Doug Loves Movies - Guy Branum, Joe Kwaczala and Tom Thakkar guest
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Doug hates candy wrappers, screaming babies, sticky seeds
With 50 acid pop or kernels in his teeth
There's still not one that he won't see
Cause Doug loves movies
Yay!
We're doing it!
Hey, hey, hey, hey everybody!
My name is Doug and I love movies!
Thanks for stopping by!
Very good, very good.
Coming to you once again from the Improv in Brea, California!
Oh man, it's great to be back.
It's Thursday, August 31st,
2020.
Three kings, men, the golden circle
of friends with benefits, a wonderful life
as we know it could happen
to you only. Live twice in a lifetime,
cop and a half, Nelson of Rambo,
First Blood Blood Part 2
for the road
house sitter.
Guess what? It's time for Doug Plugs!
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Oh, I like the way you did that, sir.
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Fast chant.
I like it. I got two big shows
coming up at Dynasty Typewriter
in LA, conveniently located
near Encino. On
Sunday, September 10th,
the Benson Movie Interruption
returns with special guest Sarah
Silverman. Welcome, folks, just
coming in. And Rory Albanese
and on Saturday
afternoon, September 16th.
It's the 17th anniversary of Doug Loves Movies.
I've been saying it's the 15th anniversary for two years.
I totally fucked up and didn't ever mention the 16th anniversary.
But here we are at 17, and I'll have special guests on that show,
including Kate Micucci and Brian Posehn,
legendary Doug Loves Movies regulars.
San Diego, Austin, Tacoma, Atlanta, Athens are all coming up.
Stand up or Doug Loves Movies.
All the dates and dates are at DougLovesMovies.com.
That's DougLovesMovies.com.
Yeah!
Caw-caw.
Wally.
Shh.
Ten minutes.
I love that.
Only three people
knew it,
but they knew it
perfectly.
So that worked out
great.
Thank you so much.
Are you ready?
Oh,
I almost forgot
the prizes.
I didn't bring a bag
today
for the prizes
because
I have a hat that I
brought that I don't want to stuff into a bag it's from Western Express and it's
a it's a real nice cowboy hat if you're into that sort of thing I'm not really a
cowboy hat wearer you like cowboy hats hats dude? You like hats? The bald guy likes
hats everybody. What a wonderful, it really comes together nicely when your
your head works for a cowboy hat. I'd pass this over to you to try it on but
let's not get ahead of ourselves because I don't think you're going to win the prize today.
Did you bring a name tag, sir?
No.
No.
See, that's why I think you're not going to win.
But you never know.
Everybody has a chance.
And then in addition to this hat, I'm putting in the hat.
This is pretty exciting.
One of our sponsors is a company called Factor.
exciting. One of our sponsors is a company called Factor, and they do these nice individual meals that you can just heat up and eat, ready to go, nutritious, etc. And so this is going to be a free
Factor delivery to our winner tonight. And that's, yeah, that's $104 value.
And that's, yeah, that's a $104 value.
I like that.
Sounds like I just sank a putt in a golf tournament.
It's very golf applause, which is very sweet of everybody.
All right, are you ready to get the guests out here?
Are you ready to hope that they're all here?
I got my fingers crossed. We'll see what happens when I say their names please welcome
Guy Branum
Joe Quazala
and Tom Takar
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applause applause yeah there we go there we go yes now we're talking we're cooking yeah look at you tom
with your fancy uh martini yeah you can't go to the bray improv and not get one of their famous
bray martinis what is that what is that? What is that?
Like a dirty?
Oh, it's dirty.
All right.
Yeah.
Just a regular dirty martini.
No, it's not right.
Nothing regular about this dirty martini, Doug.
Yeah.
I spit in it.
It's dirty as hell.
It's made from Brea water.
I don't know anything about Brea, so I'm going to make up stereotypes.
You know, about the dirty pieces of shit who live out here.
I mean, most of them did not come to this show.
Exactly.
The people that live around here are not particularly interested.
But we do have one guest that came all the way from Encino, man, and that's exciting.
And everybody else is, applaud if you're a citizen of Brea. Okay, four that's exciting. And everybody else is,
applaud if you're a citizen of Brea.
Okay, four of the people,
four of the people live here.
Everyone else made the trek,
and I appreciate each and every one of you doing that.
Who didn't make it here in time is Guy Branum,
who, the number he quoted to me when he texted me was that he was 15 minutes late, and it just turned 15 minutes after the hour.
So that makes me feel like he could walk in any second now.
But I'll introduce individually my other two guests, which I would have done anyway if
Guy was here.
So, I mean, he would have gone first because of doing it in alphabetical order.
But I can adjust.
This gentleman that I'm going to introduce first has a silent C in the middle of his name.
And he told me about it right before the show started.
And I was happy to learn just in time.
It's his first time on the Joe.
It's Joe Quazala, everybody!
Hello.
Hello.
Try to guess where the silent C is.
Yeah, where the hell did they put that silent C?
How'd that get in there?
You know, my family's been trying
to figure this out for decades.
We think it was a wizard, perhaps.
But it's in there
and I'm working every day to try to get it out.
Why can't you just
remove it? Why can't you just start going
without it? Because too many of your
personal documents have it in there.
Yeah, it just seems like it would be a hassle.
For a moment, when I started doing comedy,
I tried taking it out.
A lot of people thought it was African.
They would see the name
Kwazala.
One guy did bring me up
having not seen who I was.
He was like, this next guy
looks, he's probably pretty African.
And then I had to walk out and this guy's one of the
whitest africans out there doing comedy with a silency in their name joey uh so so your socials
are how do you spell it on your socials you just go with a shorter version i do joe qua joe qua
kwa yeah nice that also helps people who maybe can't pronounce it.
It gives them, you know, a start.
Yeah.
And is this your first time visiting Brea?
I think so.
Yeah, I have no...
I mean, most people, when they come here, they know if they've been here before or not.
It's such a memorable place.
I mean, yeah, who could forget?
I mean, they probably have the Brea dirty water, as we've discussed.
All the great Brea signature foods.
The Brea soup.
The yard house.
You could forget.
Go to the flagship yard house that's here and just do all your Brea activities.
I don't need to tell you guys.
Yeah, you don't need to tell these people that don't live in Brandon
all about the, you know...
They came early, I'm sure. Fullerton is close by.
Yeah, and they got a
train station there.
That's what I would have done if I was coming in from
Encino. I would have taken the train
to Fullerton
and then a quick Uber over
here to the club. That's what I
would have done. What a day.
Yeah.
Make a day of it.
Also joining us, thanks for being here, Joe.
Also joining us is a regular on this show.
It's his 17th appearance on the program.
For those of you keeping track, I know I'm not.
Give it up, everybody, for Tom Takar.
Yay.
Thanks for having me in your mall.
Tom Takar and his Braille Improv Dirty Martini.
Yes, that's right.
There's a little stool behind you if you'd like to set it down.
I do want to set it down.
There you go.
I kind of like holding it.
Holding it awkwardly.
Well, that's the thing about a martini.
It's fun to hold.
There's not a lot of ways to hold it.
You're just going to grab that stem and go.
That certainly is the thing about the martini.
I know.
I also have a silent letter in my mind.
I have a silent H that throws people off.
Doug, you don't got any silent letters in there?
Don't.
We have an R in there.
Benskin.
Dork.
I think it's gone.
Yeah, I just go straight through Benson.
It's very boring.
Yeah.
But Takara, that's an exciting name.
So exciting.
But you must get an occasional thacker.
Oh, I get plenty of thackers.
You get thacked all the time.
When you put, because we have someone in the audience who has a poster with all of us on it,
and I have to assume you're just big fans of all of us and didn't see the lineup before the show.
But would you have thought of it as Thacker?
I was thinking Thakkar.
Thakkar, there you go.
I looked at you, I said, that guy's thinking Thakkar.
You were wrong, idiot.
Hang your head in shame.
The guy makes the nicest name tag and gets called an idiot.
