Doug Loves Movies - Greg Proops,"The Retired Pope," and "Werner Herzog" Guest
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Doug hates candy wrappers, skinny babies, sticky seats
With 50 azopop or kernels in his teeth
They're still not warm, that he won't sleep
Oh, Doug loves movies
Hey everybody!
I really liked this subdued lighting during the opening theme
so I could see what was going on out here.
I should have said something about that six years ago.
But I said it last week,
and it got taken care of this week
because this is a crack team.
The table's in kind of a different spot this week,
but, you know, can't get everything right.
Are we
too close to you, Jordan?
He says he's going to be okay.
My name is Doug and I love movies.
This is Doug Loves Movies coming to you from the
UCB Theater
on Tuesday, April 30th
to Oceans 13.
Since last I spoke and you listened,
I attended the wedding of
past and future guest Jonah Ray
to Deanna Rooney.
Yeah.
And, oh my god, it was the best
wedding ever that I've ever been to.
No religious shit.
Just friends and family
gathered.
You know what? Also,
hey, backstage friends,
could you guys just go in the green room and talk or not talk?
Those are your options back there.
I've never been sitting here during this part of the show
and can you overhear a conversation going on right behind me?
So all the guests up until today have been fantastic at that.
What do we got, Pete Holmes and T.J. Miller
back there?
Those guys know when to shut up.
No, they don't.
They're still talking.
I don't get it.
Yeah, so it was
an amazing wedding
and it was a beautiful day.
It was like a restaurant bar
in Glendale
and an occasional Amtrak train
would speed by.
At one point, I went right through
the proceedings and I yelled,
this wedding is unstoppable.
I would yell whenever
the train went by. It was amazing.
Har Mar, superstar, provided the music
at the reception and
he did a cover of Huey Lewis'
Power of Love and Tom
Wilson who was a guest there jumped up on stage and sang the last part of the
song yeah Biff you butthead and then we all lined up and put manure in his mouth
that didn't happen oh and I also met a cool future guest for this show at the wedding.
So anyway, congrats to Jonah and Deanna,
or as they will be known by their showbiz couple name, Joanna.
The next day I flew to Austin, Texas.
Why? Because I love Austin, Texas,
and because I made an appearance on an Austin taping of Professor Blastoff
with my pals Tig Notaro, Kyle Dunnigan
and David Huntsberger and that should be
available for your listening pleasure soon
or now. We played a round of
Lincoln or Bane and
I think
I'm pretty sure we did. I was drunk.
Now it's time for Tweet Relief.
Tweets about movies. Past and future guests
Paul F. Tompkins tweeted
Mad Men timeline gaffe.
They couldn't possibly go
to see Planet of the Apes
in 1968
because that movie
took place in the future.
This has been
Tree Relief,
tweets about movies
in TV shows.
I'll be telling jokes
and playing Leonard Maltin game
with audience members
in Boise
at the Knitting Factory on Saturday, May 11th.
And I'll be at Comedy Works in the state of Denver on Sunday, May 12th.
Bring your moms!
We got some great prizes in the gift bag, you guys.
We got some gluten-free cookie mix.
We got a $10 gift card for iTunes that'll allow you to purchase whatever you want with it.
$10 gift card for iTunes that'll allow you to purchase
whatever you want with it, but I recommend
episodes of the Benson Interruption
or premium Doug Loves
movies, which I don't do much anymore.
Most of the episodes are free, so go check
those out. Tournament of Championships
are like two bucks to listen to those.
A Doug
Benson Smug Life.
A CD that's called
The Six Most Important Sets
in the History of Stand-Up,
and some stickers
that say that on them.
And, oh, there's like a
really nice garment in here
that we will explore
when that guest gets out here.
Let's get him out here.
Please welcome
Werner Herzog, Greg Prorups, and the retired Pope!
I'm sorry, retired Pope.
I'm not really a Pope follower,
or I don't know much about Popes.
So, what's your name?
I am Pope Benedict XVI.
You can call... My former name was Joseph Ratzinger.
But now I'm just mellowing out, man.
Whatever you want to call me, Doug.
I'm retired, whatever.
Retired Pope, everybody.
I think I'll just stick with that.
I think I'll just stick with calling you a retired Pope.
I'm not here to judge
and stuff and be uptight Pope
like I used to be. So everybody just relax.
I like the shades
that you're
rocking there
I think I might have gotten a little too high
backstage
oh yeah that was you
you didn't seem to blink that you were getting high
with the Pope not many people have done that
it's pretty special
I think it was because he put his outfit on afterward
we didn't recognize you
without your miter
I'm just another man.
Fair enough.
Couldn't we call him Pontiff Maximus?
Sure.
I'm going to go with retired Pope, though.
That was Greg Proops, everybody. Greg Proops
is here.
