Doug Loves Movies - Jay Chandrasekhar, James Gunn ...and Neal Brennan? Guest

Episode Date: July 19, 2012

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Doug hates candy wrappers, treating babies in D&D with 50 heads and top-octagonal pins His feet, they're still not warm and he won't sleep cause Doug loves movies! Hey, everybody. Man, that'll work.
Starting point is 00:00:36 Just needed somewhere to lean a poster. My name is Doug. And I heart movies! This is Doug Heartsarts Movies. Coming to you after too long of a break, UCB, from the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater on Tuesday, July 17th, to Oceans 12! We did it!
Starting point is 00:00:59 Jordan is here. It's weird to do this show without seeing Jordan. But I did a bunch of them out on the road. And since I last spoke and you listened, I filmed the Douglas movies in San Diego for my new movie, Chronicon. And
Starting point is 00:01:15 an excerpt of that show will be available. You probably have, regular listeners have probably heard it already because between the time I record this and then this comes out on Friday, we'll probably release it. But it's just going to be part of it because we filmed it for the movie. And so why have everybody hear the whole thing? And then when you see it in the movie, you'll be like, well, I already heard all of this.
Starting point is 00:01:39 So it'll just be an excerpt, probably about 30 minutes of it. So that'll be fun to listen to. We had great guests, Kulop and Scott and Brian Posain. If you are in Dallas or Fort Worth or that area, please come see me and two special guests do stand-up at Hyenas in Dallas on Sunday, July 22nd at 420. And then one lucky audience member who can compete well in the Leonard Maltin game and has a cool name tag will win a seat
Starting point is 00:02:08 in the 8 o'clock Douglas Movies taping later that night. And please join me for another stand-up show the next night, Monday, July 23rd at Hyena's in Fort Worth. Now the prize bag is an interesting mix of stuff tonight because it's
Starting point is 00:02:24 mostly for me. Because as it turns out, one of the guests is here, has arrived on time, and that guest signed their name on a Douglas Movies t-shirt, which makes it a one-of-a-kind Douglas Movies t-shirt.
Starting point is 00:02:40 And then I also included Smug Life and my first my first one professional humor edian CD and freak dance sticker and then there's a poster here that the publicist of one of the other guests who I don't think is here yet brought for that guests new movie so we'll we'll deal with that when the time comes. So, with one guest backstage when I walked out here, quite possibly still, still just the one guest, but I will say all three names. Please welcome, this is the director's edition of Doug Loves Movies,
Starting point is 00:03:18 please welcome James Gunn, Neil Brennan, and Jay Chandraskar! Chandraskar! Two of them. Mike's on the floor. I broke it. I'm so happy to be here. It is happening. I offered Doug.
Starting point is 00:03:40 I forgot. He usually asks me to bring something for the audience. And I guess I fucked up, right? I guess so. Or your guy, your publicist guy. My publicist guy is a piece of shit. But it happens. Everybody that's Jordan will tell you.
Starting point is 00:03:58 The guests forget to bring all the time. I offered to come on the t-shirt. I did offer to go back in the bathroom. He did offer to jizz all over it. And I said, why don't you just sign it? I would have done it too but you didn't think that was a good thing
Starting point is 00:04:08 that people would want to have. Why don't you change your first name from James to Jizz since you're so, Jizz Gun would be an awesome. What kind of joke is that?
Starting point is 00:04:19 Who wouldn't see a movie directed by Jizz Gun? I'm offended. I'm offended by that particular joke. Oh, okay. Hey, Jay. Hi. First time guest.
Starting point is 00:04:28 Thank you for coming. And I brought something. What'd you bring? Oh, your publicist gave it to me already. No, no. Oh, you brought something else? I brought two things. Okay, a poster for your new movie, Babymakers. A signed Beer Fest script. There you go.
Starting point is 00:04:43 That's called taking it up a notch. Now, who exactly signed it? All the fellas from Broken Lizard. James Gunn? I will. You want to sign it? I want to sign it. I want to come on it.
Starting point is 00:04:55 Make it worthless? All the Broken Lizard dudes. I'm happy to personalize it if you want. Oh, yeah? Sure. All right. I brought a Sharpie. I never knew.
Starting point is 00:05:07 It's right here on the front page. I never knew that Beer Fest was a highbrow comedy. Highbrow comedy. Wait, where does it say that? They got a fucking joke in before the title credit. A highbrow comedy by Broken Lizard.
Starting point is 00:05:20 Yeah. So it's the first page is fun, so no wonder you got that made. That's pretty awesome I kind of got a broken lizard tattoo on my arm from when I was 18 years old it's kind of fucked up it is a lizard but is it broken?
Starting point is 00:05:33 or regular it's a together lizard like that Geico one right? for a lizard he's got his shit together spokesman for a pretty big company argues with an old man a lot Right? For a lizard, he's got his shit together. Spokesman for a pretty big company. Argues with an old man a lot.
Starting point is 00:05:50 He's got one up on Gilbert Gottfried, that's for sure. Because nobody even gives a shit who the voice of the Geico lizard is. Like, it doesn't even matter. If that guy said something horrible, nobody would know. Nobody would be like, that's the lizard. Yeah, that guy could be Daniel Tosh and he'd still be working. That'd be hilarious,
Starting point is 00:06:11 a series of outtakes from Geico commercials where the lizards stand around telling rape jokes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. In his normal accent. He doesn't even speak in that accent.
