Speaker 1: Hello there, Welcome to you, and Seeing Nothing Yet the
Speaker 1: Movie Podcast. We're our chat to a movie lover about
Speaker 1: a classic or beloved movie they haven't quite got around
Speaker 1: to watching until now. And today's guests comedian musician Scott Edgar.
Speaker 2: All below.
Speaker 1: I want to stay here with you. Get to the jobble,
Speaker 1: Why snake, shock, why hail? They couldn't be happening right so?
Speaker 3: You don't seen nothing here.
Speaker 1: Scott Edgar or Scott as of Tripod will know him
Speaker 1: is a bloody funny man. He is clever. He began
Speaker 1: actually studying a graphic design for Memory, and he had
Speaker 1: a lot to do with the early aesthetics of Tripod,
Speaker 1: not only contributing obviously his musical talents, but a lot
Speaker 1: of the imagery they were putting out both on stage
Speaker 1: and in their artwork for Memory and Gatesy. You might
Speaker 1: get onto me about this and say that I was wrong,
Speaker 1: But for Memory, a lot of that was Scott, because
Speaker 1: I know he has gone on and is a screenwriter
Speaker 1: for animation and also games. In fact, how's this? This
Speaker 1: may be the first Grammy nominated artists we have had on.
Speaker 1: You ain't seen nothing yet? That's right. Scott was with
Speaker 1: Gatesy and Yon. We were recently nominated for a Grammy
Speaker 1: and went over there. I cannot wait to chat to
Speaker 1: him about that. I got the first note Scott on
Speaker 1: the very first Melbourne International Comedy Festival road show. It
Speaker 1: was just in Victoria and it was myself, Tripod, will Anderson,
Speaker 1: Karin Grant, Keith Robinson from New York, the Great Keith
Speaker 1: Robinson icon of American comedy, and Ross Noble and Nat King.
Speaker 1: Not a bad bloody line. I wasn't and I remember
Speaker 1: being in the Torago traveling through towns like Sale and
Speaker 1: Horseham with Scott and Scott He's intelligent, he's funny, he's insightful,
Speaker 1: and I'm bloody stoked to be hanging with him today. Hello.
Speaker 4: My name is Scott Edgar and my three favorite films
Speaker 4: are thor Ragnarok Okay.
Speaker 1: I thought the world are you? I thought I'm going
Speaker 1: to find signed by side forever. But at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, you're you and I'm me. I know,
Speaker 1: maybe they're still good at you, but let's be honest
Speaker 1: that paths diverged a long time ago. Tutsie Casha, I'm treid,
Speaker 1: You're not right, But why am I not? Right, mister
Speaker 1: Carl Hayle. Well, I'm just.
Speaker 3: Trying to make a certain statement here, and I'm looking
Speaker 3: for a very specific physical title I wished.
Speaker 1: To call it. I'm an actress.
Speaker 5: I'm a character actress.
Speaker 1: I can play this part anyway you want. I'm sure
Speaker 1: you want to.
Speaker 6: Just if you're a little bit too soft and genteel,
Speaker 6: you're not threatening enough.
Speaker 1: You're threatening enough.
Speaker 5: How's this?
Speaker 1: You take your hands off me to meet your ball
Speaker 1: right through the roof of your mouth and school of
Speaker 1: row dew.
Speaker 5: Now, in the end of time, there was a man
Speaker 5: who knew the road, and the writing was written on
Speaker 5: the stone. And then a thin layer of fog comes
Speaker 5: in around my ankles. Roadies, that means dry eyes.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about this later.
Speaker 5: In the ancient time, an artist led the way, but
Speaker 5: the legend of the rent was way past you.
Speaker 1: And until this week, I hadn't seen the film Step Brothers.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna call him Dad, Brennan, you're thirty nine
Speaker 1: years old. I would not expect you to call him dad. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to ever. Even if there's a fire,
Speaker 1: better not get in my face. I'll drop that motherfucker.
Speaker 5: Jesus.
Speaker 3: Brennan suppose Nancy sees me coming out of the shower
Speaker 3: and decides to come on to me.
Speaker 1: I'm looking good.
Speaker 3: I've got a luscious bee of hair going from my
Speaker 3: chest pubes down to my ball throll. She takes one
Speaker 3: look at me and she goes, oh my god, I've
Speaker 3: had the old bull. Now I want the young calf
Speaker 3: and she grasps me by the wind.
Speaker 1: Fuck up. It seems kind of ridiculous to provide a
Speaker 1: synopsis for a film like Stepbrothers. Some films need a
Speaker 1: few paragraphs, a few sentences to explain their intricate plots.
Speaker 1: Not so with this movie. Will Ferrell and John c Riley,
Speaker 1: Brennan and Dale team up to play two men in
Speaker 1: their forties who are staggeringly stupid and who were still
Speaker 1: living at home with their parents, Mary Steinbergen and Richard
Speaker 1: Jenkins Nancy and Robert, respectively. When Nancy and Robert marry them,
Speaker 1: men are forced to put aside their differences and find
Speaker 1: the things that unite them, especially when Brennan's brother Derek
Speaker 1: visits Adam Scott in full Dick mode. A script by
Speaker 1: Will Ferrell and Adam McKay from an idea by those
Speaker 1: two and also John c Riley, directed by Adam McKay.
Speaker 1: Stepbrothers has become a comedy classic and one of Ferrell's
Speaker 1: out and out funniest Scott Edgar, have you ever put
Speaker 1: your nutsack over a set of drums or any other
Speaker 1: instrument for that matter.
Speaker 4: Well, what they don't tell you is that's actually quite
Speaker 4: normal behavior in the musical world, if you want to
Speaker 4: get someone's attention. We actually did, Terry Bile. This is honestly,
Speaker 4: this is true, Pete. We had this thing of like,
Speaker 4: if you do that, make that mistake, you know, say
Speaker 4: that thing again, like once someone makes a mistake twice.
Speaker 4: The third thing is if you do it a third time,
Speaker 4: I'm going to show you my ass. That's your punishment.
Speaker 4: Thank you've only had to We've only had to resort
Speaker 4: to that punishment a couple of times in the dressing room.
Speaker 1: Well, you follow through. You can't make a threat parenting
Speaker 1: one O one. You can't make a threat like that
Speaker 1: and not follow through. Oh yeah, maybe maybe think And
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if I would have released this vision
Speaker 1: at the moment, but I did the recent episode of
Speaker 1: task Master, which I can entertain soon. If not already
Speaker 1: on depending on when this episode goes. Were and so
Speaker 1: Tom Cashman is he's the task master assistance, so it's
Speaker 1: fair to say when you're doing the task and Tom
Speaker 1: Cashman personally is a lovable guy and a fun guy.
Speaker 1: Sometimes he can get on your nerves. He's not helping,
Speaker 1: he's give you the information he want you want. So
Speaker 1: when we were filling the studio, we got his whistle
Speaker 1: and we basically all took turns myself, Aaron chan Conjetta, Curisto, Reyes, Nicholson,
Speaker 1: mel Battle and basically this put the whistle in rude
Speaker 1: parks and filmed it. So we are going to release
Speaker 1: the vision at some point we think there's no nuts
Speaker 1: sacks as well.
Speaker 4: Congratulations for making a career out of that kind of behavior,
Speaker 4: you know, which is fairly relevant to the will ferreal
Speaker 4: topic we'll be covering.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we will, we will. We dive too much into it,
Speaker 1: but why step brothers. It is like a cult classic,
Speaker 1: so it rees me well on release, but it really
Speaker 1: it became I think I sold like four million DVDs.
Speaker 4: It's insane, isn't it. Yeah, it doubled it's money. I
Speaker 4: mean it was like sixty something budget sixty million, May
Speaker 4: one hundred and forty or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Look, for me, it's just that thing of like I
Speaker 4: had somehow become convinced that this was a gap in
Speaker 4: my comedy education. This was this was an un you know,
Speaker 4: a comedy classic for the ages that I had somehow missed.
Speaker 1: And maybe that's all just because the title.
Speaker 4: Kept coming up on Netflix and it just kept reinforcing
Speaker 4: for me that there's this thing I haven't seen. We'll
Speaker 4: get into whether or not I was right about that, yes,
Speaker 4: but yeah, I look, my main concern preparing for today.
Speaker 4: And I don't know if you get this a lot,
Speaker 4: but when I was a kid, I was absolutely flabbergasted
Speaker 4: when my parents could get halfway through the film and
Speaker 4: then my dad would go, no, wait, I have seen this,
Speaker 4: Like that was just out of that was inconceivable to
Speaker 4: me that you could get through a film, you know,
Speaker 4: that far into a film and not and not have
Speaker 4: any memory of it until then and.
Speaker 1: More and more, that is how I roll. Yes, I
Speaker 1: understand that now.
Speaker 4: And so I got to the end of this and
Speaker 4: thankfully I either hadn't seen it or had entirely erased
Speaker 4: it from from my from May have played a part
Speaker 4: the natsak Maybe where does Will Ferrell.
Speaker 1: Sit in your in your brain? As far as his
Speaker 1: influence on pop culture? How funny you find him? Where
Speaker 1: does he sit? I find him incredibly funny.
Speaker 4: I think I think he probably has a He's got
Speaker 4: a very specific thing he does, and it's very much
Speaker 4: on show here in this film. But you look, I mean,
Speaker 4: you can't argue with his with his film, not only
Speaker 4: his filmography, but the things he's been associated associated with
Speaker 4: as producer over the years, like his company Session Succession
Speaker 4: for example. I mean, what you know Funny or Die.