No, I'm kidding. You're a good man.
Put in the work.
He loves it.
He's eating it up.
Well, he ate up that pizza, I'll tell you.
That flatbread or whatever that was.
Famous Brea flatbreads.
Ooh, we got some mozzarella sticks coming in, and they're saying no thank you.
Say no.
We did not order those.
We see them, and we don't want them anymore.
We came for the
burrito sticks. We took one look at it and sent it away.
That's not your food?
No. Okay. Sorry.
I bet you she's just going to
take it back to her kitchen and the staff's going to
enjoy some matz.
Maybe. I don't know.
Does anybody...
Whose matz do you think they are?
Oh, okay.
It's these.
She'll probably be back
after they eat a few back in the kitchen.
There's a little doggy back there.
They might feed some too, but you'll get the rest.
And yeah, I don't know what...
No, that's fair.
Here they come.
These guys right here. They get the they come. These guys right here.
They get the Mott sticks.
Yeah, right there.
Right there.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's it.
There you go.
The Mott sticks.
Yeah, that's them.
That look not good enough to steal.
Yeah.
Pretty good.
They're thick.
Thick Mott sticks.
Let's get a bite.
Let's get a bite.
Let's see a bite.
Yeah, show us how much drippy cheese.
He won't do it.
He won't do it.
I really thought.
We're up here trying our asses off.
You can't take one bite
of a moss stick.
They're probably hot still.
They've done a round about the room.
They've been around the room.
They did get a little breeze. They did get a little breeze.
They did get a tour of the facility,
but I imagine they're still pretty hot
because it's that cheese in the center
that gets super duper hot.
Only in Brea.
Do we have a bite going?
No, no, no.
We want you to take a bite.
We wanted to see you take a bite.
We're not interested.
I'm going to bite that hot piece of shit? No way, dude. I'm not a bite. We wanted to see you take a bite. We're not interested. There are a bunch of I'm going to bite that hot piece of shit?
No way, dude.
I'm not a sucker.
We want to see you guys
enjoy it, that it took
so long to finally
get to you.
I wanted to see smoke
come out of your ears.
That's what I thought
was going to happen.
Let me just add that
the food here is terrific.
Hey, I had the
natural chicken sandwich.
It was great.
All of the improvs
have better food
than other comedy clubs
that just give you a basket of pretzels
and some lukewarm
cheese sauce.
They don't do that here. They have a real kitchen.
Piping hot cheese sauce. Too hot.
I'm going to make a lawsuit
about it.
I'm going to fool McDonald's.
Do you think a person trying to get to a show
who's running late would just eventually just say
I'm only a mile or two away. Fuck it, I'm going to turn around and drive home?
Or, what if they saw that famous yard house and said, I've got to take a little detour?
Also, this club used to be like half a block down on the street,
so maybe he's just standing out in front of that old spot wondering what's going on.
But, so
we're going to just move on with the
we'll continue to do the show, and if we get
to the game part, and he's
still not here, then
I guess we'll have to
pull a member of the audience or something.
Tom and I are acting like two sailors
with our hands above our eyes. Looking for
a guy.
Yeah, this is
really turned into a suspenseful thing.
But it's not, you know, parking
isn't quick here because there's like a parking
garage across the street.
You might have to park a few floors up
because there's a movie theater
across the street that's very popular.
And so let's just...
I wonder what his story's going to be.
It better be good.
Because he can't be working if there's a fucking strike happening.
So, seems like he could have left at whatever the fuck time he wanted to.
Guy.
He could have been out on the picket line all day somewhere, you know.
I'm going to be honest, I'm terrified of Guy,
and I was worried he walked in right when I said that.
He's got a big energy.
Yeah.
You'll see.
He could knock you over easy.
I'd like to see that.
But anyway.
No, I wouldn't.
I definitely got back to him at 8.03 and
when he said at 7.53
that he was 15 minutes late.
So the math isn't...
But it's comedian math.
That's true. And man math too.
Like being texted from any man in their
car, they can never fucking admit it.
Actually how far away they are.
It's always...
Ladies, are we
right? Ladies,
we're about to leave you here. Fellas,
you know we be running late.
And if you ain't running late,
you know somebody who ain't.
Alright, so...
If your friends aren't the ones
who are late, it's you.
Every man has one friend.
We all have that friend, don't we, Tom?
And if you don't have that friend, you are a friend.
I thought it would be funny.
My plan was to go through and introduce each of you and then ask you a question.
Like, how are you enjoying, you know, how do you like Brea?
And I don't want to feel stupid asking Guy that when he runs in.
Because he's not enjoying Brea. And I feel stupid asking Guy that when he runs in, because he's not enjoying Brea at all. It's a place that was hard to get to, and then he had to park and run across
the street and then come in and do a show. I mean, I hope he's okay. That'd be weird
if something happened between when, maybe when he was texting me, he got into an accident.
Shouldn't Dixon drive? This becomes a really sad commercial.
So before we play the games,
we always do
a segment lately
called Recommendation Nation,
and that's where I ask each of my
guests to recommend
one movie.
It could be old, new.
I prefer not be something that's from a big studio that's out right now
because we're not trying to help them right now.
Boo.
Boo.
Exactly.
Boo.
Brea's anti-union.
We don't need no stinking unions in Brea.
We already got rid of the word law in our name, which was quite an accomplishment.
They're lawless.
Yeah, Brea is lawless.
Do people live here in Brea?
Do you ever watch that TV show, La Brea, and go, hey?
We were so close.
Follow-up, have you heard of the show
you didn't make a woo
or anything
I've never heard of it
do you know it
you've never heard about
La Brea
no
it's all about
fucking Wilshire Boulevard
splitting open
an earthquake
and then they fall through
to the
yeah
another earth
kind of underneath
where there's dinosaurs
and shit
it's a disaster show
yeah
that you know
may never come back
the people from Brea don't seem to give a fuck about it at all.
No, because that's the joke, Tom.
It has nothing to do with Brea.
They were so close.
It's another.
It's La Brea, not Brea.
But it's close.
I mean, if I lived here, I'd watch the show.
Yeah.
Dreaming one day we could move to La Brea.
You just watch it. Hometown Pride. Yeah. And hope to someday. I'm going day we could move to La Brea. You just watch it, Hometown Pride,
and hope to someday, I'm going to get
to the real La Brea.
In the meantime, I'm going to hunker down here in Brea.
Alright, Tom.
Has all that Brea talk helped you to think of
a movie to recommend?
I do. I have a movie.
I've been racking my brain about this because I didn't want to do
a major thing or one that everybody's seen. I have a movie. I've been racking my brain about this because I didn't want to do a major thing or
one that everybody's seen. I just went to
Have either of you gone to
the Academy Museum?
has film
showings that are
a good time. They did a concert
doc series
over the summer and
there's one about Aretha Franklin called Amazing
Grace that is so fucking good.
It's her doing two days at this church that she came up in,
and she just sings gospel.
And it's shot really well, and they lost it for like 40 years.
It was footage that was just lost because the sound was gone.
They hired a guy who made it who was like,
I actually don't know how to do sound.
And then they just lost the sound for 40 years.
And then they had somebody who could read lips, fix it all.
And now it looks incredible.
So Amazing Grace, if you like concert docs, it is so good.
It was a great film.
So you're saying some guy just sang all the words?
That is how it sounded.
I lost the sound, but one guy.
Just did a damn good impression.
No, he doesn't sound very good, but it's really cool.
No, he was able to match up all the sound docs with their lips and stuff.
Because they didn't do the thing.
You know in movies when they're like, cut, or they're like shot 43
and action, and they do the snap thing,
the clap thing, they didn't do that, and it
fucked them completely.
It's a pretty interesting story. They also have people from
the doc talk to you there.
I highly recommend the Academy Museum
if you get the chance to go.
It's very cool. Amazing grace.
It's very fun.
I like it. I'm in.
Originally shot by Sidney Pollack.
He was going to be the director.
