Doug Loves Movies - Leonard Maltin, Sarah Silverman, and Shane Mauss Guest

Episode Date: September 16, 2014

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Doug hates candy wrappers, green and baby skitties. He's with 50 as a top or colonel in his feet. There's still not one that he won't see. Because Doug loves movies! Hey everybody, my name is Doug and I love movies. This is Doug Loves Movies. Coming to you from the UCB Theater in Los Angeles on Tuesday, September 16th, 2014.
Starting point is 00:00:35 Wolf of Wall Street fight Terminator 2. Judgment Day of the Dead Men Walking Tall. The President's Men and Black Fisher King. Ralph of Dog Day. Afternoon Delight. Sleep Perfect. Murder by Death Wish. Three Amigos.
Starting point is 00:00:46 World's End of Watch, Men Don't Leaving, Las Vegas, Food Law Jingle, All the Ways, World's Fastest, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doomsday, Zub Thunder, Bolt and Lightfoot, Fist Way of the Gun. Yeah. Which features one of my guests tonight. But tonight but before i bring them out i just like
Starting point is 00:01:08 to note that um i uh heard from prize bag winner bill in lincoln nebraska apparently he came out to los angeles saw taping of the show sam levine uh won on his behalf, I guess. And so he got the prize bag, which included a DVD of the movie The Game. And then Sam and I had a bit of a back and forth about whether or not that movie holds up by today's standards. And here is what my new friend Bill wrote. And I quote, it's a pretty fucking stupid movie. Thanks for the confirmation, Bill. Austin, Texas, I'm doing a Douglas Movies and a Benson Movie Interruption during Fantastic Fest.
Starting point is 00:01:52 I don't know if you need a badge to get in or if you don't need no stinking badges, but you can figure it out. And the same with my shows at Just for Laughs in Toronto on September 27th. I think a festival badge gets you in, but festivals are confusing. Prize bag includes a Doug Loves
Starting point is 00:02:10 Movies t-shirt, a copy of Gateway Doug 2, some cards to get you a free hot dog from Pops. And then a bunch of other stuff that we will discuss and work through when I get these guests out here, because I'm very excited. Please give a big warm,
Starting point is 00:02:26 and by warm I mean, let's just talk about the fucking hot elephant in the room. The air conditioner is broken. Yeah, oh, you thought we just had it off for fun? Or that it would kick
Starting point is 00:02:44 in sometime during the show. Let's play the little hit or ball game and then suddenly it gets really cold. Yeah, the air condition's broken. It's one of the hotter days of this late summer here in Los Angeles. So apologies to everyone that's here tonight. And I'm just warning the listeners right now
Starting point is 00:03:02 that you're about to enjoy a very listless, a very sad experience. Please welcome Leonard Maltin, Shane Moss, and Sarah Silverman. I just woke up from such a dream. Well, can I tell you something? Can I congratulate you right off the bat? Because you're the winner of the Pete Holmes game. And that's which guest is going to speak first. No.
Starting point is 00:03:54 You win. Oh. What did you say, though? I forgot already. I just woke up, like, 25 minutes ago from a nap. You got over here fast put yourself together nice you know how when you set an alarm
Starting point is 00:04:10 you can give yourself a little label like a note on it and just went go so you raced over here oh good story I didn't want to Sarah Silverman everybody. She brought a Wreck-It Ralph tote bag, a bag thing. This is Wreck-It Ralph on it. And then this amazing thing on the inside of it. It. Who wouldn't want oh look at the It's a terrarium.
Starting point is 00:04:46 Who wouldn't want a Wreck-It Ralph terrarium? Why is he on the side? Like what's he doing? I don't know. It's broken. Yeah. It's weird.
Starting point is 00:04:55 Oh there he goes. So anyway so there you are Strawberry Shortcake and King Clown those aren't their names and but all the fun characters from...
Starting point is 00:05:08 Who were the guys that did the donuts? One of them was Richter, wasn't it? Adam Carolla was the hot dog. Anyway, all from Wreck-It Ralph. All these fine figures in this lovely display case. And it comes in a bag. Oh, there's something else in here. What's this? Oh, and it comes in a bag. Oh, there's something else in here. What's this?
Starting point is 00:05:28 Oh, I threw that in. A bunch of toothbrushes? Death creeps in through the gums, Doug. I've been telling people that for a while. It's true. It doesn't get me a second date. Also, a collector's edition Blu-ray and DVD of Wreck-It Ralph.
Starting point is 00:05:51 And a... In case that Wreck-It Ralph wasn't enough for you. It was in that bag. The ultimate collector's edition that's got a 3D cover. You and Ralph are coming at us on the cover there. That's amazing.