Starting point is 00:06:25 So Jay's movie, new movie, Babymakers, right? I always want to say Troublemakers for some reason. Because that's what I think of Babymakers. We can make that next. All right. Babymakers opens soon? August 3rd. August 3rd in theaters all over the country?
Starting point is 00:06:42 It'll open in 10 cities. And then it'll also be on iTunes same day. It'll maybe open wider if it does well. I like your attitude. Thank you. Let's make it open wider, you guys. Go see Babymakers.
Starting point is 00:06:59 Olivia Munn, Paul Schneider, you. Kevin Heffernan Wood Harris from The Wire Alright That's pretty cool I love that guy In my last movie I had Andre Royo
Starting point is 00:07:16 Who played Bubbles in The Wire Yeah, Bubbles, right This dude, Nat Faxon Who won the Oscar for writing The Descendants He seemed As puzzled as everyone else When Jim Rash stuck his leg out This dude, Nat Faxon, who won the Oscar for writing The Descendants. He seemed as puzzled as everyone else when Jim Rash stuck his leg out Angelina Jolie style. That was so funny, but Nat was kind of like, what? What's going on?
Starting point is 00:07:37 Why is that funny? Jay, I have a question for you. Okay. If you had to kill one person in your cast, of those people you just mentioned. Or somebody's gonna kill all of them. And just be glad you don't have to fuck or marry any of them. Which would you kill? Thank God we get right to the heart of the game. Let's not... You have to kill one.
Starting point is 00:07:56 You have to kill one. Pussyfoot around. I guess I would kill... I'd kill Olivia Munn. Would you? Yeah, but who would you kill? Did you bring that up just because? It's Pretty Woman. It's fun to kill her. Well, she's already dead.
Starting point is 00:08:12 Haven't you watched a serial killer movie ever? Who gets killed? Pretty Women. That's why it's so cool. No, no, really. Who would you kill? No, really. Who would I kill?
Starting point is 00:08:20 It's tough. I guess I would kill Paul Schneider, maybe. Cool. Just for the fuck of it. Even if somebody didn't ask you. Yeah, no good reason. I like him. I think you just have to kill them all
Starting point is 00:08:34 so you don't hurt anybody's feelings. That's probably better. That's probably better. Nobody likes to be left out. Yeah. Like a coin. So, let's see if I got some other good questions
Starting point is 00:08:45 written down for you guys so Neil Brennan obviously is not here yet and he texted me like 20 minutes ago I'm going to be 10 minutes late and I wrote back well 10 minutes late from when I asked you to be here or 10 minutes late from when the show
Starting point is 00:09:00 is actually starting and then he didn't answer that question I don't blame him he's awful passive aggressive when the show's actually starting. And then he didn't answer that question. I don't blame him. He's awful, passive-aggressive. The rare stoner scolding you for being late. I love it. I love it.
Starting point is 00:09:16 It is weird that I have a show that starts exactly at 7.30 every week. Have I ever missed it? No. But my guests, they have. And the answer is always, oh, the traffic. I don't think I've ever been on your show when there wasn't somebody who didn't show up. That's true. I'm starting to take it
Starting point is 00:09:31 personally, yeah. Well, you know, it's at the ten minutes past when it was supposed to start, so I assume he's going to come racing in any second. Last time Rooker was supposed to be on this show, he didn't make it at all. He didn't make it at all, and he was texting me
Starting point is 00:09:47 while you were doing the show, asking for your number that I could give it to him so he could tell you it's going to be late to your show. Or could you hold it off for a little while or whatever? Yeah, yeah, hold off the show. Yeah, this is Michael Rooker. He's acted in a lot of my movies, and he's a moron.
Starting point is 00:10:04 But really good at the Leonard Maltin game. Yeah. Because we played Sea of Love, which he was in, and he didn't recognize any of it. No, the category was Michael Rooker movies. Yeah. And he lost to my brother Sean. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:21 But in his defense, Sean has been obsessed with Michael Rooker for his entire life. I did. One time I went online and I took one of those quizzes, like my movie Slither, and I took the quiz to try to answer how well I would do,
Starting point is 00:10:36 and I got like 57%. I didn't know anything in my own movie. It's, you know, you're looking at it from a different angle. You were Googling yourself in Slither? No, I think somebody posted it on my Facebook page to be completely honest I forgot to ask it the way I wanted to ask because I thought it was hilarious to say
Starting point is 00:10:53 when is the baby makers when is that movie due has anyone asked you that yet no you're the first it'll happen again I'm sure it's not that clever and James Gunn has a video game
Starting point is 00:11:09 that he's already tired of promoting at this point I told you backstage I'm like we don't really have to I'm done I'm done with promoting
Starting point is 00:11:17 let's move a couple more it's a great game right yeah yeah it's called Lollipop Chainsaw and it's a story of this girl Juliet Starling
Starting point is 00:11:24 who's a cheerleader and she's got her boyfriend's disembodied head attached to her waist, and she kills a bunch of zombies, and it's out now everywhere on Xbox and PS3, and it's doing extraordinarily well, happily. So it's fun. It's a fun game. Because she's got her ex-boyfriend's head attached to her stomach. Yeah, and it's a great place to come and promote a game is on a movie's podcast. Is the head helpful to her?
