Doug Loves Movies - Mark Ellis, Leonard Maltin and Jonah Ray guest
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Doug hates candy wrappers, squeaky babies, sticky seeds
With 50 acid pop or kernels in his teeth
There's still not one that he won't see
Cause Doug loves movies
Holy shit, Kool-Aid's here! Yeah!
Holy shit, Kool-Aid's here.
That guy just burst through the wall.
Hey, hey, hey, everybody.
My name is Doug, and I love movies.
This is Bob's Movies.
That was pretty good.
Pretty good. Pretty good. Coming to you once again on the first night
of the convention we shall not mention.
It's Sweet Home San Diego!
It's Wednesday,
July 19th,
2020, 23 19th, 2020
23 Kingsmen, the golden circle of friends
With benefits, a wonderful life
As we know it could happen to
You only live twice in a lifetime, cop
And it's kickoff night
Of a decidedly different Comic-Con,
but I'm still great to be back here.
I'm happy to be back here at the American Cacomedy!
Cacompany!
All right.
So let's get right to it.
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And I'm doing stand-up at Levity Live in Oxnard, California
on Thursday night, July
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and links, oh my, go to
douglosmovies.com.
That's
douglosmovies.com.
Yeah!
Woo-hoo!
Ten dancing? You're a little early on that Yeah! Woo-hoo! What was it? Shh.
Ted Danson?
You're a little early on that Ted Danson over there.
I can't wait for the Ted Danson part.
He was Becker.
All right, so one more thing before I bring my guests out here.
Someone tonight is going to win the prize bag of the show.
In this particular case,
it's a lovely back plant backpack.
I don't know.
The back plaque is disgusting.
It's when,
it's when someone bites you in the back and then leaves plaque in your
back.
But I think this logo is like Oki or one of those companies.
But anyway, it's a backpack that's from a comedy club
on the East Coast in Rhode Island called Comedy Connection
that I love to play at.
They're very nice.
And in the bag is a hat with a little horsey on it.
Yeah, I'm not kidding kidding around this is some nice shit
uh some beads with some chili peppers on there that i've you know probably got out of chilies
um oh this is cool i got to i got to go to caesar milan's dog ranch so i keep giving away caesar
milan stuff and this is a training lead
from Cesar Milan
so if you want to train your
doggy to be cool
like Cesar Milan doggies
and a t-shirt that says feminist buzzkill
on it
and
that's a conversation starter
a couple of Doug Benson pins
a pipe from a little rubber pipe
from a company called Peacemaker,
and this probably isn't the best thing,
but it's the last thing.
A book called Higher Connections.
Humor and Inspiration
from a Certified Public Pothead.
Yeah, Eric and Alexander Wright.
So it's two people.
It's a couple who are a pothead and wrote a book about it.
So all that stuff is in the bag.
It's really just for fun and bragging rights to win the bag.
We've got a few name tags out there in the audience tonight.
I know during Comic-Con week it's a lot to ask people
to bring more crap because
you're here to just take home crap.
So
somebody's going to get all of this
and one of my three guests is
going to win it for them. Would you
like to meet my guests?
It's a good thing I wrote it down,
because even though I just saw them backstage,
I am hella high.
Please welcome
Mark Ellis, Leonard Moulton, and Jonah Ray Rodriguez!
Yes!
Hey!
Get out here, fellas!
Here's a drink for your water. Get out here, fellas Oh my goodness Look at them
Finally, four white men
Our time has come again, guys
On a stage together
There was so much diversity headed to this town
until the strike happened and everybody stayed home.
Only white dudes that have been coming for years
have showed up.
We're the three biggest A-listers in town, baby.
Get used to it.
This is all you got.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Let's meet everybody individually, as we like to do.
Alphabetically, by first names, starting with...
Ah, man.
We went deep with this dude on the recent Wide World of Dugs.
It's Jonah Ray!
Hello.
Even after that episode and that conversation
we had, you said my last name wrong,
which is, you said Rodriguez.
Rodriguez. It's Rodriguez. Yeah.
Yeah, I got all excited in the moment
and did it wrong. I also didn't
think you were paying attention.
Yeah, when someone says, like, my
first two names, I'll usually
pay a little bit of attention to what happens afterwards.
Well, you were getting through this maze over here to get onto the stage.
That's true.
And I was right after I did my pre-show 100 push-ups in five minutes.
So I was a little loopy.
You know, that would be funnier if you looked out of shape.
But you seem like you could just do that.
You know what I mean?
You're looking good.
Can I not make those jokes anymore?
No, I don't think so.
I don't think you ever could, really,
but you have that thing, we talked about it,
where you were a fat kid, so you never let it go.
Yeah.
And I was a fat kid.
That's why I sat on him as he did the push-ups, Doug.
This guy.
Powerful pecs.
So helpful.
Jonah Ray Rodriguez, what are you going to, guy. Powerful pecs. So helpful.
Jonah Ray Rodriguez, what are you going to
what are your expectations
from this strange Comic Con?
I don't know.
I don't know what to do. I usually
would want to go to parties so I could meet celebrities.
Right. But that's
not happening. Yeah, you've already met all the ones that
are here. Yeah, exactly.
I met all these guys before. I don't know. They're all
on stage. It's like I can't talk about
anything coming up. I can't talk about, like, you're
not allowed to promote anything
during the strike. And so
I mean, I'm just probably going to get out there and find some
opportunities to be a scab. I mean, you know,
I really do think the
labor force has it coming to them.
And workers' rights
is such a silly thing to want.
So, you know,
let's give it up for our corporation daddies,
everybody. Raise your hand, Doug, so they applaud.
Not gonna happen.
All right. Not gonna happen.
I mean, you know,
this is a podcast about movies, so we kind of have
to, you know, mention movies made
by these evil studios.
But there's a lot of hard-working people that work on them, too.
That we're fighting against.
Exactly.
Real artists that deserve their cut.
Anyway, so what are you going to do in this pared-down Comic-Con?
You're doing a panel or something?
I directed an audio series that
was independently made um uh felicia day uh was the person who uh created it and stars in it and
it's got like sean austin in it who was uh who canceled uh to come and promote it because he's
on the negotiating committee uh for sag so he he bailed um rightfully so and Rightfully so. But we're in that pocket
of that's something we can do. It's a really fun
series. That's all I
could talk about. That's the one thing.
But you could promote that because it wasn't made by any of these people
that we're fighting against.
Felicia Day
was in a show
I did.
I think you could mention that.
I don't know. I think you can. I don't know I think you can
I don't know the rules
I don't want fucking
Fran Drescher
Busting through this wall
And going
You're disgusting
And I'll be like
I loved you in UHF
She'll be like
Aww
Right
I mean
That's one we didn't see coming
Is Fran Drescher
Making an
Impassioned political speech.
I would have never been like, do I want Fran Drescher and Bernie Sanders to fuck in front of me?
Yeah, I missed that.
I wasn't paying attention, but I saw her speech.
Okay, so.
I'm not a weirdo here.
I'm not.
I'm just.
I mean, no one thought,
that's why I wasn't really good at stand-up
because I was like,
you know the whole thing
that we all have in common
that we want to see the nanny
and socialist daddy fuck?
That's going to be movies
if the robots have their way, people.
Okay?
Yeah, it's just going to be
a sweaty exec like me going,
um, uh, Jeff, uh, just, uh,
Trump in a, in a Trump in a bucket.
Write it, computer.
Also joining us
tonight.
Who else is
here?
He's been on this show
many times
and is not only a national treasure,
he's a National Treasure 2 Book of Secrets.
It's Leonard Malting!
Leonard Malting!
You saw me in National Treasure 2?
No.
I thought that was an Easter egg on the Blu-ray only.
No.
Okay.
I don't know what he's talking about.