Speaker 4: He was a founder of Funny or Die. So the
Speaker 4: guy has you know, he can go to its grave
Speaker 4: having knowing that he you know.
Speaker 1: He's one of my favorite people. Yeah. Like and I've
Speaker 1: had the pleasure of interviewing a few times and be
Speaker 1: in the room with him and being in cars with him.
Speaker 1: In fact, I introduced the campaign filmed Galtha Macus and yeah,
Speaker 1: I ended up going with him and you know, to
Speaker 1: their and back fin in the limo. And and he is,
Speaker 1: first of all, he's one of the nicest guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a lovely fellow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, which you appreciate having been in showbis for a while,
Speaker 4: when someone turns out to be actually nice.
Speaker 1: Well I think I think there's the guys who work
Speaker 1: get the success. A bit later in life, Steve Carrell
Speaker 1: is the same. Strell is as nice, you know, and
Speaker 1: I won't have every right not to be. But you
Speaker 1: know that in that Hollywood system, you can understand not
Speaker 1: everyone carries on like that. But I just think he
Speaker 1: always brings the funny I give him. Sometimes I go, okay,
Speaker 1: if I'm going too far into like what's the meaning?
Speaker 1: It's just like what would Will Ferrell do? Like and
Speaker 1: my my comedy festival posters, like it was a year
Speaker 1: where I kind of thought, Okay, everyone's kind of doing
Speaker 1: these rockstar posters. Everyone's on David Bow or Bono or
Speaker 1: something that's guilty. Yeah, let's do funny posters, like remind
Speaker 1: people comedies that we're here to be funny. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: so I really kind of thought, and Will Ferrell was
Speaker 1: on my mind.
Speaker 4: With that, like this, he's one of those comedians that
Speaker 4: quite obviously has a really strong sense of vocation, you know,
Speaker 4: what is here to do?
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 4: I haven't had the pleasure of meeting him, but the
Speaker 4: insight for me was when he showed up on Rob
Speaker 4: Mcallaney's the football show Welcome to Wrexham, and he came
Speaker 4: along to one of the games and they followed him
Speaker 4: around and you could see that he inhabited that role
Speaker 4: of everyone he met. He would make them laugh, he
Speaker 4: would be warm to them. He really stepped into that
Speaker 4: kind of he accepted the responsibility that he created for
Speaker 4: himself of delivering on that, even on an interpersonal level or.
Speaker 1: Even with interviews. He's very funny. But when he was
Speaker 1: on Rogue Live a few times and he's with John
Speaker 1: c Ry, I don't think maybe it was actually for
Speaker 1: step brothers, now that I think of it, but they
Speaker 1: came on with the Olympics around that year, which actually
Speaker 1: would have been two thousand and eights. It would have
Speaker 1: been for their brothers, and they came I think Steve
Speaker 1: Steve Hooker, the pole volter something maybe maybe yeah, maybe
Speaker 1: Steve look was the oh sorry, Steve, so much information
Speaker 1: may have when I did this podcast, We're gonna lose
Speaker 1: half your audience. I wasn't expecting Steve who going to
Speaker 1: come up to that. They came on with with with
Speaker 1: a pole vault, you know, in Australia tracksuits. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: another one that came in these matching Gucci tracksuits. So
Speaker 1: they all like Will Ferrell always, particularly there's night show
Speaker 1: appearances he does in the States, always brings something that
Speaker 1: he could have come down to Australia and phoned it
Speaker 1: in and just phoned it in and they're funny. They're
Speaker 1: funny enough guys to do a funny interview without the tricks,
Speaker 1: but no, he goes to the effort of making it
Speaker 1: special for that show.
Speaker 4: I'm in order of people with that kind of energy
Speaker 4: and focus and application, you know. I feel like Steve
Speaker 4: Martin's one of those, Like there's always some something going on, some.
Speaker 1: Gimmick, you know.
Speaker 4: Hugh Jackman does a lot of that too on the
Speaker 4: Tonight shows, and stuffy something he's you know, he's thought
Speaker 4: about it.
Speaker 1: He's not just lobbing up.
Speaker 4: You know, we all know what it's like, you know,
Speaker 4: who've toured a lot and stuff to just be knacked
Speaker 4: and load into a taxi and not quite nowhere you're
Speaker 4: supposed to go next. Yeah, I left my phone in
Speaker 4: the hotel room, and you know, all this kind of
Speaker 4: other stuff and then you show up and blink and ask.
Speaker 1: The person next to you what is this and what
Speaker 1: I'm I supposed to be? And what city am I in?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know like people who who still manage to
Speaker 4: bring it every time, Like you say, I'm just blown away.
Speaker 6: I know.
Speaker 1: He's really good in Australia doing that is the working
Speaker 1: dog guys. Yeah, I reckon. They always don't necessarily do
Speaker 1: the dressing up and all that, but they're always like you.
Speaker 1: Hear Tom Gleisner be interviewed, you know about the upcoming
Speaker 1: season of Have you been paying attention? He's always got gags,
Speaker 1: always got gags. Yeah, yeah, Okay, let's do at your
Speaker 1: three favorite films. There's some good ones here.
Speaker 4: Look they're a bit arbitrary, but it's what I thought of.
Speaker 4: It's those are in my top team.
Speaker 1: The most recent one is THO Ragnarok. Why that one
Speaker 1: out of all the superhero movies you could have chosen?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 4: Well, look, it's it's a cracking adventure tale. It really focuses.
Speaker 4: It manages to combine the sort of epic cosmic kind
Speaker 4: of you know, superhero thing with Tiger's sense of humor,
Speaker 4: and he's able to go really small and there's such
Speaker 4: beautiful little subtle moments he's casting his gorgeous Chris Hemsworth
Speaker 4: really steps into the new take on the character, and
Speaker 4: he's obviously been pushing for that, you know, Lark, and
Speaker 4: so it really feels like it's just a perfect storm
Speaker 4: and a perfect bit of timing in terms of where
Speaker 4: the story's at, you know what, Tiger's sort of energy
Speaker 4: levels are creatively at that point, and it really expresses
Speaker 4: both Tiger and Marvel just beautifully. And I said, I
Speaker 4: think it sets a bar that from that point on
Speaker 4: they've been trying to hit and have never quiet, you
Speaker 4: know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because the follow up, for whatever reason, didn't seem
Speaker 1: to work as well.
Speaker 4: I felt like for me, the follow up was really
Speaker 4: grasping at that kind of combining the comedy with the
Speaker 4: you know, with the pathos and the adventure and everything,
Speaker 4: but just sort of became tonally a bit, you know,
Speaker 4: a bit all over the shop, a bit sort of
Speaker 4: patchworking for mine, which kind.
Speaker 1: Of makes Ragnar Rock like it's a good lesson in
Speaker 1: these things are sometimes inches off as a triumph. They've
Speaker 1: tried to basically repeat the formula the sequel, but for
Speaker 1: whatever reason, Yeah, there's things are just not quite on
Speaker 1: you know, the Pajama Men. Yes, they do.
Speaker 4: They do lots of kind of really interesting quasi improvisational
Speaker 4: mid stuff. Anyway, I was hanging out with one of
Speaker 4: them after a show years ago and he described what
Speaker 4: you're talking about to me as a as like a circle.
Speaker 4: And you know, it's easy to be down the bottom, right,
Speaker 4: It's easy. Gravity will take you down the middle, right.
Speaker 4: But at the top of the circle, awesomeness and disastrous
Speaker 4: are right next to each other, right, And so the
Speaker 4: hard bit is to be up there for a start,
Speaker 4: and then also to be on the right side of
Speaker 4: that very subtle line that you're talking about.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a really good way of looking at it.
Speaker 1: The School of Rock is just it's very rewatchable. I've
Speaker 1: seen it. It'll be close to almost ten times, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think because if it's on you, and that's probably
Speaker 1: you know, watching it from fifteen minutes in or the
Speaker 1: last hour or so. But it is one of the
Speaker 1: best comedy performances by anyone Black and it's just kind
Speaker 1: of joyous.
Speaker 4: And Black really has taken that seriously, like if you
Speaker 4: sort of look into the material around it, I mean,
Speaker 4: it seems like he's being really spontaneous and really kind
Speaker 4: of fun. And he is, but he's brought that. He
Speaker 4: does a lot of prep for that role, you know,
Speaker 4: and he really really dove in. He understood the gravity
Speaker 4: of it for his career.
Speaker 1: Aside from I love hearing that, yeah, because there's a
Speaker 1: lot of talk about, you know, and the film we're
Speaker 1: talking about today is a massive live improvising going on.
Speaker 1: I think I think they shot four hours a film.
Speaker 1: We'll get to whether it works in Step Brothers or not,
Speaker 1: but I think there are examples where I'm watching a
Speaker 1: film going, yeah, they're improvising. It's not there could have been, yeah,
Speaker 1: but Jack Black is pitch perfect and I'm glad he
Speaker 1: went in prepared and who knows there might have been
Speaker 1: some imivization going on, but he commits it a character
Speaker 1: so uefully.
Speaker 4: And also what he's got going for him in his
Speaker 4: corner is that the story and the comedy are rowing
Speaker 4: in the same direction, right, Like that's not an either
Speaker 4: or proposition, you know. Yeah, by hitting the comedy, he's
Speaker 4: also telling the story, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And also I mean just putting yourself in his shoes.