Starting point is 00:11:50 Is she better at killing zombies because she has her ex-boyfriend's head? Well, her ex-boyfriend's head is very funny. It's played by my friend Michael Rosenbaum, who was Lex Luthor on Small. Sure. Very funny guy. And he gives her a lot of advice throughout the game. But also, she can cut off a zombie's head and put his head on the zombie, and then that zombie becomes her assistant.
Starting point is 00:12:09 So he can help her out a little bit for a short amount of time. It's a realistic game. I really tried. I did a lot of research while I was writing this game because I wanted to get every little specific thing right. I'm really crazy when it comes to the research. Does she have sex with the zombie boyfriend head once it's all put together? We never see it happen, but there is some discussion.
Starting point is 00:12:36 Some off-screen shenanigans? Of the things that they could do. What could happen. In a way he could satisfy her. Jay, you recently tweeted I was going to say that she's giving the zombie head,
Starting point is 00:12:54 but then I didn't. Only I can see Jay's huge erection behind this table right now. So generous of you to say it's huge. Jay, you recently tweeted now. So generous of you to say it's huge. It is. Thank you. Jay, you recently tweeted that
Starting point is 00:13:10 This is Spinal Tap is the greatest film of all time. And my question to you is, have you forgotten about the adventures of Milo and Otis? Do you know about Milo and Otis? Do you know about the controversy behind this? The controversy is that they made a movie where they just kept tossing cats off of a cliff.
Starting point is 00:13:29 Yeah, they kept killing those cats. Yeah, it's fucking horrifying. But also a hilarious movie. Cute. Because Dudley Moore does all the voices and they scamper around and it's real cutesy and then next thing you know they're in a box going down a raging river,
Starting point is 00:13:45 and you know those are real cats that they put in a box on a raging river. Fucking killing one kitten after the next in that movie. God damn. But it's worth it because it's so great.
Starting point is 00:13:56 Yeah. But I'd say, this is Spinal Tap, it's definitely funnier on purpose. And it truly is a great film. That's sort of a loaded question. No, I watched it again a few days ago.
Starting point is 00:14:13 It's fucking great. I mean, it's just... The number of great cameos in that movie, Fred Willard and Fran Drescher and Paul Schaefer. It's just perfect. Yeah, Dana Crystal and Billy Carvey are in it.
Starting point is 00:14:32 Dan Murray, Bill Aykroyd. Fran Drescher for exactly the amount of time anyone could ever take her. Dude, I... She's funny in that movie. Fran Drescher's funny. I'm telling you, I saw Fran Drescher and I thought she was like
Starting point is 00:14:45 past her prime I saw her now this was a little while it was a few years ago but I saw her at a party I was checking her out and I'm like who's that girl in the dance floor
Starting point is 00:14:51 she's fucking hot and it was fucking Fran Drescher and I'm like what the hell the nanny is hot that's a true story and then I fucked her so many times
Starting point is 00:15:02 in so many ways that night no I didn't do that Jay I have a question for you. I don't want to be any part of it. I think Michael McKeon deserved the Academy Award for Spinal Tap the year that movie came out. I think he's amazing in that movie.
Starting point is 00:15:17 He's trying to suck up to me now. What do you think? Can I be in a program with him? I think he was terrific. But I worked with him on Happy Endings. And he almost played the chief of police in Super Troopers. We met him and we talked to him for a while about that. Wow.
Starting point is 00:15:32 And more recently, he was hit by a car in New York City. A car jumped the curb. And apparently he's doing all right. Yeah, never missed a performance in his life. And then he had to sit out that play that he was in, Best Man. He had to sit out for a period of time. If he was in a Marvel movie and he was hit by a car, he'd have superpowers now.
Starting point is 00:15:49 Well, you guys have both brought up things that have led me to ask some questions. James, if you don't mind. But I like it though. I've never had a guest say, I have a question for you! It's really, it's quite helpful. It's very helpful. I helpful it's very helpful awkward friend
Starting point is 00:16:06 dresser but Jay mentioned directing happy endings which is a show that I love and that you directed and also of course you've directed you directed episodes of Arrested Development and so I just want to start yeah I just want to start a rumor right here and now that you're going to direct the Arrested Development movie. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So we took care of that, and then...
Starting point is 00:16:34 You know, that Arrested Development movie, it's like that rumor that never stops. And I keep running into... I ran into Ron Howard in the bathroom of the DGA. I have an aversion to talking to guys in the bathroom, generally. But I talked to him because I was like, you know, when am I going to get another chance? Did you like check it out though a little bit?
Starting point is 00:16:52 It's Ron Howard. It's red. It's red. Yeah, it's a very ginger penis. It's red. Was it hard to resist like peeing next to him and going... peeing next to him and going... He said it's going to happen.
Starting point is 00:17:11 Yeah, that's what everybody's saying. Netflix is saying it. Netflix is saying like 10 episodes, each character gets an episode to catch you up to where they're at, and then a movie is what they're saying. I worked with Will Arnett on Up All Night, and he said it was going to happen.
Starting point is 00:17:28 Also red. How can anyone... But it was the herpes. So James, other than your movie Super, which I've gone on record as saying it is in fact just that. It's Super. Thanks, man.