You had the titular line when you looked in the cage.
You're like, you know what?
You're in National Treasure 2.
Then just under his breath he muttered,
Book of Secrets.
Book of Secrets.
How are you doing, Leonard?
Pretty good. What's your are you doing, Leonard? Pretty good.
What's your,
you know, I know you were going to come to
Comic-Con, you know, come every year,
you were planning to come, but what,
now that you're here, what's going to happen?
Well, what's going to happen is what I already
anticipated happening. I'm on
a couple of panels. I have
a panel of my own, which I do with my daughter,
Jessie, called you're
wrong leonard malton yeah where we actually invite people to debate me not in a hostile way but no
just for fun you know if they disagree with some of my reviews yeah and we've done that four or
five times here and it's been fun it's wild how people they'll just have like that one time that
you got under their skin because you didn't agree with them and just hold on to it and then come yell at you about it.
Yes.
But then you also just, you know, you're so nice about it that they can't really yell
at you.
So it's a it's an interesting conversation because also ultimately it doesn't you know,
we all can like what we want.
Well, you know, it doesn't matter.
It's just an opinion.
Yeah, it's just an opinion. Yeah, exactly.
It's just an opinion.
But some people really, really, really disagree.
Yeah.
No, they disagree hard when you go after something like Avatar or something.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, Martin Scorsese, who is brilliant, and who is truly a national treasure,
has made some films that I don't like.
Sure.
And he's even teased me about it.
So he knows that I've gone on the record.
Yeah, you can't like all of them.
His movies, if they're not about gangsters,
they're all wildly different things,
the rest of his movies.
New York, New York, which is now on stage on Broadway, I guess.
I don't want to see that again.
I don't want to stay there again.
In any form.
But was your review, did you say, you know what this is missing?
Music and song.
I'm only assuming it's a musical. Was your review, did you say, like, you know what this is missing? Music and song.
I'm only assuming it's a musical.
It is, but De Niro is a co-star, so he doesn't sing.
He just plays the guy who pretends to play the sax.
Yeah.
And then Liza Minnelli has a bunch of songs,
including the titular song, New York, New York.
Yeah.
But it's a weird movie.
It was a misfire, as they say.
Yes.
Good way to put it.
Yeah.
And he's had a few of those, but he's also had some of the best movies ever made.
So, you know, let's just keep track of the home runs and not worry so much about the rest of it.
You're very philosophical tonight.
I like to think so.
You know, for instance, for me, when I saw the movie Silence, I wished for that and a black screen.
I didn't need any of the things they were saying or doing.
But everybody's got a different one.
I love Color of Money, and some people don't think that's a... Just watch that last night on TCM.
My wife and I were cleaning up from dinner
and turned on Turner Classic Movies, and there it was.
And we couldn't stop watching.
Right?
The camera work in that movie is incredible.
It's like Michael Ballhaus.
Yeah, unbelievable.
But Tom Cruise looks like he's 12 years old.
Yeah, he really does.
Yeah.
Because now he looks like he's about to hit 35.
I just showed my wife,
she had never seen The Outsiders before,
and there is a weird-looking dude
that's credited as Tom Cruise in that movie.
Yeah, he's really weird-looking.
It's not very Tom Cruise-like.
But there's this part when they're getting ready to go to the brawl,
and then Patrick Swayze in his Adonis body glory
does a handstand
on the chain link fence
does like a good
couple beats of applause
some ladies are getting into it
yeah
and then goes off of it
but like you know
he probably was
he's like
what if I just did that
everyone's like
whatever you want dude
you're fucking great
and then like
it's like
and then for no reason at all
Tom Cruise's character
jumps on top of the hood
of a truck
and then just does a backflip
off of it
and it's like
it just feels like no one paid attention to it when he did it because they all start like walking
down the street and he's like in the middle of his backflip and then just catches up with him
i think his character like he's not even really friends with those guys he's just like shows up
he just comes and hangs around yeah they're not that into him it's it's really kind of weird how
comes and hangs around.
They're not that into him.
It's really kind of weird how shunted he is. He's just put to the side.
Like my third guest
tonight.
Ladies and gentlemen,
he's my favorite guest to have when I might
forget to bring trivia questions
because he's always got
some in his pocket.
It's Mark Ellis!
Woo!
Oh, it means the world to be back here with you, Doug.
Yeah, good times.
The Eagle, Leonard, Jonah, this crowd.
It's everything.
Fresh Coors Light, my hand.
This is why, you ask people why they come down to Comic-Con.
Anyway, this is the reason. This is it. This is the night, man. It's all Fresh Coors Light in my hand This is why You ask people Why they come down To Comic Con Anyway this is the reason This is it
This is the night
It's all downhill
From here
Well you have a show
Coming up tomorrow night
Don't you
Yeah so that's why
It's downhill
I will be on this
Very stage tomorrow night
At American Comedy Company
Come on out folks
Couple tickets left
Me the eagle
I don't think any of these
Guys are going to show up
But we'll be here
And I'm looking forward to it And I'm excited Because on Monday My new special came out tickets left me the eagle i don't think any of these guys are going to show up but we'll be here
and i'm looking forward to it and um i'm excited because on monday my new special came out thank god it's not on netflix am i right i can talk about it well you just put it out yourself um
i mean people helped i don't know how to hit the upload button So you can't say where people can watch it?
No, it's on YouTube on All Things Comedy
Oh, okay
They're not a big corporation
They're not a big corporation
But they at least bought one table here in San Diego
So, thank you
That set company started by Bill Burr
Bill Burr
Al Madrigal, good people
They were handing the comedy back to the comedians They give you the control That company started by Bill Burr. Bill Burr. Bill Burr. Al Madrigal, good people. Oh, yeah.
They were handing the comedy back to the comedians, right? They give you the control.
They gave me the microphone, and that's what happened.
Yeah.
Well, check that out, everybody.
I should mention that this episode we're making right now
will come out on Sunday if that affects any of your plugs.
I'm starting to realize it already affects one of mine.
I already talked about a show that it's too late for the listeners to go to.
Maybe you could build a time machine.
Doug, we sold out Thursday at American Comedy Company thanks to this show.
Thank you.
Great, Scott.
All right, so so who's that that was you know it's funny that when uh christopher lloyd says great scott in the um back to future movies
like that was already something like like the characters said on tv all the time and stuff it
wasn't like they came up with it.
It was weird, I guess because it was supposed to be...
But he was in the present,
so it was just weird that he was using
an old expression like that.
But he was an old guy, so that's the point, right?
Yeah, I guess so, yeah.
He was also kind of an eccentric,
and it reminds me of a story, Doug.
No, this really happened.
This will take 30 seconds.
So on Father's Day, Back to the Future
was my dad's favorite movie.
27, 26.
Passed away, 2010.
Needless to say, wasn't in the room when we were watching it this night.
But I watched it.
The next morning, I was driving around Burbank,
and I went by the Burger King that's in the beginning of the movie.
You can still see the Burger King.
It's on Victory Boulevard.
And just drove by it, and it was kind of cool to see the Burger King
where I saw Marty at last night.
And I take a right onto Magnolia and I shit you not
as soon as I took the right
next to me pulls up a DeLorean.
I've never seen a DeLorean
in motion before. That dude's just circling
the block waiting for a guy like you.
He's just doing laps the whole time.
Like, I can't. I got to shit.
I got nothing else to do. My wife hates me. My kids
don't give a shit about me.
I'm going to stoke out one nerd today.
Johnny, you're driving that goddamn DeLorean again.
Do the dishes.
He's probably in Uber just waiting
for somebody to type in the future.
Yep.
When do I want to be picked up?
Uber becomes Airbnb?
Would you like a fun car?
Hey, driver, this is DeLorean.
Are you going to take the highway or side streets?