Speaker 4: He not only has to deliver a performance that on
Speaker 4: that set. But he's got like what twelve, fifteen, twenty
Speaker 4: little kids looking at him that also are going to
Speaker 4: stay engaged in the process if he's the one that
Speaker 4: carries that for.
Speaker 1: Them, right, and both on screen and off screen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this being between takes and like you know, being the
Speaker 1: director's obviously Mike White to do that job as well,
Speaker 1: and there's you know, people around to help. It's not
Speaker 1: solely on Jack Black to do that. But if you're
Speaker 1: an actor and you've got actors around you, that's you.
Speaker 1: You're kind of chatting too between scenes, really, you know,
Speaker 1: so to keep his energy up, their energy up. I
Speaker 1: think it's incredible. One of the best comedic performances on film.
Speaker 1: I totally agree to see one of the old time
Speaker 1: comedy classes. And I remember watching this had that many
Speaker 1: times as a kid. Had the vhs do not tape
Speaker 1: over Dustin Hoffman just just transforming and just stealing.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 4: It's interesting to think about the ways it has and
Speaker 4: hasn't dated politically.
Speaker 1: Yes, film, I was going to ask, what does it
Speaker 1: mean in twenty twenty four? Well, yeah, I mean it's
Speaker 1: a great question.
Speaker 4: Like you tempted to kind of raise an eyebrow at
Speaker 4: the fact that it's a guy been able to teach
Speaker 4: you know, what feminism is. Why does it take a
Speaker 4: guy to do that sort of stuff? But I wonder,
Speaker 4: if you know, I'm always interested to hear different people's
Speaker 4: perspective on it. But I think there's a lot too
Speaker 4: the idea of a guy learning about feminism and if
Speaker 4: he has to inhabit the shoes of someone else to
Speaker 4: do that. It does, and it's not The comedy is
Speaker 4: more than just it's funny when a guy dresses up
Speaker 4: as a as a woman, do you know what I mean? Like,
Speaker 4: it's not there are gags in that sort of space
Speaker 4: in there, but it's sort of more about the culture
Speaker 4: clash of it, isn't it.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean there's a version of this movie.
Speaker 1: There's been movies where you know, the Transformation, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, white chicks. Some like it, some
Speaker 1: like it, Yeah, exactly. So it's it's not necessarily a unicorn,
Speaker 1: but it's the I think it's the best of all those. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like there's a class to It's genuinely funny.
Speaker 1: Bill Murray is great in that. Yeah, you forget Bill
Speaker 1: Murray is in it, right, Yeah, years ago, and I
Speaker 1: was like, oh that's right, Yeah, Bill Murray, let's get
Speaker 1: in to this kind of three.
Speaker 3: Name your favorite dinosaur, don't even think about it, just
Speaker 3: name it ready, one two?
Speaker 4: Three Glass of raptor, favorite non pornographic magazine to Masterbeat,
Speaker 4: two Good Housekeeping.
Speaker 1: If you were a chick, who's the one guy you
Speaker 1: would sleep with? John Thames? What did we just be?
Speaker 1: Come best friends? Yep? Do you want to go to
Speaker 1: Karati in the garage? Yup? Of course they do. Okay.
Speaker 1: I'm always somewhat nervous when I chat to a comedian
Speaker 1: about comedy. Yeah, it's like it's it's us judging. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the comedians they did the craft of comedy. If it
Speaker 1: would help you to think of me as a cabaretist,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe they'll take the pressure for the
Speaker 1: next hour two thousand and eight, directed by Adam Kaye
Speaker 1: from an idea from the three those guys, st'sy about
Speaker 1: as far as they went in inverted commas starting with
Speaker 1: Richard Jenkins as well Mary Steinberg and Adam Scott and
Speaker 1: Katherine Hahn Scott Edgar. Yeah, did you enjoy step Brothers?
Speaker 1: I enjoyed the process of watching it.
Speaker 4: I can now tick it off my list, but it's
Speaker 4: certainly I will say for my taste. And this is
Speaker 4: back to this idea of comedy and story. I thought this,
Speaker 4: you know, for me, it was a really great frame.
Speaker 4: And you can almost tell that it's an idea that's
Speaker 4: cooked up by people who are also performers, in large
Speaker 4: part because it does feel like, I wouldn't it be
Speaker 4: funny if we had this this premise where we could
Speaker 4: just mess around right the clown you know, it's a
Speaker 4: clowning kind of literally.
Speaker 1: That's exactly how they came. Like the first seed of
Speaker 1: this film was Adam Kay thinking I want to see
Speaker 1: a film or I want to make a film where
Speaker 1: a bunk bed collapses. Yeah, and they just started throwing stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to see a film, you know, a film
Speaker 1: where they do a wrap on a boat, you know
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, Like, and they just had comedy ideas.
Speaker 4: It's almost jarringly episodic at certain points, do you know
Speaker 4: what I mean? It's not always clear where the kind
Speaker 4: of spine of the kind of consequence of this scene
Speaker 4: really feed there are.
Speaker 1: In a movie. Yeah, there was zero steaks. You don't
Speaker 1: care enough Yeah to really want anything particular to happen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I totally agree, and it's for me.
Speaker 4: The thing I've struggle with is they genuinely actually forty
Speaker 4: year old men who live at home? Or or are
Speaker 4: they forty year old men who are playing thirteen year
Speaker 4: olds because they want to?
Speaker 1: Or do you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: Like, are they actually mentally ill people? The sort of
Speaker 4: logic of that core premise just I never kind of
Speaker 4: got there, do you.
Speaker 1: Know what I mean? One time I thought about that
Speaker 1: in particular was when they went for the job interviews
Speaker 1: and you're going to go, Okay, so do they want
Speaker 1: these jobs? Or are they sabotaging? Yeah? Am I watching big?
Speaker 1: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: Are they genuinely the nine year olds in Grown Ups Bodies?
Speaker 4: Or is it Will Ferrell and John c Riley playing
Speaker 4: Actual Night?
Speaker 1: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: Like, I think there's a lot to be said for
Speaker 4: that theme of a manchild and you know the kind
Speaker 4: of idea that people that age not pointing at anyone,
Speaker 4: he says, pointing.
Speaker 1: Himself, you can point me too, if you like.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they go, you know, sort of immature, right, There's
Speaker 4: a lot to be kind of mind there. Yeah, but
Speaker 4: for my experience of man Children, they're much better at
Speaker 4: masking it than that, right, do you know what I mean? Like,
Speaker 4: so am I watching and if you for me? Because
Speaker 4: I couldn't get my head around the core logic of
Speaker 4: that premise, everything else just kind of came apart, do
Speaker 4: you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: I did, And I'm going to defend it a little
Speaker 1: bit more. I I really enjoy this. It hasn't kind
Speaker 1: of like Joaquine Phoenix is his favorite film and he
Speaker 1: hasn't seen it any other film more than Step Brothers,
Speaker 1: and there has been like I love that Paul Thomas
Speaker 1: Anderson and I think I spoke about this recently with
Speaker 1: Prep Blake, Like he just loves Adam Sandler film. So
Speaker 1: he's the guyho made Phantom Threat and Magnolia, and it
Speaker 1: expects him to you know quote you know, yeah, he
Speaker 1: Lashby and I'm sure he's got influences like that as well.
Speaker 1: But if he's watching a movie, he's putting an Adam
Speaker 1: Sandler film on. There is something to be said about
Speaker 1: silliness and underrating that. I think if you give up
Speaker 1: any kind of pretense that this is going to give
Speaker 1: you anything more than laughs, then it's going to be
Speaker 1: a hard watch because it is. It is tricky to
Speaker 1: watch two men. The amount of shouting goes on. Are
Speaker 1: they is it something mentally going on here? What is
Speaker 1: their state of arrested development? And so once you start
Speaker 1: kind of going now every scene is just just trying
Speaker 1: to make it just some awesome performance. Being dickheads right
Speaker 1: and like on that frame, absolutely absolutely and people being
Speaker 1: stupid swearing there they're smart. Some of the lines they
Speaker 1: have with this when they're having it that first dinner
Speaker 1: party with their first meet and they're throwing all that,
Speaker 1: you know, the oldest lines in the book at each other, going,
Speaker 1: I mean when I had my first yeah, yeah, very funny,
Speaker 1: when I heard that I fell fell off my dinosaur.
Speaker 1: And then he's trying not to cry.
Speaker 4: Look, no one does you know man acting like child
Speaker 4: better than Will Ferrell, And that is him playing to
Speaker 4: his absolute strength. He's got a body of work in
Speaker 4: that department. I would say, I wrote down just off
Speaker 4: the top of my head. Elf is absolutely that. Yes,
Speaker 4: Fire Saga is very much that. That's the kind of
Speaker 4: core of his performance. I think is that for me,
Speaker 4: he's getting a bit old to pull it off by
Speaker 4: Fire saga. But that's I've seen that one fire Saga's
Speaker 4: great if you can again, you're just being asked to
Speaker 4: kind of look away from the fact that Will Ferrell's
Speaker 4: playing thirty years younger, you know what I mean. Wedding Crashes.
Speaker 4: He does a cameo on that, which is absolutely that.
Speaker 4: I would say, anchor man, is that talladaga nine?