Starting point is 00:17:46 What is your, because this is sort of this crazy summer of superheroes, so what's your favorite superhero movie ever? Ever? Yeah, of all time. The first Iron Man movie. I really think that's the best. I think the first Iron Man worked really, really well.
Starting point is 00:18:02 I actually don't think there's too many good ones. I think the first Iron Man was great. I mean, I actually don't think there's too many good ones. I think the first Iron Man was great. I mean, these are like the mainstream superhero movies. Sure. Well, what's a non-mainstream one that's good?
Starting point is 00:18:10 I knew that was coming. As soon as it came out of my mouth, my head was going. What do you got? I don't like any of the nine. Unbreakable. That's non-mainstream.
Starting point is 00:18:19 Sort of, yeah? Yeah. I liked that movie when I first saw it. And now I think it's shitty. Why? Have you seen it again shitty how did it get shitty? it got shitty over the years because you can't handle how slow it is I got smarter
Starting point is 00:18:32 and less on heroin while I was watching and then it became shitty no I don't think I like Iron Man, I love the Avengers I thought that was a blast that's it, that's I'm done what do you think Jay? I like Iron Man. I love the Avengers. I thought that was a blast. And, well, that's it. That's I'm done. What do you think, Jay?
Starting point is 00:18:47 I like the Batman with Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson. Really? Yeah. Because I like Jack Palance. He shoots the cards at Jack Nicholson. He goes, don't forget your lucky deck. That's a good part? I love it.
Starting point is 00:19:11 He didn't want him to forget his lucky deck. Don't forget your lucky deck. I hate that movie. The first Batman I hate because it's really first of all it's really really boring. really, I have, first of all, it's really, really boring. Secondly, I know people like Michael Keaton.
Starting point is 00:19:29 Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. He's your lucky deck. Yeah, except for that part. Don't forget it. I'm Regis Philbin now. Secondly, I don't like Michael Keaton. Like, Batman's supposed to beat you up. Michael Keaton's like a little, like, half pudgy dude.
Starting point is 00:19:41 I don't care how many muscles they put on his costume. It doesn't work. He can't move his neck. But worst of all, worst of all is this. Here's the thing. He's got an inch on you though. The important thing about Batman. I'm just saying. The important thing about
Starting point is 00:19:55 Batman is that he's got this unquenchable thirst to take, you know, to have vengeance because somebody killed his parents. And he's got this bottomless pit inside of himself that he can never do that. And in fucking Batman, Tim Burton doesn't understand the fucking character,
Starting point is 00:20:11 so he has the Joker be the guy that killed his parents, thereby ruining Batman forever. So I hate it. It's as bad as when Superman had a kid with Lois Lane. I'm a comical geek. Like, straight up hardcore. Get a load of this nerd. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:29 Are you also still mad that when you ordered x-ray specs out of the back of the comic that you couldn't see through women's clothes? I did. It was a flying bat that I got. I bought a flying bat out of the back of the comic. Oh, the fucking flying bat. And you know what it was?
Starting point is 00:20:42 I thought it was a little... Like, I had this picture in my head like I was going to get... It was in the back of the thought it was a little, like I had this picture in my head like I was going to get, it was in the back of the comics and the ads and I had this picture in my head
Starting point is 00:20:48 that it was going to be this amazing mechanized flying bat that was going to fly around my room. I had no friends and this was the closest thing I was going to have
Starting point is 00:20:56 and instead it was like a little, it was this tiny, like two inches across on a little string, a little rubber bat painted on red eyes that were like, not even on his little string, a little rubber bat painted on red eyes that were not even on his eyes.
Starting point is 00:21:07 They were like this. The eyes. And that was what the flying bat was. And I already had one of those bats. It was way bigger and cooler. And it didn't make a very good friend. Don't forget your flying bat! Well, that was interesting, all that that just happened.
Starting point is 00:21:28 Going back to the very beginning of it, I thought that that Batman was great at the time. Like, you know, when I saw it, when it came out, I thought it was great, but I think that it probably doesn't hold up because, what did you say, boring as fuck? It's really boring. It's kind of slow.
Starting point is 00:21:43 I had to do a thing for EW a couple years where I had to write about all the different superhero movies, and I went back and re-watched all those movies. And some of them have... Like Superman, the first Superman movie, which I liked way more than Batman. I loved that movie as a kid. And there's still a lot of great things in it.
Starting point is 00:22:00 But man, it has like... There's fucking parts where Ned Beatty's walking around and the music's like... And the flying sequence with Lois Lane, where Lois Lane is reading poetry about her love for Superman. Yeah, save that for a fucking coffee shop.
Starting point is 00:22:16 Yeah, yeah. It's so dumb. You must be one of the real, real, real haters of when Tobey Maguire does a dance number in Spider-Man 3. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not too fond of that scene. But I do like Spider-Man 2 quite a bit, actually.
Starting point is 00:22:33 Spider-Man 2 is up there, I think, also. That's one of my more favorite superhero movies. And I like The Last X-Men. I'm not a total purist. X-Men First Class takes a lot of, you know, they change the characters around a lot. But I still thought it was a good movie, so I got into it. It's the best movie where a couple of men can get together
Starting point is 00:22:48 on the steps of the Lincoln Monument and play chess with no one else around. Like, as casual as can be, this is where we play chess. Yeah, because every other movie that has that in there sucks. What about Jay? How do you feel about superheroes? You know, I just am a little over
Starting point is 00:23:11 superheroed right now. Maybe this is the time. Yeah, come on out. Neil Brennan, everybody. Thank you. Did someone say superhero? No. You are dressed like Bruce Willis in Unbreakable. He had a hoodie on.