Starting point is 00:06:06 All of that is in there. But then it turns out, you guys, Mr. Leonard Maltin is here. Woo! And he brought the final, the last edition. It's called the 2015 movie guy, Leonard Maltin's. And then, oh, the last edition. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:28 It's called The 2015 Movie Guide, Leonard Maltin's. And then, oh, The Modern Era. How long have you been saying that on there? A couple of years now. Since we decided we were modern. No, no, it's because we put so many older films into the classic film guide, our companion book. Right. That we didn't want to mislead people who watch TCM a lot
Starting point is 00:06:44 that they'll find all those old movies here, and they used to, but now it's more in that book. And the classic guide is going to retire as well? No, the classic guide we're doing a new edition of for next year, so all is not lost. All right. And a lot of these movies will become classic eventually. Yes, and many of
Starting point is 00:06:59 them will not. Like Hellraiser Bloodline, which came out in 1996 and you called it a bomb. Strangely enough, it was directed by the very talented Alan Smithy. Yes. Who has spread his talent among many
Starting point is 00:07:15 films. Have you ever counted them up? How many Alan Smithys are in your guide? Well, there are a lot of TV movies that we don't cover that have his name on them, too. Speaking of TV movies, did you love that TV movie, The Girl Most Likely To, that was directed by Joan Rivers? Joan Rivers. I remember when it came on years ago, but I never saw it. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:07:36 I saw it. It's such a part of my childhood. It's amazing in it, like award-worthy, but it was sort of overlooked because it was kind of a crazy movie at the time. It was about this woman who just decided to... She got plastic surgery and lap band. She got everything. So she was turned from an ugly, fat person to a beautiful, thin person. And then she went back and killed
Starting point is 00:07:56 every man who'd done her wrong in her life. And it was fucking sweet. But it got a lot of attention at the time. That was when they used to have movies of the week that was like the ABC movie of the week it wasn't like a 200 channel universe so every one of those movies
Starting point is 00:08:12 was very prominent at that time Brian's song was a TV movie oh sure there's been some great ones Trilogy of Terror of course Steven Spielberg's Duel came out of that that was a TV movie what's the last movie to be in a Leonard Maltin guide Trilogy of Terror, of course. Steven Spielberg's Duel came out of that. That was a TV movie.
Starting point is 00:08:29 What's the last movie to be in a Leonard Maltin guide? What's the most recent release that's in this edition? Actually, what's interesting is the most recent release in this edition is coming out this Friday. It's already in here? It's already in here, only because I saw it a year ago at the Telluride Film Festival, and they were supposed to release it much sooner. And the Weinstein Company, as it sometimes does, sat on it for a while and they're finally releasing it this Friday.
Starting point is 00:08:50 So it's a... That's gotta hurt. You know what the Weinstein Company is sitting on you. Don't go there. Stop sitting on my neck, Harvey. It's called Trax. It's called Trax and it stars the wonderful Mia Wasikowska.
Starting point is 00:09:07 It's easy for you to say. And who is good in everything I see her in. She's just a really talented young actress. She's the one who was in the new Alice in Wonderland. Yeah, she did her best on that one. And she plays a real-life Australian woman who crossed the Australian desert in the late 70s just by herself with some camels. And Adam Driver's in it as a guy. It was just her and a pack of cigs?
Starting point is 00:09:34 You know, I feel that even going further with my description. People are going to lose interest in this movie you're raving about. Doom to failure, but it's a really good movie. Do you remember what you gave it? Three and a half stars. Really good film. I'm terrible at it. You can do this. You used to do this. Yeah, I used to do it all the time.
Starting point is 00:09:55 It's up there, I think. Yep, there it is. Bam. Three and a half stars. You called it. It stars me a washer washer washer. Eminently satisfying, you called it. Yeah. All right. So that's the last movie in there.
Starting point is 00:10:10 Really good movie. That's the distinction for them. Have they been sent a plaque or something? No. Because that's a special thing they should know about. I'm touting their movie. I hope that's enough. Hey, can you sign this copy for the winner tonight?
Starting point is 00:10:22 Sure I can. Yeah, yeah. Just write, you're a winner. It doesn't matter who it ends up being. I'll do that. And the long-ignored Shane Moss is here, everybody. Hello. Hello.
Starting point is 00:10:37 Hilarious comedian who you might remember from one of the most disastrous episodes of the show ever, where I thought a couple of DJs was a good idea. And Shane was there to save it comedically. But it was a weird ass show, wasn't it? Yeah, it was. Austin, Texas. Three years ago. That long? I think so. And you've appeared on the show here
Starting point is 00:10:57 since then. Yes. And tonight you brought for the prize bag... What? I brought a helmet because I'm promoting safety. Because it's also something that was in your car and you got here and realized you needed a prize.
Starting point is 00:11:14 Also that. And it's way better than fast food wrappers. Some of my favorite wrappers choose fast food as a topic. And I thought and I was like well me coming out on crutches wearing a helmet, that might be a funny visual for your listeners. Yeah, the listeners seem to have a really good time with that.
Starting point is 00:11:34 And I keep getting tweets about it. But you do have an interesting story. It's unrelated to movies, so we got to tell it quickly. But you got into an accident after recently appearing on Getting Doug with High. Yeah, everyone thought it was right after the episode, because I was talking about going rock climbing.
Starting point is 00:11:53 It was a week or two later, right? Yeah, it was like five days later. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, and I went to Arizona to visit some friends, Sedona, Arizona, and I went for a hike, and then my friend wanted to take this shortcut that involved jumping off of a ledge that was too high, and we talked me into it,
Starting point is 00:12:15 and I jumped off of a ledge. This is in May, and I broke both of my heels. And, yeah. Usually when I say that, it brightens the whole mood at a comedy show. It's pretty hot in here, but both of your heels aren't broken, you guys. Yeah, your guys' face looked a lot like
Starting point is 00:12:36 when I had to crawl down a mountain for three hours in the desert. But I'm sure you're all suffering without the air conditioning. Seems horrible for you. Were there any camels nearby? No, I wish. Okay.
