Doug Loves Movies - Greg Proops, Jen Kirkman, and Kyle Kinane Guest
Episode Date: May 27, 2010Doug welcomes his AST Records label-mates Greg Proops, Jen Kirkman, and Kyle Kinane to the show for a special AST Records themed episode. (You can find all the AST Records releases at astreco...rds.com.)Â See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Doug hates candy wrappers, sweet and baby sticky seeds
With empty acid popper kernels in his teeth
There's still not one that he won't see
But Doug loves movies
Hey everybody
Where's your name tag? How dare you sit there and not have a name tag Hey, everybody.
Where's your name tag?
How dare you sit there and not have a name tag?
Everybody else,
people in seats
that are farther away
have name tags
than the guy
in the catbird seat.
Got the best seat
for the game
and doesn't have a name tag.
But, you know,
now you know.
Next time,
just even if it's as crude
as what Wilder has done,
where he took a napkin
and wrote his name on it,
and then put it on his knee in a very suggestive way.
It has given me just about a quarter of a boner.
Because I'm a male heterosexual.
But still, a sign on somebody's knee.
Hey, everybody.
Welcome to another edition
of Doug Loves Movies
coming to you from
the UCB Theater
in Los Angeles
a few days before
you get to hear it.
If you're listening to it.
Those of you that are here
get to hear it now.
It's May 25th, 2010,
the year of John Lithgow,
and thank you.
Thank you to
everyone who came to see, and
everyone who works at, I was at
Rooster Teeth Feathers in Sunnyvale, California
over the weekend, and a lot of podcast
listeners came out, and a lot of podcast
listeners work at that club, so that was
exciting. And thanks to everyone
who came to the Friday the 13th 3D
screening last night in Los Angeles at CineFamily that we did with Larry Zerner, who you may recall, won the audience, what do you call it, like bidding to, through Comedy Death Ray and Scott Aukerman.
He made the highest bid to appear on my podcast and gave a lot of money to the L.A. Food Bank.
And then he gave some more money to the L.A. Food Bank last night.
So go to Twitter and find at Zerner Law.
And that's Larry Zerner's name.
And he was Shelly in Friday the 13th.
And he's also an entertainment lawyer.
So if you have any entertainment law questions, at Zerner Law, I would be happy to field them, I'm sure.
Now I'd like to do a quick special announcement with,
let's bring out Matt Belknap from AST Records
and, of course, the Never Not Funny podcast.
You know him, you love him.
And he's here in person, really quite bearded.
Yeah.
Very, very beardy.
It's beard season.
It is?
Not really.
Okay.
So you want to have a big manly beard when Sex and the City 2 comes out.
That's important.
But the podcast is now called Doug Loves Movies.
It used to be called something else.
Let's not even get into that.
It used to be called Voldemort.
And,
uh,
and,
uh,
so with the new name,
we need a,
what Matt,
a new logo.
We need a logo for on iTunes and wherever else on the website.
There's a new website,
Doug loves movies.com.
That's kind of basic right now.
We're going to be working on it.
Yeah, yeah.
We're going to work on that.
But it starts with a logo.
By we, I mean you.
Yeah.
So if you have skills.
We need a new logo.
Yeah.
If you're a graphic designer or even if you just like to play around with Photoshop, if
you want to enter this contest, we'll probably give away some prizes, right?
Yeah. If you want to enter this contest, we'll probably give away some prizes, right? Yeah, we'll give some CDs and shirts and stuff to whoever creates a logo that Matt and I will be the judges on this.
The two of us agree it will best suit our needs.
And let's say two weeks from now, two episodes away from now right we will announce a winner
and that what is that is that June 7th you know what you're gonna be what if we
want what if we want to do it on June 14th let's not get crazy okay I don't
even know if June 7th is a Tuesday I don't think it is I think it is I think
the 31st is Memorial people. No, people in the audience just say no.
You idiot.
Whatever the
second Tuesday and the 8th.
Thank you. Alright.
Well, thank you, Matt.
For that exciting announcement.
But I gotta give the specs.
Oh yeah, yeah. That's important. People need to know
how big it needs to be.
First of all, send your entries to web at douglovesmovies.com.
That's where you can contact us.
And if you can make it a minimum of 600 by 600 pixels, send it to us in a JPEG format.
That'd be great.
And that's all you need to know to enter.
Now, say it again in English.
All right.
So do that, you guys.
Send those in.
And that'll be cool to have a new logo created by someone who listens to this shit.
And I think one of the three guests tonight, as I segue into bringing out the guests, is not here yet.
Let me go find that out.
Yeah, okay.
So if that person isn't here,
just come back out.
Boom.
With the other two guests.
My guest tonight,
oh, Matt Belknap, everybody,
might be coming back.
He might be joining us again.
And also look for on Twitter,
someone wrote to me,
someone named Nicole L.
Oh, damn it.
I had it written down somewhere.
But someone wrote to me on Twitter saying you should tweet pic a picture of the microphones that you guys use.
Because the comics always come out and talk about these weird microphones.
And the listeners don't know what they look like.