He brought... Can you describe this garment that's in this bag?
Yes, it's a sweatshirt of Kittens
McTavish from
I do a podcast called
The Smartest Man in the World and it's
some of the fine merch that you can buy from me
given away for free here tonight.
As you can see, it's made out of
unbelievably lustrous flax fiber
that's woven by blind children in Malaysia.
They labor ceaselessly,
their tiny fingers scrabbling to gain purchase
as their overlords whip them with cat-of-nine-tails dipped in brine.
It's an arduous process.
Hey, Werner, that sounds like something you could make a movie about.
I'm intrigued by the story of these fibers.
Are they man-made or are they natural?
They're grown on a plateau in the Netherlands.
I'm no longer interested.
Wow, you really turn on people, Werner.
That's Werner Herzog.
Here defending his title as the Leonard Game Malton champion person winner.
And you brought gluten-free cookie mix.
Yes, it serves a dual purpose.
Firstly, a dumb chicken could never make something like a cookie.
make something like a cookie.
So it's right in animals' faces. They will never know the
joy of the sweet
science of baking.
But also it is gluten-free,
which means it has gone through the process of
science.
For a second I thought you said
juden-free.
It's like, give me some of that stuff.
And what's the CD that you brought?
It's called The Six Most Important Pope,
The Six Most Important Sets in History of Stand-Up.
Yes.
Why did you bring this?
I am one of those sets.
Think about it.
The Pope doing fucking stand-up?
That's crazy.
It's like getting high with him.
Doesn't happen very often.
Get excited.
And it's got some other stuff on there.
Matt Messer is...
Right, right.
It's his project.
Bjork is on there.
Okay.
All sorts of people.
Really?
Yeah.
And Greg brought two of his CDs.
Because they're only worth the value of one of yours, Doug.
Oh.
On the open market.
I'm joking, of course, but thank you for making me feel so shitty.
I thought we were friends and stuff and had a comedy relationship,
but I guess I see where I stand now.
Over alone, the cheese.
I thought the table might be a little too close to the audience.
Is that what you did?
I was concerned about it.
No, I didn't move it.
I just said, fuck it.
Let's do it live!
So,
Werner,
let me just ask you right now,
what are you doing next week?
Can you make it back
for a record-shattering
all the gentlemen on this panel
if you win tonight
at the Leonard Maltin game
can you return next week
to play again?
Yeah, that's the thing
we've been doing.
Interesting.
Yes.
Fuck, I'm retired.
I can do anything.
What else am I doing?
Perfect.
I think I'm free.
I am at my leisure
to join you next Tuesday.
Should I once again become the victor of this contest?
Well, let's talk movies for a second first.
Have you been to the movies, Werner, since our last visit?
I've been catching up on some things that I've missed.
I saw this science fiction film,
a terrifying film about this horrible robot
who destroys a utopian future.
I'm not sure what that is.
It's called WALL-E.
You're really catching up on things from a while back.
Mankind has finally got everything as it should be.
The Earth is destroyed.
And we live in pure science
and then this stupid robot finds a plant.
Thumbs down.
What about you, Pope?
Is that one of your things you do now that you're retired?
You see a lot of movies?
I'm on the Netflix every night.
I love the doc... Have you seen...
Catch your documentaries.
Have you seen this Capturing the Freedmans?
It's about this pedophile.
This guy is out of control.
I mean, seriously. he's like a computer
tutor? It's like, computer
tutors need to take responsibility
for themselves. You know what I mean?
I don't think,
I think you missed the point of that movie. I think he was,
I think it was a person that was
unfairly accused of something.
That was the point of the movie?
I think you missed the point of the movie. That guy was guilty. Someone of something. That was the point of the movie? I think you missed the point of the movie.
That guy was guilty.
Someone do something.
His former holiness makes an excellent
point, though, that
too often these computer tutors
they are simply
transferred to another computer camp.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Needs to be responsibility for this.
What about you, Greg?
Have you seen any movies?
No, not after that, no.
Yeah, I went to the TCM Film Fest,
so I saw about a million old movies.
Yeah, what was one that you enjoyed?
Three Days of the Condor with Max Von Cito,
and he was really there. I mean, he was there. Sure Max Von Cito and he was really there.
I mean, he was there. Sure. I don't mean
he was really there. Obviously, he was really there
in the movie, but he
spoke before and it was really cool to listen
to him. He's amazingly awesome
and they also showed The Seventh
Seal, if you've ever seen that one. It's a
Bergman film. I think I made a joke
about it last week that got nothing.
Then I am so glad
I opened up
this goldmine.
I remember seeing
the seventh seal
at the drive-in
when it came out.
Exactly.
May I take a quick
poll of the audience?
How many people
have seen
all of the
Fast and Furious
franchise?