Where we're going, we don't need roads.
It's a parkway.
All right.
Let's get into it.
I like to ask my guests before we play the games,
I like to ask everybody to recommend a movie in a category of my choosing.
And I came up with a fun one for today, I think,
because we are here at Comic-Con,
but none of the superhero performers,
actors are here, reasonably so,
but I want you to name a movie, your favorite movie,
a recommended movie, that has a hero without a cape.
So it's a hero who's not blessed with superpowers
or cursed with superpowers,
depending on how you look at it?
Wait, so no...
A hero who doesn't wear a cape.
Okay.
Who's not a superhero.
Okay.
But is a hero to you.
You know, like that guy in To Kill a Mockingbird
or some shit like that.
Yeah.
Some sort of Jimmy Stewart nonsense.
Yeah, that bullshit.
Whatever you want.
Harvey Milk, you know, someone that just...
Oh, that's a great one.
Yeah, that was going to be my one.
That's a great one.
Do you want to go first?
Yeah, that's it.
I already did it in the past.
My Uber's going to be here yesterday,
so we've got to hurry up.
Hey, you move things along so fast,
so I recommend a movie.
You're like, got milk?
Then we're done.
But Milk is a terrific movie.
Sean Penn, I believe, won an Oscar
for that one.
And the documentary preceded it, The Times of Harvey Milk.
The Times of Harvey Milk, great.
It was great, too.
Was it non-fiction?
Was that allowed in it?
It could be a real person. Based on a real person.
Sean Penn, of course, wouldn't probably play that role
today because people would want that
to go to an actual gay man.
Also, I would say
the titular character
from the movie Hero
I didn't say
let's hear a bunch of them.
I just wanted the one.
I wanted the one.
You blurted it out quickly.
Yeah, yeah.
So I'm ready to move on.
Okay, good, good, good.
Good, copy that, copy that.
So when do we start the show?
It's a good run through.
The people who have never heard your podcast
are just so confused right now.
Hey, everybody.
Yeah, but it's a fun kind of confused, I hope.
I hope they're drinking or smoked something.
Leonard, what do you think?
Can you top milk?
Maybe a Sesame Street movie, Cookie Monster?
Not going there.
No, I can't top milk.
But you gave it some thought, and that's respectful.
Yeah, you really thought you might be able to.
Totally respectful.
There's a film that's too obscure.
No, I like it.
I want to recommend movies to people, especially if it's...
Another documentary that came out late last year
called Turn the Page.
And it's about Robert Caro, Lyndon Johnson's biographer,
who's been working on what is now a five-volume biography
of Lyndon B. Johnson with his editor, Robert Gottlieb, who just passed
away a few weeks ago. One of the great editors of our time. He made it to 92. The author
is 89. They're both still working on this massive project, living in the now not living in the past and it's too they're not they're not like
intellectual snobs they're they're working guys one is a writer one is a brilliant editor
and uh and a great writer himself and sony classics loved this film so much they
they distributed it and it's now on And it's now streaming, I believe.
Yeah, somewhere.
We won't say where.
Find it.
Yeah.
Pirate it.
Because we're supposed to watch stuff.
We're not supposed to boycott stuff.
Because we want to show the studios that their stuff that they make with writers and actors is liked and and watched
yeah but at the same time we're also not supposed to promote those places yeah it's a weird line
yeah it's an impossible line to walk yeah no no especially for you leonard because you're like
you're you're all over the place okay so what's the movie called? Turn the Page. Turn the Page.
Okay.
Or Turn Another Page.
Oh, no.
Turn Another Page.
You know we like accurate titles on this show, Leonard.
Turn the Thing.
Just turn it, goddammit.
I heard Turn the Page documentary, and I was like, there's a Bob Seger documentary?
What?
What?
I got my silver bullet right here.
I'm drinking it.
That's right.
I mean, Jonah's answer is just going to, at the very least,
help me to remember to pick something up on the way home.
So, Mark.
When they all stop at the Blockbuster.
I need some milk.
I need some milk.
Mark.
Speaking of milk, Mark.
Mark milk. They dropped it off on my door as? Speaking of milk, Mark. Mark milk.
They dropped it off on my door as they do every morning, Doug.
I will take a movie starring Michael Keaton.
Oh.
But he doesn't wear a cape because that's not allowed by your stringent and oppressive rules.
So I'm going to go with...
Clean and sober.
He's kind of a hero, but not
my hero in that movie.
He is a hero in Spotlight
because he leads the team that
brings down a bunch of really
bad people. I so thought you were
going to say Mr. Mom.
Yeah, or Gung Ho
or something. I don't know what.
I feel like most of his comedy,
he's like he's a hero by the end of it.
Yeah, he's kind of a hero to his kid in my life.
Remember that movie?
Yeah.
He, like, made all those little movies for his kid
because he had terminal cancer,
so he wasn't going to be around,
and so he, like, taught his kid how to, you know,
make spaghetti and, like, shake a hand and stuff.
Yeah.
Wasn't Nicole Kidman his wife in that?
I think so, yeah. Yeah. Wasn't Nicole Kidman his wife in that? I think so, yeah.
Yeah.
He's multiple heroes in multiplicity.
I was just thinking about that movie the other day,
how he plays five clones of himself.
They talk about how each clone is like a degraded version
of the previous one,
but why would they allow it to get so far to that fifth one
that's just so fucking stupid?
No, it's not each clone.
When you make a clone of a clone,
that's when it's like a photocopy of a photocopy.
That's when the stupid one comes out.
He's here tonight!
Ladies and gentlemen.
Finally, people understand my story.
You want to get nuts?
Is that a pre-Metaverse
movie then? Yeah, I think so.
Yeah. It was ahead of
its time. There's a thing that
comedies do sometimes to get away
with stuff. When that movie came out,
was it in 97, 98?
96, I think.
It's like, you can't play a special needs character
for comedic effect.
But what if he's not special needs?
What if he's in this weird universe, a clone of a clone?
And you're like, okay, now you can act like you're a kid in the 80s
making fun of a stupid kid.
Same thing.
And there's wild moves that movies can do sometimes.
You can't have a straight guy playing a flamboyantly gay character.
It's like, so what can you do?
Well, let's put all these people in a video game,
and then Jack Black can act like a teenage girl,
and then you can have a big flamboyant gay character.
We're talking about Welcome to the Jungle now, Jumanji.
Yes, yeah.
I think they changed the name to Jumanji, Welcome to the Jungle.
Yeah, ever since the Lost World Jurassic Park
It's all been a mess for me
When that one was done in the wrong order
I was like there's no turning back
Like any movie can put any words in any order they want
Yeah remember when it was just like
Friday the 13th 2
Yeah it was that easy
But then you know
Then they had to be... Jaws 2.
Then they had to be the ones
that opened that dumb final chapter door,
which you know does not mean it's a final chapter
because then they get to go a new beginning.
Yeah.
And then the saga continues.
Yeah, and then they're like,
what else do we do?
We just go to Manhattan, you know?
I remember walking out of Nightmare on Elm Street 6,
me and my friend snuck in,
and it's called Freddy's Dead.
And him and I looked at each other, we're like 11 years old,
we're like, I don't think he's dead.
Hasn't he always, in all the movies, he's dead.
No, Doug, they really killed him hard this time.
Yeah, because they did it in 3D, and that was the trick all along.
Right, right.
And if Leonard Maltin didn't like it,
I'm coming to his panel tomorrow to set him straight. Because it was in 3D, right. And if Leonard Maltin didn't like it, I'm coming to his panel tomorrow to set him straight.
Because it was in 3D, baby.
And it had Roseanne and Tom Arnold in it.
Yes, it did.
Yes, it did.
And I think Seth Green is in that one?
No.
Wow.