So look for that on my Twitter sometime soon soon i took a picture before the show tonight and uh some morning i'll wake up all
hungover in a haze and uh i will notice i took that picture and then i will send it out
for all for all to see um but speaking of ast records which we were when I brought Matt out,
my guests tonight are all members of the AST Records family.
Please welcome recording artists
from AST Records,
Kyle Kinane, Jen Kirkman.
That's hard to say Kyle Kinane
and Jen Kirkman back to back.
Kyle Kinane, Jen Kirkman,
and Greg Proops.
Let's hear it for them.
They're all here.
Matt Belknap's going to join us.
Because Jen Kirkman.
And I'm also going to ask Matt,
what time did she think this was going to happen?
7.30.
7.30, you told her.
Yeah, that's right, isn't it?
Because you made the call.
I didn't actually talk to her.
I'm going to text her.
Oh, let's do that right now. That'll be fun. I tried to backstage, but you were too quick. Oh, that's right, isn't it? Because you made the call. I didn't actually talk to her. I'm going to text her. Oh, let's do that right now. That'll be fun.
I tried to backstage,
but you were too quick. Oh, sorry.
I didn't have anything else to say.
I wanted to get Greg
and Kyle out here and Jen's
replacement,
Matt Beardnap.
I totally want to sleep
in your beard.
I wouldn't kill...
Kyle's got a much better sleeping beard than me.
Well, you know...
I'd give Kyle a sleep number of about 74.
Matt's is an 82, I think.
Wow.
Yeah, it looks really comfortable.
The gray one.
That was Greg Proops laughing.
Just to make everybody clear whose voice is
Hugh's. Have you
been to the cinema lately, Greg?
I haven't. I also would
never grow facial hair in case anyone's ever
worried. I would look so
rabbinical that it wouldn't even be funny.
You would definitely look
like a magic act might happen.
He's a master
of illusion, or is he?
Yeah, I went to see The Wizard of Oz.
It's a new picture.
What? At the cemetery
last week. Oh.
I went forever. A week before.
Interesting. That was the last picture I went to the cemetery last week. Oh. At Hollywood Forever. A week before. Interesting.
That was the last picture
I went to the movies to see.
You went with the wife to see that?
I went with the wife.
Yeah, it sounds like
a real fun couples thing to do.
Let's go to the cemetery
and watch Wizard of Oz.
A lot of the flying monkeys
are buried at Hollywood Forever.
That's a true fact.
You can watch at home where you have your own bodies buried,
or you can go to the public place where all the bodies are buried.
And was it a big turnout for Wizard of Oz in the cemetery?
It was a little too much for me, I'll be quite honest.
I love going there, but when it first started it was fun,
and now about a billion people came so it was super crowded and then in when the picture started someone had a laser
pointer are you kidding me? Did you go into a time machine?
At that movie funeral? It was so San Francisco ghetto 1988. But that means somebody waited two hours to get in to still use that laser pointer.
You gotta give them some credit.
It's a total moviegoers event.
People booed him down.
So the first time I thought, okay... That's the only thing that's wrong with Wizard of Oz
is that laser pointers didn't exist
when it was first released.
That is the only thing wrong with it.
Okay, so having seen it again recently
as a full-blown adult...
Oh, me?
Yeah, you.
How does it, what do you think of it?
How does it hold up?
Yeah, what do you think?
I like the picture.
I've always liked the picture.
And I really like the flying monkeys because I think they're wild.
And when they take off from, when the queen goes.
That's a perfect description.
When she goes, you know, when the witch goes, go get them, you know, and they leap right
off the parapet and into the sky and whatnot.
Also, they make the most horrible noise when they're about to attack them in the forest.
They're so, this is fantastically good.
They're extremely terrifying, those things.
Like, children lose their minds.
I wouldn't let a five-year-old watch the movie.
There's a green lady who says to the star of the movie,
this is how long you have to live, and it's not long,
and then flips the thing over.
When you're five, you're like, she's going to be killed.
There's really nothing has happened to you.
Like sand through the hourglass, so is the day of your life.
You're not led that there's going to be a happy ending
the first time you see it.
Of course, knowing the ending, I was still surprised.
I just, you know, you just don't expect that bucket of going to be a happy ending the first time you see it of course knowing the ending i was still surprised i just you know you just don't expect that bucket of water to be there i'm sure a million comics have mentioned that i think what i love about the movie the most is
the total there's no logic to it at all it's very much like a hallucination everything in the movie
just happens and it carries on happening yeah come on come on. Let's go down this road. Right. No one ever stops and goes, Shit happens down this road,
but let's go down there anyway.
I'm in a completely
different world,
but this road
will take me home.
And a request.
I need to make a request
to go home.
What is this?
Southwest Airlines?
Was Judy Garland
in the B group?
Was Judy Garland in the B group?
So Jen Kirkman is here.
Hello.
As played by Matt Belknap.
How you doing?
What's it like being a woman in comedy?
With that weird beard.
You don't even know, Greg.
You don't even know.
So what did she say when you texted her?
Anything?
She hasn't texted back yet. Maybe she thinks it's next Tuesday.
I saw her yesterday.
If I'd known, I would have axed her.
Yeah, that's weird.
