WEBVTT - Top 5 21st Century Comedies (Archive) 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:06.080 What kind of a show you guys putting. 0:00:05.760 --> 0:00:06.360 On here today? 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:08.879 You're not interested in armed now? No, look, we're going 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:09.399 to do this thing. 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:10.559 We're going to have a conversation. 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:15.800 Hey, film spotters Adam and Josh here. You know, we 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:18.680 were looking at the calendar and I noticed Josh that 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:22.920 the forty year Old Virgin is turning twenty this year, 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:26.400 a movie that Sam and I reviewed that first year 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:31.000 of Film Spotting episode thirty one. We both raved about 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:34.839 the film turning twenty. A big Blu ray release is 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:37.680 happening on August twelfth, and it's actually going to be 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:40.880 back in theaters on August twenty seconds. So we thought, well, 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:44.880 maybe we could revisit the review, but we never like 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:48.279 going that far back into the archive. Baby. Instead, we'd 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:50.640 take a look at a recent top five where the 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:52.199 forty year Old Virgin was mentioned. 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:55.200 Yeah, I mean Sam seemed a little hesitant. I don't know. 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:57.480 I'm sure you guys had smart things to say about 0:00:57.480 --> 0:00:58.480 the forty year old Virgin. 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:00.000 Can't believe that's twenty. 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:03.920 That was, you know, the start of the Appatow era, really, 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:07.360 or at least at the very beginning, these big studio 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:11.160 raunchy comedies that had a little bit of heart to 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:14.800 them as well. So, yeah, twenty years ago and now 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:17.400 we get to reconsider it with this Blu ray release. 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:20.240 We are going to share with you now our top 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:26.080 five twenty first century comedies from episode six two. Forty 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:30.280 year old Vision ranking pretty high on my list. And 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:33.520 if you're a Film Spotting Family member and you want 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:35.919 to hear whether or not Sam and I had smart 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:38.039 things to say about the forty year old Virgin, I 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:41.200 make no promises. 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And here are those top five twenty 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:39.600 first century comedies. 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:41.040 Hey, Adam and Josh. 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:44.280 This is Nate Goss, a longtime listener calling out of 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:47.120 the Verbs of Chicago, also co host of the Can 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:48.040 We Still Be Friends? 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:49.400 Podcast? 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:52.920 And my pick my favorite pick of twenty first century comedy. 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:56.520 So it's got to be Idiocracy, you might judge two 0:02:56.560 --> 0:03:00.760 thousand and six movie that is as When on Twitter, 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:04.960 slowly becoming a documentary, and I remember seeing it for 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:07.960 the first time when I just heard it with a 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:11.000 new Mike Judge film, hadn't heard anything else about it, 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:14.200 and I remember just laughing phil hard and not understanding 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:17.560 why no one else is in the theater and also 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:20.799 why no one else was talking about it. But here 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:24.600 we are, and it is becoming more and more relevant 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:26.320 and in a lot of ways, more and more funny. 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:28.600 So that's my vote. 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:32.440 For top five, and my vote this year for president 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:35.560 is going to have to be Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew, 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:38.800 Herbert Camacho. Love the show, guys, keep it up. 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:42.400 Thanks, Thank you, Nate. A great way to kick off 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:46.880 officially here this top five our favorite comedies of the 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:51.040 twenty first century. His pick Idiocracy Mike Judge film reviewed 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:53.320 favorably here on the show back in the early days 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:57.280 of film spotting. There are some hilarious moments in that 0:03:57.360 --> 0:04:00.160 film alas not quite make the cut for me, Josh. 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:05.080 Not for me, very prescient, absolutely hysterical. I honor it 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:06.840 with one of my top five picks, I think, so. 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:09.560 Okay, So we have set up throughout the show already. 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:12.680 The BBC list that inspired this top five, they were 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:15.520 not focusing on comedies. They just surveyed critics. They said, 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:19.320 what are your ten favorite movies of this millennium so far? 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:22.000 They ended up with one hundred and three movies there 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:25.400 in that top one hundred and What actually really provoked 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:28.520 this list was an article I saw probably on Twitter. 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:32.600 Jesse David Fox was the writer writing for Vulture dot 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:35.800 com and the headline basically was comedy shut out of 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:39.000 BBC's Greatest Films of the twenty first Century list, and 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:42.440 he made the case, basically, Josh that yes, there were 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:44.760 some comedies on there, like Michael Phillips had on his 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:49.120 list Ratituy and The Grand Budapest Hotel. Those are funny movies, 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:52.000 but maybe not in the same way Step Brothers is 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:55.440 right a comedy. So he set out to try to 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:57.640 make that write a little bit, and he settled on 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:00.599 a couple movies that he thought probably could have made 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:02.679 the list that if you just focused on those broad 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:06.120 comedies pure comedies, and then threw in I don't know 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:08.799 eight or nine other dealer's choice options. 