Starting point is 00:12:51 I'm sure you saw... Forget it. I, um... And I was sober at the time, but I had some marijuana from you, and I... You had some Blackout X pens thatens and we had given you yeah and i accidentally snuck them into arizona because i was too high and forgot they were in my car and then um and then i got down off of a mountain finally and i was like whoa look at that perfect
Starting point is 00:13:17 and i got high and it helped with my pain tremendously and uh and a lot of people thought that i hurt myself climbing super baked after doing your show. In reality, I wasn't high when I did this. Had I been, I would have been too scared to jump off of that thing. So this is actually what happens when you don't smoke weed, is you can break both of your feet. There you go.
Starting point is 00:13:38 Also, if you had smoked pot, you would have been able to fly. I'm sorry, Leonard. What were you going to say? Sarah, if you weren't high at the Emmys, you might not have won, right? Isn't that how that works?
Starting point is 00:13:50 Like, wasn't that part of the positive energy that brought you the victory? I wanted to guess at you, but it's so silly. I'm such a lightweight. I am an openly smoked pot, but just like a little puff-a-rooney here and there at the end of the night. Had it in my purse to do so
Starting point is 00:14:09 at the end of the night. And everyone made a big deal about it. I was one of the sea of drunken, scary people that were there. Yeah, it's weird. It's a really weird double standard. Like, Leonard, you're high most of the time. Let me ask you this.
Starting point is 00:14:26 Who else would produce a reference book for all these years? Yeah, you've got to really be focused to do that sort of thing. You've single-handedly given Doug and I so much pleasure when we were high many years ago playing this game. Yeah, we would play the Leonard Mullen game instead of trying to move our lives forward in a positive way. True.
Starting point is 00:14:49 We both slept on a couch, the same couch at a friend's house. Yeah, that was weird, right? Like for a whole summer. But yeah, and Brian Posehn, who I invited to be here tonight, of course, he couldn't make it because, you know, he'd have to drive for more than 20 minutes. Doug, can I ask you something?
Starting point is 00:15:11 Let me ask you something real quick. You also brought some, for the prize bag, some Team Moulton buttons that have caricatures from South Park. That's correct. Yeah, so those are in the bag as well. The episodes that they keep rerunning year after year. The gift that keeps on giving. To me, anyway. That's the name of the episode? No, that's how I regard it.
Starting point is 00:15:30 Oh, okay. It was so many years ago. You get residuals on that, or you're just saying it gives you an extra bump in popularity? An extra bump in popularity in street cred, yes. I know you fucking love your street cred, Leonard. You're all about street cred. When they first did this episode, which I can't even remember how many years ago is, it's where I helped defeat the Mecha Streisand
Starting point is 00:15:50 monster. And I won in so many ways. I was actually heroic. I was portrayed heroically in this episode. They didn't diss me. And it just gave me this tremendous free publicity. And somebody said to me,
Starting point is 00:16:05 did they have to get your permission to do that? I said, yeah, they got the same permission they got from Barbra Streisand. You were talking to a Teamster? Who was that? He may have been. He may have been. Can I mention something off-topic for a minute?
Starting point is 00:16:21 Please. Well, all right. I've just moved house, my family and I, after 24 years in the same place. And you know that obviously I review movies, and I've done that a long time. But I don't review other things in general.
Starting point is 00:16:36 I don't review food. I don't review rock concerts. But I do want to say how appalling the service I've gotten from our good friends at AT&T has been in my mood. And I have very little outlet, very little possibility of saying this anywhere but here on your podcast. If you tweeted about it, people would probably raise up. I mean, it's one thing to be lied to repeatedly.
Starting point is 00:17:01 It's another to have people not make good on their promises. It's another to have them screw up your lives by not having phone service or internet service, which has been ordered and confirmed, you know, many days or weeks ahead of time.
Starting point is 00:17:15 But, you know, I don't want to, I don't want to seem like I'm coming down too hard on them. Just as I try to be fair-minded in reviewing a movie, I want to be fair-minded in reviewing a movie, I want to be fair-minded in talking about these bastards. Have you ever summarized a review that way by saying, you know, I don't want to see another film
Starting point is 00:17:37 by these bastards? No, but I'm open to the possibility. All right. What's the movie of the time right now? What should people see today if it's in their neighborhood at the Cineplex? When is this dropping? It'll be out tomorrow.
Starting point is 00:17:54 It'll pop tomorrow. Well, Friday, there are several good movies opening. Oh, here we go. Let's get the scoop. Liam Neeson's film, A Walk Among the Tombstones. You liked that? I did. Really?
Starting point is 00:18:05 Yeah written and directed by Scott Frank who's very talented as a writer and director Cousin Matthew's in it Did Scott Frank write Out of Sight? He did
Starting point is 00:18:13 I love that He mostly adapted Elmore Leonard's book for that and for Get Shorty He did Get Shorty also Probably was not involved in Be Cool
Starting point is 00:18:22 And he got and he wrote and directed a great film in 2007 called The Lookout. One of my favorite unsung movies with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Matthew Goode and a lot of good people. I haven't seen that. Have you guys seen that? Oh, it's a terrific movie. It was just before Joseph Gordon-Levitt really became a star. He'd already been on Third Rock for years, but people didn't quite get his name as a young actor, as a young man.
Starting point is 00:18:44 People were just, yeah, they were used to him playing a little girl. He eventually had to cut that hair and be a man. Yeah. What about... Anyway, so Walk Among the Tombstones is very good. Walk Among the Tombstones is really good. Yeah. That's exciting, because obviously it wasn't dumped in January,
Starting point is 00:19:00 but still September is a little bit of a wasteland. It's probably a secondary wasteland to January. Well, no, no, we're past the Labor Day wasteland. But this isn't a war... This movie isn't going to get awards, is it? But it's excellent pulp. It's solid. It's a solid film. It's sort of a thriller whodunit.