Starting point is 00:23:38 So, yeah, we're talking superheroes. I'm a little over superheroes. You're sick of it. I love that Iron Man, but I wasn't as big a fan of 2. I just can't get myself to go watch all these superhero movies anymore, which I know is most of the
Starting point is 00:23:51 movies. I had the thought that if they made The Godfather today, he would be wearing he'd have a big G on his chest. Like Black Spandex. Cannoli Mobile you guys this thing writes itself
Starting point is 00:24:08 he came out hot he came out hot I like that a gold crest of some type on his head like one of the Asgardian dudes yeah
Starting point is 00:24:14 I like it so what I like it probably at home it probably sounds like he's saying that if that's a bad thing but looking at you
Starting point is 00:24:23 you sound excited about it my godfather? yeah it would be like he's saying that as a bad thing but looking at you, you sound excited about it. My godfather? Yeah, it would be like the better godfather. No, I like the original. This might be the first show I've ever done of Douglas movies where all three guests have the same product in their hair. Ha!
Starting point is 00:24:52 That was horrifying. That was the worst moment of my life right there. I'm from Chicago. When you two came out, it looked like you got shirts the same color and the jeans. We called each other. We wanted to be twins. It's cool. We direct we direct movies yeah what we should look like he's got more different kind of shoes so I'm blushing so Neil thank you for getting here when you did because holy shit how much did I know
Starting point is 00:25:24 this thing was going in the dumper. No, I'm just kidding. You missed about 25 minutes. Did I legitimately 20 minutes? 22 minutes, maybe. Was there a lot of traffic out there? Yeah, I took... Which way?
Starting point is 00:25:37 Yeah, where did you come? Yeah. What road did you come on? You know what was great? I really drove... I drove a great drive. You know what I mean? I really drove a great drive. You know what I mean? I took the side streets from Venice.
Starting point is 00:25:50 Alright. And it took me like an hour and ten minutes. But it was like I fucking did all the... You were moving the whole time. I did it right. Cutting through gas stations. You couldn't have done no better. It was just a good drive.
Starting point is 00:26:06 I stand by what I've done. That means you left Venice at 7 o'clock for the 7.15 call time. Call time? I like the sound of that. No, no, no. I didn't get a call time. That's production stuff.
Starting point is 00:26:21 Did you bring something for me to give away? No. I was going to text you and say should I bring something Sign this shirt. I didn't know because I didn't know but I didn't want you to be like
Starting point is 00:26:38 no, I don't fucking bring you fucking egomaniac. But a signed beer fest script is pretty good. Yeah, yeah. Whoever wins is going to be sitting pretty. but a signed beer fest script is pretty good pretty good stuff yeah yeah so there whoever wins is gonna be sitting pretty
Starting point is 00:26:47 so yeah so this is this is the point of the show where I normally ask does anyone hunger for games and that happens
Starting point is 00:26:58 did you get a chance to listen to the show Jay I did you did yeah so does the Leonard Mullen game make sense to you? Because we're going to try to play it.
Starting point is 00:27:08 Okay. We'll see what happens. I'm bad at it. Thank you for signing that, Neil. And as always, Neil, I always have to ask you, you directed The Goods. What is it like working with T.J. Miller? It's everything you'd think.
Starting point is 00:27:25 It would be. Look, he's a real funny kid. You had, like, such a mean answer the last time. That's why I asked you again. I know, but I can't... You want the same answer? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:37 Literally, I told him, TJ, you have a giant face, and you have to play defense against your own face. See, that's all I wanted to hear. It makes me feel good to hear that. He's very funny in it. Does he have a giant face?
Starting point is 00:27:58 He does. Yeah. And it's expressive. It's hugely expressive. And a lot of noise comes out of it. Yeah. It's like expressive. And a lot of noise comes out of it. Yeah. He's like a human cartoon.
Starting point is 00:28:10 They put him in the Yogi Bear picture, for God's sake. I mean, I say nothing. With those other human cartoons. No further questions. And Tom Cavanaugh. Okay, so you guys need to pick, let's see the name tags
Starting point is 00:28:24 you guys brought for tonight Let's see the name tags you guys brought For tonight And each of you please get up from your seats And physically select the name tag You would like to play for Yeah, we're already at that part So Just pick somebody you want to play for
Starting point is 00:28:41 We got a gentleman Is your name tag? Your initials are tag. Okay. TAG, you wrote that on a thing. Woody wrote that on an envelope. Jordan's got his baseball, but he's very low-key about it. He doesn't force it on anybody.
Starting point is 00:28:59 It's funny. In Baltimore, everybody had something. Yeah, in Baltimore, name tags are bigger. In L.A., people are kind of like, I've got to stand in Baltimore, everybody had something. Yeah, in Baltimore, name tags are bigger. In LA, people are kind of like, I've got to stand in line out on the street. I'm not going to stand around with part of a tuba or a fucking flask or a box of candy. You guys all pick things.