Well, this was very last minute.
Yeah, it was.
You probably got the confirmation with her at about 2 this afternoon.
Yeah, yeah.
So that seems like plenty of time to get it together.
I mean, I don't want to talk shit about her because she's nice enough to say yes.
Not nice enough to actually arrive.
There's a dichotomy there.
Or she's dead somewhere.
Oh, no.
I hope that's not true.
Oh, no.
Doug made it true.
If wishes were Kirkman's.
So let's go down to
Well I could ask Matt anyway
In place of Jen
I'm glad you're here
And what movies have you seen lately?
None really
Alright Kyle
That's how useless I am
Kyle Kinane
Another member of the AST Records family
Yeah I'm
First record
Death to the
Death to the Party?
Death of the Party.
Death of the Party.
Thanks for doing the research.
It's not a political thing.
I did the research.
I looked at it.
I didn't remember it right.
I like the cover.
It's kind of a scary visage of your face.
Yeah.
Yeah, and then it says Death to the Party.
In my version.
It's a propositional swamp.
The one that you got, it says that.
In your version.
Yeah.
What have you seen lately, Kyle?
I think I watched Cannonball Run again.
You think you did?
Maybe it was Cannonball Run 2.
Or Gumball Rally
What was the John Candy one that came out in the 80s?
I'm sorry, can I still?
Oh, Jen Kirkman, everybody
Get the fuck out of here, Matt Belknap
That was adorable
She came in saying, I'm sorry, everybody
My phone died
And then I was also in traffic from Santa Monica
And I was in the car like
Freaking out Thinking a charger would appear if I kept looking My phone died, and then I was also in traffic from Santa Monica, and I was in the car like,
like freaking out, thinking a charger would appear if I kept looking.
Continue.
Hi.
Hi.
She made it, everybody.
I don't think that was me that yelled, F you, Greg Proops.
Were you saying it was at Paul F. Tompkins' show?
Yeah.
When was that?
December, maybe?
Oh, maybe I was then.
It was you.
Okay, never mind. It was you. Okay. You yelled, fuck you, Greg Proops?
He said, you were drunk.
I don't think I've been drunk at the New Largo because there's no alcohol there.
I think you could make it work.
I think when the bar is 30 yards away, it's pretty easy.
Maybe you weren't drunk.
Maybe you were just wildly impetuous.
It could be.
I'm sorry either way.
I was trying to get out of it.
Well, if you guys haven't seen it,
Jen, her drunkenness is on absolute display
in the drunk history bits on Funny or Die, right?
Mm-hmm, yes.
And on HBO.
And so you genuinely got drunk for those.
Yes.
And then described history,
specifically Lincoln and Douglas.
Okay, we have
Lincoln and Frederick
Douglas, yeah.
Yeah, and then
they are portrayed
by Will Ferrell
and Don Cheadle.
And speaking of
movies.
Just say your
drunken words.
And it won the
Sundance Jury Prize
for Best Short Film
2010.
Yay!
I have nothing to
do with that, by the
way.
What do you mean
you have nothing to
do with it?
You're the drunk
that makes all the comedy happen.
Derek Waters and Jeremy Connor who did it.
It's their thing.
But did they know that you're hilarious
describing stuff when you're drunk?
Or did they just guess that it would be good enough?
No, they were friends of mine,
so I think they had an idea.
But they called me from Sundance,
and they're like, I can't believe this won.
There are films like,
My Child Was Killed in Afghanistan.
Was Don Cheadle in that?
He's in that too.
Hotel Afghanistan.
Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt.
You didn't interrupt.
I'm glad you made it. We were speculating that you might be
dead.
Don't say we.
It was 100%
me. These guys totally hoped
you're still alive. We were voting against it.
We had faith. Well, thank you. I'm glad that you didn't say
she's probably dead, and that'd be awesome.
I know you were. Yeah. I said it. I was
very concerned, and these guys made
wishes for you to be alive, and then it came
true, so they wasted wishes.
You were just
in traffic.
It was bad. I'm sorry.
No, it's alright. This thing has to start on
time, though, because we always precede the comedy
death ray, and we don't want to push them back
too far, because they're nice enough to let us do that.
Have you been to the cinema lately?
I saw Iron Man 2.
Yeah? How'd that work out for you?
Well, I'm in love with Robert Downey Jr.,
so really anything he does, I'm fine with.
But I thought he did a great job,
and I had an argument with a friend,
and as comedians, maybe we can discuss it.
That scene where he gets drunk at the party
and puts on the Iron Man suit.
Did you not see it?
I haven't seen it, no.
Oh, he gets drunk at his own party,
and he puts on his Iron Man suit,
and he's like, he's dying,
so he thinks
that he needs to whoop it you know live it up yeah and my friend it was like as a comedian you
should have been like that scene wasn't funny and i'm like well i thought he did a good job being a
drunk and it was funny but not like funny for me like i'm dying laughing but it did a good job
portraying the awkwardness of the drunk boss and all these dumb girls at the party who
it doesn't affect them and they're like yeah egging him on but the people in his life are
trying to get him to stop yeah yeah i just thought it was interesting i mean that's all
it was good it was like all the that was one of the better parts of the movie i say right and he
puts the suit on which is kind of neat like because he's such a human superhero that puts
a thing on he doesn't turn into anything so it like, this could affect him if he uses it wrong
and it did
and we saw it happen.