Speaker 1: Absolutely old school? It's what he does, yeah, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: and he's absolutely amazing.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But he's got the funniest face in comedy, Like there's
Speaker 1: something like you can see the cogs between behind the eyes,
Speaker 1: you know, and whether he's playing cocky or I mean,
Speaker 1: I think he's at his best when he's playing a
Speaker 1: bit cocky, you know, but it's always a vulnerable kind
Speaker 1: of cocky where you know that he's not there's not
Speaker 1: much behind it, that's right. It's a David Brand Michael
Speaker 1: Scott thing, but he had it. He was doing that
Speaker 1: before even those guys, and it's it's still different. It's
Speaker 1: not he's not doing the same thing, and I don't
Speaker 1: think they're doing the same thing as him, but it's
Speaker 1: the same kind of wheelhouse.
Speaker 4: And I was watching that Funny or Die sketch Yesterday
Speaker 4: with Will Ferrell. I don't know if you've seen it,
Speaker 4: where he's living in a sharehouse. The other character is
Speaker 4: played by Adam McKay. As it happens and there's a
Speaker 4: knock at the door and he's like, to my landlord,
Speaker 4: have you seen that skitch?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 4: Yes, and he opens the door and it's a too
Speaker 4: literal two year old giving just playing to the hilt,
Speaker 4: this idea of this old bitter landld, give me my
Speaker 4: money or you're back out on the street. And it's hilarious,
Speaker 4: but it made me kind of wonder. I guess maybe
Speaker 4: he's got some sort of fascination with people playing outside
Speaker 4: their age, do you know what I mean, like whether
Speaker 4: there's something there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, and that's on show in this movie,
Speaker 1: the kids who beat them up. That was one of
Speaker 1: the other ideas I want to see like a you know,
Speaker 1: like a bunch of kids, because I think one of
Speaker 1: Adam or Willard seen like a kid pick a faright
Speaker 1: with an adult said, that's hilarious.
Speaker 4: That's so funny in the movie, and the post credits
Speaker 4: scene where they could go back in and just absolutely
Speaker 4: hammer the kids. It's nothing not funny about that.
Speaker 1: It's so good about the interviews before. Let's have a
Speaker 1: listened to one where we see Seth Rogon and Seth
Speaker 1: Rogan was getting going around his time. And I did
Speaker 1: like this as an idea, is like, they're being so
Speaker 1: stupid in all these interviews, and they know that they've
Speaker 1: been stupid in this interview, but for some reason, Seth
Speaker 1: Rogen doesn't see it. Yeah and yeah, Diale lets it
Speaker 1: down at the end.
Speaker 6: I'm just looking to hire guys that I don't mind
Speaker 6: hanging out with for like twelve hours a day. You
Speaker 6: guys seem like cool guys, got hair similar to mine.
Speaker 6: You wear tuxedos to the interview. That's funny, it's ironic.
Speaker 6: I get that you're kind of underplaying the whole formality
Speaker 6: of it. I think that's funny as hell.
Speaker 1: So let's do this. You know, you guys are hired.
Speaker 1: You're in, you know, unless you're like the weirdest guys ever.
Speaker 1: And I don't see it. Great. Was that a fart?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 6: I can taste it.
Speaker 1: I'm a tunnel, Okay, I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 5: I did for it.
Speaker 6: Is that Onion Onion and onionon catchup.
Speaker 7: It stinks.
Speaker 6: There's a small room. Okay, now to see those things
Speaker 6: kind of fucked up.
Speaker 1: I mean I had I have a lot of laughs
Speaker 1: in this movie. It's a very quotable line. Oh absolutely,
Speaker 1: my most quotable line. We saw the ship ton of copters.
Speaker 1: For some reason, for some reason, I love that. I
Speaker 1: love John c. Relling. You know, we are a house
Speaker 1: of learned doctors. Heave saverely laughs. I mean, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the thing.
Speaker 4: It's like that thing of like I keep talking about,
Speaker 4: if I saw that on stage, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 4: For some reason, I would find that more enchanting than
Speaker 4: on film, where you've got all these expectations of a
Speaker 4: story that has stakes.
Speaker 1: For example, yes, the one thing okay, so the one
Speaker 1: thing I think helps it from an emotional point of view,
Speaker 1: as as like you start siding with the guys is
Speaker 1: the arrival of Derek totally Adam Scott and his wife
Speaker 1: Alice paid Bay, also the equally incredible Katherine Hahn. They
Speaker 1: fuck me Adams. I hadn't done comedy before this, and
Speaker 1: he's just John hamm audition for this. I can imagine
Speaker 1: John Ham in it, like he played a very similar
Speaker 1: character in Bridesmaids. It was hilarious, but Adam Scott knocks
Speaker 1: this and out of the heart, and I don't think
Speaker 1: it's as good as a film without Adam Scott and
Speaker 1: Katherine completely agree.
Speaker 4: I would say the whole thing lifts just by degrees
Speaker 4: when they both show up. I mean, the kiss between
Speaker 4: Katherine Hahn and John c Riley might be the funniest
Speaker 4: on screen bad kiss I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 1: Let's let's have a listen.
Speaker 6: Hi.
Speaker 1: I'm Alice, I'm Derek's wife. Is it true that you
Speaker 1: struck Derek in the face and he fell from the treehouse? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he asked me. Amazing thing I've ever heard. I want
Speaker 1: you to know that. Tonight I am gonna pleasure myself
Speaker 1: to the image of you doing.
Speaker 5: That to Deare you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Yesterday?
Speaker 5: I am.
Speaker 1: Oh, Dale, You're something. You are something. Here's something too.
Speaker 1: I'm want to roll you into a little ball and
Speaker 1: shove you up my vagina. You could just live there.
Speaker 1: It's warmnuts, it's cozy vagina. I want to walk around
Speaker 1: with you in there, and I just know if I
Speaker 1: feel a little tickl or scratched, and it's this your
Speaker 1: hair of my vagina. Please just do it for me.
Speaker 6: What's happening?
Speaker 7: Excuse me?
Speaker 1: I know, I know.
Speaker 2: My life well, single kid, honey, come on Dane Cook
Speaker 2: pay per view twenty minutes, let's go.
Speaker 1: Oh that is the perfect Cook. Of course he'd be
Speaker 1: a massive Dane Cook fan. I know this is better
Speaker 1: Dayne Cook, but I imagine Derek loves Dane Cook. Ad
Speaker 1: gotten say, let's talkbout Katain Hart. Yeah, Katherine Haunt first
Speaker 1: of all, shooting that scene, I would love to know
Speaker 1: see the outtakes, like what they left out? What they
Speaker 1: That is an incredible performance. And we underrate comedies all
Speaker 1: the time, but that to commit to that thought, that
Speaker 1: idea to be performing at inches away from John c
Speaker 1: Riley as well, because he's got he's doing his bit.
Speaker 1: I just think I like Katin Hahn doesn't come up enough.
Speaker 1: I know she's co ordinary.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she is extraordinary, absolutely, And the thing of a
Speaker 4: film like this is, you know, obviously the nugget of
Speaker 4: the idea has come from what John c Riley and
Speaker 4: Will Ferrell look good at. What's amazing to me is
Speaker 4: that the actors around them have gone, Yep, get it,
Speaker 4: I'm going to hit that mode exactly right now. One
Speaker 4: really feels like they're in a different film, like they're
Speaker 4: all that someone like Catherine Hahn, who might be arguably
Speaker 4: from a more traditional kind of actor background, to be
Speaker 4: able to just switch gears like that and hit that
Speaker 4: mode perfectly and hit that heightened clownish character.
Speaker 1: I feel like Will Paraol and Adam McKay find people.
Speaker 1: I think they've all got to work. I think Catherine
Speaker 1: was in a command, had a small role in the command,
Speaker 1: one of the office workers, so you know. And Adam Scott.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure where they Scott before, but they find
Speaker 1: people and her her ability to just go all in,
Speaker 1: which is what Will Ferrell does.
Speaker 4: It's incredible they is it that same scene or later
Speaker 4: they have a really bad kiss and then later on
Speaker 4: they have a really bad sham standing up shagg and.
Speaker 1: It's just the most stupid thing you've ever seen in
Speaker 1: the And then she urinates in the urin all the
Speaker 1: men's urinal and you go along with it because it's
Speaker 1: fucking bizarre and hilarious, and you know, because it's a
Speaker 1: vulnerable thing. I think to go, I'm putting myself out
Speaker 1: here doing this piece of comedy.
Speaker 4: If it doesn't work. I look like a fucking idiot totally.
Speaker 4: And that circle I was talking about before the steaks
Speaker 4: are really high creatively, right, yeah, and that and that's
Speaker 4: the scene works. Catherine Harness.
Speaker 1: I was doing a lot of the heavy lifting in
Speaker 1: that scene because you know, Dale is a stunned first
Speaker 1: of all. One on John c Rowley, it is actually
Speaker 1: just not breaking. He probably did. He probably did, Yes,
Speaker 1: you're right. There's a couple of lines in that that
Speaker 1: he says where it's like what he says, you're something too,
Speaker 1: And then he said what's happening? And it's so good
Speaker 1: because he's saying it from an innocent you know, like
Speaker 1: he's saying it, he doesn't know what's happening. That kind
Speaker 1: of like another version of that is what's happening here?
Speaker 1: This is this is you know, yeah, and you're something too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're pretty special. No, he's not saying that, and he's
Speaker 1: just like you're saying you're physically you are something yeah
Speaker 1: yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: And don't sleep on his equivalent ability to play childish characters.