Starting point is 00:19:16 I can't wait. Because the ads, they're just... Every movie Liam Neeson does now just sells that he's going to kill everybody. Right. They're trying to pretend it's Taken 4 or something like everybody. Right. There's 100% it's taken for. He's like, a walk amongst the tombstones. I might as well kill everybody
Starting point is 00:19:29 here, and then it's a lot less labor for everybody involved. What about you, Sarah? Have you seen anything lately that's awesome? I watch television. I haven't been to the movies in so long. I watch Defending Your Life again. Yeah. What one? Defending Your Life again. What one?
Starting point is 00:19:45 Defending Your Life I showed to my boyfriend. He had never seen it. What kind of boyfriend? He's foreign. Yeah, that's true. And he liked it? Loved it? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:19:55 He agrees it's perfect. Perfect? Albert Brooks. Yeah, Albert Brooks. We love Albert Brooks. Really in his stride. But the supporting characters in it, like Rip Torn is amazing in that movie. Oh, every single one.
Starting point is 00:20:07 Everybody's super good. All right. So if you haven't seen Defending Your Life ever, everybody watch it and then get back to us and let us know how great it is. And there's a great documentary opening Friday called Keep On Keepin' On that Quincy Jones is executive producing and is helping to present. And it's a really beautiful portrait of two amazing musicians. One of them is very young, kind of a blind jazz piano prodigy named Justin Coughlin. And the other is very old, Clark Terry, one of the greatest jazz trumpeters who ever lived. And the two of them just connect and fuel each other in so many interesting ways.
Starting point is 00:20:44 And we follow them over five years time and uh when justin begins when justin's in his teens and clark is in his late 80s and it goes over five years it's just so moving and so wonderful keep on keeping on all right good luck following that shane what have you seen lately well off, I would also like to say fuck AT&T. Because why not? More landlines, more problems. They do not help you move house. Which is an odd term I just heard today for the first time.
Starting point is 00:21:24 I gotta move house, motherfuckers. I mean, are you the guy on the highway that's moving and the thing is split in two? That would have been easier. We wouldn't have had to pack. But I saw, let's see, I saw Grand Budapest Hotel on Amazon Prime. And I enjoyed that. My mother, father, and sister all hated it. And I think that added to my enjoyment of it.
Starting point is 00:21:56 They just don't, do you think they hate all Wes Anderson fare? This is my mom's review of about any movie that I would ever be interested in watching. That was weird. She's a Midwestern Wisconsin lady, and everything's weird, except she loves the worst things possible. Like what's her favorite?
Starting point is 00:22:19 Not like morally bad things. No, but just something that's terrible. Oh, she likes a TV show called Under the Dome. That's not so bad, is it? It's based on Stephen King. His life. He's stuck in a dome of celebrity.
Starting point is 00:22:39 And she just watches it with her eyes wide open, just like white knuckling every episode. Because that dome situation could happen to her at some point. Yeah, at any moment. And then she's just like, that was weird. She says it about good things as well. I just spent the last three months living in my parents' basement because I couldn't care for myself.
Starting point is 00:23:04 In case you guys wanted a little pick-me-up. But are you healing all right, then? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because it's a heal. You probably don't get enough of that. They follow me a lot.
Starting point is 00:23:18 Let me sign that thing. It's like they heal. Doug Benson is such a wordsmith. I watched Game of Thrones with my parents, and that's uncomfortable. With your parents' Game of Thrones? Yeah, it was... I was like, Matt, I do not remember
Starting point is 00:23:34 this cunnilingus scene going for so long. It's just like, this is 15 minutes. This is at least 15 minutes. It was horrible. I don't want to take that away from you, but I said boys don't cry in the theaters with my dad. What was the funniest thing he said during it?
Starting point is 00:23:54 The whole time he was like this. Oi! Oi! Oi! Oi! That's a lot to take in that movie my daughter and I have something like a 15 year history of seeing inappropriate movies together
Starting point is 00:24:10 and there's nothing to be done about it if you don't know going in you're not aware that this might be an awkward situation for both the daughter and the father and then we just shrug and how do we do it again? Well, we did it again. We're at another one of those movies. Chuck it up to art.
Starting point is 00:24:30 Yeah, I guess so. Do you remember the worst one? The most uncomfortable? Oh, gosh. Talk to her. Oh, talk to her, yes. Pedro Almodovar's Talk to Her. What happens in that? Describe it. Your daughter's here. I'd like to put you through the whole situation all over
Starting point is 00:24:46 again. The vivid dream sequence where they walk into the giant vagina? I think that may have been the scene. That may be the scene she's thinking of. Oh, that's awesome. I didn't know they had any walk-ins. I thought they were any walk-ins.
Starting point is 00:25:06 I thought they were all drive-thru. Doesn't make any sense. Now it's part of the show where I say, let the games begin! We've got 19 minutes. Half a tank of gas. It's dark and we're saying... Wait, Leonard can't play this game. He knows all the answers.