Nobody?
Nobody's seen
every single one?
What a pack of liars
we have here.
Yeah, they are. Yeah, they are.
Your subterfuge delights me.
Well, Six comes out this weekend, and they haven't seen that yet.
No.
The first five.
Oh, none of them can say that they've seen them all. That's true.
You are more honest than I give you credit for.
So, what was the film festival?
The Turner Classic movies?
Yeah, so they showed old movies, and they had old stars.
And everybody I saw was 1,000 years old,
and they were all spry, and they had their marbles.
And it made me think, man, I should really start looking after myself.
I've got about eight years left.
But then, thank you, Paul.
I mean, Werner Herzog.
My friend Paul is here tonight, and he was laughing in the audience
and I just saw him out of the corner of my eye
I'm not a sketch performer per se
I work on my own a lot
and I don't listen to people well
so for me
I try not to have an open door policy on this show
but these two gentlemen it's too hard to pass up next time I try not to have an open door policy on this show but these two gentlemen
I told you
it's too hard to pass up
oh no I know
next time I'm gonna do
a character
oh really
yeah
I was thinking
just
I was talking to a friend
and they said
well what character
do you think Greg would do
and I said
I think he could do
a good Peter Sellers
I don't think I can do
Peter Sellers
really
well he does a different voice
because in the party
it's like this
you know and then yeah yeah every movie he does a different voice and stuff oh that's a good point no I mean I don't think I can do Peter Sellers. Really? Well, he does a different voice for every... Because in the party, it is like this, you know?
And then every movie, he does a different voice and stuff.
Oh, that's a good point.
No, I mean, I don't...
You can just do any character and say,
that's an old Peter Sellers character.
Hello!
I'm the crazy scientist!
Yes, my president!
And then you...
Because you even have a publicity photo of yourself
doing the thing from Doctor Strangelove?
I don't.
But someone probably made one
or something. I wish I had, though.
That would have been really good. That would have boosted
my career almost immeasurably.
I think when you take
when you take Kubrick films from
the early 60s and use them as a promotional
vehicle for yourself, I think you're
you got your finger on. Next I'm going to do a
jazz vocal album to kind of
sail my comedy career right to the top there.
Greg, what if you did one of those composite headshots
where it's a Doctor Strangelove in the upper right quadrant,
then you have a Barry Lyndon over on the left,
and then going down to the bottom,
perhaps a Paths of Glory,
and then...
Clockwork Orange, maybe?
Sure.
2001?
Why not?
That sounds good.
Did that really just happen?
Oh, and maybe in the middle, a nerd.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Always good.
No, Jeremy Irons would be who I would do, I think, if I did.
Oh, yeah.
Because I can almost do that one.
Because he has a regular voice that you know well enough?
Because he's a different, he's got a different voice and everything, right?
Dog, the thing is, you see, about Jeremy Irons.
Oh, Jeremy Irons, I'm sorry.
I was thinking Daniel Day-Lewis.
So was I.
No, no, Jeremy Irons sounds the same in everything, even when he's a lion.
Right, no.
I'm a lion.
Later in the other one, in Time Machine, where he's a Morlock.
Do I surprise you?
It's always the same.
It's good.
You pick impressions that just sound like you, and you're good to go.
Yes.
You're right there.
I can do an impression of everyone on Hogan's Heroes
All the Nazis
Oh, so you don't do a Bob Crane?
No, no, no American voices
Those are too hard
Alright, well I think that's everything I wanted to ask you guys
Let's get to the part of the show where I say
let the
Banes begin.
Oh!
Thank you for your applause.
That sounds like a sleepy Bane.
Tonight, tired Bane.
Sleepy time tea, Bane. Time for some chamomile Bane. Tonight, tired Bane. Sleepy time tea Bane.
Time for some chamomile Bane.
Batman punched me so hard.
I lost a tooth.
I'm putting it under my pillow now.
Nighty night.
Weird.
Footsie pajama Bane.
Yeah, let's pick some name tags out.
Did you guys in the audience bring name tags?
Do we have any?
There's a few.
Oh, there's something on a stick over there.
American Pie?
Your name is American?
Erica.
I see it in the middle of American.
Do we all go out and get one?
Yeah, just go grab one.
Anyone you want to play for.
Does the Pope understand?
Yes, footloose, come to me.
Hell if I'm going over to some guy.
Bring it to the Pope, yes.
Present it to the Pope.
The record is in here?
It looks like he's got a record in there.
It's the original Footloose soundtrack.
Yeah.
That's awesome.
Pretty good.
Okay.
I love Footloose.
Yeah.
And the part where he's like oh it's in the bible
dancing's in the bible
I was like I know
so how is
how is that a name tag
I know
is your name Footloose
Kevin
oh
Kevin Bacon
is on the cover of course
he's
he's fun
awesome walkman.