That was the day Mark and Jonah became bifads.
I'm so sorry you know that.
I just...
I just watched these movies all the time growing up,
and I soak in the information.
Some people know sports stats.
I know exactly who was in which when I was in Elm Street.
I'm sure there's terrible movies you remember everything about.
Unfortunately, yes.
Yes.
Oh, no.
So that was an empathetic.
I'm sorry.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Okay, Elm Street nerd, which Elm Street movie am I in you're in the first versus Jason no
you're in this you're in the second one yes yeah you're in Freddy's Revenge I'm
in the outlier I mean the one where the second one where they already decided
let's take this a different direction yeah let's not do the same thing it's
that last one's fantastic that's a great That's a great one. It's really fun. Did you make that?
Yeah, yeah.
What?
He plays Freddy.
That's the different direction he was talking about.
Do you see how he's saying it? It's a different guy in every movie,
kind of like Friday the 13th movies.
And he's like, welcome to primetime, bitch.
This show, Doug's show is so captivating.
That guy, I bet, didn't know what kind of show
he was going to tonight,
and now he cares so much about you, Doug,
that he's like, what? He was in it?
Yeah.
There's a great documentary about Nightmare on Elm Street Part II
called Scream Queen,
because the guy who was like the final boy
had like a wild story.
But that's a great documentary.
You can get that along with Turn the White Thing
in the book.
What was the movie called?
And if the studios had
their way, they would still own Doug Benson's likeness
and image from Nightmare
on Elm Street 2, Freddy's Revenge.
I'm an extra in the pool party
scene when he
bursts out of the pool.
And I was also the stand-in for the
the gym coach so all the close-ups of his hands wrists and ankles are actually
mine it was a gym coach like how many ankle shots just specifically just like
it's like we need the ankle what is this what are you
framing this i see a foot in here i'm sorry just the ankle yes just now that you mentioned it's
just wrists and hands i don't know why i got excited oh i got so into the ankles part did
that lead to other work though what's that does that lead to other gigs yeah
oh the watch campaign that came right after that?
It was wild.
The gloves?
The power glove.
You're in that thing.
I was an extra in a bunch of stuff.
I grew up in San Diego, moved to LA out of junior college,
and did about a year or two of extra work
that led to stand-in work that just kept leading to things.
And now I do a podcast
in a basement.
Showbiz is a rocky road, everybody.
But yeah, Marshall Bell
is the name of the actor.
The scary-looking guy with the scar
under one eye.
And he was super nice.
But as they often did
in those scenarios even though I was
you know 20 30 years younger than him
maybe not that many but
you know he
he gets attacked by gym equipment
like Freddy makes a bunch of gym equipment
attack him one night
and that's Jonah's
worst nightmare because he's shredded
if gym equipment came at me
I'd be like what's up old friend
So all the
So all the balls are flying
All these balls are flying at him
Out of a cabinet and he crawls over to it
And he closes the cabinet
And it's my hand locking the cabinet
Oh wow
And that just took you completely out of it
But then the gym ropes
go around his wrists
and I think his ankles, but I think
they used his ankles.
And then he gets dragged into the
showers and then they pull him
up to the showers and then he just proceeds to get
whipped in the
showers. I didn't have to do any of that
part. Watch, re-watch
this movie. It's so horny.
It's the horniest of all the
And it wasn't, shooting it was not
horny at all.
It was strange.
In the shower set, I had to
stand there in the position that he was
going to be in, but I had all my clothes on
and he was naked.
For the first take you did.
It feels like I wouldn't have his clothes on. There were no takes yeah you're like you're like it feels like I
would have just close or no takes I didn't film me if you get what did you
get like you know my the cuff of my shirt in this shot you're it's gonna be
ruined what if the my don't they don't film the stand-in that's how they set
the lights I don't know if you work in film at all back and forth between the
stand-in and if you were the double. That's true.
But I did say I was the stand-in
because of that part because I said I had my clothes on.
That would be weird to have my clothes on.
Well, yeah, if they're just showing your wrists,
they're not going to make you take your pants off.
They're not?
Oh, man.
You've got to do a podcast series of this show
of just talking about every single movie.
Like, you gotta do, like, a commentary track
for every movie you did.
I mean, it's people...
After most of the movies,
people will go, what?
You know, because it's...
It really is crazy.
My top three that I say just to, you know,
just to get it out there and make people go,
what, what, what?
Is that I'm in Fast Times, Blade Runner, and Captain EO.
Let me fucking say the third one.
Captain EO I knew about.
I can point myself out in Fast Times, Blade Runner,
and Captain EO.
All right.
Yeah, what indeed.
And then it just gets deeper from there.
And weirder.
Because some of the stuff I was in ended up being pretty obscure now.
Well, Captain EO is very obscure.
You can't see that anywhere.
Yeah, you can't see it anywhere for any reason.
Mark, is that in Song of the South of the two Disney...
What was your answer, Mark?
Ha ha, we don't know what those movies are.
Spotlight. Spotlight.
Spotlight, that's right.
As in put the spotlight on Doug Benson's film resume.
Yeah.
You can't even put that stuff on your resume, you know?
You just did.
But Blade Runner was...
We all know now.
Blade Runner was crazy, though,
because it was like Ridley Scott and Harrison Ford.
That's nuts.
I was there for like five nights they shot overnight at Burbank in
Burbank at one of those studios it's being picketed right now it's a wild
thing to think that like something as amazing as Blade Runner and you're just
like it was in Burbank yeah and you're like now I hate the movie a little bit
just cuz I it's moody and rainy and there's neon and then like they walk out and it's just like 102 degrees and they all go to in and out no it was apparently you
weren't there it was cold as fuck and i saw you know the date and they um well you know i mean
california i guess you could assume it'd be kind of hot out but uh they you know they had artificial
rain the artificial rained on us like now they'd probably add that in post.
But they really would rain on us all night, every night.
I got a cold during it.
It was fun.
I was really sick for a while.
What was your future clothes?
The future clothes, what were those like?
I just had this pea coat that covered my entire body.
Even your wrists?
Yeah.
What about those fucking ankles?
What about those ankles of yours?
I got, you know, in Blade Runner,
there's nobody walking around with their sleeves pushed up.
Yeah.
That look didn't really factor in.
But, okay, quick Blade Runner story.
So, uh...
Too late.
It's the story...
It's the story of these replicants.
No.
One night, we were all just waiting around to shoot another scene,
and Harrison Ford starts screaming at the top of his lungs and swearing,
like, motherfucker, just screaming in agony.
And then next thing you know,
we're done for the night
because he left the set.
And I'm like, God, what the fuck happened?
Why is he being such a weirdo?
What's wrong with Han Solo?
When we signed on to be extras in Blade Runner,
we thought we were going to be in a fun movie
we had no idea that the director of Alien
and the star of Star Wars were going to make such a
serious fucking movie
but anyway
so then the next night I was
standing near him when someone was talking to him
about what happened one of those fucking
futuristic cars he stood
too close to it and it had a crazy
hot tailpipe. And I
got to see Harrison Ford like pull his
pant leg up and reveal this giant
horrible burn on
his leg. You got to see his ankle?
Yeah.
I'm telling you, even with that burn there, it was
pretty fucking sexy. It's an ankle.
How could it not be? It was exciting.
Yeah. You and me both. We're not
feet guys. We're ankle guys.
Yeah.
Take it up a notch.
Go north, I say.
Yeah.
All right, Leonard.
I apologize for that long story.
We are going to play some games right after this break.
We're back.
Yay.
Yay. We're back! Yay!
Go ahead and dim those lights.
I've seen enough.
We picked some name tags during the break.
Leonard's playing for Raising Carizona.
Yeah!
And Jonah's playing for K-La-La Land.
And Mark is playing for Andrew,
who stands in solidarity with the writers.