And I just,
I'm sick of getting
crap about liking that movie.
I mean,
I don't love it.
I'm not going to defend it.
Wait,
what about Sherlock Holmes?
I loved it.
Well,
there you go.
So you just like him
in anything.
I just want to make up
words for him in that movie.
Like, he's so boppy and cute.
I loved it.
I think two of those were real words.
But yeah, I find him incredibly compelling,
and I wish there was more of him in Iron Man 2,
because when you do see a Greg on a plane,
you'll notice that there's a lot of scenes
that he's not in.
Well we can agree
Scarlett Johansson
was dynamic
and incredible.
How was Gwyneth Paltrow
because there's a movie
I was watching last night
I was watching
A Perfect Murder
the Gwyneth Paltrow one
with Michael Douglas.
Yeah.
And like there's a scene
where she does
the most vacant look
I think I've ever seen
anyone do in a movie
when you're supposed
to be doing a character
at one point.
She's in the bath
and like he's gonna
threaten her
and she just went like
glurr.
Like, wow.
You're acting
below ho-hos.
It's the only movie
where you're rooting
for the murderer
until the very end.
And then she takes out
the gun and puts three in him
and then you're like,
okay, she's alright.
But up until then
you're like,
oh, she gets killed.
She's kind of a bummer.
Yeah, I don't remember that movie too well.
So that's a sign right there.
I watch it all the time.
I watch it for the clothes.
That's how sad I am.
I watch it for the apartment they live in and the clothes.
That's like me with Devil Wears Prada.
I cry that scene where she keeps changing outfits as she's walking across the street.
Like, I sob.
It's just so beautiful.
Oh, no.
Really?
When she walks through the door
and the outfit changes
and she crosses the wall
and it's just beautiful clothing and purses.
She knows outfits now.
She really learned through this job.
Oh, she's just owning it and it's wonderful.
There's nothing wrong with style, you know?
That brings me back to Cannonball Run,
which is where...
Cannonball Run, which is where...
Cannonball Run, there's nothing wrong with style.
I will watch movies because of luggage and stuff.
I really will.
Oh, you must love Joe vs. the Volcano.
That's got an amazing luggage scene where the guy's just like,
you need this luggage.
Yeah, there's some superb bags in that movie.
One night on Turner Classic,
they showed movies all night
that were based on an elevator
that was in the movie.
And I'm not kidding.
There was a really good Ray Malam one
called The Big Clock and then Dark Passage
because they stay in a building
where it's got a bitching Art Deco elevator
and I thought,
this is a thinner premise
than Doug Benson's
I Love Movies
for a theme tonight
and I love it.
Movies with elevators
in them?
Wow.
I'm going to make that
the theme for
a Leonard Maltin game
in the future.
Yes, please.
Movies with elevators
in them.
I could just pick
a bunch of movies.
Die Hard, right?
There's like,
there's lots of
good elevator movies
Speed has a major elevator scene in it
Shaft
I get high and this is what I do
This is what happens
I saw Oceans
I went and saw that
That was the movie that Graham Elwood and I were on the road
In Sunnyvale and that was the only movie we could agree on
Because he wanted to see Robin Hood
That's not the first Oceans
In the series of 13 right
That has nothing to do with it
Oceans is just George Clooney
Pulling scams by himself
That's a better joke than the one I was about to say
If I only had a dozen guys
Yeah
Wow
Someday
What is Oceans?
It's not that one about the seals
That's the cove, right?
Or whatever
Or the whales and whatnot
I think it was dolphins that were being killed in the cove
Oh yeah, dolphins
Dolphins.
But, no, Oceans was every year on Earth Day,
Disney puts out a new movie about something,
aspect of the Earth.
Like, next year it's going to be a movie about lions.
Called Paws?
No, it's called, like, I forget the name already,
but it was a trailer before Oceans,
and then at the end they go,
on Earth Day in 2011,
and I was like, quick, get me a pencil.
We ain't lying, things are desperate.
That's the name of the movie.
Yeah, yeah.
It's got a weird title, like Meerkat Manor,
but with lions.
So yeah, so Oceans is just basically two hours of, you know,
a pre-oil spill footage of animals cavorting and killing each other in the oceans.
And it's pretty entertaining.
Now they're useful receptacles.
What?
Now the animals are useful receptacles for crude,
and they can be squeezed and the oil can be taken out.
Oh.
Walk it the fuck off.
And I didn't see the cove either with the dolphins.
Sushi will be half price if you have to wring it out yourself.
If you have to take a napkin like you do with pizza
and just stick it on the sushi.
Dab it a bunch of times. I don't get rid of it.
Get this 30 weight off my rice here.
I think that's something that Jackie Chan says in the new Karate Kid.
Get this 30 weight off my rice.
How much do you hate that little shit Smith? He's an asshole already.
I hate that kid.
I hate him so much.
What is he?
What he really is?
He's just a little. He's cocky.