I hope that doesn't start a new trend of people just bringing
in a movie that has an actor with the
same name.
It's not really a name tag, Footloose.
And that's what I'm going to call you, Footloose.
Your new name is Footloose.
As a punishment. No, don't say Kevin,
Pope.
Don't you dare say it.
Who are you playing for, Werner?
I'm playing for Jane
with a Y.
The end.
But she may tell us what
her name tag is. She has made a sort
of auction paddle
with
half of my face and half of
another person.
Oh, it's Daniel Day-Lewis.
You don't know the other person?
It's either Daniel Day-Lewis or Jeremy Irons.
Well, it bears a passing resemblance,
but I wouldn't say it's a great likeness.
Doug, you should start having characters on the show.
Yeah, now that I know one of my friends has a good one
that's ready to go, we will make that happen.
Jeremy Irons, he'd be great to have on anyway.
So, close enough.
I'm booked this week.
I'm busy speaking in a gay apologist convention.
I'm also doing the bus and truck company Doing a guest spot in the Lion King
A guest spot?
What?
You just run in and play Pumbaa for a night?
I don't play the lion every night
Sometimes I just get with a chorus girl
And call it a performance.
Well, they're asking
for it, aren't they, dressed as wild animals?
A chorus wildebeest?
Well,
I don't care what kind of beast they are.
Supple is the kind I prefer.
Jeremy, your name tag is
a plane ticket?
It appears to be a printed out boarding pass
from an airline I'm not familiar with
because I only turn left when I get on a plane.
It's called U.S. Airways.
U.S. Airways?
U.S. Airways.
Zone 5, by the way.
Oh, fucking Zone 5.
Yes.
That's the biggest fuck you that they can give you.
That's where they put the luggage.
Yeah.
The people in Zone 5 on the
Titanic perished almost immediately.
Chickens in a wire
box won't get in Zone 5.
Exactly.
No, you mayn't have
the key.
The chief steward is indisposed.
And her name is Sarah.
Her name is Sarah, smiley face, pick me, triple exclamation point.
So it worked.
Did you think that you would be able to, like, that would be a ticket that you could use? She was also in seat 13.
What?
Yes, in zone 5.
Why do they have this?
This boarding pass, the very fact that it's made it to us,
speaks of the fortuosity and fortune this good lady enjoys.
Hold that up again for a second, if you don't mind.
I'd be chuffed beyond measure.
There we go.
And let me see your name tag, Werner, that crazy face thing.
That's upsetting.
And the Pope and Footloose.
Everybody cut.
Everybody cut.
Let's play Lincoln or Bane.
Yeah.
Yeah.
My Bane impression might as well be a Lincoln impression
so I will say a line from either Steven Spielberg's Lincoln
or Dark Knight Rises
the character of Bane
and you guys just go down the line and tell me whether it's Lincoln or Bane
and we'll start with you Greg on this first one
and it goes like this
I don't need your damn permission with you, Greg, on this first one. And it goes like this.
I don't need your damn permission.
That was so authentic
and evocative that I believe that was
Abraham Lincoln.
Our first president.
Really our only
president in a lot of movies
other than that one
the other one
that was in Amistad
what?
James Madison
yes the one who invented the cakes
John Quincy Adams
him too
Pope what do you think
what is the line I don't need your permission
that is Lincoln
saying to
am I not playing right
you don't have to say what the scene is
you just have to say whether it's Lincoln or Bane
I know what it is he said to Mary Todd
when he's putting on her panties.
Am I not supposed to say
the scene? Sorry.
Sorry, Warner.
Warner,
what do you think?
I believe that that is your president,
Lincoln.
That's what you all guessed, right?
That's right.
All right. Good job, everybody, because that was Lincoln.
I just can't see anyone saying to Bane,
you better get permission!
You don't have permission!
Also, it's good to note that Bane never swore.
He never used foul language.
He was a very polite gentleman
despite being clearly a homicidal
maniac.
Alright, let's try another one.
This time we'll start with the
smart pope.
I can't listen to this anymore.
Once again, Lincoln talking to Mary Todd
with her constant crazy jabbering.
I think we finally have a contestant
who's too good at this.
Werner?
I also feel that this is something
that Lincoln would and did say.
Greg's in a tough spot.
I have no idea.
So just for pure math's sake, I'm going to go Bane on this.
That's a fun strategy.
And one person supports me in the audience.
So I feel pretty strong.
Yeah.
He's got a visor on, so.
For reals?
No.
I wished it in my brain.
Math and science are bullshit.
What a nerd.
Call it a hunch.
This was Lincoln.
This was Lincoln that said that.
Does that mean I'm out of the game?
No.
Oh, well.