Starting point is 00:25:26 No, I'm the worst player of this game. Really? Yeah, really. My mind just doesn't sort the information. Because he's watching another movie tomorrow, and then another one later that same day. Yeah, but he knows he gave tracks three and a half stars. He did know that, yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:42 But that was sort of a piece of trivia he's probably been asked about on other shows in other interviews. Because you do a lot of press for this, especially this last one. Got a lot of attention online, particularly. Which has been very nice, very gratifying. Edgar Wright posted a very sweet post that he was sad about it being gone, but that he loved
Starting point is 00:25:57 that World's End got a good review. Because you really finally cracked your code, and that's his first movie that you liked. No, not the first. Not at all. Liar. No, Shaun of the Dead gets a really good review, too.
Starting point is 00:26:11 Oh, that's true. You're right. He does remember, Sarah. You're right. He's pretending to not know this shit. But everybody, please go pick a name tag from somebody in the audience that you'd like to play for and bring it back to your seat.
Starting point is 00:26:23 And while you do that, we'll do You Know What. And somebody bring a name tag from somebody in the audience that you'd like to play for and bring it back to your seat. And while you do that, we'll do you know what. And somebody bring a name tag to Shane. Thank you, Sarah. Yeah, we'll be right back. And we're back. Shane had a name tag handed to him by Sarah because
Starting point is 00:26:41 of his heel situation. I couldn't see what it was exactly and I was like, oh, that looks like it might be something interesting and then I got it and I kind of want to give it back. Wait, the guy spelled his own name
Starting point is 00:26:55 with ticket stubs from movies. You don't think that's interesting? Yeah, he used glue and stuff. That's pretty cool. Let me get a good picture of it. Now I want to get the guy that had a thing that said joyish on it. I thought that was enjoyable. Well, here's an idea.
Starting point is 00:27:12 Why don't we get his name tagged, too, and then two of them, once they've won the bag, they can fight over its contents. Does that sound good? All right. No, it doesn't. Nobody likes that idea. I'll stick with that.
Starting point is 00:27:24 You picked Ed. Stick with Ed. Sorry. Sorry. That one, if you bring that back, do you live here in L.A.? I do. You do? Yeah, bring that one back. It'll get picked.
Starting point is 00:27:31 Paul F. Tompkins will pick it. Sarah, who are you playing for? Mike. Let me see that thing. It says Mike on it? Yeah. Like a rat that says Mike on it? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:45 Okay. Did you draw this, Mike? I did. That's really cute. Good job, Mike. And he's wearing a Doug Loves Movies T-shirt, so I like that. And what do you got here, Leonard?
Starting point is 00:27:55 I went for Yoda, who was holding a picket sign that says, Pick Jake, you will. And I did. You didn't even attempt to do the voice. No, because I would do it badly and then that would just cause more mockery.
Starting point is 00:28:11 Pick Jake, you will. Good job. Good job, Jake. That is a good name tag. Actually, Ed picked pretty good movies to put on here and so I'd like to apologize to Ed. Oh, wow, yeah.
Starting point is 00:28:27 He's got good taste. How does he have these still? I mean, he's seen a lot of shitty movies in the meantime, and then put the show-offy ones on here. How far back did they go? What's the oldest one? Punch Drunk Love? There's Superbad is on here.
Starting point is 00:28:40 Punch Drunk Love? Yeah. That's a little old. Children of men. Yeah. Oh, training day, 2001. Whoa. Love, actually.
Starting point is 00:28:52 That's an Academy Award winning ticket stub. Yeah, these are very good ticket stubs, actually. There you go. All right, well, good job, Ed. To determine who goes first in today's Letter Maltin game, we are going to do a round of pre-recorded doing lines with Mark. Mark Wahlberg. How are you guys doing?
Starting point is 00:29:13 Do you want to do some lines? Has pre-recorded a line from a classic motion picture. And he's going to say it in a second. And when he does, the first one of you that knows the name of the movie, just say it into your microphone and you will win this game. Mark? All right, you guys want to do some lines? Yeah, we already established that, Mark.
Starting point is 00:29:35 Well, unless you've got a cart hidden in the fat folds of your neck, I can't help you. Hey, that's me. What's it called? Wreck-It Ralph. That's correct. Alright, so Sarah, as fair and squarely as it can be done,
Starting point is 00:29:56 gets to go first today. She gets to pick a category. Then we'll go to Shane and then to Leonard. to we'll go to Shane and then to Leonard Leonard's gonna take this thing home Sarah would you like to play
Starting point is 00:30:12 you say Ferrera I say Ferrara the films of America Ferrera and Jerry Ferrara I hope I said their names right is it pronounced America? And, um... It's a Jimmy Pardo joke.
Starting point is 00:30:30 Penny Dreadful, which is Penny Marshall movies that Leonard gave two stars or less. Oh, my God. Or, at Bugs Bottom on Twitter, suggested Snowpiercer. And that's movies where someone is killed by an icicle. Yeah, it's happened. Which one of those would you like to play?
Starting point is 00:30:51 America and Jerry, Penny Marshall, or Killed by an Icicle? Penny Marshall. Okay. I'm glad you're excited about that one. I'm not. Okay. I didn't like any of them.
Starting point is 00:31:03 Would you like a movie directed by Penny Marshall from 1986 or 2001? 86. Okay. One and a half stars from What's His Name? He says this movie is about a computer programmer he also says about this movie that
Starting point is 00:31:30 Michael McKean has an unbilled cameo as a British party guest I don't know if he's saying that the party was British or the gentleman was British but he was a British party guest I don't know, but I could see the excitement in it. I could see your recognition.
Starting point is 00:31:50 Yeah, he maybe knows what it is, but this is all about you right now. Can you say it one more time? And Leonard listed, let me tell you how many names they listed in the app here. Let me ask Leonard a quick question. When's there going to be a new app? We're trying to get one going.