And I assume SAG-AFTRA as well,
or the other way around.
Yeah, he brought the SAG-AFTRA strike poster.
Let's do it, Andrew.
We can turn the tide, you and me, baby.
Yeah, you're also supposed
to return those
at the end of the day, so.
Oh, that's,
he just brought a picket sign
that he got from them?
Yeah.
Wait, is that sign a scab?
Yeah, a scab!
You gonna go back
and picket some more?
Yeah.
Yeah, okay.
He's gonna go back with it.
That's probably good.
That's good.
You could probably keep it
if you're gonna go back with it. I mean, I've taken's good. You could probably keep it if you're going to go back with it.
I mean, I've taken a few.
Yeah, I got a few in the car.
Yeah.
Do you guys, have you written funny shit on yours like people do?
I did one where I did the silhouettes from the Mr. Science Theater,
and my son said,
these movies won't make fun of themselves.
That was just during the WGA
thing and I'm on a show
that does that so I don't know what I can say
or not say. It's a mystery as to
what show it might be. Yeah, exactly.
It's not an exact science.
I actually saw a sign.
I can't remember what movie it was but they
put the title of the movie and
then they had the silhouette of Crow and Tom Servo.
And it was like, well, you could tell what it was.
I was like, I could never do that.
Was there a human silhouette?
It was.
Did they have like a guy in there?
That looked like maybe taller and whiter than the other guys?
You know, the guy seems unfamiliar, but definitely Crow and Tom Servo.
Yeah, but like it's like.
The stars of that show.
I mean, sure, sure, sure. We're definitely there. But it's kind of iconic, the three Crow and Tom Servo. The stars of that show. Sure, sure, sure.
But it's kind of iconic, the three.
You watch the show for Crow and Tom
Servo, and then there's a guy
that his name escapes me.
He's kind of like the glue, right? You would consider him the glue.
You know, he gets them water.
Sure, yeah.
They're robots, so they don't really need that.
He does a little song and dance when they're taking their...
Yeah, he's rapped a couple times, too.
This first game we're going to play,
you're allowed to do it
any time you want,
is called
Live, Die, Repeat.
Leonard loves this one, I think.
This is where I say the title of an actual movie,
slowly, one word at a time.
The first person who can say that full title
correctly and accurately in its entirety
is the winner.
Every time you guess wrong,
I'll start back at the beginning of the title
until somebody gets it right. Have you ever
played this game before, Jonah? No, this is a new one for me.
Also, you don't have me on the show that much anymore.
Now I understand why.
Oh, Jesus.
We've known each other
20 years. I can tell him that he's mean to me.
The crowd is pulling for you, Mark.
Yeah.
Oh, no. It's always
great to have you, and this is how this works.
Yeah, you just have to repeat back the title.
It sounds weird, and it is.
But, you know, Mark knows this game.
We all got floored by Padgett Brewster's ability at this game last time I played.
Oh, yeah.
She was good at it.
Unbelievable.
Yeah.
So we'll see how you guys do.
Do you want to practice one?
No, no, no.
Let's just dive in.
Okay.
Jesus.
I like it.
I was going to do it for anybody else.
I want to practice one.
I mean.
Jonah's just jumping in two ankles deep, ready to go.
It doesn't matter. The points, it doesn't. Well, let's try it. Let's just Jonah's just jumping in two ankles deep, ready to go. It doesn't matter.
The points, it doesn't...
Well, let's just try one just for fun.
Okay. MASH.
This is really fun.
Oh, sorry. You started now?
Yeah, MASH.
The movie MASH.
Yeah, you guys are great at this.
Glad we practiced.
Wait, what the fuck is this game?
You said you were going to say it slowly.
Oh, I didn't say MASH slowly enough?
No, you said it like the word is.
MASH?
Yes.
What's not slowly?
Do you want me to do a longer one?
No, I want you to say MASH,
that's not slowly.
Say MASH not slowly.
What?
Mash.
That had a good rhythm to it. Oh, that was slowly.
Mash is not slowly.
I don't understand why you...
Yeah, on second thought, Doug, we can probably...
See, this is like every time somebody's confused
by this game and you're just falling into that trap
right now.
True Grit.
Like, do you guys not hear movie titles?
Like, are you deaf to the concept?
I don't want to promote it.
Let's take it back to one.
Re-say what the game is supposed to be?
I say a title of a movie.
First person to repeat it back
in its entirety wins. Would you like a
practice one? I do a short one
because why do we want to waste time with long
ones during the practice
part? Because you said
you were going to say it slowly, I thought. I will
when we play the fucking game.
But why is it part of the practice if you don't do it?
Because it's funny to see
you just sit there and not repeat back
an easy, simple
title. Jaws. Let's practice
some baseball. Jaws. Let's practice some baseball.
Jaws. Jaws.
See, you'd win. You're great
at it.
Let's use the equipment if we're going to practice.
Wow.
I love seeing friendships end.
No, this happens every time.
We always have this.
This is like our thing.
If it happens every time, the common denominator...
Then you should...
Would be you.
Every time you and I do this.
This part where you're extra spinning out
about how I didn't say it slowly enough.
That's new.
This is the first time I've ever played this game.
So this is the first time.
Right, exactly.
So I tried to talk you through it
and you seem to understand it
less than anybody in the room.
I'm explaining it to you.
Everybody else knows how it works.
Yes, but have you noticed
the amount of laughter that's happened because of it?
It was.
There was a lot of laughter until you said that.
That's true.
And Matt put the brakes on it.
Yeah.
Completely.
People don't like to see me have confidence in what I do.
To all the listeners out there listening to this after the fact,
Leonard looks like their couples therapist.
Therapist.
Just letting them each have their piece.
I almost feel that way, too.
All right, let's do it.
We'll just skip to the next game.
Good call.
That's a good call.
You guys didn't do anything either.
We were letting you...
You've never played before.
We were letting you have an at-bat.
First of all,
Leonard doesn't give a shit
about this game. He's not
even going to try, probably.
It's just between you guys,
and I just wanted you to be up to speed,
Jonah, and hopefully you understand
how it works.
Here we go.
I'm not dumb.
No, you just question
everything.
Do I?
I'm going to call you Pete Holmes Light.
No, God!
All right, you know, friends really know how to hurt other friends.
Okay, here we go.
Gotta say the whole thing back.
Where is it?
Super.
Super 8.
Super.
Mario Brothers, the movie.
Super.
Super Bad.
Super. Superman. Super. Superman 2 super that's why I
met my slow Jonah's oh yeah no I wouldn't rush to the next word until The movie. Superman
and
The
Mole Men.
Superman and the Mole Men.
Leonard Mulvey's our winner!
And Joda, you were right.
He doesn't win anything, really.
Exactly.
So for the real game, you use multiple word movie titles,
not just mash.
Right.
Or two words. Or two words.
Or a lot of words.
Yeah.
You didn't know yet how many words were going to be in the title.
That's true.
A lot of times it's even longer than this one we did today.
Great. Okay, cool.
Next time you do a practice session,
just make it seem like the game that you're actually about to fucking play.
It was.
It's repeat back the title of the movie that I say.
And then as a joke, I say a really short one.
Because it's funny,
because people still just sit there and look at me,
and they can't figure it out. You know what? I do finally
get it. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I just want to help.
I love when
my friends come over and mom and dad fight.
Not helping, Mark.
Those third-party interjections of those situations
are never good.
I'll lighten the mood.
All right.
No, but this is, we are having a great time.
Leonard.
That's such a dad thing to say after a fight.
Damn it, we're all going to have ice dinner.
I gotta beg you to stop comparing me to all the things I'm not.
I'm not a gay man.
I'm not a dad.
We're not friends.
We're not friends.