Starting point is 00:29:18 So Jay has a box of Whoppers that has a post-it on it that says Jolene. So that's very... Yay! So that's very clever of Jolene to have done that. Are you a Whoppers lover? No, I'm a fan
Starting point is 00:29:36 of the Dolly Parton song, Jolene. Oh, okay. I did say pick one that speaks to you. And then you've got part of a trombone? Part of a trombone. Most of a trombone, I guess. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:29:49 And it says the guy's name on it. It says Damon on it. It says Damon. Yeah. And I'm a fan of the Omen, so. And Satan. But, oh, so you just look for the name that's closest to Damien? Closest to Damien, yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:03 Exactly. Exactly. And Neil got a flask. Got a flask named Vivian. Vivian's flask. The woman's name is Vivian, and I picked the flask because my father is an alcoholic. You guys really put more thought into it
Starting point is 00:30:25 than any of the previous guests. And what's in it, Vivian? Whiskey. Whiskey? For reals in it? Can we all have some? Pass it down. Fucking kidding me? I mean, you guys don't have to.
Starting point is 00:30:39 I don't know what your standing is on alcohol. I think James drinks. I don't. You don't? No.. I think James drinks. I don't. You don't? No. Not at all? No. You didn't drink at that party I went to at your house that one time?
Starting point is 00:30:49 Shh, shh. No, I didn't. I didn't. I didn't drink. Because you seem pretty cool when I shit in the bathtub. That's my thing. That's my thing, dude. That's why I kept egging you on.
Starting point is 00:31:04 What about you? Did you use this sort of thing? I have a couple things. A couple? Slow down. Oh, shit. I'm going to not because alcohol ruined my childhood. All right, you guys, let's play.
Starting point is 00:31:33 All right. So just to give Jay a fighting chance, we'll let him... Oh, I just got a text from Neil saying, hoping to be there in five, and then another one that says two minutes. I was going to put another one that said start my intro.
Starting point is 00:31:54 Okay. So we'll start with James, because he's the most veteran of this program. And then we'll go to Neil and then over to Jay and we'll see what happens.
Starting point is 00:32:09 James gets to pick a category. Would you like at Bernie Mac, spelled differently, B-E-R-N-E-Y Mac, on Twitter, suggested Lord of the Rings, which is films that have something to do with the Olympics.
Starting point is 00:32:24 Lord of the Rings, Olympic Games. Or celebrating a birthday today, great actor Donald Sutherland. So the films of Donald Sutherland. Or at Ty Costill, C-O-S-T-I-L-L, suggested Moonrise Condom which is films where people have sex in space. Nice going tie.
Starting point is 00:32:53 Let's go for Donald Sutherland. Okay. This movie features Donald Sutherland and it's from 1992. Leonard gives it two and a half stars. He calls it cute and he also says that Ricky Lake appears unbilled. Leonard gives it two and a half stars. He calls it cute. And he also says that Ricky Lake appears unbilled. Wait, what year?
Starting point is 00:33:11 So this movie is cute. It's from 1992. Two and a half stars from Leonard. Donald Sutherland is in it. And Ricky Lake appears unbilled. And then Leonard lists 12 names. So how many names do you think you can get it in?
Starting point is 00:33:26 Ricky Lake. Chiz Gunn. 1992. Donald Sutherland. That's not a... People in the audience have some ideas? You chose that category. I did, but I was hoping for an earlier
Starting point is 00:33:42 time. An older one? He wanted mash. You were hoping for an earlier time. An older one? He wanted mash. What? That's what he wanted. You were like, an older one like mash or ordinary people? Now you're naming them all off. Beer Fest.
Starting point is 00:33:53 Ordinary people is like... That's right. You're naming them all off? Was he in Beer Fest? Yeah, in the opening. Oh. That's my guess. Beer Fest.
Starting point is 00:34:03 No, I don't... So how many names? You can bid all 12 names if you want. I'm going's my guess. Beer Fest. No. I don't. So how many names? You can bid all 12 names if you want. I'm going to say 11 names. 11. Okay. So then we go to Neil.
Starting point is 00:34:13 10. Okay. Fair enough. Seven. Nice bid, James. You can either tell him to name it or you can go lower. Name it. Name it. Name it.
Starting point is 00:34:22 All right. Here's your seven names. Natasha Gregson Wagner. That's three names. Candy Clark. Randall Battenkoff. David Arquette. Paris Vaughn. That's five. Hillary Swank.
Starting point is 00:34:40 Michelle Abrams. And you get eight names? Seven? That was probably it, right? That was seven, yeah. A League of Our Own. Interesting.
Starting point is 00:34:54 Why? I have no idea and I feel like that was another movie with a lot of people in it. And Donald Sutherland as the narrator. It was a great group of girls.
Starting point is 00:35:09 That was one of those years where Donald Sutherland was using the name Penny Marshall, I think. The next name that I almost accidentally said kind of gives it away, I think, maybe. Luke Perry? Rutger Hauer? Paul Rubens? People behind me are saying it it Donald Sutherland and Kelly
Starting point is 00:35:28 I mean Christy Swanson Buffy the Vampire Slayer Buffy the Vampire Slayer So James gets a point For taking the pussy way out That's right That's right He gets a pussy point
Starting point is 00:35:43 I'll take a pussy point. All right, take it. Take it. Take it. And this time we'll start with Neil and then move in the other direction back to James. And Neil gets to pick
Starting point is 00:35:55 between the following categories. Would you like yuck? That's Y-U-C-C-C-H-H-H-H. And that is an actual word. It's an actual quote from Leonard Maltin's review of a movie. No one ever picks that category because plenty of movies are yucky.