Is that right? I didn't even know that.
That came out much later.
Posthumously for him.
Posthumously?
What a great word.
That's my rec.
These guys, their eyes lit up when I said Sidney Pollack.
Or check out fucking La Brea.
I don't know what you people want.
Wait, what's it called again?
La Brea, is that not what it's called?
No, the Aretha Franklin thing.
Amazing Grace.
It's called Suits.
I'm recommending to the show Suits.
I want you guys to watch it and enjoy it.
No, it's called Amazing Grace.
and enjoy it.
No, it's called Amazing Grace.
Yeah, it just sounds like it's about somebody
that gives a really good speech
before everybody eats dinner.
That was Amazing Grace.
That was Amazing Grace
you just gave.
I forgot I was even hungry.
R-E-S-P-E-C-T!
Okay, so
alright Joe, it's his first time on
the show. It's the first time I'm recommending a movie. What do you got? Um, there is, uh,
I'll recommend another documentary. Uh, this it's called behind the curve and it is a documentary
about flat earthers and it is very compelling. Um, because you know, and it's very compelling because
you know and it's like a lot of
great documentaries that like kind of dive
into a subculture like you
get to learn the politics
of the flat earth community
and the people within it who are fighting
each other and it all culminates
on like the first big
flat earth convention
and it's just it's full of all these like as
you can imagine colorful
characters but what I like about the
movie is it doesn't like use
editing tricks or doesn't play like a fucking
tuba when like they're walking around
like it lets them
say what they want to say it is hilarious
because of you know
what they believe but
I think it's a surprisingly kind of compassionate look
at people on the fringes of, like, belief and thought.
Wow.
Yeah, and it's like it was not a studio movie, you know,
that completely was independent.
I remember studios, what do we say when I say studios?
Boo!
But yeah, behind the curve.
I feel like it was underseen
and really, really great.
If you like a documentary
like King of Kong or where you see
all these kind of weird characters,
that's my rec. No, there's lots of good ones.
That's the funny thing about documentaries
is that if it's out
and available, then it's
probably something interesting happens. Because they start documentaries is that if you're if it's out and available then it's probably uh something
interesting happens you know because they start shooting a subject and if that subject ends up
being really boring it's kind of hard to get anybody to to back you putting that documentary
in uh in theaters or festivals or stuff like that so so most i find documentaries you know
every once in a while one's gonna be boring or like just something you're not interested in.
But for the most part, you know, when someone recommends a documentary to me, I'm usually like, yeah, I'll probably check that out because they just really, they really deliver.
And there's so many movies now, there's so many documentaries that are popular enough that the subject matter becomes, then becomes a fictional, fictional. It becomes like a TV movie
or a streaming series
or whatever the fuck.
It inspires
these things, but the original
documentaries tend to always be better.
Yeah. Have you watched the Telemarketers
one yet? It's a series.
The problem with the docu
shit now is they stretch
them out into series.
They're not a movie.
So it's like, I wasn't going to wreck it, but I love the telemarketers.
Everybody's been saying, yeah.
If they have enough material, make it a series.
But often, they do not.
They do not.
This one certainly did not.
It seems like HBO and some of these places really want a series,
and so they take something that should have been a movie.
I thought The Vow
season one, it was like eight episodes
and it was like, we got it.
Yeah, and then another streamer
had another documentary about the same thing.
Yeah, right.
It's like I didn't watch either
Fyre Festival documentary.
I heard one was way better than the other
but I didn't watch both.
I can't double up on documentaries that are about the same topic.
But you know what I can do?
I can get excited
about...
Chill!
I can get so excited about the
arrival of our third guest!
He's here, everybody!
Everybody cheer to get
him to come out on stage.
Just like, clapping your hands for Tinkerbell.
Ladies and gentlemen, Guy Branum!
I'm so sorry.
How are you enjoying your time in Brea so far?
Oh, it's delightful.
There are so many shining lights.
They have a beautiful valet station.
And I feel like if I wanted to get a steak, I have a lot of options.
Yeah, there's a lot of steaky restaurants in the neighborhood.
Is there a Ruth's Chris around here?
There probably is.
This is like a Ruth's Chris town.
Seems like there should be an Outback or some shit.
An Outback.
Yeah, see, he knows.
He knows about the Outback. We got one. There's an Outback yeah see he knows he knows about the outback we got one um there's an outback
believe you me well so welcome to the show guy and thank you for i traffic getting down here is
awful so i totally understand i'm very sorry what happened but we were doing recommendation nation
and both of these fellas recommended documentaries.
Do you have a documentary that you could recommend?
Okay.
I said this time, when I did your show, I would not talk about something Sarah Pauly had done,
because the last two times I talked about things that Sarah Pauly had done.
Yeah.
But you want to know what the last good documentary I saw was?
Stories We Tell by Sarah Pauly.
Stories We Tell by Sarah Pauly.
Sarah Pauly, actress, writer, director.
Her whole life, when she's like 18,
her dead mom's friend comes to her and was like, you should meet this actor your mom was in a play with.
I'm pretty sure he's your dad.
And also her dad's been raising her as a single parent
since her mom died when she was 11
and then she goes and
meets that guy and he's not her dad
but somebody is and
it's just a magnificent
movie about
like the way
that we tell stories as families
but also about loss
just the specter of her mom
over this whole thing her mom who fucked around
and kind of fucked up everybody's life
but also they all loved
her and they all miss her and
it's so fucking good and
you walk away from it like
loving that dude she calls dad
so much it's a really great movie
and what's it called again telling
stories we tell stories we tell what's it called again? Stories We Tell.
What's it on?
Oh, it's
on Max, I think.
What were you guys' recommendations?
I'll tell you what I'm going to be on when I watch it.
Heavy sedative.
Okay.
Because it sounds very moving.
It's very moving, but like
ultimately uplifting. It's all I'm looking for. That's very moving, but like ultimately uplifting.
It's all I'm looking for.
That's all I want, you know?
That's what I wanted with Schindler's List. I didn't get it.
You were so demanding of Schindler's List.
Why can't they put in something happy?
Where's the funny parts?
I got to say,
I recently watched Empire of the Sun
and unfortunately
Spielberg is using
all his fucking Schindler's List tricks
not on the Holocaust.
And when you see them used not on the Holocaust
you're like, it's so crass when he did that
but for the Holocaust.
That sounds like an anti-Semitic
thing to say. He's doing all of his Schindler's List
tricks.
Always have to do Schindler's List tricks.
That's what Schindler's List didn't have that Empire of the Sun did
was Ben Stiller as comedic relief.
And Ben Stiller, so castable in Schindler's List.
He meets the big requirements.
He really does.
I'm so excited that all of my guests are here and we're going to play some games and somebody in the audience is going to win some stuff.
We're going to get into that right after this break. We'll be right back!
We're back! Shout out to Angel and Steph.
Did not get chosen but did bring in tiny name tags that are artistically beautiful, and I appreciate it.
But Guy is going to be playing on behalf of Brandy,
who made a fun change Barbie to Brandy.
And Joe is playing for a guy who's,
as far as I can tell,
he's made a painting of a ghost being blown
and called it Joel-O.
Sleepy Jolo.
I don't feel comfortable saying that over and over
again in greater Orange County.
I feel like it is offensive
to many communities here.
Can we pretend this is Sleepy Hall
Joe?
No, dude, let's go Brandon.
The bottom line, I think, what Guy's trying to say
is people who wear sheets do not deserve love.
And Tom is playing for Jared,
who took the motion picture red
and added jaw to make jaw red.
Jared.
So good work all the people who were chosen.
Are you ready to play our first game
tonight? Yes.
It'd be funny if you all
just sat there and didn't say yes.
We need a minute to breathe.
I don't know who I was talking to.
It was just sort of a general ramp up like
hey is everybody ready?
Okay, here we go.
We're going to play a game.
We're going to start off with a game called How Long Is It?
People can't get enough of this game, you guys.
Here's what's going to happen.
I'm going to say a thing.