I mean, we're not a couple, that's for sure.
That's for damn sure.
Not anymore.
Yeah, so...
sir. That's for damn sure.
Not anymore. Yeah, so...
Joda is
going to go
third in this next game.
Just so he has time to understand the premise.
We'll start with Leonard
and then we'll go to Mark
and then to Jonah.
And the game is called, in honor
of being here at Comic- Jonah and the game is called, in honor of being here at Comic-Con,
the game is called Batman v Superman.
I am going, thank you, I am going to,
I should have done it this way,
this game is called Batman v Superman!
That one person over there,
he really did what was
supposed to be happening.
Worst idea ever. Not your
game. That movie.
Oh, yes.
Yeah, I mean,
people would argue about how it turned
out, but yeah, just to begin with,
Batman versus Superman doesn't sound right.
Seems like, why why these are the last
two people that should be fighting each other
yeah I mean they both have a
mother named Martha can't they just get along
all right so
all right so here's what's going to happen
like I said we're going to start with Leonard I'm going
to say a line from
a motion picture
and you tell me it's multiple choice leonard gets a guess if
it's superman batman or neither and if leonard misses it then mark gets a shot at it because
with only two guesses two possible answers remaining and if he misses, then Jonah will get the gimme point on this first round
because obviously there will only be one
choice left. Whenever
somebody gets one right, we start with the next
person on the next round.
I think that's all. Oh!
When it's your turn,
starting with Leonard,
I don't want to say the line in a way that
Batman or Superman would say it,
so I'd like you to suggest a cartoon character,
an impression, accent, whatever you're feeling,
whatever you'd like for me to attempt when saying this line.
Leonard's so bummed out he said yes to this.
He's been on more times than you.
He sure has. Yeah. It's been on more times than you. He sure is.
Yeah.
It was just he was giving a look.
I don't, but see, like, there's just a point
where you could just move on and play the games.
You don't need to keep going back to
that there's some sort of issue.
I didn't, no, he was just...
He's, he's, like, a willing participant.
Yeah, no, he gave me, like, a comical look,
and it was just a fun thing.
Foghorn Leghorn. See, there's a good one. That's a willing participant. Yeah, no. He gave me like a comical look, and it was just a fun thing. Foghorn Leghorn.
See, there's a good one.
Yeah, yeah.
That's a perfect example.
All right, here we go.
Got us back on track with one character name.
That's, well, because that's all he had to do.
Yeah.
That was all that had to happen.
All right, here we go.
I say boy, I say boy.
Forget that part.
I was just getting into character.
The knight is here.
The knight
is here.
I'm going to guess Batman.
Incorrect.
Ouch.
Mark.
I would like you to perform that line as the late, great Gilbert Gottfried.
Aww.
Aww.
What?
They just appreciate the little tribute.
Yeah.
Like I said, do it as my dad.
I'm like, no, it's a beloved comedian.
Wait, wait.
Nice.
Wait.
Wait.
The night is here.
Affleck. is here. Aflac.
Is that a clue?
Is there a Superman movie with a duck?
Do you remember
what Leonard said?
Leonard guessed Batman.
I think you're having a little Tom Ford
with all of us, and I'm going to say that's in neither.
That is correct!
Oh, wow.
Only point I'm getting all night.
See you guys later.
That was Lex Luthor in Batman v. Superman.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, it's in that movie.
So I don't know.
I don't know how deep that cut is.
Kind of a popular movie that people argue about to this day.
Here's another deep cut from way back in 2015.
I mean, none of these lines are going to be,
I'm Batman or some shit like that.
Although I'm not above doing something like that.
If, perchance, Superman might have said it.
Or someone else.
All right.
Jonah, you're up first.
What?
Oh, yeah.
I want you to say it.
Say it.
Do this one as Pete Holmes.
Denver, yeah!
What does that say?
Oh, okay.
I've, no, that sounds like Gilbert Gottfried again.
Do you want me to pick someone else?
Wash my damn towels.
He's hard to do.
He's like, if I'm not saying Denver, yeah.
That's because that's my...
That's my phrase go-to expression.
But let's try it.
Let's try this anyway.
I've killed things from...
It still sounds like Gilbert Gottfried.
Let's just stick with Gilbert. I've killed things from other worlds before.
Batman.
Incorrect.
Leonard.
Say it again.
I say, I say,
I've killed things
from other worlds before.
Boy.
Neither.
That is correct.
I was sure that was Batman.
Yeah.
From Batman.
Well, yeah, that's tough.
Yeah, that was Wonder Woman in Batman v Superman.
Deep cut.
All right, here we go.
So, Leonard got the point, so we're off to Mark.
Mark's already on the board at one point.
This is crucial.
Who would you like me to do it as?
Okay, I'll do it as somebody alive to be safe.
And thank God they are, because they're a treasure.
International.
Paul McCartney.
Paul McCartney.
international, Paul McCartney.
It's time you learn how... It's time you...
It's easy, really.
It's time you learn what it means To be a man
Wonderful Christmas time
Can I get a quick clarification
These lines have to be uttered by Batman or Superman Or just in a movie Can I get a quick clarification?
These lines have to be uttered by Batman or Superman or just in a movie?
Is it said by Batman or by Superman or neither?
I'm going to say it's by Batman.
You think Batman said that?
Yeah, like Robin or somebody.
Yeah, I don't even know who he said it to, but yes, it was Batman.
Look at that.
Look at that.
Who else would he have said it to?
Alfred?
Yeah, I don't... What?
Yeah, I guess so.
That feels like a Batman forever kind of thing.
Yeah.
Or, you know,
he might have said it's Superman.
They talk a lot of shit to each other.
I'm not going to tell Superman to be a man.
He's Superman. You're just going to learn Superman to be a man. He's Superman.
You're just going to learn how to be a man.
He's already done it.
An Earthman.
Batman teaches him how to be an Earthman.
He's just a fucking spaceman.
Until Batman gets his hands on him.
All right.
Mark's got two.
Let's go to Jonah.
You get first shot at this one.
All right.
Do it as Rip Torn.
Larry! Larry!
Larry!
Larry!
Larry!
Fuck you, Larry!
Which one am I doing?
Oh yeah, this one.
Okay. Okay.
You don't own the world.
You don't owe the world a thing.
You never did.
So that sounds like someone would be talking to Superman because, like, responsibility for everything as people with power should. I'm gonna say it and it
wasn't because they were fighting so it's not something Batman would say to
him so I'm gonna say neither. You're going neither?
Sometimes when I say neither, it sounds... It sounds like I'm saying Batman.
It's funny.
You're laughing, but it happens all the time to me.
Mash.
Mash.
Side point.
Okay.
Neither is correct One and a half points on that round
But he said it to
It was Martha Kent said that
To Superman
Yeah
Makes sense
Or it was written by an AI.
Yeah.
Yeah, which won't make any sense at all.
That's why the two Marthas thing.
The AI was just like, it's a mom.
Her name has to be Martha.
I'm a computer.
Humans love their moms.
Yes.
We all have dads and Marthas in our lives.
Your dad was called Pa, too?
You ready, Leonard?
I doubt it. Go ahead.
How would you like it?
How would you like me to serve it?
As Pepe Le Pew.
Okay.
You know, it's a cartoon that doesn't actually smell.
No, but I think they're booing his general attitude.
He was pretty creepy, Pepe Le Pew.
You know what I mean?
Like, he wasn't?
Okay. You're never too long to learn that if you like something
You should hold it against their will
Especially if you're a skunk and it's a cat
What a fun misunderstanding
Interspecial
There's a skunk out here trying to have sex with our cat
Don't worry about it, we're French Go a skunk out here trying to have sex with our cat. Don't worry about it.
We're French.
Go off, skunk.
All right.
Ho, ho, ho, ho, sherry.