Jeremy Irons is out, though. I hadn't played yet. I wouldn't have said that. Does that mean I'm out of the game? No. Oh, well. Jeremy Irons is out, though. I hadn't
played yet. I wouldn't have said Bane.
That was an idiotic outside.
I knew from the moment you said
it that it was from the movie Lincoln
and it was a scene where Mary Todd's incessant jabbering
and much as
the Pope had described earlier.
Werner, we're going to start with you on this next one.
Pope goes last.
I accept your terms.
You can't all just ride the Pope's
wave on this.
How many times have you seen Lincoln, Pope?
Oh, I'm
talking about talking to the actual
Lincoln. Are you talking about the movie?
Yeah.
I'm going on all stories passed down through the Vatican.
This meeting is called to order.
Who said it, Werner?
For a bit of fun, I'm going to employ
a Proopsian strategy here
and say that this was
the character of Bane
from the movie
The Dark Knight Rises
okay Greg
what do you think?
starring Christian Bale
as Batman
are we able to quote other Bane movies? Starring Christian Bale. Oh, I'm sorry. Sorry, Werner. Sorry. As Batman. Okay.
Are we able to quote other Bane movies?
Non-Dark Knight Bane movies?
What other Banes are there?
Well, there was Bane 2 in the city.
This time it's Ur-Bane.
Starring Tyler Perry You said
What do you think?
Lincoln or Bane on that one?
Calling the meeting to order
The movie Lincoln
Was watching guys meet in a room
So I'm going to say Lincoln on that one
Okay Pope
I'm going to say Bane
Because Lincoln never called
meetings to order. He had a guy do that for him.
I thought it just had to be from the movie.
He was the president, yeah. Oh, it has to be in the movie?
Anyone? No, no, no. It's things
Lincoln said. I'm not just picking out
James Spader's lines.
But that would be fun.
I think he says fuck at one point.
Oh, yeah. There's some...
There's more swearing in Lincoln than in Dark Knight Rises.
And shittier violence.
Okay.
Not as exciting.
Not enough slaves in Dark Knight.
That was a defect in the plot.
You know, that was the first thing I thought, too, while I was sitting there.
Like, these mall balls are good,
and we're the slaves.
I don't think you ever even see anyone
other than police officers.
No one seems to be working in Dark Knight Rises.
You never see any kind of activity
that looks like anyone is employed.
Are you not counting professional sports as work?
I'm not, but like,
I wish that guy had had a line
when the football player,
when the whole field collapsed
as he was running and he turned around
and it was all gone.
He should have had something funny to say there.
They should have at least given him a,
what?
Did I say it was Bane?
It's Bane.
That was Bane that called the meeting to order. Man, I cheat too. Yeahane? It's Bane. That was Bane
that called the meeting to order.
Man, I cheat too.
Yeah, so good job, guys.
Let's play Leonard Maltin game.
All right, let's do it.
Let's do it.
What I enjoy about Bane or Lincoln
is that there is no winner.
It just stops all of a sudden.
Well, in the past,
there's always been, you know,
people that fail.
I've never had someone just get every single one correct like that.
Like the Pope did.
Yeah, well, after you would say, that's definitely from Lincoln.
I'd like to know which Pope was Pope during the 1860s.
Was it Pope Jeb or something?
You said you knew the...
Oh, we just put
numbers on names. Who remembers?
We just grab
a name, a number, touch them. John
5, Pulse 8.
You sank my battleship.
Oh, we both had
a fun game reference.
That's the
famous German sense of humor you're always
hearing so much about.
Comes to the fore every 40 or so years.
Plays out in Eastern Europe.
And it's always a reference to tabletop games.
What was the First World War?
Yahtzee?
Don't say that.
Too soon.
Sorry.
All right, Werner. since you're the returning champion,
returning winner, we'll have you go first.
That's how they do it on Jeopardy, right?
I believe so.
That's how they do it on Jeopardy.
And who are you playing for again?
Jane.
Jane with a Y.
Okay.
All right.
Here we go.
You get to pick a category, Werner,
and then we'll go to, from you,
we'll go to the Pope and then to Greg,
former Pope.
Chloris Leachman,
celebrating a birthday today.
Correct.
Who doesn't know that?
So the films of Chloris Leachman.
Probably the most famous Chloris.
Absolutely.
A case could be made.
A case could be made.
Yeah.
I'm trying to think of another one.
I can think of a thousand Leachmans.
Cloris Shepard.
Best friend Mike Leachman.
Kirsten Dunst is also celebrating a birthday today. So the films of Kirsten Dunst is also celebrating
a birthday today, so the films
of Kirsten Dunst, or
the Unreal MC suggested on Twitter
right to bear small arms,
and that's movies that have a Tyrannosaurus
Rex in them.
Which one of those would you like to play, Werner?