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:09.120 At the end. 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:11.520 I'm not going to read those here because our listeners 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:12.920 can read them if they want. They can go to 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:15.400 filmspotting dot net and they can find the link in 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:17.479 our show notes. But also we're going to get to 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:20.200 a few of these. I think, as we decided to 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:22.839 take up the challenge that Jesse David Fox threw. 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:25.359 Down, well, I now understand why I wasn't asked to 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:29.239 be part of this BBC voting, because I certainly would 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:32.040 have put a broad comedy on my top ten list, 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:34.279 and clearly they didn't want anyone who would be silly 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:36.280 enough to do that. So this was a lot of 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:39.680 fun because these are films that in all honesty, have 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:42.279 appeared on my top ten lists over the years, yes, 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:45.479 including some of the honorable mentions I will get to. 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:49.240 There's a very simple reason why I love comedy and 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:52.880 value it highly broad comedy in general, it tells the truth, right, 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:55.839 That's all the best comedy does. It gets to the 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:59.640 heart of the matter. There's no obfuscation going on, there's 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:03.479 no contentiousness involved. It just takes one great joke or 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:05.800 a gag that hits home and bang, you know where 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:08.599 things stand. So that's what I love about comedies. Not 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:10.719 everyone does that, of course, but the great ones do, 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:13.680 and those are the ones that I've chosen here. 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:15.360 So this is just one of the many reasons why 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:18.159 you're a far more interesting critic than me, because, of 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:21.040 course I went usually or I do, tend to go 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:23.799 with the conventional wisdom. If I was picking my top 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:27.040 ten of this century so far for the BBC list, 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:30.160 very doubtful any of these comedies I'm about to mention 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:32.520 would have made the cut or really probably been in 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:34.640 the top fifteen or twenty, I don't know. But some 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:36.520 of these that are going to get mentioned and are 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:38.720 going to get mentioned in the honorable mentions are films 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:41.800 that have made top tens over the years. So it's 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:45.200 not like I disregard comedy completely when I put together 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:48.280 those end of year lists. Now, before we actually jump in, 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:51.919 because we are focusing on those pure comedies, and also 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:55.560 because we don't want really to give love to movies 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:58.520 that have already been given love on the BBC list, 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:03.240 we have decided to rule out a few different filmmakers. 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:05.000 Yeah, we're not going to have the Cohen's on here, 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:07.000 We're not going to have Wes Anderson on here. 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:09.920 No Pixar right as well, and even Paul Thomas Anderson. 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:13.520 Ye, I mean, I think Hilarious. 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:16.320 Is probably his purest comedy, if you want to look 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:18.480 at it that way. But it's not only that those 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:22.640 filmmakers are often lauded, and are in fact lauded on 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:26.200 this list. But yeah, it's not the sort of going 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:30.560 for the comic jugular films that we considered for this list. 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:33.560 Right, And if you were going to create sort of 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:37.760 a mount rushmore of current filmmakers who make really funny movies, 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:41.040 but the types of movies that you wouldn't necessarily label 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:43.720 as broad comedies, you'd be hard pressed to find four 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:47.280 better filmmakers than Wes Anderson, the Coen Brothers, Paul Thomas Anderson, 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:49.720 and Pixar. So that got me thinking, and also going 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:53.120 back to our review of Young Frankenstein earlier, mel Brooks 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:56.720 made Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein in the same year. 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:59.480 They were both released in nineteen seventy four. The producers 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:02.120 had come seven years earlier. But just take those three 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:05.680 movies in a seven year span, that clearly cemented him 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:09.680 as the comedic director or one of the comedic directors 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:12.480 of the nineteen seventies. Someone else you'd put in there, 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:16.200 Woody Allen, who's still making films, but who's not going 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:18.760 to come anywhere close to making either of our list. 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:20.800 But what I want to throw out to you before 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:24.160 we really jump in, Josh, is if mel Brooks and 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:27.120 Woody Allen, let's say we're at the top of the list, 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:32.319 the top tier of filmmakers making comedies in the nineteen seventies, 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:35.320 and we could probably go through different decades and identify 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:38.880 other filmmakers as well, Woody maybe in the eighties too. 