1 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:02,120 Speaker 1: Great to flick with. 2 00:00:02,240 --> 00:00:04,880 Speaker 2: Ben o'she well, I don't want to say I'm jealous 3 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:09,080 Speaker 2: you are, Ben, but I like me some Paul best Gal, 4 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:12,760 Speaker 2: just a grace. You could be in Wicked and I'm 5 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:15,480 Speaker 2: really looking forward to the Gladiator movie. But that's what 6 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:17,560 Speaker 2: you're doing in Sydney today, so that will be for 7 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:21,160 Speaker 2: another time. Today we're talking about what has been my 8 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:22,280 Speaker 2: favorite movie so far this. 9 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 1: Year, Saturday Night. 10 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:24,640 Speaker 3: Saturday Night it was a ripper. 11 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:25,319 Speaker 2: Yes, it is. 12 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:28,720 Speaker 1: Good, it is very good, and it'll be fascinating to 13 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:32,120 Speaker 1: see how the film is received in Australia because you know, 14 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:35,560 Speaker 1: Saturday Night Live, the kind of the sketch comedy show 15 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:39,640 Speaker 1: institution in American TV that the film is based on, 16 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:42,839 Speaker 1: is not really a thing here in Australia. Every now 17 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:45,559 Speaker 1: and then a sketch from the show will kind of 18 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:48,599 Speaker 1: go viral on the Internet, like Alec Baldwin playing Trump. Yes, 19 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:52,560 Speaker 1: and we'll watch that. But generally speaking, even though you 20 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:55,600 Speaker 1: can watch it on Binge, I think most Ausies probably 21 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:59,280 Speaker 1: don't really watch SNL. A very different story. 22 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:02,160 Speaker 4: In America, people that have been produced from a year 23 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:02,760 Speaker 4: the Stars. 24 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:04,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's not like that it Saturday here in 25 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:07,640 Speaker 3: Australia with pig Time. We don't know it. 26 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:10,240 Speaker 1: It's like Comedy Company or Full Frontal. You know, you're 27 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:14,000 Speaker 1: thinking about all of the talent that those shows incubated. 28 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:17,520 Speaker 1: Saturday Night Live is the same, you know, Bill Murray, 29 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 1: Billy Crystal, Will Ferrell, Tina Fay, Amy Poehler. The list 30 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:24,840 Speaker 1: goes on and on and on. And this movie is 31 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:28,040 Speaker 1: about the very first episode. Like you, guys, I spoke 32 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:30,360 Speaker 1: to Gabriel LaBelle, who's the star of the film. Is 33 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:35,600 Speaker 1: a what a sweet kid, so talented man, so talented, 34 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:38,880 Speaker 1: and so he plays He plays Lawn Michaels, the real 35 00:01:38,959 --> 00:01:43,840 Speaker 1: life American TV soupremo who created Saturday Night Live. He 36 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:47,040 Speaker 1: was one of the creators of thirty Rock. He's done 37 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:50,080 Speaker 1: so much over the years, but all the way back 38 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:54,280 Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy five, he was a relatively unknown producer 39 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 1: from Canada convinced the bosses of NBC to let him 40 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:02,560 Speaker 1: do this revolutionary skill comedy show unlike anything that was 41 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:05,640 Speaker 1: really on TV at the time. He wanted to recreate 42 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:08,000 Speaker 1: the feeling of a night out in New York. So 43 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:10,399 Speaker 1: you'd go to a comedy show, you'd see a live 44 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:13,320 Speaker 1: music act and the whole thing would be like a 45 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:16,880 Speaker 1: pretty wild, edgy night out. But back then, you know, 46 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:19,440 Speaker 1: it was Johnny Carson on late night TV. It was. 47 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:23,679 Speaker 1: It was very different to that. And this first episode, 48 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 1: like October eleven whenever it was, has gone down in 49 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 1: infamy because it was so chaotic, almost so catastrophic that 50 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:36,639 Speaker 1: the show nearly didn't go to air. And so this 51 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:41,240 Speaker 1: film chronicles like literally ninety minutes leading up to when 52 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 1: they you know, action and they went live on air, 53 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:48,040 Speaker 1: and anything that could go wrong did go wrong. There 54 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 1: was a fire on set, there were talents who were 55 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 1: having tantrums and stormed off and left the building. There 56 00:02:56,280 --> 00:03:01,959 Speaker 1: was and that was just john Yeah, it just one. 57 00:03:02,919 --> 00:03:06,640 Speaker 1: And so you've got all of this craziness and watching 58 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:08,480 Speaker 1: it as you guys have seen it. So watching it, 59 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 1: it reminded me a lot of The Bear, you know, 60 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:15,080 Speaker 1: the Disney TV series, where some scenes just get so 61 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:17,240 Speaker 1: hectic as they're trying to get everything ready at the 62 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:20,600 Speaker 1: last minute to open the restaurant. That's the vibe of 63 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:26,040 Speaker 1: this movie. It's intense, it's hectic, it's funny while not 64 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:30,800 Speaker 1: being maybe completely hilarious, but it's so so interesting. And 65 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 1: the cast is the cast is a really great one. 66 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 1: You've got Corey Michael Smith who was in May December recently. 67 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:41,320 Speaker 1: He plays a young Chevy Chase and does a fantastic 68 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:45,320 Speaker 1: job of that. Dylan O'Brien from The Mays Runner plays 69 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:48,720 Speaker 1: a young Dan Aykroyd. Does a pretty good job. I 70 00:03:48,760 --> 00:03:53,560 Speaker 1: Reckon does a pretty good job. Nicholas Braun cousin Greg 71 00:03:53,600 --> 00:04:00,480 Speaker 1: from Succession plays two characters. Jim Henson is So that's 72 00:04:00,480 --> 00:04:02,120 Speaker 1: one of the weirdest things about the film. Like, he 73 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:05,080 Speaker 1: plays Jim Henson, the creator of the Muppets, who is 74 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:12,800 Speaker 1: hilarious and also comedy icon Andy Kaufman. Yeah, famously weird, 75 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 1: famously weird Andy Kaufman. And so you've got really a 76 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:21,520 Speaker 1: cast of young, relatively unknown actors playing people who will 77 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 1: go on to be super famous. Yeah, of course, quite interesting. 