Ho, ho, ho, ho.
I don't even remember what he sounds like, really.
No one stays good in this world.
I'm going to guess
Batman.
Oh, Leonard.
Incorrect.
Mark Ellis
for the win.
I'm going to need a repeat.
Oh, shit.
How would you like it?
I'm going to need a repeat as
Dukes of Hazzard era Waylon Jennings.
I don't know if the various eras of his existence
would have much difference in my impression.
Well, we won't know until we hear it.
Oh, okay.
I'm trying to figure out
what he'd sound like around that time.
No, I got to find the line again.
I want to say the wrong one.
Okay.
No one stays good in this world.
I'm Waylon Jennings.
That was more James Van Der Beek in Varsity Blues.
James Van Der Beek?
You mean Dawson from Down by the Creek?
All right.
What do you got, Mark?
Man, I feel like Superman wouldn't give up on our world like that,
but he did one time kind of go a little dark there in Justice League,
so I'm going to say it was Superman.
That is correct.
Was that when he
kind of turned against the Justice League?
It's all from the same movie.
Yeah.
Yeah, Batman v Superman.
I was thinking of all the whole canon.
No, don't you pay attention.
It's so simple what he does.
Oh, jeez.
There was never any
explanation of whether or not
it would be from multiple movies or just one.
My God.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But you did it.
You somehow are complaining about having just won the game.
Like, what is with this game I just won?
Somehow that was bull.
What am I, the worst, luckiest man?
Congratulations, Mark.
We're going to be right back.
One more game after these messages.
We're back!
We've been discussing lately on this show that any names longer than one syllable
aren't that fun to chant, so...
So that's why it's harder to get the Leonard chant going,
but a gentleman tried during the commercial break,
so thank you.
I appreciate it, too.
Thank you for that.
Yeah, that was very sweet.
And we got time for one more game.
Actually, not enough time for one more game,
but we're going to play it anyway and try to get it in.
And hopefully I won't be too confusing in the explanation of this game
because it is, of course, it's too complicated for its own good.
True Grit.
It's called.
Third place.
All right.
It's called...
The game is called Last Person Standing!
Back in the day, when we'd play this game, we'd get one name of an actor or actress.
We'd take turns naming movies that person was in.
If you can't think of one, you're out.
You can go to your lifeline once,
which is the person whose name tag you picked this evening.
But now we've added a little bit of a twist to it.
It's super last person standing.
So we use three names.
And you can pull.
Here come your drinks.
Thank you, Michelle.
Let's hear it for the waitstaff here at American Cock Comedy.
Cock Company.
Be sure to tip them well this evening.
Comic Con weekend's just getting going for them.
It's going to be crazy.
Mark's here tomorrow night,
and people won't hear this until Monday.
All right, so...
Thanks for a great show, everyone.
Yeah.
And the three names...
Also, I play along in this game just for fun,
but the three names we're going to name movies from,
and you can name movies from any, you know,
of the three people.
You don't have to be narrowed down to one
or the one that your lifeline chose,
but it's going to be your lifelines
that are going to pick.
And last time I said,
please pick an actress,
two people picked men
and one person picked an actress.
So today I'm putting my foot down.
Actresses only.
Cool.
Yeah.
I mean, Nick Cage is great,
but we don't have to play his name every time.
I love him. I love him. I love him. Pig is great, but we don't have to play his name every time. I love him.
I love him.
I love him.
Pig is one of my favorites.
Who has my pig?
All right.
So where is your lifeline, Mark, again?
That is Andrew over there representing the wonderful unions and guilds.
And he says, Kate Winslet, great one.
Great actress. Excellent choice choice jonah what do
you uh okay la la la going from k lala land nicole kidman is on her i forgot to mention that part of
the reason that jonah picked uh kayla lala land is because uh she's wearing a shirt that has nicole
kidman uh staring at the big silver screen in awe
like Nicole Kidman
does.
Heartbreak feels good in a place like this, Doug.
It sure does.
Embarrassment feels good in a place
like this.
There's so many movies where heartbreak doesn't even come
into it, really.
She knows what she likes.
I have Raising Carozona over here.
Oh, okay.
What are you picking, Carozona?
Three Fs and a P, Michelle Pfeiffer.
Oh, boy.
Wow, I like the way you said that.
Three Fs and a P, Michelle Pfeiffer.
Yeah, Michelle Pfeiffer mentioned in a song by Hugo Mars.
Hugo Bruno.
Hugo Mars.
That's like the cover band.
Yeah.
All right.
All right, so we got our three names.
They are Kate Winslet and Nicole Kidman.
Wow, this is going to be interesting.
It's going to be long.
Yeah, well, is it?
And who was the third one?
Michelle, okay.
Michelle Feist with the P's and the F.
Okay.
All right, so we start with Mark, who won that last game,
and then we go to Jonah, then Leonard, then me, and then around.
All right.
I'll just get this over with.
Been in the news.
We don't need to talk about it.
Titanic.
Jonah, over to you.
All right.
Just rewatched it the other day.
It's still horny as fuck.
Let's go.
Eyes wide shut for Nicole Kidman there.
Grease 2.
Oh!
Flatter! Flatter!
Flatter!
Huh?
No, no, no.
You can't get it going.
Just can't get it going, I guess.
It's like...
Chants just aren't coming together to represent our individual
people though like I'm standing for Andrew this is like tattletales with the different yellow blue
and green sections in the banana section all right uh grace too well if we're good let's let's go Let's do some early Michelle Pfeiffer, and I'll say Dangerous Minds.
Oh, nice.
I'll go earlier Michelle Pfeiffer with Batman Returns.
Nice.
I'll go weirder Michelle Pfeiffer with Wolf.
Yeah, that's a good one.
Lady Hawk. Yeah. That's a good one. Lady Hawk.
Nice.
I'm starting to worry this is going to go
into the night.
Is that a Bob Seger track?
They all have
long resumes. Yeah, they do.
Now we have to come up with a movie and a witty
line to set it up?
You don't have to.
If you think of one.
All right.
I'll try to think of one.
This night could turn into the next Days of Thunder.
It was something.
Yeah.
It was something.
This was, I believe, just an uncredited cameo, but Kate Winslet in Hot Fuzz.
Oh, I like it.
That's cute.
Good work.
I would have saved that for later.
Yeah, yeah, but I'm struggling.
Far and away.
Oh, far and away.
Yes.
Punches a horse.
I think you're thinking of Blazing Saddles.
No, he punches a horse.
He's like, I don't want to fight you.
No, I know you were right.
I was making a joke about another movie
where somebody punches a horse.
Oh, yeah, I'm sorry.
That's all right.
You're a good actor.
It's okay.
Here we go.
I just want it dead calm in here.
Oh, hey, that's a movie.
Yep, she's in a movie called In Here.
I'm going to go with What Lies Beneath.
Yeah, we're going heavy Pfeiffer so far.
Give Winslet some love, maybe a little Kidman.
I mean, I did.
Okay.
Both of those people.
All right, but now it's your turn, and I'm saying we're doing a lot of fight first.
Because I'm blanking.
Oh, shit.
You want to go to your lifeline?
That's wild.
No, that's impossible.
It's never too early to go to your lifeline.
I know.
The problem is his lifeline is wearing a Nicole Kidman shirt, but it's her looking at a movie screen.
Yeah, exactly.
Not a Nicole Kidman film.
I just don't want to appear weak.
Right.
Yeah, but see, it might jumpstart some other ideas.
Moulin Rouge!
Exclamation point at the end.
But not Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge.
He laid off on that one.
It's not his place.
Lion with Nicole Kidman Academy Award nomination.
I mean, that movie was to die for.
Oh!
There it is.
All right.
Oh, it's another Batman.
Batman Forever.
Yeah.