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:41.839 Who would those directors be. Right now, let's not talk 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:45.200 about films specifically, and this will maybe reveal a little 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:46.920 bit of our thinking as we get into our picks. 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:48.839 But if you had to right now, think of three 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:52.680 or four names that you think are synonymous with comedic films, 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:55.319 the best comedic films right now? Who comes to mind? 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:57.439 Yeah, this may be a giveaway for some of our lists, 0:08:57.440 --> 0:09:00.840 but I've got to consider Appatoo. I think Edgar Wright 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:04.560 may come up for one or both of us. And 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:07.280 what's interesting is I look at the films that I 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:12.040 have listed. That doesn't necessarily mean I've got their films 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:15.959 on here, but I think they've been consistent and maybe 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:19.079 that's somewhat what you're talking about. They're consistently hitting a 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:22.679 high level of comedic work. But Apataw, certainly, I think 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:25.320 the Fairly Brothers. I mean, this was going to come 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:28.080 up in my honorable mentions, but I was maybe well, no, 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:29.720 I was with them. 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:30.840 Through I don't know. 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:33.080 I think you could say stuck on you I still 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:35.920 like really quite a bit. Yeah, so that's you know, 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:39.040 a long string that went myself. I yeah, funny thing, 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:42.400 Oh yes, yes, with Jim Carrey, Wow, very good and 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:46.000 in Shallow Howe. There's three there since two thousand that 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:48.480 I would hold up as still strong comedic work. Now 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:51.120 they're not in my top five, but I think they 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:54.000 were still doing good stuff. Maybe there are other filmmakers 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:55.120 I'm missing that you're thinking of. 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:58.040 Well, yeah, you named the first two, and you could 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:00.120 go in whatever order of preference you want. But I 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:03.000 think if you're talking about comedies, unless you just hate 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:06.200 these films in these filmmakers, to overlook Judd Apatow and 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:08.839 Edgar Wright would be a little bit ridiculous, and I 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:11.080 would throw in there. I think you have to include 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:14.600 in that conversation. Adam McKay and some of his films 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:16.600 may come up here, but I think those three are 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:19.040 kind of the obvious top tier. I think then depending 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:21.960 on your taste, in that second tier, and maybe they 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:24.360 could even be bumped up into the first tier. Noah 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:26.880 Boundback has to be considered when you look at the 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:29.000 fact that he's made five or six movies in the 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:33.520 two thousands that maybe are not all broad comedies, wearing stuff, 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:36.640 very very funny movies, and he's made a lot of them. 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:39.480 Christopher Guest, he really only has Best in Show and 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:42.840 a Mighty Wind that were good anyway, right here in 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:46.120 the two thousand strong. I think with Stillman belongs in 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.640 the dialogue David Wayne, and then you could go to 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:51.960 the third tier. And I think these are the up 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:55.600 and comers who maybe right now have done enough to 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:58.480 be part of the conversation, but ten years from now 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:01.760 will really be talking about them in grander terms. Lord 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:04.480 and Miller, who gave us the Lego movie in twenty one, 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:08.000 Jump Street and the Lonely Island Guys. Yeah, for pop 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:10.480 Star and some other work. For sure they may come 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:14.440 up as well. So with that long winded preface, we 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:16.920 actually get into our picks. Josh, what's your number five? 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:20.920 Let's start with Adam McKay and I struggled over which 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:24.440 option to go with until I remembered just the experience 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:28.040 of watching this film, and it has to be Talladagonites 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:30.920 the Ballad of Ricky Bobby. Really, this is the one. 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:33.920 I mean, ask me which of my top five films 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:37.360 I would rewatch right now, and it's this collaboration with 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:40.440 Will Ferrell. It's at the top of their collaborations for me. 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:44.760 It's just an improvisational cornucopia. Farrell and co stars John 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:48.400 c Riley, Leslie Bibb, Gary Cole, Sasha Baron Cohen. They 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:51.599 take the scenes here swerving in all sorts of directions, 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:54.120 and that's appropriate as faroh play is a NASCAR star 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:57.280 and they almost always find their way to comic gold 0:11:57.360 --> 0:11:59.760 along the way and then definitely at the end of 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:00.559 the scenes. 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:02.040 It's a good thing. 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:05.040 I believe God has a sense of humor, because otherwise 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:07.280 I would be in big trouble for how hard I 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:10.400 laugh every time I watch Will Ferrell say, Grace. 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:16.840 You're tiny, Jesus, your golden flee stappers with your tiny 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:18.160 little fat, bald up fist. 