In honor
of the dinosaurs being destroyed,
allowing mankind to take control of the earth.
Let's just cut to the chase.
Cloris Leachman.
Here we go.
Which one?
I would like the right to bear arms, small arms.
What was it?
Who cares?
Close enough.
You know the one I mean.
I do.
19, yeah, 19, 99 is the year.
And Leonard Mullen gives this movie three and a half stars.
He says that it is spectacular staging.
What that means.
Of a movie.
Yeah.
And he also says that it has a heartwarming,
heart-rending song.
And, yeah.
It's got a Tyrannosaurus rex in it.
And there's about seven, nine.
I was going to say the rose
until you said dinosaur.
Fifteen names.
Don't guess anything yet, Pope.
Fifteen names.
And the year is 1999.
And I heard a little chatter in the audience.
I hope you weren't saying the answer.
I can guess that film in ten names.
Good, strong opening bit.
Now we go to the Pope.
Who's just shaking his head.
Can you explain the category one more time?
It's the movies that have a Tyrannosaurus Rex in them.
And the clues were that it was from 1999
and Leonard gave it three and a half stars. And it has a heart-rendosaurus Rex in them. And the clues were that it was from 1999 and Leonard gave it three and a half
stars. And it
has a heart-rending song in it.
And it also, spectacular
staging is an
expression that Leonard uses in a
sentence
to describe this movie.
How many names do you have? I can do it, nine!
Startling, Pope.
I don't know if I remember this one.
Okay, so you could say eight names.
No, I'm going to go Kamikaze.
You'll get so many.
Three.
Three.
Oh, my Lord.
Yeah, watch me work.
What are you going to do with that, Werner?
Greg Proops, please name that movie.
Baby.
What?
Baby.
Why are you saying something already?
Why do you keep saying baby?
I'm going to name the three performers,
the three names that you get.
Isn't it called Baby?
Oh, I have to wait to get my clues.
This gives me an awesome chance to change my shitty answer.
And remember that we do...
I know who played Baby.
Who was it
a tyrannosaurus
remember we do need
a full title too
when you do get around to it
I would be happy
to provide it
your three names
Greg Proops
we got too high
with the Pope
I think that's what happened
the rules just went
by the wayside
when I see how free
and easy he is
I still know how
the rules work
your three names are Jody Benson no relation The rules just went by the wayside. When I see how free and easy he is... I still know how the rules work.
Your three names are Jody Benson, no relation.
R. Lee Ermey, also no relation.
And Estelle Harris
are your three names.
It's got a Tyrannosaurus Rex in it.
Just think of a movie that has that
and say it.
Jurassic Park 3?
Incorrect.
Baby.
What was that one with that little baby?
It was a movie about a baby, a dinosaur.
Yeah, but what was that?
Called Baby.
Secret of the Lost Legend.
Yeah, Secret of the Lost Legend.
Excuse me.
It was Baby, colon, Secret of the Lost Legend. Yeah, Secret of the Lost Legend. Excuse me. It was baby colon.
Secret of the Lost Legend.
No wonder.
You have to say colon out loud?
I have a fondness for colons in film titles.
They are great.
You really know you're in for something special
when they're colon.
Bad lieutenant.
Bad lieutenant, colon,
Port of Call, New Orleans.
I never said the colon out loud.
Aguirre, colon,
The Wrath of God.
Fitz,
colon,
Geraldo.
That's correct.
Who got the point that time?
Werner.
Indeed.
Okay.
Congratulations.
I guess I learned a lesson about playing this game heatlessly,
especially against a champ.
The answer, by the way, was Toy Story 2.
Oh!
You know, with that Tyrannosaurus Rex and that heart-rending song.
Doug, you gave me every chance.
I really did.
I forgot they could make toys of anything.
There's no law against it.
If you had said a toy
Tyrannosaurus, I would have known the movie.
That's what I should have said. I was just, I had
real ones in my head.
I was thinking of all the famous
Tyrannosaurus rexes.
Yes.
Alright, you get to pick again, Pope.
Again?
And this time...
I pick Bane.
And then this time we'll go in the direction of Werner.
And your options are A Bug's Life, that's movies that have flea in them.
Your options are A Bug's Life.
That's movies that have flea in them.
At Matthew Dump Truck suggested,
and this is a category that's been lingering because I think it's important to have,
Two Thumbs Down,
and that's the movies that Roger Ebert gave less than two stars.
Or your third option,
bless you in the audience,
at...
I do that.
You're retired.
I thought I'd do it for you.
You're right.
Relax.
Have fun with it, dog.
Go crazy.
And may the odds be forever in your flavor.
Motion pictures with food.
Food in the title.
I'm going to go with the food one.
Okay.
Here we go.
Food.
Now, keep in mind, Pope, that these are tricky.