Speaker 1: That's one of the pillars of his career as well.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of I found there's a lot of
Speaker 1: Boogie Nights, Yeah, you know, which is one of my
Speaker 1: favorite comedic performances, one of my favorite movies. But yeah,
Speaker 1: he's you know, there's the karate stuff and the music
Speaker 1: staff that he did with Matt Wahlberg in that film.
Speaker 1: But yeah, he is, like John c Riley is just
Speaker 1: one of the great character actor really, he's a bit
Speaker 1: of the go from you know, Walcard and that he
Speaker 1: was in Chicago, you know, so he plays in many
Speaker 1: different areas wreck at Ralph. Yeah, you find it interesting
Speaker 1: that George Bush quote at the beginning I did, which
Speaker 1: one was families is where our nations finds love. Our
Speaker 1: nation finds love, where wings take dream George W. Bush,
Speaker 1: I'm an actual quote. I don't know for sure if
Speaker 1: this was the first kind of seed of Adam McKay
Speaker 1: being a bit more political. If he's getting political, it's
Speaker 1: pretty subtle at this at this early point of the Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's a very interesting quote there. So two thousand
Speaker 1: and six and yeah, of course both this is Wilfarel
Speaker 1: and John c ry so they basically back to back
Speaker 1: films together. But that I think Tallbagan Knights was also
Speaker 1: had like to say about America, and yeah, corporization and
Speaker 1: so yeah, there's this early and for those who don't know,
Speaker 1: Adam McKay goes on and does you know the big
Speaker 1: shorts and which the Wall Street politics and don't look up.
Speaker 1: As we mentioned earlier, they produced succession. We grew up,
Speaker 1: you know, in the eighties, and you know, and comedies
Speaker 1: are a big thing. You know, the amount of comedies
Speaker 1: that the Saturday Night Live comedies, who you know, the Ghostbusters,
Speaker 1: Beverly Hills Carpet and there were always comedies in theater less.
Speaker 4: So now oh very much so and getting made at all,
Speaker 4: let alone getting into the sea. And often they will
Speaker 4: go straight to streaming or have a very short cinema
Speaker 4: window and go to streaming. Jennifer Lawrence won recently No
Speaker 4: Hard Feelings. That was really solid, That was.
Speaker 1: Really yeah, I haven't seen No Hard Feelings to Jennifer Lawrence.
Speaker 1: Really good film that had that kind of feeling of
Speaker 1: eighties comedy.
Speaker 4: Absolutely that simple premise. A character that kind of is
Speaker 4: down on the luck and wants to achieve something and
Speaker 4: you know, finds out that the thing they wanted is
Speaker 4: not the thing they need.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah blah blah, and her Jennifer Lawrence, one
Speaker 1: of the you know, the big stars. We're not making
Speaker 1: as many films as she was in an absolute prime
Speaker 1: with the Hunger Games kind of the years, but she
Speaker 1: commits to character. And that would have been such an
Speaker 1: easy film to her to pass on, yeah, to pass
Speaker 1: on or just to phone in, you know, but she
Speaker 1: really goes there. It's freaking hilarious.
Speaker 4: The premise is a classic rom com premise. She's been
Speaker 4: asked to like help this kid come out of his
Speaker 4: shell by like coming on to him and whatnot, by
Speaker 4: by his parents. Anyway, there's a scene early on when
Speaker 4: she's over egging the pudding and she's all dressed up,
Speaker 4: real sexy, and she convinces him to give her a
Speaker 4: lift home, and she's being really kind of you know,
Speaker 4: up front.
Speaker 1: And he maces her. It's hilarious.
Speaker 4: And then they're out on the on the lawn and
Speaker 4: she's on and and he's going, what the hell did
Speaker 4: you just do? And then he takes a like basically
Speaker 4: a fire hose and tries to rinse it out of it,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean, Like it's just one hundred
Speaker 4: and ten percent the whole way.
Speaker 1: That's not even anywhere near the funniest thing. No, there's
Speaker 1: a scene on the beach where it's a fight scene.
Speaker 1: She's fully naked and it's all there. You know, she's
Speaker 1: not saying, oh, no, you know, I only shoot from
Speaker 1: from here or there and no, she completely committed that.
Speaker 1: She's yeah, hilarius. Yeah and so and comedy fell around
Speaker 1: this time, like it was through Judd Apatau and then
Speaker 1: Will Ferrell and Adam Sandler of course Fairly Brothers, just
Speaker 1: before the Farly Brothers. Yeah, Mary, of course. Yes, well
Speaker 1: I remember seeing There's Something at Mary and feeling like
Speaker 1: that was the first comedy I've seen like it was
Speaker 1: laugh out loud in a while. Jim carries other obviously
Speaker 1: the other one who was so there were Yeah, there
Speaker 1: were a bit. It felt like I was having a hateout.
Speaker 1: I felt like in the nineties it kind of went
Speaker 1: away the early two thousands and he seemed to kind
Speaker 1: of really come back.
Speaker 4: And you can't help wondering, you know, what the relationship
Speaker 4: is with this kind of film and the kind of
Speaker 4: talent pipeline of SNL, you know, because they're often they
Speaker 4: often kind of go hand in hand a little bit.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure whether you could point at much of
Speaker 4: that right now, I don't know. This is the theory
Speaker 4: I haven't thought of much, So I'm just going to
Speaker 4: say that loud. So they're not live now casts more
Speaker 4: attractive people interesting?
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, And I'm not obviously Eddie Murphy, sure and
Speaker 1: absolutely start you know, and I'm not saying there hasn't
Speaker 1: been you know that those stars aren't attractive, but you
Speaker 1: look at the cast and you go, they're an attractive
Speaker 1: bunch of people.
Speaker 4: Is that just because you and I are getting older
Speaker 4: and all young people seem way more attractive than when
Speaker 4: we were that adeos?
Speaker 1: Possibly counterpoint, you know, we don't need to kind of
Speaker 1: go through the cars and who's attractive and who down.
Speaker 1: We're getting the Mark Zuckerberg territory here that I guess
Speaker 1: Parpeline is doesn't seem as strong. I mean, Bride'smaids was
Speaker 1: a great comedy I mentioned in the School of Rock,
Speaker 1: but that's still in now ten years ago. Yea, Yeah,
Speaker 1: has comedy shifted into that comedy drama world where where
Speaker 1: drama is except to you know, and I love a
Speaker 1: good drama, y you know, O Sideways, one of my
Speaker 1: favorit films is that that's a bit of both. Is
Speaker 1: Holdover as a comedy? You know?
Speaker 4: Like, yeah, so I think Holdovers would be more kind
Speaker 4: of drama with some comedy. But also, I mean, I
Speaker 4: don't know. It's just sidebarring from here. I don't understand
Speaker 4: how The Bear is a comedy and that's getting nominated
Speaker 4: in that Cadger, And it seems like it all just
Speaker 4: comes down to how I shot.
Speaker 1: I'm shocked anyone sees The Bear as a comedy. I mean,
Speaker 1: me too.
Speaker 4: I love it, but it's well not to say comedies
Speaker 4: can't be harrowing, but I can't point at many gags
Speaker 4: in it.
Speaker 1: You know, I wouldn't have thought I would laugh once
Speaker 1: and a laugh. Yeah, yeah, that's right, that's right. I'll
Speaker 1: tell what's comedy is renditions of guns and rises like
Speaker 1: this one go three four. She's got smile that it
Speaker 1: seems to me reminds me of childhood.
Speaker 5: Memories whereverything was as fresh as a bride.
Speaker 1: Blue skuy All right, Tommy, you're the oldest. I'm counting
Speaker 1: on you. Come on. She's got yes of the bluest guys,
Speaker 1: has a lot of it. I hate you.
Speaker 5: Look those eyes.
Speaker 1: Now, nice steprano buddy, all right, all right, Alice, let's go.
Speaker 1: Reminds me of flats so flat I can't even I
Speaker 1: don't even know. You don't even look good while you're sick.
Speaker 1: The worst thing I've ever heard. Just twelve hundred dollars
Speaker 1: a week for voice lessons, and this is what I get. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna save it with the solo bo.
Speaker 5: Like that.
Speaker 1: What an awest for all of them. Yeah, that son
Speaker 1: is fantastic in this. In this, he's all he gets
Speaker 1: to do in the whole film. He has one line
Speaker 1: at the dinner table basically and and but what's actually
Speaker 1: really good about it? You know, if you want to
Speaker 1: a little bit deeper, Yeah, Derek is raising a little asshole,
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, Yeah, he's leading by example. Yeah, he thinks,
Speaker 1: and his son's following that. And you know straight away
Speaker 1: what their relationship is. What Catherine Hahn's character is that
Speaker 1: the fact that he's a dick. I mean maybe we
Speaker 1: already knew that based on the backstory that happened earlier. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, he's a dick. He's Derek because he sings it.
Speaker 1: I think he's introduced by the characters early when he's yeah,
Speaker 1: because he's got a very he missed the wedding because
Speaker 1: of a very important fishing trip.
Speaker 4: But there's also the story of like him, you know,
Speaker 4: of why Will Ferrell won't sing in public and it's
Speaker 4: the school concert and he gets all his mates to sing.
Speaker 4: You know, it's nuts. Yeah, I mean, look, Adam Scott,
Speaker 4: I've just got all the time in the world.