I'm going to name a thing, and then
each of you has to guess how long it is.
And the closest
to the correct answer without going over
is the winner.
Price is Right style, RIP
Bob Barker.
Alright.
Gotta get that in there.
Here's the thing.
Oh, and we're going to go Guy, then Joe, then Tom.
Guy gets the first bid.
The amount of time the volleyball Wilson
from the movie Castaway, starring Tom Hanks,
has been in the Motion Picture and Film Museum.
Oh, okay.
I thought you were going to talk about his screen time.
I was calculating.
That's a respectable supporting performance,
and there's a lot of Helen Hunt at the end.
I was in the middle of that.
I am going to say... Hey, can I say something real quick?
Yes.
I've never been a fan of the motion picture
cast away. Sure, I saw it, but I'm not a fan
of any movie where one man is just trying
to do a thing for an entire movie, like get
off an island or fix a boat.
She did Terminal.
Which, the Terminal? That's the other
Tom Hanks movie where it's just him
in a fucking airport by himself.
Right, but the airport's full of people and characters
that he interacts with. I think he's still on his own
for most of it, though. He's not, like, sitting
by himself. He's, like,
using their cafeteria, and
he meets a stewardess and falls
in love with her, Catherine Zeta-Jones.
She doesn't show up on that
fucking island in Castaway.
But Castaway, when that movie came out, the trailer
showed him kissing Helen Hunt! out, the trailer showed him kissing
Helen Hunt. Like the trailer goes, don't worry about it. It's Tom Hanks. He's going to be
fine. He's going to make it home. But then the first 20 minutes of the movie where you
already know he's going to get stranded and then he's not going to be able to deliver
his packages. He works for FedEx. And the first part of the movie, he's just such a
FedEx asshole. He won't shut up
about getting things on places on time
no matter what. And then he gets
stranded on an island. He's like, fuck.
What about these packages?
That never occurred to me. It's product placement
for fucking FedEx. Oh, it is. I love FedEx
because of that movie. It's a big ass FedEx
commercial. And then
he gets stranded on the island.
And I have so many problems with this movie.
But I learned a new problem to have with it today.
I'm going to say it is 17 years.
My new problem is that his character's name, his last name, is Noland.
Why? What the fuck? His character's name, his last name, is Noland. Whoa.
Oh.
Why?
What the fuck?
That is rough writing.
Yeah.
That is like the Fablemans.
That's like unobtainium shit from Avatar.
The worst.
The worst.
I thought you were implicitly saying that the problem you had with the movie that you
discovered today
was how long Wilson has been in this museum.
No, I wrote this no land thing while I was doing Wilson research.
So I would like to edit down to 14.
I would like to edit down to 14 years.
Okay.
Which also, let us, while we're having this conversation,
let's never forget that the magical creature in The Lady in the Water was named Story.
Really?
Yeah.
That's an M. Night production, Greg.
No subtlety
left unturned in an M. Night
Shyamalan film.
I mean,
that movie is the most
story-free Shyamalan
movie,
and he names a character's story.
That's wild.
All right.
Okay, so we got Guy said 14 years.
Joe, what do you think?
I don't think it's that.
I would guess it wouldn't be that long,
so I'll say I'll actually do half of that.
I'll say seven.
Seven years, Tom.
Sorry, which museum did you say?
So we got Dice is 14,
Joseph's seven years for the placement of
and sitting in
the Motion Picture and Film Museum.
Don't confuse it
with the Academy Museum.
You were talking about that earlier.
I was like, oh, that would be a better place.
For Wilson, I think.
I think I'm going to split the difference here
and go 10.
10 years?
Yeah.
Yeah, I like that.
Yeah.
Seven feels like much too young.
14, far too old.
Okay, Goldilocks.
In 2016, we had bigger things on our plates.
We had more going on.
It was a smokescreen.
Big presidential election, Real Housewives of New York were losing control of their relationship with alcohol.
I think we had more things to worry about than Wilson, the volleyball.
Meanwhile, 2013. I think we had more things to worry about than Wilson the volleyball meanwhile 2013 top of the priority list
we had nothing going on
let's get this volleyball
in the museum
here's let me recap
what you all said Joe said 7 years
Tom said 10 years and Guy said
14 years
you could have gone weeks or days or months if you wanted to said Joe said seven years, Tom said ten years, and Guy said 14 years. You could
have gone weeks or days or months if you wanted to, but you didn't. You all went with
years because you follow Guy's lead and he does seem like the smartest person.
But this was, I was hoping someone would figure out that this is a trick question
that ball isn't in any museum
oh
you're starting with a trick
guy just got here 30 seconds ago
you're going to fucking try to trick him
this is bullshit
I didn't try I succeeded
but I don't feel good about it
we trusted you Doug
I just thought somebody might just go fuck it and say zero.
Zero days.
And then end up being right on the only answer that would win.
So congratulations.
We have a three-way tie in our first game.
What the fuck?
Yeah, exactly.
First question.
Exactly. So question. Exactly.
So this next game...
I want to start a petition to get that volleyball in the goddamn museum.
I've never heard of it.
Put some respect on the name.
That ball deserves it.
This belongs in the museum.
The thing is, in the Academy Museum, it would totally be there.
Oh, yeah.
That's what I was thinking.
It seems like a place for it. It's mostly they got a bunch of it would totally be there. Oh, yeah. That's what I was thinking. It seems like a place for it, but
it's mostly they got a bunch of Oscars
there and costumes.
They have that midsummer dress.
Okay, the fucking midsummer
dress goes in there? Yeah.
The volleyball can go. I'm sorry.
But here's the issue. He's a character.
Here's the issue. The one that was used
the most in the movie is somewhere in the
Pacific Ocean. Oh, I knew he was dead.
And there were backups and one backup recently sold at auction for like $12,000 and but the owner isn't a museum
It's just some guy.
One of the Wilsons.
You should work on that for tax purposes. If he became a museum, he could save a lot of money on his purchases of
volleyballs. That's a genius idea.
Just put one glass thing in your house.
Or a church.
Make it a church at Wilson. That'll be even
better tax-wise. That's a really great idea.
Just put it up there and everybody just comes in
and plays some fun music.
You know, nobody
talks. You just all worship the ball.
And then leave. maybe go to brunch
in beautiful Brea California
get a nice outback
steakhouse meal
Brea keep your eye
on the ball
alright so
we'll call that a wash
and we'll just play a second
game and Guy gets to go first again All right, so we'll call that a wash, and we'll play a second game.
And Guy gets to go first again, but we'll switch the order up this time.
Tom, you'll go second, and then John.
It's easier for me anyway.
It's a game that I call, Whose Tagline Is It Anyway?
People love this game. I will tell you, starting with Guy,
the tagline from an actual motion picture,
and these can be pretty tough
because it's from all movies made over all the time.
And yeah, any movie could be the answer,
but hopefully these taglines describe the movie well enough
that you might think of it.
Plus, there is a theme.
So once you've heard a few of these,
you might get an idea of what the theme is,
and it might make it easier to answer.
Here you go, Guy.
Of course, it's hard to figure out the theme with the first one.
A masterpiece of modern horror.
That was their tagline for a motion picture that hadn't come out yet.
It's always fun when they call it a masterpiece.
I'm...
In advance. I'm going to say
that generic of a tagline
has to come relatively early.
So I'm going to say
Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Terrific guess. Tom,
is it the correct answer?
Is that the correct answer?
I certainly don't know
That's how this game's going to work
You guys are going to decide
Correct
Next question
Sounds good to me
You can say no and then that way he doesn't get the point
Yeah but I'm not that type of guy
I'm going to give it to him
That's points for guy.
No, I don't think it's right.
I don't think you would ask me.
No.
All right.
I'm going to go with... This is wrong, too.
I'm going to go with paranormal activity.
A masterpiece.
When it came out, they were into it.
People were into it.
It's true.
But that's not it.
I'm trying to think of modern. That's not it. Wait, they were into it. People were into it, it's true. But that's not it. I'm trying to think of modern.