It's not a food in the title, but the word food.
Correct?
Some sort of food
is in the title.
Can I ask you a question before we start?
I already know what it is.
Is baby a food?
Because there is such a thing.
Two stars from Leonard.
This movie is from
2002.
It's 81 minutes long.
Oh, I know all the
81 minute movies.
That means they suck.
Your DVDs are organized
by running time.
Who's gonna go pop in
a 96 tonight? Relax.
Ugh, I watched it 240 last night
it was not good
holy shit
yeah
Kevin Kline
appears in this movie
Unbuild
and Leonard
and Leonard also
calls this movie
and maybe this is
the only time
it's ever happened
in the history of movies
he calls this movie
Lumpy
he says it's lumpy and you history of movies. He calls this movie lumpy.
He says it's lumpy.
A mashed potato reference.
What movie had mashed potatoes?
And he lists 13 names.
How many names
do you think you can get it in?
FP?
I can get it in
I can get it in eight names,
everybody.
Did you throw in a quick scene from Wall-E, I think,
right there?
Oh, good Werner.
Good luck me getting to sleep tonight.
What do you think, Werner?
Seven.
Okay.
Greg?
Six.
I say name it in six, y'all.
Props.
All right, Pontiff.
It sounded like you were going to swear for a second.
Pontiff Emeritus.
Six names you get, and they are Leslie Mann,
George Murdoch,
Lily Tomlin, Chevy Chase,
Dana Ivey, and Gary Marshall.
Are your
six names. This movie that has
a kind of food in the title.
2002.
Two stars.
2002.
And I think the Pope is
going to be on the board on this one. I think so, too.
Because all I can think of is Exit to Eden,
and I know it ain't Exit to Eden.
What part of that is food?
You've never had an Eden burger?
They're garden fresh.
I don't have any.
I'll tell you the rest of the names.
Jump in as soon as you know it, guys.
Jane Adams, Harold Ramis, John Lithgow,
Skylar Fisk, Catherine O'Hara,
Jack Black, and Colin Hanks.
In.
Fuss it.
Carrot Sticks the movie.
Someone just said it.
I'm not going to cheat.
Mystic Pizza.
Someone just shouted it out.
I think when I said guys,
he thought I meant all guys in the room.
Can just yell this one out when they know it.
But yeah, it's called Orange County.
Orange County.
Oh, yeah.
Orange.
Man, that is some tricky stuff.
Crispy counties.
Pope is on the board.
Hooray!
It's a Pope.
So Herzog, Pope, tie.
Greg, you can still get in this. It's a real. So Herzog, Pope, tie. Greg, you can still get in this.
It's a real Subway series.
It is.
It's the fatherland versus the...
Austrian, German.
Yeah, the stepfatherland.
Okay, so Werner gets to pick the category this time.
Thank you.
And then the Pope challenged Greg,
so it'll go to the Pope next.
Mr. Tag, Mr. underscore Tag on Twitter And then the Pope challenged Greg, so it'll go to the Pope next.
Mr. Tag, Mr. underscore Tag on Twitter suggested The Hurtfocker.
And that's movies where Ben Stiller gets injured.
Also celebrating a birthday today, Willie Nelson.
Willie Nelson.
So the film's a Willie Nelson.
And a favorite category with listeners called In Theaters Now,
which of course is motion pictures
that are in theaters now.
With the word theater in their title.
Nope, they're just in there.
Okay.
If there's a movie called Baby Orange out now,
I am in on this one.
I'm competing against you,
but I really want baby
to be the answer tonight
at some point.
I would like to select
the category in honor
of Mr. Willie Nelson.
Oh, okay.
His birthday, right?
Yeah.
It's his birthday
and everyone here but me
is high.
He's turned 80.
I'm including the listener.
So either way,
80 smokes, either way
he's forgetting a lot of shit.
And he's
in a movie from 2008.
Two and a half stars
from Leonard
for this movie that has Willie Nelson in it.
He says...
Lincoln.
He says,
the result is formulaic
and only intermittently successful.
You would think Willie Nelson
would be in a good movie.
And he says,
the lead actor in this movie
who is not Willie Nelson
is perfectly cast.
Yeah.
And he lists a lot of names.
He lists 12 names.
How many names do you need, Warner?
I feel confident
that I could name that film
in four names. All right. that film in four names.
All right, name it in four names.
Oh, this is Greg. I'm sorry to say that this is going to determine a winner right now.
Thank you for being here. And good luck using that plane ticket.
Sarah, I want to apologize.
I don't think I can be here next week,
but I'm almost sure Jeremy Arons can be here,
and he's a much better player than I am.
Your four names, Werner, are K.D. Aubert,
Woody Harrelson,
Willie Nelson,
oh, that's unfortunate,
and... That's a wasted name. Woody Harrelson, Willie Nelson, oh, that's unfortunate, and
that's a wasted name.