78 00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:26,600 Speaker 1: And then you've got a couple of like, actual, really 79 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:29,360 Speaker 1: well known actors who do steal the show a little bit. 80 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 1: Willem Dafoe plays a network executive. You can't play work 81 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:34,680 Speaker 1: out if he's on their side or if he wants 82 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:35,279 Speaker 1: them to fail. 83 00:04:35,839 --> 00:04:36,119 Speaker 4: Uh. 84 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:38,680 Speaker 1: And and then of course we have we have to 85 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:43,520 Speaker 1: mention JK. Simmons as as Milton Burle, who for Australians 86 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 1: who don't know at one point was you know he 87 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:47,479 Speaker 1: was he was like a Graham Kennedy. He was like 88 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:51,039 Speaker 1: mister TV for Burt Newton, like he was he was 89 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:54,960 Speaker 1: the and look and there was he was a big 90 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:57,760 Speaker 1: deal for reasons we might not stay on breakfast Radio. 91 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:00,240 Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah yeah. 92 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:03,159 Speaker 1: And and so you have all of these characters coming together. 93 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:05,760 Speaker 1: One of the faults of the film is probably that 94 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:09,640 Speaker 1: there's probably too many characters, I think, so you don't 95 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 1: necessarily sink into one of them too deeply. Rachel Senate 96 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 1: plays Rosie Schuster, Lord Michael's wife at the time, who 97 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:21,479 Speaker 1: was maybe having a love triangle with Dan ak Royd. 98 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:24,760 Speaker 1: Like that was a really interesting aspect that that sort 99 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:28,120 Speaker 1: of is not explored very much as it kind of 100 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:32,400 Speaker 1: just propulsively heads towards the start of the show going 101 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:38,560 Speaker 1: on air. It's so kind of very narrow in. 102 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:40,680 Speaker 3: Know that it is. 103 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:42,479 Speaker 1: And I don't know about you guys, but like I 104 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:45,240 Speaker 1: kind of felt that when we got to the conclusion 105 00:05:45,279 --> 00:05:47,360 Speaker 1: and okay, the show did go to air, I was 106 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:50,320 Speaker 1: almost a bit disappointed and ended at that point because 107 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:52,520 Speaker 1: I kind of wanted to see, like I wanted to 108 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:56,800 Speaker 1: see Chevy Chase and Dan Ackroyd and John Belushi do 109 00:05:56,920 --> 00:06:01,240 Speaker 1: some of these sketches and and if if they ever 110 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:03,120 Speaker 1: made a sequel, and that's what it was, I would 111 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:04,000 Speaker 1: totally be there for it. 112 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:06,159 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it was. I mean the timing for the 113 00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:08,240 Speaker 3: end in the last two minutes is incredible. 114 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:15,800 Speaker 4: Crystal is my favorite, getting his time back and cut 115 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:18,240 Speaker 4: back and cut back, and then and then what happens. 116 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:18,880 Speaker 4: What happens. 117 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:21,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, we won't, we won't give it away. 118 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:24,640 Speaker 3: Thetic pace then the last couple of minutes is brilliantly done. 119 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:25,760 Speaker 3: But yeah, I see what you mind. 120 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:32,120 Speaker 1: It's so well, very very slickly edited, and you've got 121 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:34,679 Speaker 1: You've got a wonderful soundtrack as well, by John Batista, 122 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:37,040 Speaker 1: who plays Billy Preston in the film. It's it's a 123 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:38,719 Speaker 1: sort of it's a sort of movie that you know, 124 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:42,560 Speaker 1: it's based on a true stories, based on interviews, books, 125 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:45,400 Speaker 1: first hand accounts of what happened on that night, and 126 00:06:45,640 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 1: you're watching, you go, no way that could be true. 127 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:49,359 Speaker 1: And then as soon as you get out of the movie, 128 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:52,160 Speaker 1: you'll be googling and you'll find out that nearly all 129 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:54,880 Speaker 1: of it did happen. Maybe not necessarily on that night, 130 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:57,159 Speaker 1: but certainly in the in that first sort of season 131 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:01,440 Speaker 1: of doing Saturday Night Live, all of this craziness you know, 132 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:02,280 Speaker 1: actually happened. 133 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:05,160 Speaker 4: I would say, you don't have to be American or 134 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:09,080 Speaker 4: a Saturday Night Live viewer to enjoy the film. 135 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:11,920 Speaker 3: And one thing guaranteed you will be googling something about 136 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:13,480 Speaker 3: Milton Ball is a film. 137 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:19,960 Speaker 1: You might have to don't put on a work. You 138 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:21,720 Speaker 1: might have to turn a safe search off. 139 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:22,520 Speaker 3: Delete history. 140 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:25,560 Speaker 4: All right, well, how many Live from New York are 141 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:26,520 Speaker 4: you giving ends? 142 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:28,559 Speaker 1: I'm going to give it three and a half. 143 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:32,280 Speaker 3: Very nice, good showtime. Okay, thank you. 144 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:34,880 Speaker 4: We can't to see what you come back from Sydney with. 145 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:37,240 Speaker 1: I've got all sorts of interesting stuff. 146 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:39,480 Speaker 3: We'll say to your gladiator is ready when we get 147 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:42,760 Speaker 3: you by