Starting point is 00:36:15 And then five-word review. This is where someone, or Leonard specifically, gave a review of just five words to a movie. So that'll be the movie in that case. Or, let's give one with some options. This category is called Leonard Part 6.
Starting point is 00:36:35 And I have listed in this phone six movies based on the works of Elmore Leonard. Yeah. And some of them are pretty damn good. My favorite being TV Show Justified. Sure. Of course you can pick that one.
Starting point is 00:36:53 But just real quick, five word review. Let's see if anybody recognizes this. The review was, it is what it is. And it was from 2004. Leonard gave it two stars. Is it a league of our own? Yes. Also, aka Scooby-Doo 2 Monsters Unleashed.
Starting point is 00:37:20 I had a feeling it was a sequel. That would have been funny. Which is, and what it is is a masterpiece, correct? It's just been, that's been loaded into my phone for forever, and I just realized that it would be funny to spring that one on you. Thanks for bringing that up. You're welcome.
Starting point is 00:37:40 Thanks for bringing that up. Remember that time your dad raped you? No, because I'm not into recovered memories. Two stars out of how many? Out of four. That's pretty good. That's pretty good to say it is what it is and then give it two stars. That's pretty much saying that, you know, it is what it is.
Starting point is 00:38:01 It's fair. Yeah. Sure. That was actually the most fun I ever had making a movie was that movie so it kind of
Starting point is 00:38:07 goes along with the whole thing about the more fun you have making a movie the worse it comes out but yeah I would have fun hanging out with
Starting point is 00:38:14 four people dressed as those characters all day for five months we were in Vancouver doing nothing both of those girls
Starting point is 00:38:20 are cute yep Matthew Lillard's always got something to say funny guy nice guy. Seth Green was in it. Peter Boyle.
Starting point is 00:38:27 Hang out with me. It was great. Peter Boyle? You fucking killed him on that movie. We hung out a lot on that movie. He was a great guy. He was a great man. Pick from one of these years, Neil. 1957, 1974. These are all Elmore Leonard adaptations. 1985,
Starting point is 00:38:48 2004, 2005, or 2007? That's Leonard part six. Go 2004. 2004, right up in the middle there. Two stars from Leonard for this movie that's based on Elmore Leonard something. He says it's about a ne'er-do-well, which is a fun expression to throw around.
Starting point is 00:39:07 And he also says that four of the supporting actors are wasted in throwaway roles. But the movie's got good vibes that drain away. And he lists
Starting point is 00:39:25 nine names. So how many do you think you can name this movie in? Three. Neil Brennan says three names. That's a sane bid. We'll go to James. Talking to your microphone, sir. That's rough.
Starting point is 00:39:42 I'm more concerned with winning than amusing your fucking audience. That was pretty clear with Scooby-Doo 2. Okay. Not for my audience. That's not that bad of a thing to say. So that, you know... Did you try to write in a scene
Starting point is 00:40:14 where you see Shaggy getting high on weed? We had all that stuff in the first... Our first cut of the first Scooby-Doo movie was rated R. It's not a lie. That's totally true. Can't you get that out there somehow? No, I don't think so.
Starting point is 00:40:28 They CGI'd in the girls' cleavage throughout the whole movie. It started out as more of an Austin Powers type movie. So it was like PG-13 aimed at teens. And then the studio freaked out halfway through making the movie. Anyway, that's not important. What's more important is...
Starting point is 00:40:45 Three names. You got to go less or say name it. I'm going to say name it. All right. So if he fails to name it, then James will be our winner. And if he names it, we'll move on to another round. Do you want the clues again, Neil? No.
Starting point is 00:40:59 I need those names. You need the names? You need the Glenn Gary leads? Yeah. Okay. Your three names I think they're very helpful names are Harry Dean Stanton Charlie Sheen and BB Newworth in an adaptation of a of a Elmore Leonard I'm gonna go with Be Cool The Big Bounce yeah
Starting point is 00:41:30 with Vinnie Jones Willie Nelson Sarah Foster Gary Sinise Morgan Freeman and Owen Wilson yeah that's a tough one that's tough
Starting point is 00:41:40 but you know Be Cool was definitely one of the other options but that was from 2005 a year later a year later so James is our winner everybody But you know be cool was definitely one of the other options, but that was from 2005 yeah Yeah later. Yeah later, so James is our winner everybody So Damon where's Damon at come and get your your prizes you know and you're up to well oh Pussy points enjoy this highbrow comedy You're up 2-0? Yeah. Oh. Yeah. Two pussy points.
Starting point is 00:42:05 Enjoy this highbrow comedy. Oh, he's going to personalize it. I love it. Write Damien just because that would be a funny callback. There's your poster. I liked how you scooped that up. I'm getting all this shit. I don't care if it's in the bag or not.
Starting point is 00:42:24 Do you want some Whoppers? You hungry? You want to hit some whiskey out of a flask? What did you write? I played ping pong and ding dang. Oh. Which characters you were. I like it.