Speaker 1: Let's chat about Adams a bit, because I hadn't done
Speaker 1: a lot of comedy. I don't think before this where
Speaker 1: was community? Was that soon after this? Yeah, he might
Speaker 1: have been around that times. Yeah, she was great in that,
Speaker 1: but he was sort of a gentler character in that.
Speaker 1: And he can play like this Parkson recreation. He's so likable,
Speaker 1: That's what I'm thinking of. I was, I was thinking,
Speaker 1: was he in community Parkson WRECKI so gentle and likely
Speaker 1: that you say, And then he's been like the supportive
Speaker 1: kind of husband. It pretty lies his great nap. But
Speaker 1: when he does out and out comedy like this, I mean,
Speaker 1: this is yeah, this is great, right, he adds a
Speaker 1: little Let's have another listen. This is the dinner party scene.
Speaker 1: So the family have arrived not long after the sweets
Speaker 1: Oild of Mind cover and yeah, this is Derek being
Speaker 1: a dick. Are beeni in a fish? Big what d
Speaker 1: don't interrupt the man when he's telling a story. It's fine, Robert,
Speaker 1: I was asking about the story. I know, no Son,
Speaker 1: It's okay. God, I'm sorry now I forget where my
Speaker 1: story was going. A damn it, Dale.
Speaker 4: Listen, Gang, don't be mad at Dale for ruining the
Speaker 4: story and possibly the evening.
Speaker 1: It's It's totally fine. Have a lot more stories, Derek,
Speaker 1: that you do. Guilty with the stories delivery of that line.
Speaker 4: Guilty his charge with the story and the way he
Speaker 4: runs John c Riley up the flagpole in the most
Speaker 4: subtle way for asking a completely fair enough question. You
Speaker 4: don't know about that kind of fish, but just the subtext,
Speaker 4: that look on his face, and the way he's so
Speaker 4: cruel to him in the tiniest amount of time.
Speaker 1: It's amazing storytelling. And he's reducing you know, Richard, you know,
Speaker 1: And then you get to deal with in the cell
Speaker 1: of the house. There's self interest, a fun little fact
Speaker 1: which you know. I'm sure Adam McKay is aware of
Speaker 1: this and will fare the Benita fish not actually traffic fish,
Speaker 1: not actually traffic fish. There we go, which I've seen
Speaker 1: even more now.
Speaker 4: Just to jump across to Richard Jenkins as well. I mean,
Speaker 4: he is superb as a comic actor.
Speaker 1: We don't see that. And he's a similar kind of proposition,
Speaker 1: I think to Adam Scott absolutely, because he played in
Speaker 1: some of them, was in Guffman or Best in Show.
Speaker 4: I'm sure he was in some of the Christopher guess
Speaker 4: he's Look, he's c is as long as as long
Speaker 4: as your arm. I mean he's in you know, Cheaper
Speaker 4: by the Dozen, mimus Me, myself and Irene. But I
Speaker 4: mean the thing about it is that he is if
Speaker 4: you look at the work he's done, eat, pray, love,
Speaker 4: you know he's he's beyond the genre.
Speaker 1: He's not a comic actor per se. No, but he
Speaker 1: can go in any direction. Yeah. Yeah, Six Feet Under obviously, yes,
Speaker 1: A Shape of Water. He was really good in that
Speaker 1: and gave, you know, a very human kind of performance.
Speaker 1: He's very human. He's very you can see the vulnerability
Speaker 1: beyond his eyes. I mean this when he's loved, I
Speaker 1: do love that. Yeah, there's really smart touches in this
Speaker 1: film that aren't necessarily you don't necessarily reading the script.
Speaker 1: But when Richard Jakins is laughing at Mary Steenberg and
Speaker 1: he's also always great. Second time she's played Wilferl's Mum's
Speaker 1: played his mum in Elf of course, and mother in
Speaker 1: the sept Brothers. But he's laughing and she says, I've
Speaker 1: never seen you laugh like that. And that's just a
Speaker 1: little it's just a little hint that the things you
Speaker 1: know he may not be.
Speaker 4: That's everything he needs from Yeah, that set up, and
Speaker 4: he just gets the exact tone of the kind of
Speaker 4: laugh that is required for that scene. And there's an
Speaker 4: honesty going on at all times, and it feels fresh
Speaker 4: and spontaneous his performances.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean this film, I would say, is just the
Speaker 4: greatest cast you could possibly put in those six roles, right.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I mean you could argue there's been a
Speaker 1: better cast, but I think we can agree that every
Speaker 1: choice they made was the right choice, the right choice.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's just speaking of casting. He's a thought game
Speaker 4: for you about this film. Does it work better equally
Speaker 4: differently if instead of John c Riley and Will Ferrell
Speaker 4: there are two actual teenagers.
Speaker 1: I know it's a different film. Yeah, I understand it's not.
Speaker 1: Do you know what I mean, but like I don't think.
Speaker 4: So, Yeah, that's just I guess the way it's stress
Speaker 4: testing if the story works at all.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, well no, because I think you are the
Speaker 1: fun is these men should know better. Yeah, and where
Speaker 1: there's there'll be a lediency if they were kids going
Speaker 1: to go, well, they'll grow up eventually. And the fact
Speaker 1: they grow up kind of overnight, don't they. There's a little,
Speaker 1: a lot happens, over a lot happens.
Speaker 4: So Will Ferrell learns how to put on a whole
Speaker 4: event for a you know, for the Catalina wine taste.
Speaker 1: He seems to do that overnight. And I think they
Speaker 1: are kind of winking to the camera a little bit,
Speaker 1: kind of they know they've taken a massive shortcut. But
Speaker 1: it doesn't it doesn't matter. I'm finding people like early
Speaker 1: appearances by Kenjiong's in there, Yeah, yeah, absolutely, Wriggle yeah
Speaker 1: is in there again. They are able to find people.
Speaker 1: Do you happen to remember? And this is super super
Speaker 1: obscure call out, do you happen to remember? A comedy
Speaker 1: band that lasted for about a second and a half
Speaker 1: back in the kind of or It's middlets Ken Jong
Speaker 1: was in it and it was called million Dollars Strong. No,
Speaker 1: really kind of you know, you'd be able to find
Speaker 1: a few of their clips still on the Googles, but.
Speaker 4: Really kind of Pureisle, really kind of that same mode
Speaker 4: of like Manchild sort of comedy, you know. And I
Speaker 4: was put very much in mind of Million dollars Strong
Speaker 4: when they did their clip, you know, the launch of
Speaker 4: their company.
Speaker 1: And they did that company called again its Pristige Global,
Speaker 1: Prestige Global, and it is throwing all the terms that
Speaker 1: they've heard and all the genres of business that they
Speaker 1: can think of. That's it. I can really relate to that.
Speaker 4: Actually, that idea of like entering this massive kind of
Speaker 4: taking on this big project with no effing idea that
Speaker 4: the scale of the thing you're stepping into. And that's
Speaker 4: most projects for me is thinking back and going I
Speaker 4: did not know a thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think there are some relatability.
Speaker 4: Things in the third act of I mean, who hasn't
Speaker 4: dug a grave in the backyard tried to bury their
Speaker 4: best friend.
Speaker 1: I mean those are the moment where you're going to go, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're not trying to do anything more than make us laugh.
Speaker 1: And I think that's an honorable thing to do the idea,
Speaker 1: you know, the Richard Jenkins dinosaur thing, which I think
Speaker 1: I think that was from him. That was an improper
Speaker 1: thing from him. I did love that wilfare Ill thing
Speaker 1: that he does a lot where it's almost under the
Speaker 1: dialogue as that doesn't make sense, you know. I think
Speaker 1: that's a very welfare a thing for sure. But that
Speaker 1: idea of staying young, oh yeah, you know, and it's
Speaker 1: ridiculous that, you know, Richard Jenkins's character comes around like yeah,
Speaker 1: but these characters are particularly annoying. It's not like they're
Speaker 1: young at heart. No, it goes further than just being
Speaker 1: young enough. Oh I had, I had, Oh absolutely, and
Speaker 1: I had.
Speaker 4: My main takeaway is I blame the parents for all
Speaker 4: of this, Like I wanted to know more about the
Speaker 4: Steenberger and Jenkins characters.
Speaker 1: Like how did you let things get to this point?
Speaker 4: How did you let things get to the fact that
Speaker 4: your your children are not only incapable of functioning outside
Speaker 4: the house, but basically incapable of functioning inside the house.
Speaker 1: Well when when when they're in the cart the start
Speaker 1: and and we played the clip earlier, and you know,
Speaker 1: Brennan is saying, you know, if if he gets into
Speaker 1: my face, that going to punch that motherfucker, you know,
Speaker 1: and Steenburgen's is like like she's smiling. She never she
Speaker 1: never shows any kind of frustration. Yeah, Brendan. You can
Speaker 1: particularly see from the Brennan Nancy relationship how Brennan's gotten
Speaker 1: to be who he is. There's a bit more kind
Speaker 1: of a fight back, I think, from Richard Jenkins to
Speaker 1: the Dale totally. But yeah, I kind of was slightly touched,
Speaker 1: you know, like it had worked hard enough for me
Speaker 1: to get emotional at all, so at a low percentage rate.