Starting point is 00:32:05 Let's get one going and get the game in there as well. We're trying to. Like the reviews and the game. Let's do it. AT&T is the fucking worst. Yeah, maybe we shouldn't have shit all over them before saying, oh, and also we want to start an app. Okay, so Leonard lists seven, eight, nine,
Starting point is 00:32:25 do you remember how many? Twelve, fifteen, I mean fourteen, seventeen names. Wow. List a lot of names on this one. So how many names do you think you can get it in, Sarah?
Starting point is 00:32:38 Sixteen names. That's a smart opening. What is it about a computer programmer that what? Oh, you're trying to trick me into saying what else happens in the movie no no it's just about a computer programmer and Michael McKean is an unbuilt cameo as you know the clues are
Starting point is 00:32:56 not very helpful but Leonard seems to know it Shane? 15 okay Leonard? 12 yeah so that look of Shane? 15. Okay. Leonard? 12. Yeah, so that look of recognition, he sort of backed off of that a little bit.
Starting point is 00:33:12 I feel like he's tricking me. 12's a lot of names. It's minus the five leads, if there are five leads. Just saying. Yeah. 1984. Directed by Penny Marshall.
Starting point is 00:33:34 86. 86, according to everyone. I would have let it slide. Would you say 12 names? 11 names. 10 names. Quick bid Shane on the end. This is 10 names, Leonard.
Starting point is 00:34:01 Shane, name that movie. Oh, boy, oh, boy, oh, boy. I was born in 1980. Leonard's sitting this born in 1980 yeah so you were six years old when this movie that Leonard Maltin gave one and a half stars came out about a computer programmer and Michael McKean has an unbilled cameo as a
Starting point is 00:34:19 British party guest I do love how you always mention the unbilled parts and the cameos and stuff and your how many names does he get? Ten? Yep. Ten names are Jamie Sheridan, Tracy Ullman, Paxton Whitehead, James Belushi,
Starting point is 00:34:41 Tracy Reiner, Phil Hartmanman John Lovitz Jonathan Price Jeroen Krabe Is that how you pronounce that, Leonard? Jeroen Krab? Jeroen Krab? And that's it, right? Is that ten? One more. This was no help.
Starting point is 00:35:05 Sarah Botsford. Did I forget the genre, or did you just not say it? I don't believe that we say the genre necessarily. It was directed by Penny Marshall, and she only directed one movie probably in 1986. So Penny Marshall enthusiasts have probably figured this out. That is not what this panel is. I've made a terrible mistake.
Starting point is 00:35:33 Do you think you could name a movie directed by Penny Marshall? I mean, I'm not going to give you bonus points or anything. I do not know who that is. It happens sometimes let me give you a hint Shlemiel Shlemazel she was Laverne and Shirley on that show
Starting point is 00:35:55 and then she's oh okay Rob Reiner's her brother and she Gary Marshall Gary Marshall's her brother Rob Reiner is her son her grandson
Starting point is 00:36:06 is Alf it's too hot in here do you want to guess anything? half of those actors I can't believe I wouldn't remember something with all of those actors. Yeah, it's pretty, you know, Leonard gave it
Starting point is 00:36:27 one and a half stars. It's not memorable. Yeah. 86. Don't worry too much about it. No, I got nothing. Are we gonna Are we gonna what? Can I ask a good question? Sure. Is it over? It's over, yeah.
Starting point is 00:36:44 Is the lead actor no longer with us? Oh, no, she's with us. Now? Yeah, yeah. I mean, backstage? She tells me almost every weekday to take some time to enjoy the view. Oh, I know what it is.
Starting point is 00:37:01 What? It's that Eden movie. No, it's Jumpin' Jack Flash starring Whoopi Goldberg. Oh, you're right. Now, what's her name back on? She's probably the one who says that. Yeah, I haven't seen The View since Rosie came back. I remember that movie.
Starting point is 00:37:16 I liked that movie. There you go. Jonathan Pryce was like her love interest, wasn't it? Stephen Collins was in it. Carol Kane. Annie Potts. I mean, it was a dream team. in it. Carol Kane, Annie Potts. It was a dream team. They got Potts?
Starting point is 00:37:28 They got Potts. That means that Leonard Bolton is on the board, right? You challenged. Shane couldn't do it. I'm a fool. We're going to start with Sarah and then go to Leonard
Starting point is 00:37:43 and try to get this over quickly before anybody melts completely. Sarah? Yes, my love? It's Amy Poehler's birthday today. It is? Founder of this sweat box. Oh my god! It was her idea for this to happen to us. The air guy's on the roof right now.
Starting point is 00:38:10 Yeah, he's working on it. Happy birthday, Amy. Happy birthday, Amy. And so it's the films of Amy Poehler. Films of Amy Poehler. Or, this is a fun category, A Prairie Home Companion. That's films that have bestiality in them.
Starting point is 00:38:35 Or, spoiler alert, that's movies where someone is run over by a car. You're suddenly thrown up over the spoilers, I assume. Which one of those would you like to play? Let's go Amy Poehler. All right. Honor of her birthday. Yes. Wow, that applause was like she just died.
Starting point is 00:38:59 Two and a half stars from Leonard for this movie from 2004. He says this movie has funny moments one doesn't usually find in this kind of movie yeah unfortunately he says it reverts to formula but still a cut above the norm hence the two and a half stars
Starting point is 00:39:20 the review might as well have said yeah I gave it two and a half stars and he lists half stars. The reviewer might as well have said, yeah, I gave it two and a half stars. And he lists seven, nine, twelve names. How many names can you get it in, Sarah? 2004?
