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:22,000
Speaker 3: Oh, she'd be like, oh, you're nailing me.

1069
00:52:22,280 --> 00:52:22,640
Speaker 1: Cool.

1070
00:52:23,120 --> 00:52:24,080
Speaker 5: She talked dirty to you.

1071
00:52:24,160 --> 00:52:28,600
Speaker 10: Oh. She loved the dirty talk, totally into it. She'd

1072
00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:31,440
Speaker 10: be like, yeah, let's.

1073
00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:33,759
Speaker 5: Screw let's I want to.

1074
00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:36,960
Speaker 3: God, I was so dirty.

1075
00:52:37,719 --> 00:52:40,680
Speaker 16: She'd be like, oh me so honey, me love you

1076
00:52:40,920 --> 00:52:41,560
Speaker 16: long time.

1077
00:52:42,520 --> 00:52:45,160
Speaker 4: So I remember seeing that for the first time and

1078
00:52:45,440 --> 00:52:48,800
Speaker 4: convulsing with laughter. That's how funny I thought it was.

1079
00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:50,880
Speaker 4: And of course we only could play a little snippet

1080
00:52:50,880 --> 00:52:56,239
Speaker 4: of it there, but pure broad comedy, huge laughs. This

1081
00:52:56,280 --> 00:52:58,000
Speaker 4: was a no brainer for me, the forty old version.

1082
00:52:58,320 --> 00:53:01,680
Speaker 6: And it probably is ridiculous that I don't have an

1083
00:53:01,680 --> 00:53:03,560
Speaker 6: appetite film on this list. I think I may be

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Speaker 6: punishing him because his run has been so good and

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Speaker 6: I don't have a clear fire favorite among them. I mean,

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Speaker 6: between train Wreck, Knocked Up and This Love them All,

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Speaker 6: This is forty is the only one that funny people.

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Speaker 6: I likely need to be funny people as well, and

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Speaker 6: so it's not fair. But I am punishing him because

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Speaker 6: he's been too consistently good. I guess I can't just

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Speaker 6: pick one fair enough.

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Speaker 4: Those are our top five comedies of the twenty first century.

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Speaker 13: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: Not?

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Speaker 12: Since I was ten, it all makes sense.

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