Speaker 1: But just when Richard Jengans tells Derek to be quiet,
Speaker 1: you know, like, yeah, he's about to launch into one
Speaker 1: of his big stories and he's like, yeah, there you
Speaker 1: know the rules over to your Dale, It's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And there's something about, yeah,
Speaker 1: getting back to your funny enough it is. The movie
Speaker 1: is silly, and it's kind of about being able to
Speaker 1: embrace silliness.
Speaker 4: That's very much the core premise if you if you can't, yeah,
Speaker 4: if you can't kind of set aside all the kinds
Speaker 4: of logical things that I've been getting hung up on
Speaker 4: for this whole podcast.
Speaker 1: You know, then you won't enjoy it, and it is
Speaker 1: absolutely right. Yeah, if you watch this film and you
Speaker 1: are expecting anything more than just then making you laugh
Speaker 1: and they are idiots.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it reminds me of them dumber a lot of ways,
Speaker 4: so sort of heightened those clown characters, know where if
Speaker 4: you put a frame of logic across it, you're in
Speaker 4: real trouble.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there are some fun facts. We always love. A
Speaker 1: fun fact, the Billy Joel cover.
Speaker 4: I'm just I was just about I was looking at
Speaker 4: that on my notes, you know, as a person who
Speaker 4: has a Billy Joel cover band, which I do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: Come yeah, Keith an Eye, I come down to see
Speaker 4: the Billy Joels where. Yeah, it's a fun show. But
Speaker 4: the idea that they're just they just only do late
Speaker 4: eighties Billy Joel, that's just genius.
Speaker 1: That is a genius because when you start the fire
Speaker 1: the fire piano man and the guy gets so dark
Speaker 1: about it too. I know it's because you can imagine
Speaker 1: there being you know, if you were we only played
Speaker 1: this period of Billy Joel. Yeah, of course there can
Speaker 1: be people who want these songs outside that piece of course,
Speaker 1: and would have heard that a thousand times. Is this
Speaker 1: his breaking point or did you get angry every time?
Speaker 1: I had a lot of questions for that guy.
Speaker 4: Again, not a film you should ask too many questions. No,
Speaker 4: but no, it's it's a hilarious reason for there not
Speaker 4: to be a lead singer up on stage, you know,
Speaker 4: when the plot needs there not to be.
Speaker 1: This is a good thing, you know when in comedy
Speaker 1: sometimes break away to do their serious kind of ending
Speaker 1: or their emotional and School of Rock does do that.
Speaker 1: And oh yeah, and you almost want that, You want that,
Speaker 1: and you need that, and tis as well. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: makes good movies, great movies, I think, and gives an
Speaker 1: emotional punch and you walk out of the cinema kind
Speaker 1: of floating. This doesn't really chin to the calendar one mixer,
Speaker 1: which apparently doesn't exist at all, but now does as
Speaker 1: a result of this film. Some more fun facts. Will
Speaker 1: Ferrell does sing. I think probably by now he realized
Speaker 1: that he can he can sing, and he enjoys a
Speaker 1: song in a.
Speaker 4: I found myself wondering what if his voice actually was
Speaker 4: really good?
Speaker 1: Do you know what I mean? It's fine? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: find it hilarious. And he sings in a lot of
Speaker 1: his movies. Yeah, and his voice is it's fine, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's absolutely fun. He can and that.
Speaker 4: Works for films like Fist Saga, where he does a
Speaker 4: lot of singing and you buy it. It's like that's
Speaker 4: probably about the level of that character could sing and
Speaker 4: it's fine, fine, whereas this it's it's that pinnacle of
Speaker 4: the whole story. So I found myself wondering what would
Speaker 4: happen if they went either bad singer, like actually amazing
Speaker 4: singer or really bad you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 4: this sort of hit it a little bit in the
Speaker 4: middle for.
Speaker 1: Me, Yeah, I do wonder. I wonder if.
Speaker 4: I don't answer that, because as it is at the moment,
Speaker 4: I would say that I'm sitting there going, yeah, well,
Speaker 4: I'm expected to just buy that he's a good singer
Speaker 4: and that's why the story resolves, right, and it does
Speaker 4: and it's fine and it's fine, like we're talking about
Speaker 4: as a musician, I was sitting there going, do you
Speaker 4: I wonder what would happen if he actually really did,
Speaker 4: you know, burn the place down? Which does happen in
Speaker 4: no hard feelings. When the kid sits up at the
Speaker 4: piano in the rest and it is amazing because you're
Speaker 4: just arrested by this moment. You don't see it coming
Speaker 4: at all, and his kid starts playing and he's freaking phenomenal,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 1: But again, I think Step Brothers is not reaching for that. No, no,
Speaker 1: at all, totally. John c Riley plays the drums. That's
Speaker 1: him on drums. He'd be a shame if they needed
Speaker 1: to stand in to achieve that level of you know,
Speaker 1: for somebody who doesn't play the drums. I just bang.
Speaker 1: And this is like Adam McKay envisions. I've read this
Speaker 1: as a fact. It's one of those facts. I don't think.
Speaker 1: I believe that Adam McKay envisioned this as a drama
Speaker 1: not a comedy. I just don't. Maybe in the first
Speaker 1: kind of Like I said, I've also heard the first
Speaker 1: seat of the idea was a bunk clumpch Yeah, I
Speaker 1: take that with a grainness.
Speaker 4: I believe the bunk one more than I believe that
Speaker 4: this was originally a drama thing. Not to say that
Speaker 4: you couldn't, as I say, you can film about this
Speaker 4: subject matter is actually super relevant and an interesting conversation
Speaker 4: to have.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, absolutely this ain't that. No, Sweet Out of Mind,
Speaker 1: which you heard earlier. This is the second film funny
Speaker 1: enough that Katain Hahn's been in where Sweet Out of
Speaker 1: Mine is sung. The other one is Captain Fantastic. Oh
Speaker 1: is a great factor to read. Yeah, thank you, an
Speaker 1: underrated film as well. Captain Fantastic. Check that one out
Speaker 1: if you get a chance. He's in everything at the moment.
Speaker 1: She was in a Will Ferrell one quite recently on
Speaker 1: Apple Plus, which also dealt with a kind of Jewish
Speaker 1: family and this sort of predatory psycho The Shrink next Door, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Shrink next Door. Will interviewed Will Farell that game
Speaker 1: and I said to him that that was the performance
Speaker 1: of his career where I almost didn't recognize him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you don't see him do that thing
Speaker 4: that you know, I'm a serious actor tonight.
Speaker 1: Out of all those even Sam was only that a
Speaker 1: couple of times, but I think Will Ferrell has done
Speaker 1: it even less. He went through a little stage. Look,
Speaker 1: it's stranger in fiction, but that was still had comedic elements.
Speaker 1: You know, he just wasn't complaining the usual manchild.
Speaker 4: And you're almost he almost has to deal with your
Speaker 4: expectation a little bit of like Oh, he's going to
Speaker 4: be funny any minute now, any minute now, And you're
Speaker 4: actually not sure for the first kind of half an
Speaker 4: episode how you expected to come to it. But and
Speaker 4: the same goes with Paul Rudd as well, same deal.
Speaker 4: Once you settle into it, it's a fantastic show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I really enjoyed that. There's a fine little one.
Speaker 1: There's there's a Huggloo's pizza light in the bedroom in
Speaker 1: I think Dale's, and that is that is also the
Speaker 1: pizza joint where Ricky Bobby ends up at in Talladega
Speaker 1: Knights Loses. Is that really it's a shared universe. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's the w c U, the WILL or w f
Speaker 1: CU Will for all Cinematic Universe all explain. There's actually
Speaker 1: one point I did want to make, which I kind
Speaker 1: of felt like it was the one bum note, you know,
Speaker 1: once you accept that this stuff and just here to
Speaker 1: make you laugh, the one thing that kind of I went, oh,
Speaker 1: I love the relationship between Will Ferrell and he's the shrink.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, she had a very firm professional line.
Speaker 4: And that's that's kind of her one gag, isn't it
Speaker 4: How she keeps having to restate that and then.
Speaker 1: Brendan just still sees it as a relationship and the
Speaker 1: potential of love there, and she up being there because
Speaker 1: he's a danger to himself or to others, suggests to
Speaker 1: go and arrive there, and she's still saying, no, this
Speaker 1: is this is not happening, you know. And then she's
Speaker 1: at dinner. She's at dinner. Yeah, And there's a line
Speaker 1: at the end of it he can wear the fuck
Speaker 1: out of that hat, and it's like the obviously you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: I just without getting to you know, being too progressive
Speaker 1: or whatever about or too righteous, it just kind of
Speaker 1: felt lazy. I don't need both characters to have interests
Speaker 1: love interests.
Speaker 4: At the end, totally, it was a bit Gilbert Sullivan to,
Speaker 4: you know, to just randomly pick someone and they pair
Speaker 4: off those two even though there's absolutely no justification for
Speaker 4: in fact, beyond no justification, in fact, I've spent the
Speaker 4: whole rest of the time denying it, but not in
Speaker 4: that romantic way of like, oh, I know what she's
Speaker 4: really saying, like that wasn't the case.
Speaker 1: No, I think it made it less funny for me.
Speaker 1: It's not that being right, It just made it less
Speaker 1: funny for me because it was so funny that she
Speaker 1: was so and she was really good. I thought, you know,
Speaker 1: like with the boundaries, and Brenda just did not get it.
Speaker 1: You know for sure she's a rascal. Scott Edgar, This
Speaker 1: podcast comes with homework, right, Yes, you've done your homework?