He's got the Jada and Will cocky gene for sure.
He's got that with a dash of Scientology
because they do that shit to him, okay?
So he thinks he's an adult
and his fucked up Suri Cruz head.
Like they both think they're adults.
I hate them.
I just...
They should get married
and start having babies.
They should get married
and just fight each other
and I'll watch it
and when they're both dying
I won't stop either one of them.
For the record,
you're not drunk now.
Not because I'm angry.
You get to watch
the demise of a child star.
I mean, that's fun.
No.
You get to follow the path. You know, the's fun. No. You get to
follow the path, you know, the whole timeline.
When he's on drugs and dying at the
Oakwood, I'll love him, but now he's just a little cock.
So you're a fair weather fan
is what you're saying.
I haven't seen either of the
movies he's been in in their entirety.
The Happiness one or the spaceship remake.
Oh, happiness I liked.
Which one?
You liked him in that?
Pursuit of Happiness?
Yeah, I did.
Because I was broke at the time.
I wasn't working and I was on the couch.
It just gave me hope.
And then I got a job a week later.
I just thought it was odd that someone couldn't spell happiness
but they could spell pursuit.
That seemed like a weird
disconnect there. It was like a prequel to all the
tea party signs that make no sense that are
misspelled in your cases.
I don't know what that is.
This isn't I Love Politics.
Now Kyle and Jen are first
time guests on the show, and I didn't mean to
bring you up against a titan like Greg Proops,
but how do you guys feel about if we play a round of the Leonard Maltin game now?
I love that game.
I'm going to suck at it, but I love it.
Oh, okay, good.
Kyle?
Same answer.
I got lucky last time.
I had just seen the movie that we did, I think.
It was Past Times or something.
Oh, okay. Well, that worked out good. Because I really stay up on the new films as I think everyone last time. I had just seen the movie that we did, I think. It was Past Times or something. Oh, okay.
Well, that worked out good.
Because I really stay up
on the new films
as I think everyone's noticed.
I haven't seen Twilight
and I'm not gonna
for two reasons.
One, I'm not a nine-year-old
who's taking a blow to the head
with a croquet mallet.
And two, I'm cool.
Thank you.
And good night.
You mean you're not gonna to see the next Twilight?
Whatever.
Because the third in the series is coming out soon.
I'm still watching Love at First Bite, as you can gather.
The Twilight series is like, it keeps getting a little bit better
because there's more action in each one
and more people turning into things.
But that's not much of a compliment.
I'm not excited about the next one.
No, I don't.
I saw the first two on planes
and probably napped a little.
Probably checked out for a few minutes here and there.
I'm going to do a new exciting twist
on the Leonard Maltin game.
Wow.
People resist change so much
And yet you're not going to vote
For the incumbent in November
I know that
Alright no
It's a minor change
It's nothing to get too worked up about
It's just that most people don't know
What year movies came out
I mean it's a helpful clue
But I don't think it's a good way
I'm just guessing it's not a good way
To start off the game.
What I'm going to do is I'm going to let the first person
each time pick which category
the movie is from
in case they have more knowledge about
one thing than another
and have more of an idea which way it might
be heading. And I think that'll make
it more fun for all of us.
And if it doesn't, I'll go back
to the old way next week.
Exciting. Yeah.
It's a great thing about having my own show.
Doing what I want.
Let's start with
Jen. Okay.
And then we'll move in the direction
of Kyle and then Greg.
We're going to go around that way like we're
passing a joint.
That's the correct direction, right?
Yeah.
Clockwise.
Yeah.
It's not a rule.
It's a guideline.
Jen Kirkman, would you like us to play a movie that's a musical or a movie that takes place over the holidays?
A holiday movie, if you will?
Uh-huh. Or a movie that takes place over the holidays? A holiday movie, if you will? Uh-huh. Or a movie
that takes place in San Francisco?
Holiday.
Boom, here we go.
See, that was also, like,
people came in hall over what year?
Uh, uh.
She just fucking spit it right out.
I probably would have been that way with the year, too.
I'm pretty sure, myself.
Really?
I just have to be funny to say.
This audience doesn't like confidence.
It's like, ooh, that doesn't go with what I relate to.
So I'll stop doing that.
All right, would you like...
Would you like a holiday movie from 2004?
1988?
Or 2003?
See, I'll change the rules for comedy.
2003. 2003, I'll change the rules for comedy. 2003.
2003, here we go.
Our good friend Len Maltin,
one-time guest
on the show, never to return,
gives this holiday movie
three stars.
And it's from 2003.
I'll give you one quick clue
from the... It's in color
Alright
It's a talkie
The polar bear cub
is voiced by stop motion master Ray Harryhausen
That clue doesn't help me at all
Don't say anything yet
A polar bear club
Don't say polar bear express
I will jump over there and murder you
if you say that.
It's too early to guess. We got a bid
on how many names you think you can get it in.
Oh, that's right.
Yeah, and you've got
one, two, three, four, five.
Fifteen names.
Oh, kittens.