That's not it.
Wait, guys, something.
Oh, laying into the modern of it all,
but the magic of this game is no one ever thought about their taglines.
Yeah.
A deep reading, but I did come up with another better answer.
But Joe should go.
Go ahead, Joe.
I'll see if I get it.
I'm going to guess The Exorcist.
Terrific guess.
Not the right answer.
Guy, what were you thinking?
Like, Eraserhead feels like you would want to say,
this is modern, but it's still probably not right.
You're all so close, and yet so far.
That was the tagline for it.
The Shining.
Oh, shit.
I mean, but you understand why they felt confident calling it a masterpiece it's based on a book
yeah and Kubrick
you know
they throw away
the modern part really threw me for a loop
who was modern then
that's a good point
that's a complicated thing
you know maybe it's also this could have been a poster,
it could have been a tagline for a re-release
or something.
Every time I see Shelley Duvall's face, I see,
that's something new.
You ain't seen that before.
It was very unique
and special. Can I get a bullet on the rocks?
Oh.
He just goes right to the
closest server.
No, I'm in an actual bullet.
Can I get a bullet?
Can I get a bullet in the brain, please?
I'm not having fun.
After I blew that first answer,
I should die. Do you need a drink, guy?
I'm good, thank you.
Joe, are you alright? Yeah, I'm fine, thank you.
Okay, good. Alright, so Tom's the only one
that wants to get fucked up.
Let's go.
Bray is into it.
Jared, I might fuck you on this.
I'm going to have a cold drink.
I'm glad you said on this at the end of that.
All right.
Everything else, I'll keep it on the other end.
Jared, I might fuck you.
On this, on this.
All right. We'll, on this. Alright.
We'll start with Guy.
Round two. Are you ready?
Yes. Okay.
Owen asked
his friend Larry for a small
favor, dot, dot, dot.
Oh,
I'm going to go with throw mama from the train.
That is correct!
Very good.
Wow, great. Great poll.
You didn't know it from that?
No, I was thinking of...
You know what? I can't even pull it. Is that worth saying?
I now pronounce you Owen and Larry.
That's it.
All right, Joe.
If I was giving out points for comedy,
you would have just gotten one.
But no such luck.
Tom, you get to start on this next one.
You're first, then Joe,
and then Guy will tell you guys what it is.
This is a weird one.
The tagline is just
what's in his head?
Question mark.
Oh, is it
being John Malkovich?
That's a great answer.
It would have been perfect for that movie,
but nope. That's not it.
Dang, what's in his head?
It's weird. In his head, what's in his head?
What's in his head?
Yeah, I love in Being John Malkovich
when Malkovich is finally just so over what's happening
and he's like, it's my head!
He's like smacking his own head.
Oh my God.
Everybody has the right to their own head.
Nobody should be inside your brain hanging out.
But that's not the answer.
Joe?
That's a really good guess.
Really good.
We were ready to hoist you on our shoulders.
Hey, I was ready for it.
I would have invented a time machine and go back in time
and make it the tagline for that one.
Maybe find something new for this other one
this is
this is difficult
I almost just want to say
for the rhyme and because it's the only thing
I can think of
Drop Dead Fred
that's great
man I haven't thought about that movie
in 20 years
Drop Dead Fred it would That's a good answer.
Drop dead red.
It would not be a good tagline, but it was the only thing coming to me,
and I don't want to waste everybody's time.
No, that was a good guess, but incorrect.
Guy, have you figured this one out?
No.
I am torn in two directions.
One of them is like, what's eating Gilbert Grape? But I feel like
the question is already asked by the title.
And then I was
thinking in sort of like a Truman
show, a TV, that kind of direction.
But I am going to
go with
the genre
of bad failure
of
magical movie
with Mr. Magorium's
Wonder Emporium.
I have to say, if it is the
Imaginarium of Dr. What's-His-Name,
I'm gonna
take a bullet.
It's not the Dr. Parnassus.
I think, yeah, it's not that
doctor. Is it that fucking Eddie Murphy?
Is it Pluto and Ash?
I gotta talk about Majorium for a second.
Talk about
nominative determinism.
When you have the name Majorium,
you fucking have to
open up an Emporium.
And thank God he was magical
because otherwise he'd just have a boring
Emporium.
No, I was going. Or an... No.
I was going to say an aquarium.
It's not what women want, is it?
Oh, that's not...
But that's what's in their heads.
Yeah, that's what I thought as well.
What's in her head?
What's in his head was
the tagline for Barton Fink.
Oh, man.
That is a weird one.
I watched that with my mom, a cafeteria lady, when I was 13 years old, and we did not understand.
We watched it, and we were like, that wasn't Raising Arizona.
They should have gone with the rhyme.
Barton Fink, what do you think? Oh yeah!
Because you know how those Coen brothers are with their cute rhymes.
What's in his head? Yeah, all right, so we got so far we have The Shining, Throw Mama from the Chain,
and Barton Fink, and here's the fourth one. Boy, this one I really do not understand.
Tom gets to go first.
The tide has come.
Oh, shit.
The tide has come.
Yeah.
I've seen this movie and I do not understand why this is the tagline. If that helps you.
I'm just gonna throw... Red October.
Comma the hunt for...
Comma the hunt for... yes. Oh, is that what it's called?
The hunt for Red October.
We were shorteners in my house. Red Oct, we really called it.
in my house.
Redoct, we really called it.
I mean, yeah, it would have been just as good a title.
I have no idea what this could be. But it's not the Hot Friday Car.
Alright, Joe?
The tide has come.
It's pretty...
It's kind of silly, so I feel like it wouldn't be
too serious.
I'm going to say...
Piranha 3D.
Oh.
I like it,
because it actually does involve water.
Yeah.
But I don't believe the actual movie
that it's for does.
Maybe this was a typo.
Uh-oh. Maybe they meant the time has come.
Guys figured it out? No, I haven't.
But you gave a hint. Yeah, you did.
You said it doesn't necessarily involve
water. So think of
land stuff.
The hunt for land on Google. Think of movies
that would have a character named No Land.
Does anyone know any movies
that are about University of Alabama
football?
Because I am a person
ill-suited to
find that in my head.
I mean, I was just going to say
Endless Summer, because
it's a surfing movie.
Yeah, that's a good
guess. But it's not right.
Yeah, everyone's going to be like,
what?
That was a tagline
for the movie Misery.
Oh, Jesus.
Wait, what?
Based on the book by Stephen King.
Is that like something Annie Wilkes
would say, like that the tide
has come, like he's due for a reckoning? No, she would say? Like that the tide has come?
Like he's due for a reckoning?
No, she would say like you're a bad biddly-boodle or something like that.
A bad biddly-boodle? She said cutesy swear words.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
She said like you're a little, like she'd give him cutesy names, yeah.
The tide has come.
No idea why that happened.
But that's where we're at.
Misery, Bart and Fig, Mama from the Train, and The Shining.
Ready, Tom?
Yeah, man.
I feel like an idiot.
I can't think of what this theme is.
That's okay.
This one might help you.
It's not okay, Doc, but thank you.
This movie had a tagline,
the most devastating detective story of this century.
Okay.
Yeah.
The most devastating,
and here's the question,
which century, you know?
Oh, good point.
When was this written?
It could be either one.
It could be one of two centuries.
There's so many centuries.
Are people
in this century throwing around the best
of the century yet, or is it a little early
for that?
Detective.
The problem is I'm having
trouble pulling...
Detective.
I appreciate that you just keep making noises at the very least.
Yeah, well, I've got to say something.
Because the quiet thinking isn't interesting to listen to.
I know, I don't want to kill any more time.
I'll just say the first...
You'll just keep blowing into the mic.
What do you want me to do, Doug?
Yeah.
All right, Dick Tracy.
I don't know. I got nothing.
Yeah. I got nothing. I mean, I
probably would have said that. The thing is,
the most devastating dick
of all time around the
century, I should say. You don't have anything, Joe?