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:20.920 Paulis a man, he had a beard look. 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:23.080 I like the baby version the best, do you hear me? 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:25.120 I win the races and I get the money. 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:27.520 Ricky finish the damn Grace. 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:31.880 I like to picture Jesus in a tuxedo T shirt 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:35.040 because it says like I want to be formal, but 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:37.400 I'm here to party too, because I like to party, 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:38.840 so I like my Jesus to party. 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:40.439 I like to picture. 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:42.880 Jesus as a ninja fighting off evil samurai. 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:46.439 I like to think of Jesus like with John Eagle's 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:50.960 wings and singing lead vocals for Lynyrd Skynyrd with like 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:53.760 an angel band, and I'm in the front row and 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:55.079 I'm hammered drunk. 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:57.640 Hey, cal why you just shut up, ma'am. 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:01.000 You know, it's interesting to look back on Talladega Nights 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:03.600 after McKay went on to make The Big Short your 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:06.440 favorite film of last year. Speaking of comedies, I mean, 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:07.920 you put one at the top there, Adam. 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:09.520 I mean, so many. 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:13.679 Of the jokes here have to do with corporate domination 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:19.120 of the NASCAR scene or reckless personal consumption, which The 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:21.079 Big Short was all about as well. I mean, this 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:23.720 is what the foundation is for all the improv going 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:26.160 on here, and as I said, they mine it. 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:26.960 For great stuff. 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:29.840 So I really right now, I just want to skip 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:31.760 the rest of my listen, go watch Teleadegon. 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:33.560 I do need to re see it because I haven't 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:36.040 watched it since it was reviewed when it came out 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:39.120 here on the show. It did make me laugh quite 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:42.199 a bit though, my number five. Man, we're going to 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:44.559 get off to a really rocky start here. I already 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:46.800 knew you didn't like the movie, and then now you 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:49.240 disagree with the whole premise of me selecting it. But 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:52.240 as I went through them, as I went through these choices, 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:55.280 I had one criterion for once I didn't have some 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:58.480 extravagant set of rules. It was just thinking about the 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:01.800 films that gave me the greatest quant and quality of laughs. 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:04.640 That's it. I made one exception, and it's this number 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:07.440 five because I had so many in contention for that 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:09.560 number five slot, as I'm sure you did as well. 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:12.000 At least seven or eight that easily could be in 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:14.720 this number five slot. That I did consider that mel 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:18.760 Brooks Woody Allen question, who probably deserves to be represented 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:21.880 on this list? And what's that filmmaker's funniest movie? And 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:24.320 I am going with the one we saw together, but 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:28.360 somehow saw completely different films. It is Noah Boundbacks while 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:32.040 We're young. We discussed it on episode five sixty seven. 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:34.520 It made my top ten films of twenty fifteen. We 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:37.120 talked about it on episode five forty five, my top 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:39.720 five of twenty fifteen so far, and we reviewed it 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:42.000 on episode five thirty seven. So I really don't have 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:46.200 the strength or the will here to try to convince 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:48.800 you that it's both hilarious and a little bit profound, 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:52.320 but more funny than profound. So I brought in a 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:54.960 little bit of help here. Andrew O'Hare over at Salon 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:57.920 wrote a great, glowing review of the film, and he 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:01.000 agrees with me that it's Boundback's best film. He writes, this, 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:03.680 if my initial description of While We're Young carries exactly 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:06.400 the kind of ironic precision that would be employed by Jamie, 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:09.240 the ambitious young filmmaker and male half of the hipster 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:12.600 couple so marvelously portrayed by Adam Driver, that's because this 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:14.840 movie has the ability to burrow into your brain and 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:17.840 affect your consciousness for weeks afterwards. Every time I hear 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:19.800 a middle of the road pop song from my own 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:22.320 youth in a retail store, I consider whether it's something 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:24.720 Jamie would love the way he loves Aya the Tiger, 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:29.200 or Caribbean Queen John Mellencamp's Small Town possibly too authentic, 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:33.320 Billy Joel's The Longest Time, confusingly doubly retro, and also 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:37.080 genuinely terrific, despite its often irritating author. All the songs 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:39.720 on Cyndi Lauper's debut album that aren't Girls just want 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:42.600 to have Fun bingo. So I love all that partly too, 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:44.760 because it reminds me of the entire conversation we had 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:47.640 with Chuck Closterman on our six hundred episode where you 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:49.320 could talk about some of this