So how many names do you think it would take you,
Jen Kirkman, to guess this 2003 holiday movie? She can do it in eight names. many names do you think it would take you, Jen Kirkman To guess this 2003 holiday movie
She can do it in eight names
Kyle, do you want her to do that
Or do you think you can do it in less names
Hell, let's go with seven names
I like it
I like it, Greg proves
I'll say six
Okay, Jen, it's back to you
Eight names.
You have to go five or say, Greg Proops, name that movie. Nick Greg Proops, name that
movie. Oh, here we go. Six names.
The first name is just a voice in the
movie. Yes. I don't know.
No. No, there's, for some reason
there's a couple voices in this movie. It voice of Leon Redbone okay yeah again I've
seen this movie that does not help me at all and then you get five more names and
they are Jon Favreau Kyle gas Andy Richter Michael Lerner Clint Howard
that's five more names and it has polar bears in it? It has a polar bear cub
Who's voiced by stop motion master
Ray Harryhausen
Oh thank goodness I know that
But all those people were in it
Oh Jen thinks she knows it
But don't say it
Because Greg has to give up first
It's a holiday movie from 2003
It's not Christmas with the Cranks
Is that your guess?
No I was just padding for time there Golly holiday movie from 2003. It's not Christmas with the Cranks. Is that your guess? No.
I was just padding
for time there.
Golly.
I don't know.
It's one of those
animated stop-ass,
half-ass things.
I don't know.
I give up.
Just for fun, Jen,
do you know it?
I know the movie.
What is it?
Elf.
That's correct.
Elf.
Yeah, it goes on.
Amy Sedaris,
Peter Dinklage,
Faison Love.
Andy Richter.
Leon Redbone was the snowman, wasn't he?
I don't know.
Ed Asner.
Steenburgen was in it.
James Caan.
Will Ferrell.
Either way, you get the point.
That was a masterful play on your part.
I love it. Let's go to Kyle. Jen is on the board. She's get the point. That was masterful play on your part. I love it.
Let's go to Kyle.
Jen is on the board.
She's got one point.
All you need is two to win.
That's fucked up.
This game is bullshit, says the leader.
I'm winning and I don't like it.
How do you not get it at Favreau?
No offense.
I don't know. I totally panicked. When you said Favreau? No offense. I don't know.
I totally panicked.
When you said Favreau and Eddie Richter,
I was like, oh, duh.
That's who's in the movie.
I heard Leon Redbone.
It was just the theme song to Mr. Belvedere.
Right.
Streaks on the China, never met her before.
Who cares?
When you walk through the door,
something about your jacket.
That wiped out any thought I had.
Drop, kick your jacket. All right. Which is a great expression. Drop, about your jacket. That wiped out any thought I had. Drop kick your jacket.
Alright.
Which is a great expression, drop kick your jacket.
That's the next Kyle
Kinane album is going to be called that.
The sequel to Death of the Party.
I'll kick the jacket.
Alright, so Kyle,
let's pick between
musicals, the aforementioned,
San Francisco movies,
and movies that begin
with the letter L.
Let's go with
letter L, yeah. Yeah, right? That's a
great clue. That's good.
Gets you off on a nice start. Would you like it to be
from 1976 or
2006?
2006.
Alright, here we go.
Begins with the letter L
Len gives it two and a half stars
I'd say that's accurate or maybe even a little generous
It's from 2006
And
It has a challenging
Puzzle like script
Is never dull
But is too self consciously clever
A great clue if I've ever heard one But is too self-consciously clever.
A great clue if I've ever heard one.
Because there's only one movie that I would describe.
And there are ten names, Kyle.
Kyle Kinane.
Ten names.
I'm naming ten names.
Nice.
Nice opening bid.
Let's go to Greg Piers.
I'll try nine, Doug. Nice. Nice opening bid. Let's go to Greg Piers. I'll try nine, Doug.
Okay.
I'll say eight.
You guys are the best competitors we've ever had.
Kyle says seven.
I'll go on seven.
Greg?
Oh, I chewed it last time.
I'm going to let Kyle go on seven.
Oh, Kyle has to get it in seven.
Here we go.
Name that movie, Kyle.
I'll give you the clues again. It's from 2006.
Two and a half stars.
Says Len.
Begins with the letter L.
Challenging puzzle-like script.
That's not helping me, yeah.
And there are ten names, and you get six of them?
Six.
Robert Forster.
Mikkel T. Williamson.
Or Mikkel T. Williamson.
However you want to say it.
Kevin Chamberlain.
Danny Aiello.
Stanley Tucci.son, however you want to say it. Kevin Chamberlain. Danny Aiello. Stanley Tucci.
Yeah, Tucci.
And your sixth name is Lucy Liu.
People are whispering.
So there's some idea out there in the audience what this might be.
Do you have any idea?
I can only think of the movie Leviathan right now.
Well, you know, at least that's a pretty good guess
because it does begin with L.
If you just said, I can only think of True Grit,
I'd be like, what the fuck is wrong with that?
Lucy Liu, I think, is the best clue of that batch.
That gives it away to some people.
He's really concentrating.
What happens if I don't get it?
Great, that's the point.
Because he made you name it.
Killbill has a lot of L's in it. But it doesn't have
Stanley Tucci, Danny Aiello, Kevin Chamberlain,
Mikkel D. Williamson, or Robert Foster.