It was the most devastating
detective story of the century,
you said? Yeah. Okay.
I'm going to do what Tom did.
Why don't we go... You are doing it by doing that
Everybody make fun of it
but you got to do something to kill time
Just for a laugh
I'll say the great mouse detective
It did get a laugh
Guy what do you think?
Incorrect, Guy
Chinatown Why? I wrote that pretty good. Guy, what do you think? Incorrect. Guy?
Chinatown.
Why?
Oh.
Because she's... Oh, yeah, that's a detective story.
Yes, and she's his sister,
her sister and her daughter.
I mean, I...
And he solves L.A.'s water problem.
Right.
But the thing is,
you know that this is probably for a movie
that is not the most devastating detective story of all time. It the thing is, you know that this is probably for a movie that is not the most devastating
detective story of all time.
It kind of is.
But it's definitely, it's wordplay.
Okay.
It's not about actual detectives.
Oh.
Oh, god damn it.
All right.
Yeah.
Did you guess something?
Oh, I said Chinatown.
I was wrong.
Yeah.
But same, you're in the right decade and you're in the right decade, and you're in the
right vibe, because
70s cinema.
All the president's men.
Oh.
That whole Watergate thing was the greatest
detective story.
Are you sure it wasn't Dick Tracy?
Probably if I just double-checked it.
Oh, shit! Yeah! I always read that wrong. I was going to say, Batman is probably if I just double checked it oh shit yeah
I always read that wrong
I was going to say Batman is my backup
so
well you know because he figured out
that one
throw him off from the train
Guy wins this game congratulations
Guy
what is it
can I speculate as to the theme?
Please.
It's going to be very wrong.
But I was like, I just know that Ann Ramsey's nomination was in 88, I think.
And so I was like, are they all years with repeating numbers?
But then All the President's Men is 76, I think.
That would be such a wild theme for me to hope to figure out.
Yes.
The numbers, the year they came out, or double digits.
I think I know.
Is it hotels?
No.
But Barton Fink's very high-end.
Barton Fink, Shining, Watergate.
Oh, yeah.
That's good.
That's really good.
I thought maybe.
Yeah, Misery is not a hotel
yeah I mean
it's like a hotel
yeah he's staying
he's staying there
it's a bed and breakfast
it's a bed and
break your leg fist
do people
do people suffer
foot damage
in all of the films
these are movies
you shouldn't watch
if you're scared
of foot damage
let me do let me there was one more that was here in case there was a tie These are movies you shouldn't watch if you're scared of foot damage.
Let me do, let me, there was one more that was here in case there was a tie.
And let me see if any of you can just say it if you know it.
When a series of murders terrorized California, one man took responsibility for them all.
Summer of Sam?
That would be New York, right?
Oh, yeah.
What the fuck?
Yeah.
I can't think of another.
I mean, California has people named Sam.
Very true.
Name one.
Yeah.
It happens.
No guesses?
California.
Hmm.
Yeah.
It's not L.A. Confidential because three men took responsibility for it.
Oh, that's right.
This is just one man took responsibility.
I just also love that expression.
It's a murderer.
I'll take responsibility.
You know what?
That's on me.
You know what?
Let's put it on my tab.
I got this right.
I really have to take the blame on this one.
That's from a movie called Zodiac.
Oh.
Okay. on this one. That's from a movie called Zodiac. Oh. Yeah, the David Fincher
classic with
Robert Downey Jr.
often bent over a
typewriter.
It's all movies that heavily feature
typewriters. Alright, that's fun.
Yeah, it is.
I know, I said
joylessly.
And I did it for two reasons because one in honor of the
ongoing writer strike
and the fact that they're not using their
typewriter
justice for Trumbo
yeah typing in his bathtub
but also
I wanted to just remind everybody about
my upcoming shows at Dynasty Typewriter in Los Angeles.
You've got mail women to go with that, too.
On September 10th and 16th.
Yeah, they're typing on computers a lot in that one.
No, but there's a big typewriter moment in that movie.
Right, because Tom Hanks is in love with typewriters.
No, it's Greg Kinnear.
He collects them.
Greg Kinnear.
Tom Hanks the guy.
Oh, is that true?
Yeah, Tom Hanks is a typewriter nut.
I see, I see.
If we could bring Nora Ephron back,
I would first
make her fix Julie and Julia.
But then the second thing I would do is just make her
make a rom-com just about Parker Posey
and Greg Kinnear.
Yes, dude! Oh my god, I'm obsessed with that idea.
Brandy likes this.
I have conspiracy theories about it.
I love that idea.
Let's make that fucking movie, guys.
That's great.
Are they available?
Not until the strike's over.
All right.
Well, congratulations to Guy
for winning that game.
All he wins is the
chance, opportunity
to go first in
our final game, which we will play
right after these messages.
We'll be right back.
Woo!
All right, we're back!
Home stretch, everybody!
We've got one last big game to play.
This is going to determine our winner today.
Guy won that last game,
so he gets to go first again in our final game,
and it's something that I call Super Last Person Standing.
This is a
tough, complicated game but it's
pretty fun.
Each one of you is going
to ask,
we're going to go to your lifelines
and they are going to
pick three actresses,
actresses,
actresses only tonight,
who then we will proceed to,
once we have three names,
I like to play along on this game,
we'll take turns naming movies that those three actresses are in.
And I'd be actresses, you know,
two of them are in a title together.
I don't know yet.
But the idea is, if you know, two of them are in a title together. I don't know yet. But the idea is,
if you can't think of a movie that one of the three actresses, you don't have to do the actress
that you, your person picked. You get all three. If you can't think of a movie, you're out. But
your lifeline, and that'll also, your lifelines, it'll help them choose who they want, because it's
late in the game. They're going to come to you for help. You can go to your lifelines it'll help them choose who they want because it's late in the game they're gonna come to you for help you can go to your lifeline once which
is your name tag person so let's start with who did guy pick guy picked Randy
Brandi over there and she's going Meg Ryan whoo we already already said a Meg
Ryan tonight I won't say which one yes I don't want to say which one. Are you good with that?
Yes.
Okay.
You don't get to check with him.
I mean, but also, yeah, he's good with that.
I think we're all pretty good with Meg Ryan.
She's been in a lot of movies.
All right, let's go to Jolo.
Nicole Kidman.
Nicole Kidman.
Talk about being in a lot of movies.
And the ad for AMC Theaters doesn't count as an answer.
It feels epic, but it's not a full-length film.
And then, Jared?
Meryl Streep.
Meryl Streep!
Holy shit!
I'm looking at the time.
I don't know.
Can everybody stay all night?
Is that cool?
So Meg Ryan, Nicole Kidman, and Meryl Streep.
TV shows don't count, but she's really good on that show I'm not going to say the name of
because it's on a streamer that we're striking against.
But you know what I mean.
Good actors.
All right.
Meryl, Meg, or Nicole.
And we'll start with Guy.
Then we'll come down here to me.
Then Joe.
Then Tom.
And, of course, I can't win.
I'm just here to play.
You've got bail.
Right? You might as well start with it
and then I might as well go
Sleepless in Seattle.
Let's go with Joe vs.
Volcano.
There we did it. We did all the
Meg Ryan, Tom Hanks movies.
I'm going to go with Something's Gotta Give
from Meryl Streep.
Wait, wait, back up.
No. Hang on, I got this. Wait, wait, back up. No.
Hang on, I got this.
Yeah, that's incorrect.
Fuck! Oh my god.
Are you serious?
She was in the other one.
Well, don't help him.
Oh my god.
Oh, fuck me.
I'm just going to switch.
Can I have one?
Yeah, that's why I stopped you.
I'm sorry. God damn it Can I have one fucking... Yeah, that's why I stopped you. I'm sorry.
God damn it. I know that one, too.
I'll say In the Cut for Meg Ryan.
Next word.
Top Gun.
Yeah, Top Gun.
Tom's looking at you like he doesn't remember.