Speaker 1: Oh have I? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Okay, definitely watching the film is the heart. Yes, I
Speaker 4: thank you for doing that. It was only sometimes work.
Speaker 1: Well the thing, like I said, some comedies comedians can
Speaker 1: be become a complicated you know, because but yeah, I
Speaker 1: think we we had a very good chat with this one.
Speaker 1: And also we had Brett Blake on recently with The
Speaker 1: Jerk and like, you watch that film, you're going to go.
Speaker 1: Can we feel sure it's all about this film? Like
Speaker 1: it's a little bit one note like this film is,
Speaker 1: but it's funny. We always find things to talk about
Speaker 1: the other thing that this film is. Also, I think
Speaker 1: about his.
Speaker 4: Entitlement totally relevant, super relevant, absolutely so, which is also
Speaker 4: Will Ferrell getting annoyed about John c Ryland getting cast
Speaker 4: in it.
Speaker 1: Coming in there about entitlement, professional library apps, or ambition.
Speaker 1: Sometimes comedy can hide ambition.
Speaker 4: I would argue that no one's that successful without having
Speaker 4: a burning you know, some of ambition inside their heart,
Speaker 4: no question. I've never met anyone who achieved that level
Speaker 4: without having that that's almost psychotic drive to them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, before we go, you may be. I think I'm
Speaker 1: ninety nine percent sure. The first Grammy outside of your
Speaker 1: that were you were nominated for, but the first Grammy
Speaker 1: nominated artists in the ASNY studio you congratulations, You were
Speaker 1: originally nominated for a Grammy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and what was So it was for Best Soundtrack
Speaker 4: for an Interactive Media, so Best Game Soundtrack, video game Soundtrack.
Speaker 4: We collaborated with a composer in La called Austin Wintry
Speaker 4: dear friend of ours and Montaigne from up in Sydney, fantastic,
Speaker 4: and so we wrote a bunch of songs for this
Speaker 4: interactive musical. So the trick of it was writing songs
Speaker 4: that you were like in themselves choose your own adventures, right.
Speaker 4: So it was a massive amount of work and a
Speaker 4: huge which kind of nose bleed in terms of the
Speaker 4: logic and the way of doing it, which is the
Speaker 4: challenge I enjoyed most, to be honest, on that project.
Speaker 1: And you went over for the great season We went over. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you actually went to the Grammys with the Gates in
Speaker 1: the Yes, so so because I found out about we
Speaker 1: had a skihouse reunion. Yeah, and I found about it
Speaker 1: on that night, and I post about it the next
Speaker 1: day because I'm like, there's not enough noise post about it,
Speaker 1: well enough noise being made about the tripe. I've boy's
Speaker 1: been for a Grammy, and but I was so glad
Speaker 1: that you were all going over because so many times
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I mean, Grammy's a the Grammy, So
Speaker 1: absolutely you do have to, but there are times you
Speaker 1: can't for no reason, for money reasons too money reason.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Thank goodness Screen Australia, who were doing a lot
Speaker 4: of great work in the game space at the moment,
Speaker 4: came to the party and helped make that happen.
Speaker 1: Oh, good on them, Good on them. Otherwise it might
Speaker 1: have been a bit tricky, you know, because I've heard
Speaker 1: that you go to the Grammys and there's a lot
Speaker 1: of expenses, you know, even like well, i mean, just
Speaker 1: a beer in La cost seventeen dollars us. I think
Speaker 1: someone paid for one. So you go to the Grammys
Speaker 1: and tell us about it. What happens, Oh, it was nuts.
Speaker 4: I mean, look so much to tell For a start,
Speaker 4: there's like it's a week of events, right, so they
Speaker 4: make a big fuss of you.
Speaker 1: You get all the medals, we got our Norm Smith
Speaker 1: medals being nominees.
Speaker 4: You know, they take you through all this process of
Speaker 4: getting photos and they'd make a fuss of you. And
Speaker 4: on the you know, on the Wednesday, there's this sort
Speaker 4: of networking event and then on the Saturday there's two things.
Speaker 4: And the Saturday afternoon might have been my favorite event
Speaker 4: because it was the Lifetime Achievement Awards and it's in
Speaker 4: a pretty small theaters, maybe three hundred of us, and
Speaker 4: people like Gladys Night are getting up there, you know,
Speaker 4: Nwa right there.
Speaker 1: In the room.
Speaker 4: You know, like just these legends of the of the business.
Speaker 4: So that part of it is when you start going,
Speaker 4: holy shit, I'm at the Grammys, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: Like it's very abstract up until that point, and then
Speaker 4: you realize you're in this very rarefied, strange, fun celebration.
Speaker 4: And that's the other part of it that I really
Speaker 4: enjoyed is the is it reminded me that I quite
Speaker 4: like music. It's probably a good thing to remember.
Speaker 1: Now. Look, it was amazing.
Speaker 4: I mean the night of our category, along with like
Speaker 4: eighty other categories, is in the afternoon. So that's a big,
Speaker 4: long event, which is still fun and there's still great
Speaker 4: people like we walked in and Sheila he was playing, which.
Speaker 1: Someone on my vintage is very exciting.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I said to Montianne afterwards, I can't believe
Speaker 4: we saw Sheila in the flesh And they said, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: That means nothing to me. Fair, fair, fair, I should
Speaker 1: I knew that's how I was going to go as
Speaker 1: it was coming out of my mouth. Or Montane isn't
Speaker 1: listening to this Montanne under a Bustaigne. Deny, that's what
Speaker 1: you said. Come on, it's just generational, that's all I'm saying. Mate,
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, love your work. Go see the
Speaker 1: Joels Billy Joels. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, yeah, come to my instagrams.
Speaker 1: God Man is fine one word and yeah if we
Speaker 1: if we write again, which we will, you'll find out
Speaker 1: about the good Man is fine, mate, Great to see you.
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Speaker 1: Finally we complete the hat trick the Tripod can stand
Speaker 1: on its own legs, as we have the third of
Speaker 1: the trio, Tripod on you Ain't Seen Nothing yet. Scott
Speaker 1: Egga and Tripod mean a lot to me. They I
Speaker 1: met them very early in my comedy career, didn't know
Speaker 1: them before comedy, and we kind of really bonded. We
Speaker 1: were both on the inaugural Melbourne International Comedy Festival road show,
Speaker 1: so we did the the rock and roll comedy thing
Speaker 1: of being in Torago's traveling around Victoria together with Ross
Speaker 1: Noble and King and Karin Grant, will Anderson and Keith
Speaker 1: Robinson from New York and we just had the best time.
Speaker 1: And Scott was somebody who really well we all got
Speaker 1: to shared a sense of humor and pop culture. But
Speaker 1: Scott had like references that I remember hearing Bozgags for
Speaker 1: the first time coming out of Scott's mouth and realizing, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: he sounds cool. And I think I made a joke
Speaker 1: about you know, because I know it, and I was
Speaker 1: naive and silly and I probably made a joke about
Speaker 1: his love of bozzgags. And then I realized, I know,
Speaker 1: Buzz Skaggs actually deserves our respects so apologies to Bozzgags
Speaker 1: if you're listening, but Scott is Yeah, first of all,
Speaker 1: if you're listening to this and you don't know Tripod,
Speaker 1: Scott Gatsy and Yon Tripod, they're an iconic Australian comedy band.
Speaker 1: And not only they came along at a time when
Speaker 1: there was a lot of people doing parodies. I would say,
Speaker 1: lazy parodies of songs, you know, changing a word here,
Speaker 1: a word there, Chop I weren't really doing that. They
Speaker 1: were creating their own songs about certain topics and they
Speaker 1: were all musically very very good. Well that's what set
Speaker 1: them apart. I think from a lot of parody comedy
Speaker 1: parody bands. Their musicianship, the ability to sing, hold notes
Speaker 1: and play instruments really set them apart. They were just
Speaker 1: always always a joy to watch the band between the
Speaker 1: songs was always amazing. But Scott's a long time mate.
Speaker 1: I've got so much time for him. He's so funny,
Speaker 1: so smart. Next week on the show, very very excited.
Speaker 1: A bit of a different genre. We don't cover it
Speaker 1: very often. It's a horror classic. We're going back to
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty four. Time for Freddy. Freddy Krueger. That's right.
Speaker 1: A Nightmare on Elm Street. Wes Craven's Absolute classic spawned
Speaker 1: an Absolute dynasty, a franchise. It's about eight or nine
Speaker 1: films I think in that plus video games and other
Speaker 1: spin offs. And it's crazy. Will that be but one
Speaker 1: of the greatest villains of all time, Freddy Krueger, and
Speaker 1: I'll be chatting with one of the Well, there's nothing
Speaker 1: villainous about my guest next week. They are fantastic. It's
Speaker 1: Alex Ward. You would have seen Alex on have you
Speaker 1: been paying attention. I've worked here for many years on
Speaker 1: the project, absolutely killing it in the Australian comedy scene.
Speaker 1: And yeah, it's gonna be a bloody thrilled to hang
Speaker 1: out with Alex next week and chat about A Nightmare
Speaker 1: on Elm Street. If you haven't seen it, check it
Speaker 1: out Johnny Dep's debut, amongst other things. Check it out.
Speaker 1: You won't say nothing yet until then back an hour
Speaker 1: and so we leave old Pete save Van sal and
Speaker 1: to our friends of the radio audience, we've been a
Speaker 1: pleasant good name