Or any of the other four names on this list.
Yeah, I got nothing.
I mean, Greg gets the point, but
the rest of the names are Ben Kingsley, Morgan Freeman,
Bruce Willis, and Josh Hartnett.
Lucky number 11levin.
An audience member said it.
Yeah, right?
Uh.
I never heard of it.
Never heard of it?
I don't think so.
Well, they should have called you.
I don't know how movies have the nerve to come out without getting at least an email off to Jen Kirkman.
Why was it Slevin?
Why is that?
Because, like, on the poster
the L is like a seven.
My mom used to call
7-Eleven Slevin.
Oh, so you can't
even guess the name of a movie your mother
inspired?
What kind of...
No, okay.
It's called Lucky Number Slevin,
and then Leonard says,
challenging puzzle-like script is never dull,
but too self-consciously clever.
The title is as well,
so it works out perfectly.
All right, Greg has one point, Jen has one point,
and...
Kyle's got the goose egg.
But anything could happen.
Jen is going to start us off on this one.
Again, we go to musicals,
or tear jerkers,
or stoner movies.
Which are probably,
if I remember correctly,
movies that are either about stoners
or fun to watch while stoned.
But you don't know.
That is a difference.
Which is all movies, right?
That's a big category.
Pretty much. I won't
I won't enjoy everything
when I'm stoned
I want to see musicals
but I think it'll be hard
because
the side play
I'm gonna go to
stoner movies
yeah talk us through it
I'm gonna go to
stoner movies
in honor of this show
oh
I like that
kiss ass
would you like that movie to be from 2009, 2008, or 1998?
98.
Here we go.
Stoner movie from 98.
Two and a half stars from Len Malden.
I may have even done this one on the show before,
and this is outrageous that it only gets two and a half stars.
It's from 1998, and the clue is
Turturo.
Turturo.
As in John Turturo.
I shouldn't have even told you which Turturo.
Could be Aida.
Turturo is a standout.
Is the clue I'm going to give you for this movie.
So we already know who's in it?
You do know one person who's in it.
Unless he's a standout by not participating.
Oh, if only Turturro was in this.
And there are 13 names.
Start the bidding.
And this is a stoner, man.
JK.
I can do it in six.
Six names, she says.
What do you think, KK?
Let's go five.
Five names.
GP.
I'll go four because I pussed out last time.
Okay, well name that movie then.
Greg Proops.
Oh, name that movie, Greg Proops.
I think you have not a good chance at this.
No, actually, there's something that might help you.
It's a stoner movie, huh?
Yeah.
All right, all right.
Two and a half stars. Yeah, sure. Not, it's a three might help you. It's a stoner movie, huh? Yeah. All right, all right. Two and a half stars.
Yeah, sure.
Not, it's a three and a half, it's a four.
People are agreeing, because they already know what it is.
And it's a four, and it's from 1998.
I like that, Jen Kirkman policing the crowd.
Most of my guests don't do that.
They don't shush the crowd.
No, she sucks you when she's strict, man.
That is awesome.
She cleaned her glasses and she's ready to go.
The names are Tara Reid,
Ben Gazzara,
David Thewlis,
and the aforementioned John Turturro.
Tara Reid?
He's 11th bill.
That's at the apex of her career.
98.
What does apex mean?
Summit.
Not start?
Summit.
The K2 of her career.
Can I have the cast again?
It was Tara Reid.
I kind of panicked after Tara Reid.
Ben Gazzara.
David Thewlis.
Awesome British actor.
And then John Turturro.
You fucked up because you know it, don't you?
No, I thought it was something else in the year.
Oh, now you don't know.
And it's a stoner movie and I'm completely baffled.
You're going to be mad when you find out what it is.
The Island of Dr. Moreau, which it isn't.
I'll give you the rest of the names and you can name it that way.
Sam Elliott, Flea, Philip Seymour Hoffman,
David Huddleston, Peter Stormare,
Steve Buscemi, Julianne Moore,
John Goodman.
And Jeff Bridges.
Only the most famous stoner movie of the last 20 years.
It's probably the one that might pop into your head
when we're talking about stoner movies.
That or Cheech and Chong shit. Awesome that I fumbled
it and I'm not even high.
If I was high, I'd be like, I didn't remember.
You overthought it.
Wait, what was the movie? Big Lebowski.
Oh yeah, that's something
that always gets lost on me.
What?
I've seen it
like once. I'm not obsessed with it. I wouldn't know everyone's
name and I was thinking
it was Dazed and Confused
because I would go see it
every day
my first year of college
but I forgot my first year
of college was 92
not 98
and I was so fucking
knowing it was
Dazed and Confused
that's why I was like
he won't get it in two
and then I was gonna
ah damn it
a lot of inner monologue
yeah
there's a lot going on
a lot to win so bad I lot of twins, so bad.
I think everybody has a point.
Choose audience players.
Right?
I still don't have any points.
Oh my God.
Can you believe I didn't do that again?
I didn't pick people for you guys to play for in the audience, but it'll be the first
three people here that have name tags on.