She is Goose's wife.
I believe you.
Don't get me wrong.
She says, take me to bed or lose me forever. Okay. Which is Kuz's wife. I believe you. Don't get me wrong. She says, take me to bed
or lose me forever.
Which is quite a threat.
God, it's
complicated.
Shit. God damn it.
I will say the devil
wears Prada.
Nice. Yeah, very good.
Dude, I have to go to my lifeline immediately.
I'm sorry.
Wait, what's happening?
What's happening?
Slow down.
I'm having a tough time.
Slow down a second here.
Is it me?
We've got three of the top actresses...
I know.
...of all time.
I've always struggled with this.
Very successful women.
I'm freezing.
I know.
But let's recap.
You've got Nicole Kidman.
I know. I can't think of've got Nicole Kidman. I know.
I can't think of one fucking Nicole Kidman movie right now. It's driving me crazy.
I know it's too. I'll know all of them
as soon as I'm done here. Meg Ryan.
I love Meg Ryan.
Yeah. Think of another movie she was
in. Buddy. And then say
it out loud.
I would love to do that
for you right now.
What about like if somebody came up to you on the street and go,
name a movie Meryl Streep's in, you really can't do it?
She's in a thousand movies.
I know, I know.
I'm fucking freezing here.
I can't think of one.
I'm going to have to go to my lifeline.
I'm sorry.
All right, well, go to your lifeline.
I'm sorry.
And then you'll listen to the other answers, and it might spark something.
I know.
I'm sorry, man.
It's never too early to go to a lifeline. I know. I'm sorry, man. It's never too early to go to a lifeline.
I know. I'm sorry. Let's see what
he's got for you. This is
exactly what I was fearing. What happened is that you
were going to say Meryl Streep because
I have so much trouble with her. Alright.
I'd go home and open up
a Meryl Streep book if I were you.
Get ready for the next
time this happens. I know.
Pop the lid on Nicole Kidman, Far and Away.
He's saying Far and Away with Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise.
Can you name other Tom Cruise films?
I certainly can.
Yeah, there you go.
So think about that while you're waiting for your turn to come around again.
Guy?
I'm still doing Meg.
French Kiss.
Yes.
Frenched. she got Frenched
inner space
that's such a good movie
yeah right
I'm gonna say
Mamma Mia
oh yeah
alright
I'm gonna say
Mamma Mia
here we go again yeah I was hoping you would do that thank you Joe I'm going to say Mama Mia Here We Go Again
yeah
I was hoping you would do that
here's briefly a flashback
she's dead by that movie
but she is in there
but it's more a Cher vehicle
yes
Sarah shows up as a replacement
for Marilyn
I am going to go with Prelude to a Kiss.
Interesting. It's Meg Ryan again.
Yes.
With Alec Baldwin switching bodies
with an old man
who then gets very excited that he
gets to kiss Meg Ryan
because he's just an old man.
It was an AIDS metaphor for the 80s
but they took that part out of the movie.
Damn them.
Okay.
Oh, it's on me.
Armed and Dangerous.
Meg Ryan and John Candy.
I will say Into the Woods.
That's a good Meryl Streep.
She's stupid.
I'll say Eyes Wide Shut.
Yeah, there you go.
There you go.
Somebody came to play.
Jared, we are hooked, brother.
You're not getting the hat, alright?
So get your eyes off of it.
Doug, do you know
Meryl Streep's first film performance?
Oh.
I got guesses, but I don't think
I know exactly the first one
it is Julia
starring
as Lillian Holman
very good
so then shortly after that
she must have been in
Woody Allen's Manhattan
we're going in order
now guys
and then
probably
Kramer vs. Kramer
I think there were a few more in between
but that's an early one for sure
Kramer vs. Kramer
I might be fucked
is Burn After Reading
is Nicole Kidman in that?
I thought she was
I'm out I'm sorry I fucked you Jared
I fucked up the game
you did a great job No. I thought she was. Alright, I'm out. I'm sorry. I fucked you, Jared. I fucked up the game. I suck. I'm gonna go.
You did a great job.
No, no, no. It's fine.
Sorry, Doug.
I let you down.
I've never thought
of you as a player that comes in and does
so poorly. I know.
You're just having an awful night, I think.
I think this is the
perfect storm for me
is what happened.
The second you were like, it's actresses.
I took advantage of your sexist nature.
I was like, I am fucked.
Every one of these actresses has a dude standing next to them
for the entire film.
And they're the cute one next to the dude.
I'm sure you guys will say a million to the dude. I thought Burn After Reading was going to be it.
I'm sure you guys will say a million that I know and I'm sorry.
Okay, you're out.
Okay.
Joe.
Kramer vs. Kramer.
Meryl's first win. Meryl's first nomination
for an Oscar. That was for The Deer Hunter.
The Deer Hunter.
Yes. And also
in the mix there early on, she co-starred
in an Alan Alda
joint called The Seduction of Joe
Tyler. Oh, wow.
Someone was watching
IFC in the late 90s.
If we're talking Oscars, I think her second
Oscar was Sophie's Choice.
Yes.
I'll go with French Lieutenant's Woman.
Okay.
This is really happening.
I like half of this title.
Iron Weed.
Oh, nice.
That was going to be my next one.
Iron Weed's a good one.
I kind of feel better.
I don't know.
I've not seen any of this.
It's making you feel better that we just all casually
know all these
Meryl Streep movies.
Yeah, fuck you.
What are you talking about?
Iron weed.
I thought you were
going to say Iron Man.
I was going to be like,
I missed that.
I will throw out
Bridges of Madison County.
A Cry in the Dark.
Silkwood.
Why don't we do
August Osage County.
She-Devil.
Oh, I was just going to say that!
Adaptation.
We'll do another iron one.
The Iron Lady.
Defending Your Life.
Holy shit, it's coming around fast.
Oh my god.
I'm going to flip over to Kidman
and say The Hours.
It's a nice transitional piece because it's also a Merrill.
It's a Merrill as well.
And I'm going to take
The Hours and I'm going to change it slightly
to The Others.
Nicole Kidman.
Cold Mountain.
Frigid as shit.
Shit.
She was in a movie, I think, that was just called Lion.
She was, yeah.
Nice.
I'm going to go with Bewitched.
I'm going to go back to Meryl for... Did I say Cry in the Dark already?
You did.
Oh, okay. Then I'm going to go back to Meryl for... Did I say Cry in the Dark already? You did. Oh, okay.
Then I'm going to go back to Meryl for Defending Your Life.
Oh, we did that one.
We did do that one.
Sorry.
Then I am going to go with Nicole's first film, Flirting.
Oh, yeah.
All right. If we're doing Kidman, I want to go with
The Stepford Wives.
I'll go Days of Thunder.
Yeah, that's the other Tom Cruise
I was thinking you might think of.
Back to Meryl for Music of the Heart.
Back to early Kidman,
Dead Call.
Oh, that's the one.
I was trying to remember it.
I'll do New Kidman and do Being the Ricardos.
Nice.
Super New Kidman.
Heartburn.
Aquaman.
Yeah, good job.
Who's in Aquaman?
Nicole Kidman, yeah.
She's always...
Ever heard of Mom, I'm
guessing. Yeah.
I'm going to go to die for her.
Oh. Yes.
That's a good movie. Great movie.
Moulin Rouge.
Holy shit, this is going fast.
Meg Ryan, Hanging Up.
Oh, great. Very good.
I was trying to think of that one.
That one I knew that was like
the only other
Meg Ryan movie
I did know
and I was like
you're a big
Walter Matthau fan
grumpy old man
let's do
Walter Matthau
I'm gonna do
Florence Foster Jenkins
oh yeah
another
god she's nominated
for practically
everything
Marvin's motherfucking
room. Mic drop.
Mic drop.
You skipped me.
Hmm?
Oh, I'm sorry. Or was it his turn? Oh, now it's my turn.
I think it's your turn. Okay, okay.