Starting point is 00:39:38 Amy Poehler's in it. I'll say that I would name that in twelve. Okay. Leonard? I'll say that I would name that in 12 okay Leonard 10 Shane switch the order around
Starting point is 00:39:53 now I'm getting it Amy Poehler big fan that wasn't that long ago I'll challenge Leonard. How many names did you say? Ten. All right. I feel pretty good about a Leonard Maltin win right here.
Starting point is 00:40:14 Bringing us in, dare I say, early enough for me to not have to apologize to anybody. Your ten names are Neil Flynn, Daniel Franchese, Lizzie Kaplan, Jonathan Bennett, Amanda Seyfried, Oh, gosh. One, two, three, four, five. Lacey Chabert Amy Poehler Anna Gasteyer
Starting point is 00:40:48 and Tim Meadows I think that's the right amount of names I should know but I can't get the name oh oh Leonard I can't get the name I can't get it out of my brain come on Leonard you can do it Oh, Leonard. I can't get the name. I can't get it out of my brain.
Starting point is 00:41:07 Oh, come on, Leonard. You can do it. For the lack of air conditioning. Oh, I know. This does not make it easier. If they turn the heat off on Jeopardy, they'd all be like, oh. What is, oh? All right, well, I can't say that I blame you because it's a bunch of people in the smaller roles in this film.
Starting point is 00:41:32 And maybe you recall the title also if you were, you know, at any point in your life a teenage girl. Because it's Lindsay Lohan, a classic, Mean Girls. Ah, of course. Mean Girls. Of course. Yeah, and Amy Poehler's hilarious in it as her mother.
Starting point is 00:41:49 Funnier than the real mother. Rachel McAdams, yeah. I think it's the only movie she was ever in where she didn't fuck a time traveler. Shane Moss is on the board, everybody, with one point. Sarah, this is yours to tie up Sarah gets to pick another category this time we will go to Shane after Sarah
Starting point is 00:42:13 first option is IMDB of course we all know that IMDB but these are movies that these are movies that the title is the initials D.B.
Starting point is 00:42:29 First words D, second words begins with B. And then Eric R. Stevens suggested, and I've mentioned it many times now because people shy away from this category, Meals on Wheels. And that's movies where there is oral sex in a car.
Starting point is 00:42:45 And then a gentleman, I assume, named Benjamin Salas suggested Pie. This is a really interesting one. Pie. And that's a movie that Leonard gave three stars and listed 14 names. Oh, wow. Pie. Boy, that's precise. Yeah, right?
Starting point is 00:43:03 That's amazing. I had to look for that. Didn't take too long, but still a bit of a search. What are the first two? I liked one of the first two. The movie's title is The Initials DB or Oral Sex in a Car. I'll go with IMDB. All right.
Starting point is 00:43:20 Would you like a movie that says The initials DB From let's see 1981 97 or 98 Uh Apologies to put your hands together 98 Here we go My 21st birthday Leonard or whoever he bought off to watch this piece of shit
Starting point is 00:43:43 Called it a bomb This movie is a bomb I like to watch this piece of shit called it a bomb. This movie is a bomb. I like to say this sort of thing when it happens. It's only 83 minutes long. Wreck-It Ralph is longer than 83 minutes, I bet. Feature films... What the fuck is that supposed to mean? Cartoons, animated films are about 75 to 90 minutes,
Starting point is 00:44:02 as Leonard will attest. So is this an animated movie? No. You narrowed it down a little bit, didn't you? Is it? It's not. It's definitely not animated. You just forced a clue out of me.
Starting point is 00:44:14 He says about this movie that the director's cut runs 94 minutes. What's the genre? The studio cut it down to 83 because they were worried people would be bored. From 94. The genre is none of your business. But Leonard also calls it predictable,
Starting point is 00:44:33 coldly calculated, and trendy. Yeah, all of those things. And the title is the initials DB. And he lists eight people. Eight people stepped up and appeared on camera in this. I'll name it in seven. Smart opening
Starting point is 00:44:52 bit. Shane? I feel like it's an easy category, but that description is pure shit. Congratulations to everyone here tonight who wore shorts. This is like almost dangerous weather. Like, I'm worried about Leonard. This is like almost dangerous weather.
Starting point is 00:45:24 Like I'm worried about Leonard. Did you guys know that Sarah and Leonard made out once? It's a true story. Look it up online. It went viral. I'll challenge Sarah because I don't have... I love it. I think we got a three way tie in our hands yeah yeah yeah that's what I'm thinking
Starting point is 00:45:47 I feel really good about this but maybe she'll get it I have some faith oh shit what just happened okay good do I have a point no no you're about to if you get this no I don't see it happening here's your seven out of eight names.
Starting point is 00:46:06 Ethan Embry. Yeah. Tobias Mailer. Steve Railsback. Bruce Greenwood. William Sadler. Nick Stahl. And Katie Holmes.
Starting point is 00:46:27 This movie's title is the initials DB. And it doesn't have the word Cooper after it. DB. Uh-huh. D. D. Death. Diary.
Starting point is 00:46:46 Data. Yeah. death diary data you always go right for diarrhea don't you I said diarrhea I know but close enough I keep a diarrhea dear diarrhea it's the great Katie Holmes movie. I'm gonna have to call it.