Because people actually wore name tags.
I mentioned it at the top of the show, and then I forgot to get them involved in the
I should play for Jack, because my name's Jay.
Kyle, Kat, Kay, and then E,
Ezra, but G is near E.
There's an inescapable logic that's not happening there.
I'm just going to say
whoever gets mine has got to be pretty excited
so far with my track record tonight.
Wait a second.
But Jen just won, right?
I believe so. Who did you pick?
How did I win if he named Big Lebowski and I only named one of them?
I didn't get it until he gave me the whole cast
You were thinking so hard that you missed the part where he didn't get it
I just won so what does he get?
Some awesome prizes
Which one did you pick Ezra?
No I picked Jack because our names begin with J
Oh okay
Congratulations Jack
You are a winner I can't believe I won with Jay. Oh, okay. Congratulations, Jack.
You are a winner.
Can't believe I won. Yeah, yeah.
You did a great job. I can't believe I didn't know the game was over when
it was. And I didn't
pick contestants. But other than that,
I think the new wrinkle worked out
swimmingly. I like the new
thing. So you win a
two-trunk-to to Dweet t-shirt
and then you win
the AST Guests on the Show collection.
You get Jen Kirkman's album
Self Help,
Kyle Kinane's album Death of the Party
and Greg Proops' album Elsewhere
along with, everybody knows,
Doug Benson, Professional Humoridian.
You win all of those CDs.
Congratulations.
Come shop at
astrecords.com
there's lots of
other good comedy
records on there
can I plug our
thing
yes please
speaking of
AST Records
which is a
marvelous label
Paul Tompkins
and I are
doing an EP
we're hosting
I think next
week's Comedy
Death Ray
to launch
we're both
launching EPs.
Our joints are dropping at the same time.
Next Tuesday.
I like the two of you hosting together. That's like
super
smart good guys.
Wow, did that get cautionary
toward the middle there.
We're just going to say like... The clothes are going to be
fantastic. Yeah, it's just going to be dapper.
Do you guys have to call each
other about because he tends to wear earth tones and I go maybe almost all
the time so I know that the pocket squares are gonna be wild I'll tell you
that and pause pause wearing kind of a 70s porn mustache no I don't know if I
have can you get one by next Tuesday you so don't want me in a porn mustache. It's way too authentic when I wear one.
You can actually hear the music playing.
Ding dong.
I brought a pizza.
With a strategic hole in it.
Yeah.
Do you have anything to plug, Jen?
Got any upcoming gigs
or appearances?
No, unless you want to go to
Boston on June 11th.
Oh, well, this is going on the internet.
Nobody in Boston listens to this.
You know, I don't even smoke pot,
but I have ADD,
and my meds wear off by this time,
and so it's like the same effect.
Where are you going to be in Boston on June 11th?
At the Wilbur Theater doing stand-up comedy.
Oh, I love the Wilbur Theater.
I was there a few weeks ago, and there was a drunk lady in the audience.
In Boston?
Surely not.
I know.
It was weird.
Just the one, though.
Just the one.
It's my hometown, so take it easy, Stan Brandt.
Is it?
Really?
There was just one woman.
The rest of the crowd was fantastic.
Boston is a great facility.
No, a suburb outside of the city, and then I lived in the city for a while.
Okay.
All right.
I'm not living in
Western Massacon at Boston.
What do you have coming up, Kyle?
I'm out there, you know.
I know, your shit's crazy.
I'm just...
Just out there doing it.
Way out there.
All right.
I just put a bunch of new dates up on my website, so you check it out.
What's your website called?
KyleKanane.com?
KyleKanane.com.
Or I'mDeadAndIt'sAllMyFault.com is another website I run.
For people who like typing more.
Yeah.
KyleKanane.
That's too easy.
I'm dead and what?
I'm dead and it's all my fault.
All right.
That's very morbid.
I also forgot to... It's got a fault. It's very morbid. I also forgot to...
It's got a thing. There's a theme to it.
Now the losers, so to speak,
I mean, I didn't even pick people to play for,
but the losers get to
name the
shithead at the end of the show, so I guess...
Or you know what?
You guys come back, do the name tag thing again.
I'll try to play the game more properly.
And when you're a winner, please don't come again I'll try to play the game more properly and if you when you're a winner
please don't come back again
and try to sit there
and win
that's a rule I should have
made a long time ago
cause I'm not even
I'm not gonna remember
you guys have to be
self policing
if you see somebody
that's won already
sitting in that row
over there with a name tag
just tell them
they can't do that
and then
and then fight
physically fight alright I really dragged out the ending here but my plugs are I'll be at the they can't do that. And then fight. Physically fight.
All right, I really dragged out the ending here,
but my plugs are I'll be at the comedy stage
at Bonnaroo this year.
That's Friday, June 11th, and Saturday, June 12th, 2010.
And the Benson interruption will be performed again
at Largo in Los Angeles on Monday, June 14th, 2010.
Thanks again to my guests, Kyle Kinane,
Jen Kirkman, Greg Proops,
the AST Records family,
and I'll just say,
Doug Benson is a shithead,
and Doug Benson is a shithead.
Doug is a shithead.