stuff and how it's 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:53.080 considered and reconsidered and reconsidered again over the years. But 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:56.880 that really spoke to me, Josh, because when I think 0:15:56.920 --> 0:15:59.880 about this film, I do think about the laughs, but 0:15:59.880 --> 0:16:02.680 I specifically think about how much I laughed at the 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:04.280 scene that I think might be in one of the 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:07.160 trailers most people know from the film, where they're sitting 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:10.000 there these two couples Naomi Wattson Still are the older 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:13.880 couple and the hipster couple across from them, and they're 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:16.320 trying to figure out the word marzipan, and none of 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:18.960 them can think of it, and then finally Dryfer just says, 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:21.600 let's just not know what it is yea and him 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:24.120 to not take his iPhone out. And there was just 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:27.240 something so truthful about that that I think about that 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:30.720 moment probably at least a couple times a month, I'll 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:32.800 have an encounter like that where I'll think about that 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:36.360 scene because I'm going through exactly what they're going through, 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:38.400 or I'll even say the line out loud to someone 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:40.440 when they're about to look something up and they look 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:42.560 at me like I'm crazy. But it really has stuck 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:44.920 with me, and I do funnel a little bit of 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:47.000 how I look at the world and the younger generation 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:49.800 through the eyes of Noah bound Back. One last quick note, 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:51.720 I went back to look at my notes from that 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:56.240 review my intro for you. I had the setup that week, 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:59.880 which was great because I focused completely on how much 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:02.480 the Stiller character spoke to me and I could relate 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:05.199 to the movie. My longest intro ever has to be 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:08.080 in six hundred episodes at the show. I did the math, 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:11.560 one hundred words longer than your entire written review of 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:12.160 the movie. 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:13.119 That sounds about. 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:16.400 My intro was way longer than your review, So. 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:18.760 I think that just that captures a lot. 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:22.080 But you know what's funny about this too is I 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:25.000 think I like every other Noah bombback move. Really, you 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:26.840 could have gone with this Squid the Whale. You could 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:29.920 have gone Margot at the wedding, Mistress American, Francis high 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:31.200 both like I even like Greenberg. 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:32.840 Yeah, I like all of those. You have to go 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:35.040 with one for me, the only exception while we're Young's 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:38.440 my favorite. I think Mistress America's fantastic. Highly recommend that too. 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:41.639 The only one for me that's always been The standout 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:44.040 in terms of not working at all is Margot at 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:44.359 the Wedding. 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:46.000 Okay, well, i'd call. 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:48.720 You on this not being a pure comedy, but I 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:51.400 might have a bit of a stretch myself coming up, 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:54.159 so I can't be too harsh right now. So we 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:57.840 got a lot of great voicemails from listeners for this 0:17:57.960 --> 0:17:59.639 top five. I don't know if it was just that 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:02.560 the movie came immediately to mind when they heard about 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:04.399 the topic. Best comedy since here. 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:06.240 Two thousand passion for many movies? 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:07.880 Did we get a lot? So let's share another one 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:09.600 here from a listener in Kenosha. 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:12.720 Hey, guys, this is Michelle R. From Kenosha, Wisconsin. My 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:15.760 favorite twenty first century comedy is the much maligned Freddy 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:19.439 Got Fingered Savage upon release as the quote unquote worst 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:22.360 movie ever in actuality. It's both a brilliant real life 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:24.560 prank on the studio system and a gross out comedy 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:27.200 that goes so far it becomes a surreal parody of 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:30.000 the same, totally ahead of its time and clearly presaging 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:33.120 modern all comedy geniuses like Tim and Eric and Alan Ressix. 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:34.960 No movie has made me laugh more. 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:39.080 Oh are boys genius? 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:40.879 These rigged a police system. 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:43.800 Sorry, can eat sausage and work on a stupid drawing 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:46.040 and being creative. 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:49.480 Now, if you'll excuse me, I still have some work to. 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:52.000 Do that would not sip sausage. 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:57.960 They would do some ses, would do some sausage. 0:18:58.400 --> 0:19:02.520 So I wish that I could find my original review 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:05.840 from the newspaper of Freddie got fingeredn there's a chance 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:07.119 I gave it a positive review? 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:10.560 Really well, why am I not surprised actually at all? 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:12.800 But this was, like, you know, this isn't even in 0:19:12.840 --> 0:19:17.160 their digital archives, so we'll just have to hope that 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:17.920 was the case. 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:18.800 But there were things I. 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:21.439