We already knew that information.
And someone named Sarah Wright.
For the win
and the return next week.
Otherwise, we'll be seeing the Pope again.
Holy shit.
Which I'm pretty excited about. I'm already thinking of who I'm going to pair with the Pope again. Holy sh... Which I'm pretty excited about.
I'm already thinking of who I'm going to pair with the Pope.
What pairs with the Pope?
I think a dry white.
Mm-hmm.
Oh, it's too bad I don't know any of those.
Well,
you could also go for an underage pink.
Oh, no, I cannot.
No, you can't. I cannot.
No, seriously.
I cannot.
Think about it.
I cannot go for that.
An immature rouge.
You know what I'm saying?
I think Hall Landoltz said that I cannot go for that.
No can do.
What's the name of this movie, Werner?
Is it Surfer Dude?
It is.
Wow. Wow. is! Wow.
Oh!
Wow.
That was impressive.
Elizabeth, I'm coming for you!
Oh!
It is a miracle!
Oh!
I've never witnessed a miracle myself!
Surfer Dude!
Who knows about that dumb movie?
You say, where high?
Who watches that?
Well done, Werner.
Was that amazing?
You a big fan of Surfer Dude?
Now, the waves eat him at the end of that, right?
May I confess something to you?
I will confide in you and the listening audience.
It is my favorite film.
Does that inspire any of your work, Surfer Dude?
No, it is a respite from my work,
which brings me nothing but great misery,
which I wish to share with the rest of miserable mankind.
But when I watch the film Surfer Dude,
and I see how free and happy he is just surfing and being a dude.
Matthew McConaughey is a pilgrim in search of a shirt.
Matthew McConaughey is a pilgrim in search of a shirt.
He doesn't realize the shirt was inside him the whole time.
Now, what's it called again, though?
Surfer, comma, dude.
That's right.
That's right.
Oh, he's talking to someone?
Do you wish it was surfer colon dude?
Of course, that is what I would have done.
But what I love about this karma,
it's very ambiguous. It opens it to interpretation.
Is the surfer talking to a dude?
Is the dude talking to a surfer?
Is one surfer talking about a dude?
Is it a description of someone
like you would see in an obituary?
Surfer, comma, dude.
Those are his two credits.
Dead from good times.
Yeah.
It is dude, isn't it?
Hey, Kevin Footloose,
can you come over here
and write down a shithead for me?
Because there isn't one on the back of your valuable Footloose can you come over here and write down a shithead for me cause there isn't one on the back
of your valuable Footloose album
just write down
you know how that works
just anybody you want me to call a shithead
yeah try to stay down
cause the audience needs to see
three guys watching you do that
what does that say
oh that's a good one
plugs Greg you got a plug sure I have a show called the smartest man in the world What does that say? Oh, that's a good one. Okay. Plugs.
Greg, you got a plug?
Sure.
I have a show called The Smartest Man in the World.
You can download it for free on iTunes
or gregproops.com
and I'm playing all over
in popular places all over
this great world of ours.
Yeah, go see him.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Pope, what do you got coming up?
Well, I'd like to applaud my boy,
mattbester.com.
If you go there, you can get the album.
He's your boy?
He's my boy.
We're hanging out.
Get loose.
He gave me these sunglasses.
mattbester.com.
He has this podcast, Improfy Humans.
It's delightful.
Have you been on that?
Not yet.
Maybe soon.
Okay.
I'm retired.
You've been on like Comedy Bang Bang though, right?
A couple of times.
Okay.
And Werner, what's going on with you?
I know you're also a super fan of one particular comic.
Yes.
Congratulations
to my favorite comedian,
Chris Hardwick.
He is being given a third
television program to host.
Yeah, what the hell? How many Chris Hardwicks
are there anyway?
He's really seacresting this shit.
Right?
Yeah, congratulations
to Chris.
Oh, also,
I'm directing
a modern family, so...
Looking forward to having...
You know those are
only 22 minutes long
to come.
How are you going
to do them?
Looking forward
to having fun
with those guys.
That's great.
Saturday, I'm going
to be in St. Louis and Sunday, I'm going to be in St. Louis
and Sunday I'm going to be in Rosemont, Illinois
celebrate Cinco de Mayo
and Cuatro de Mayo
with me, douglosmovies.com
and thanks again to my guests everybody
Werner Herzog
Matt
I want to call
since you're such good friends with Matt
I want to call you Matt and such good friends with Matt I want to call you Matt
and Greg Proops of course
and as always
Alex Trebek is a shithead
and Ticketmaster is a shithead Doug to watch another cocky. Eyes of gold, his viewing prowess makes him cocky.
There's no room in his heart for you.
Because Doug loves movies.