Doug Loves Movies - Greg Proops, Jen Kirkman, and Kyle Kinane Guest

Episode Date: May 27, 2010

Doug 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.) 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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Starting point is 00:00:00 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?
Starting point is 00:00:29 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
Starting point is 00:00:36 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,
Starting point is 00:00:45 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
Starting point is 00:01:10 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,
Starting point is 00:01:23 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
Starting point is 00:01:37 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.
Starting point is 00:02:15 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.
Starting point is 00:02:42 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.
Starting point is 00:02:58 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,
Starting point is 00:03:12 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.
Starting point is 00:03:26 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.
Starting point is 00:03:35 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
Starting point is 00:04:17 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.
Starting point is 00:04:37 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.
Starting point is 00:04:59 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.
Starting point is 00:05:26 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.
Starting point is 00:05:40 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.
Starting point is 00:06:02 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
Starting point is 00:06:38 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,
Starting point is 00:06:55 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.
Starting point is 00:07:06 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
Starting point is 00:07:21 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.
Starting point is 00:07:44 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
Starting point is 00:08:03 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
Starting point is 00:08:21 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
Starting point is 00:08:31 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.
Starting point is 00:08:52 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.
Starting point is 00:09:30 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?
Starting point is 00:09:47 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.
Starting point is 00:10:01 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.
Starting point is 00:10:22 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.
Starting point is 00:10:42 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
Starting point is 00:11:12 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?
Starting point is 00:11:23 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.
Starting point is 00:11:40 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.
Starting point is 00:11:53 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.
Starting point is 00:12:11 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
Starting point is 00:12:29 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
Starting point is 00:12:42 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.
Starting point is 00:12:51 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.
Starting point is 00:13:09 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
Starting point is 00:13:25 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
Starting point is 00:13:43 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.
Starting point is 00:13:59 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.
Starting point is 00:14:09 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.
Starting point is 00:14:25 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,
Starting point is 00:14:43 specifically Lincoln and Douglas. Okay, we have Lincoln and Frederick Douglas, yeah. Yeah, and then they are portrayed by Will Ferrell and Don Cheadle.
Starting point is 00:14:52 And speaking of movies. Just say your drunken words. And it won the Sundance Jury Prize for Best Short Film 2010.
Starting point is 00:14:59 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
Starting point is 00:15:03 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.
Starting point is 00:15:18 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.
Starting point is 00:15:38 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
Starting point is 00:15:54 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.
Starting point is 00:16:09 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.,
Starting point is 00:16:25 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.
Starting point is 00:16:39 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
Starting point is 00:17:05 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,
Starting point is 00:17:27 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.
Starting point is 00:17:40 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.
Starting point is 00:17:50 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
Starting point is 00:18:09 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
Starting point is 00:18:17 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
Starting point is 00:18:23 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.
Starting point is 00:18:32 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
Starting point is 00:18:41 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.
Starting point is 00:18:52 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.
Starting point is 00:19:05 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.
Starting point is 00:19:15 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.
Starting point is 00:19:42 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.
Starting point is 00:19:57 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
Starting point is 00:20:08 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
Starting point is 00:20:16 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?
Starting point is 00:20:22 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
Starting point is 00:20:43 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
Starting point is 00:20:58 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
Starting point is 00:21:17 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,
Starting point is 00:21:35 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.
Starting point is 00:21:55 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.
Starting point is 00:22:18 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.
Starting point is 00:22:40 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.
Starting point is 00:23:08 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
Starting point is 00:23:21 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
Starting point is 00:23:30 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.
Starting point is 00:23:40 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.
Starting point is 00:24:00 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.
Starting point is 00:24:13 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
Starting point is 00:24:28 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?
Starting point is 00:24:52 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.
Starting point is 00:25:05 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.
Starting point is 00:25:13 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.
Starting point is 00:25:28 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.
Starting point is 00:25:48 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
Starting point is 00:26:08 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
Starting point is 00:26:21 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
Starting point is 00:26:34 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.
Starting point is 00:26:53 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.
Starting point is 00:27:08 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?
Starting point is 00:27:29 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.
Starting point is 00:27:45 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?
Starting point is 00:28:01 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
Starting point is 00:28:17 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
Starting point is 00:28:38 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.
Starting point is 00:28:52 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
Starting point is 00:29:08 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.
Starting point is 00:29:31 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
Starting point is 00:29:59 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
Starting point is 00:30:18 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.
Starting point is 00:30:30 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.
Starting point is 00:30:37 What is it? Elf. That's correct. Elf. Yeah, it goes on. Amy Sedaris, Peter Dinklage, Faison Love.
Starting point is 00:30:45 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.
Starting point is 00:31:01 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.
Starting point is 00:31:18 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.
Starting point is 00:31:29 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.
Starting point is 00:31:44 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,
Starting point is 00:31:59 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.
Starting point is 00:32:14 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
Starting point is 00:32:31 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.
Starting point is 00:32:51 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.
Starting point is 00:33:05 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.
Starting point is 00:33:16 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.
Starting point is 00:33:28 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.
Starting point is 00:33:42 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?
Starting point is 00:34:03 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.
Starting point is 00:34:33 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.
Starting point is 00:34:56 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.
Starting point is 00:35:12 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.
Starting point is 00:35:31 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,
Starting point is 00:35:45 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.
Starting point is 00:36:02 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
Starting point is 00:36:18 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
Starting point is 00:36:28 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
Starting point is 00:36:35 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.
Starting point is 00:36:53 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.
Starting point is 00:37:11 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.
Starting point is 00:37:34 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.
Starting point is 00:37:47 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.
Starting point is 00:38:02 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.
Starting point is 00:38:18 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,
Starting point is 00:38:34 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.
Starting point is 00:38:53 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.
Starting point is 00:39:05 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.
Starting point is 00:39:23 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
Starting point is 00:39:42 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.
Starting point is 00:39:57 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
Starting point is 00:40:09 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
Starting point is 00:40:17 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.
Starting point is 00:40:28 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
Starting point is 00:40:43 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.
Starting point is 00:41:01 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?
Starting point is 00:41:18 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
Starting point is 00:41:35 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
Starting point is 00:41:52 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
Starting point is 00:42:05 astrecords.com there's lots of other good comedy records on there can I plug our thing yes please speaking of
Starting point is 00:42:14 AST Records which is a marvelous label Paul Tompkins and I are doing an EP we're hosting I think next
Starting point is 00:42:21 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
Starting point is 00:42:31 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
Starting point is 00:42:49 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.
Starting point is 00:43:16 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,
Starting point is 00:43:33 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?
Starting point is 00:43:48 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?
Starting point is 00:43:55 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.
Starting point is 00:44:07 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.
Starting point is 00:44:28 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.
Starting point is 00:44:40 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,
Starting point is 00:44:53 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
Starting point is 00:45:07 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
Starting point is 00:45:14 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
Starting point is 00:45:23 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,
Starting point is 00:45:44 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.

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