Starting point is 00:47:13 No! Give me that. Give me that. Give me that. Dark? Duh-buh. This movie starts with duh buh it's called database
Starting point is 00:47:30 oh no it isn't it's called disturbing behavior and the top billed person was James Marsden and that is a very tough one but that makes
Starting point is 00:47:40 Shane our winner everybody he did it pulled it out in this heat incredible That makes Shane our winner, everybody. He did it. Pulled it out in this heat. Incredible. He was a heel above the rest. Hey, that's not a saying. Doesn't make any sense.
Starting point is 00:47:54 Yeah, that's not even an expression. That'd be like half an inch or something. I'm going to do my plug first. It's very simply douglosmovies.com. Go there and all my stuff is there. Is there a shithead on the back of your Yoda sign here, Mr. Maltin?
Starting point is 00:48:10 Yeah, there is. Oh, who's that? And Sarah, is there one on the back of yours? Can you pass it down to me there? Thank you. Ed, come get your prizes. Congratulations.
Starting point is 00:48:23 Try not to rub it into Jaws face you know that guy is cuz yeah he almost was played for oh yeah and there you go there's a copy oh yeah I put one in the bag oh yeah this one's for me right yes thank you I forgot to I was gonna bring in an old one today cuz I think I have one from an embarrassingly long time ago that I was going to bring in and have you sign, but I will cherish this one. Did you sign this one? Well, let's see if I signed the right one.
Starting point is 00:48:53 I signed one. Oh, you signed one to the winner. Okay, yes. Yeah, that's one of the bad ones. This is unsigned, so you can still sign. Personally. You can still sign that for me. And it's available where people buy books now.
Starting point is 00:49:05 Anywhere books are sold. Anywhere books are sold, this is being sold. Anywhere books are sold, you can get a copy. Anything else you got coming up? Here, use the Sharpie. You're going to be in, whatchamacallit, Fantastic Fest in Austin, correct? Yes, I'm heading there Friday, and I'm going to be a juror at Fantastic Fest, their 10th anniversary edition in Austin, Texas. And I'm on the comedy jury, which is called
Starting point is 00:49:26 The Gut Busters. I was on that jury a couple years ago and saw some of the most disgusting things I've ever seen in movies, so good luck with that. Because Fantastic Fifth is really crazy movies. I saw one of the films the other night and guts were literally busted in it.
Starting point is 00:49:42 There's a lot of violence and nastiness and it's a lot of fun. But I'm looking forward to it. Yeah, yeah. There's a lot of violence and nastiness, and it's a lot of fun. But I'm looking forward to it. Yeah, it should be great. I'll be there, and I will say hi, and you'll be like, you know, you'll do that thing when we run into each other in the real world where you ignore me.
Starting point is 00:49:54 And then... Wouldn't that be weird? And my website is LeonardMalton.com. Oh, okay. All day, all night. Wow. Oh, okay. All day, all night. Wow. Sarah, you got any movies in the can?
Starting point is 00:50:13 I do. Yeah, what's up? What's coming up? I don't know. I'm going to be in Austin on Sunday. Are you going to be in Austin on Sunday? Oh, that's right. Oddball Festival. Yeah, Sunday at the Austin 360. Dallas Friday.
Starting point is 00:50:29 Houston. Is this coming up over there? Houston Saturday and Austin Sunday. Have the oddball shows been fun to do? Yeah, really fun. The traveling sucks. But the huge crowds must be so exhilarating to talk to that many people at once. It is because the sound, it's not usually my cup of tea, like 15,000 people, but first of all,
Starting point is 00:50:47 it's all headliners, so there's no pressure. Even if you suck, you know that they're getting a great show. And then the sound is great, and that's all that matters. And they have big cameras with big screens, so it feels intimate. You can be quiet
Starting point is 00:51:04 and everyone can hear you. Nice. Sorry. I can't wait to enjoy your quiet comedy. She's the librarian of comedy. And Shane, what do you got coming up, buddy? I have a new Netflix hour special mating season you can check out and rate it five stars.
Starting point is 00:51:25 Even if you thought it was four, just rate it five. Yeah, watch a couple minutes of it. If you don't dig it, give it five stars and move on. Yeah, yeah. It's easy to do. And I have a killer road schedule coming up, Doug. Let me tell you about it. I'm going to Reno and then Livonia, Michigan,
Starting point is 00:51:44 and then Myrtle Beach, and then Toledo, Ohio. After that, things are going great. I can't figure out why comedians kill themselves. Things are going really well. It's a mystery. Things are fantastic. Well, yeah. Well, good luck with that.
Starting point is 00:52:01 And you're at Shane Comedy on Twitter because Moss is spelled M-A-U-S-S. I thought it was confusing to people. Good call. You'll be dead, Moss. Too bad that wasn't on mic.
Starting point is 00:52:21 Thank you. That's why you did that. That's why you didn't pick up your microphone. You're like, I'm not sure about this one thank you once again to Shane Moss, Sarah Silverman and Leonard Maltin and as always Chuck Pagano is a shithead
Starting point is 00:52:42 sports sports you didn't read it aloud Pagano is a shithead. Sports. Sports. Okay. Yeah. You didn't read it aloud, but I get to read it out loud. And then, also, as always, the Uber driver that talked to us about L. Ron Hubbard on our way here is a shithead. Now it's time for Doug to watch another talkie. Eyes unfolded, viewing prowess makes him cocky.
Starting point is 00:53:08 There's no room in his heart for you, cause Doug loves movies!

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