I thought
I got skipped, but man, this is really
I haven't played
against two amazing players
and one terrible player.
Oh, dang.
Glad I drove out to Bray.
In such a long time.
Oh, in the land of women.
Ooh, yeah.
Oh, dang.
I want to say
Nicole Kidman
was in the Invasion of the Body Snatchers reboot called Invasion.
Oh, wow.
That's a deep cut.
Yeah, I don't know if that's real.
The sweeping epic Australia.
Yes, of course.
I should have been thinking about where she's from.
This Meg Ryan in a movie
called United States.
Gosh, I really, like, I don't want to take
too much people's time.
Do you have another one, Joe? Yeah, I do.
Holy shit, you got another one, Guy?
Alright, I'm going to let you two fight it out, Joe.
Alright, here we go.
Postcards from the Edge.
Rabbit Hole. I'm going to let you two fight it out, Joe. All right, here we go. Postcards from the Edge. Rabbit Hole.
Ooh, Rabbit Hole.
Kidman.
I'm going to say Animal Kingdom.
Whoa.
Kidman?
Yeah, it's a Lee Daniels movie.
Yeah.
Oh, the remake of the Manchurian Cancer.
Yes.
Did you want to jump back in?
No, no, I'm good.
I mean, I thought of another one, but I'm officially out.
Yeah, okay.
Let's say...
Yeah, I'm starting to lose the thread
just a little bit.
You want to go to your lifeline? Oh, yeah!
I guess that was an option, right? You got something?
The Golden Compass.
The Golden Compass, that's great.
Nice.
Yeah. that was an option, right? You got something? The Golden Compass. The Golden Compass. Nice. Did I say Cold Mountain?
Yeah.
Okay.
Alright, Brandy, you got something for me?
Practical Magic.
Practical Magic!
Margaritas.
I went to that movie on my 25th birthday.
That's how old I am.
That's a great birthday.
I have one that's kind of a sleeper
because Meryl plays the voice at the end of AI.
Nice.
Oh, I can confirm that.
Yeah, that's true.
Um, no, I was just thinking of Bimish. I can confirm that. Yeah, that's true.
No, I was just thinking of the image.
Alright.
We went through
Iron Week. It's so quiet in here, you can hear
a check drop.
I'm so sorry.
Let's hear it for the wait staff
for being here
this evening
great job, great improv
always a good time
oh, Out of Africa
Out of Africa
yeah, good
good one
I may have to go for it
because it's between two movies I can't remember which one but I think
Nicole Kidman
is in
Batman Forever yes
good job
Joe is excited could not remember
which Joe jumped the gun
Joe jumped the gun told you you were right
before I did
he knew
he's biased.
I mean, Nicole Kidman's in so many things.
All of them are.
Marilyn and Nicole, they make movies in their spare time.
Yeah.
In between making movies.
They love the stuff.
Oh, God.
Can't get enough.
They fucking love that crap.
Is that it, Guy?
Remember, she's not keto.
It's unfortunate to say that...
Oh, that was the spirit.
That was the spirits.
House of Spirits.
It was very bad.
It came out in 1990
and it's the movie
that Meryl and Glenn
were in together.
A lot of,
uh,
really bad old age makeup.
Yep.
The worst.
Joe.
Damn.
He pulled one out.
I cannot believe it.
I'll give you the same
amount of time
to think of one.
You've got 15 minutes.
Sorry.
I'm sorry.
Um, yeah, uh, I Sorry. I'm sorry.
Yeah.
I know.
I'm thinking of a Meryl movie, but I can't remember. I'll do another one of my plugs while you're doing that.
I'm doing stand-up in Sweet Home San Diego on Saturday, October 7th at the American Comedy Company at 420.
Caw-caw.
Why don't... Damn, if I knew we had this much time
I wouldn't want this whole fucking thing
go home think it over Joe
we'll reconvene in a week or so
let's go to Outback
have a steak
is one
I'll just like do a wild swing
I love it
Could Meryl potentially be in the movie
Full frontal
I don't think so
There's a lot of people in there
Julia Roberts is in there
What's his name
Blair Underwood
But I don't remember Meryl Streep being in there
But Joe what a run you had.
That was so good.
Guy Branum, ladies and gentlemen.
Stuck in traffic,
comes running in here
to sweep up and win the whole thing.
He was studying these three actresses' IMDbs.
I'm sorry I was so late.
I'm sorry I took so long on
Out of Africa.
But also, Death Becomes Her. Boom. Oh yeah. I thought of Lemony Snicket too late. I'm sorry I took so long on Out of Africa. But also, Death Becomes Her. Boom.
Oh, yeah. I thought of Lemony
Snicket too late. Oh, yeah.
That's good. I was trying to remember the Soderbergh
movie about, like, laundromats.
Oh, yeah. The Laundromat.
She's in it. It's called The Laundromat?
Yeah, Meryl Streep is in it. Nicole Kidman's not in We Bought a Zoo,
is she? No.
Scarlett Johansson. What's the matter
with you? I'm off, baby.
Nicole Kidman is in Paddington.
Hey, Tom, who was in that movie you saw last night?
I don't know, some actresses?
Guy Brando, congratulations.
What would you like to promote this evening?
What do you got to plug?
Again, I have nothing to plug
because I don't have any good stand-up
dates booked and I cannot write
or act. So I'm going to say
please watch Platonic
on Apple Plus and please
come to Jenny Yang's show at Dynasty
Typewriter that I promoted last week
on September 13th and I forgot where it was
and then Doug was like, it's probably
a Dynasty Typewriter, and it is!
Oh, there you go. Perfect.
Thank you, Guy Branum.
Tom Takar.
Yeah, I have a
new special out called
Takar Noir.
T-H-A-K-A-R.
It's free on YouTube. It's spelled Noir,
because some people aren't French.
Noir, N-O-I-R, like the cologne.
But it's free on YouTube.
You can get on whatever you get your albums and stuff.
And then I will be in.
I'll be at the DC Improv coming up and Vermont Comedy Club.
I'm doing an hour at the Comedy Cellar in New York if you happen to live there.
That's September
12th, so come out to that and
take it away. Thank you. Right on, dude.
Right on. Sorry I fucked up the game.
That's alright. I guess
you do it every time. I just forget. I don't do it
every time. I forget and invite you back.
Meryl Streep has... I've lost on Meryl
Streep poorly before. I fucked up.
Everybody's mad at me. I hate myself.
Alright, go ahead. I fucked up. Everybody's mad at me. I hate myself. All right, go ahead.
Just keep drinking.
Don't do that.
Just jump into a glass of bourbon.
This is what I'm going to do all day.
Just sipping bourbon.
How could I not know hanging up?
I've had people play the I got too drunk card,
and that's why I couldn't play the game.
I promise that's not what it is. That's not what happened. No, that card and that's why I couldn't play the game
but that's not what happened
on the way here
I was like god I hope it's not Meryl Streep
Nicole Kidman and Meg Ryan
it seems so easy
it seems the easy talk
to a little reason
but great first time
appearance on the show Joe
what have you got to say
thank you guys I have a But a great first time appearance on the show, Joe. What have you got to say? Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you, guys.
This is very sweet.
I have an album of sketches and songs coming out called Funny Songs and Sketches.
That'll be out on September 29th.
And I will actually be doing an album release show at Dynasty Tech.
Yeah.
The night before September 28th.
Dynasty Tech.
Yeah.
The night before, September 28th.
And if you want to, yeah, go to at Joe Kwa on Instagram or TikTok or Joe K. Joe K. on Twitter,
and I'll let you know about all that.
I'll be relentlessly promoting it.
Thanks, Joe Quazale, everybody.
Thank you.
And, yeah, I already did all of my things that I wanted to plug.
So thank you to the Brea Improv and everybody who came out tonight.
And one more time for all of my guests, Guy Branum, Tom Takar, and Joe Quazala.
And as always, throw your loop.
Now it's time for Doug to watch another talkie. Eyes of gold, his viewing prowess makes him cocky. Throw your loop!