Starting point is 00:42:40 Jolene, do you want to come up here? And Jolene gets a runner's up prize of getting to make me name somebody a shithead so let me give her a pen to just write that down on that piece of paper and who does the flask belong to oh it's on the back don't read it out loud
Starting point is 00:42:56 don't yeah just pass it down to me I wanted it again anyway oh my god what does that say pen is the first part okay I got it again anyway. Oh my god, what does that say? Pen? Pen is the first part? Okay, I got it, I got it, I got it. Alright.
Starting point is 00:43:13 Okay. Interesting. Alright, so you guys got anything to plug? Neil, you got any of your stand-up comedy dates coming up? Podcast, The Champs.
Starting point is 00:43:29 I'll be in Atlanta next month. Eh? Eh? Eh? People love a vague plug. I'll be in Montreal next week, and then I'll be at the Laughing Skull in Atlanta. Awesome.
Starting point is 00:43:42 Yeah. All right, look for him there. Look for me. I love the Laughing Skull. It's a very intimate, fun place to see people. Awesome. Look for him there. I love Laughing Skull. It's a very intimate, fun place to see people. James Gunn has a game he's tired of talking about. Yeah, but you can go buy it. Lollipop Chainsaw.
Starting point is 00:43:54 Go buy Lollipop Chainsaw. And you got anything in the works that you can tell us about? Any projects or anything? I do. Super 2? I can't. Super 2. No, I can't talk about anything.
Starting point is 00:44:06 I am getting in this. If people want to go yell at this Raelian that's yelling at me on Twitter, I'd love it. You know Raelians? You know those guys? They're like a cult. And I went with my ex-girlfriend, and we infiltrated their cult a couple years ago, and I wrote a blog about it online, and now Raelians are attacking me on Twitter. I really just, I don't care. Instead of buying Lollipop
Starting point is 00:44:28 Chainsaw, just like look at the people that are yelling me on Twitter who are Raelians and just make fun of them. Was that that Heaven's Gate thing? That's the guys that said they cloned a baby about 10 years ago. Yeah. And I went to their, yeah it's like a sex cult.
Starting point is 00:44:44 And I got laid zero times but what can they say on Twitter how can they attack you just for example I'll write something for someone you can go on there and say hey at Raelian fuck you like that kind of thing
Starting point is 00:45:00 shut up what did Raelian say to you how are they attacking you they're mad That kind of thing. Or, you know, shut up. No, I'm saying, what did Raelians say to you? How are they attacking you? What are they... I don't know. They're mad. This just happened like a half hour ago. I know.
Starting point is 00:45:15 I was seeing it on my feed. And I was like, this confuses me. Because I don't know what Raelians are. He was saying I was a liar. But I didn't lie. I wrote a blog with all the truth. Oh, okay. So you're saying that your blog was a lie
Starting point is 00:45:27 that you wrote how many years ago? You know, a year ago. Okay. Yeah, but for some reason they've all gotten onto it now. They just signed up on Twitter. Well, no, no. Lately, somehow it must have gone into some,
Starting point is 00:45:36 you know, Raelian feed lately and now they're talking about it all the time. So I'm getting a lot of shit from Raelians. They're a bunch of monkeys. My favorite thing about Raelians is if you try to type it into Google and find out more about them, chances are you're not even going to be able to spell it close enough to
Starting point is 00:45:51 find them. It's spelled really fucked up. It's R-A-E-L-I-A-N-S. That's not a word. And Jay, remind me again August August 3rd baby makers
Starting point is 00:46:08 and I'm doing your podcast yeah I heard that so plug that too first of all congratulations thank you you're gonna be
Starting point is 00:46:13 you're gonna be on the champs yeah I heard one thing I heard about that show is that everyone gets there on time
Starting point is 00:46:19 and that they tape it in Venice, Italy. So good luck. That's actually, you know that's not true because we only have black guests. They can't laugh at that now. Wait, wait, he's black enough?
Starting point is 00:46:40 Is that what you're saying? I don't, yeah. You were on the fence. We don't have, we have non-white guests. Oh, okay. That's fair. But mostly predominantly black. Alright. And you're directing
Starting point is 00:46:55 the Arrested Development movie, so congratulations on that. Thank you. You just made it, so I have no chance of doing that. You think? Yeah. I don't think anybody there... This podcast is more for the fans than for... I don't think Ron Howard or who would make that decision.
Starting point is 00:47:21 Who would make that? Mitch would make that decision? He's going to direct it himself. He is. He should. I don't think so. He's earned it. You know what I mean? Let him have it. Throw him a bone. I'm going to be at Helium in Portland, Oregon on July 25th. The Improv in Pittsburgh, July 28th and 29th at 420. Hilarities in Cleveland on Thursday, August 2nd at 945. The Funny Bone in Toledo, Ohio on the 4th and 29th at 420. Hilarities in Cleveland on Thursday, August 2nd at 945.
Starting point is 00:47:46 The Funny Bone in Toledo, Ohio on the 4th and 5th of August at 420. And thank you to my guests. Weren't they great? Neil Brennan, James Gunn, and Jay Chanduskan. Did I say that right? Is it Gunn? It was Gunn? I was very, very late.
Starting point is 00:48:05 Are we done? We're done. We're done? That's it, yeah. I was so late. Yeah. I'm just going to say the last thing, which is, as always, Will Pendarvis III is a shithead.
Starting point is 00:48:23 Okay? And Shit Romney is a shithead. Okay. And Shit Romney is a shithead.

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