Dr. Chase Meridian.
There you go.
Nice.
No bonus points for that kind of information.
Jonah.
I'm starting to get...
Australia. Yes! Yes! Jonah. I'm starting to get...
Australia.
Yes!
I mean, one of them is probably...
Any continent you name, probably one of them...
That's a good point.
Might have done something.
What do you got, Leonard?
Who can go to your lifeline?
Not yet.
Dangerously Azuls.
Not yet. Dangerously as Holmes. Not yet.
Dangerously as Holmes.
Yes.
Very good.
I'll tell you a favorite
Michelle Pfeiffer of mine
instead of working it
into a sentence.
Married to the mob.
Oh, good deep cut.
I am going to say Avatar.
Okay, but what's your answer?
Oh, you mean the more recent one?
What?
Or just Avatar?
Just Avatar.
Which one was in just Avatar?
Kate Winslet.
Is in Avatar?
Yeah, she was in Avatar, The Way of the Water. Is in Avatar? Yeah, she was in Avatar The Way of the Water.
That's what I meant,
the more recent one.
Oh, yeah.
The 2009 one doesn't count.
That's like a prequel.
Jonah?
I don't know what just happened.
I don't either.
Now I'm just thinking
I could just name a movie
where people don't look like themselves.
I mean, we're like, I'll say Secret of NIMH.
Everyone's like, one of them probably had a voice in it.
No, I know that one.
She's not in it.
I love movies.
I'm blanking out, so I'm going to...
It happens.
I'm sorry, Kehlal.
I know there's a lot of movies, but I also...
Yeah.
No, it's tough.
This game is like this.
Yeah, it's 100 push-ups, really, just catching up with me.
So I'm going to recuse myself from the rest of the game, because I...
Thank you for playing Jonah Ray, everybody!
That gave you some time, Leonard.
Did you come up with something? Did we already say eyes wide shut? Yeah. All right. That gave you some time, Leonard.
Did you come up with something?
We already say eyes wide shut?
Yeah.
All right.
Happy feet.
Nice.
Oh, man.
Happy feet, too.
All right.
I don't want to have to go to my lifeline yet, so I'll just say the life of David Gale.
Whoa. It's real. I promise. want to have to go to my lifeline yet so i'll just say the life of david gale whoa
it's real i promise it's yeah nobody remembers it because well it wasn't
going to be memorable to begin with but then it stars a guy that stars that guy yeah isn't doing
it anymore or maybe it's in private the reader the reader the reader holy smokes The Reader. The Reader. The Reader. Holy smokes.
Is a Kate Winslet movie that one guy, one guy laughed at that.
Mark?
Kate Winslet was in, not Kate, Nicole Kimden was in Malice.
Yes. With Baldwin.
Yep, yep.
It's true.
I'm not just saying facts up here. That's my answer. Yep. Yep. It's true. I'm not just saying facts up here.
That's my answer.
Yeah.
What do you think, Leonard?
Do you want to do your lifeline?
Yeah.
What's Leonard's lifeline say?
One fine day.
One fine day.
Oh, nice one.
With George Clooney and Mae Whitman was the little girl.
She's been working ever since.
And the little boy was somebody famous too
but I forget
okay
it's going to take
something special for me to think of another one
like I'm going to need some sort of
practical magic
oh
mmm
well this one might just be buying me time
so I'm going to say Ant-Man and the Wasp.
Yeah, finally.
Right.
Some guy put a lot of money on somebody saying Ant-Man and the Wasp up here.
The Witches of Eastwick.
Very good.
That's a good one.
That was a bad one for us to forget.
That was a bad one for us to forget.
Remember that movie where Kate Winslet had a baby? It was called
Labor Day.
It was actually about the weekend.
Still the name of the movie. Mark?
Oh, damn it. Yeah, they're all in one of those
Gary Marshall. That was Ivan Reitman's Still the name of the movie. Mark? Oh, damn it. Yeah, they're all in one of those.
That was Ivan Reitman's son did that movie, Labor Day.
It's Josh Brolin and Kate Winslet.
It's weird.
It's not fun.
Yeah, I might need a little jump start.
Andrew, help me out.
Titanic?
Are you kidding?
That's the first thing he said.
Andrew, you've been
in the sun too long striking, man.
This whole time he's been like, if he comes to me,
I got it.
I fucking got this.
Hurry, before he could...
Say something else.
What's another one?
He hasn't been thinking about other ones.
Put your phone down.
My phone's off.
I can't see it.
I don't know.
No, the way you're holding your hand to your head looks like you're on the phone.
Titanic?
Yeah, you got to get Titanic off the brain, man.
It's over.
It's sunk.
What's on the phone got,'s sunk That's all he's got
Sorry bro
I mean it was a really good movie
He tried
And they did re-release it does that count
Yes
You just have to say the new year that it was released
In parenthesis
Okay wait I think I got one Movie 43 Yes. You just have to say the new year that it was released in parentheses.
Okay, wait.
I think I got one.
Movie 43.
Oh, okay.
Is that allowed?
Kate Winslet said that. Why wouldn't it be?
Because he already went for his lifeline, and his lifeline fucked it up.
Right, but his lifeline just didn't have something for him, so he still has to answer it for himself.
Okay, cool.
Sorry.
I forgot about that.
Are you still in the game, young man?
I bowed out gracefully.
Jonah's going to be doing sit-ups
for the rest of the game.
Leonard, where are you at?
The Hours.
The Hours.
Nicole Kidman got nominated for that
because she had that nose
I think she won for that one
okay
but we really are pretty low
on the bottom of the barrel here but the one that he was
trying to think of is that she did work with
Leo again in a movie called
Revolution Road
yeah
right there
is that it for you
Mark
no
give me
15 seconds
all right
while you're thinking
Jonah Ray
I know we
there's
it's a minefield
what you can plug
and what you can't plug
but you want to give people
like your
socials and stuff
like follow him
at Jonah Radio
no we don't do that anymore
you have that name
on your socials though.
I do?
It's still a Twitter account.
Oh yeah, that guy's still doing that.
We gave the credentials to some kid.
You did?
Yeah, he just keeps on going.
Oh my God.
Very nice.
Well, you should read it
because he's writing some really funny stuff.
I was like, Jonah's so funny.
That's why we gave it to him.
Jonah's hilarious.
Better than any of us that did it.
But yeah, we gave it to him.
Where do people really get to you at jonah ray on uh
instagram is kind of the only one i use and then uh but also uh i directed two stand-up specials
uh um that are on youtube uh through 800 pound gorilla uh but it was uh kurt breinholer um uh
and uh kyle canane and i'm really proud of the way I did it. Oh, yeah!
Those guys have both looked at me with disgust when I described that game that we played earlier.
That's why they asked me.
They said, you wouldn't get it either.
You guys all have something in common.
Kyle hasn't been on in a while.
I wanted to get him in.
He was at a festival in Pittsburgh this last weekend,
but the timing wasn't right.
But Braun Oller was on
recently.
Always a great guest.
They're free on YouTube, those specials.
They're both very, very funny.
I can say that confidently because I have nothing to do with it
besides help him.
You
could have made him less funny, but you didn't.
I chose not to. I could have just...
You chose to really highlight the good stuff.
Yeah.
What a director.
All right.
Mark, we're back to you.
Yeah, it was a good long plug.
Thank you, Jonah.
I have landed on,
if you watch two episodes of Mare of Easttown,
it feels like one really compelling movie.
I'm going to say Into the Woods
because one of them might be in it.
No.
Meryl Streep's in it.
Well, she's like the same thing.
She really is.
She's the combination of all of them.
If you cut off Meryl Streep's head, they all die.
They're just award-winning.
They're just award-winning actresses.
They're just all going for the E-guy.
I thought I heard it, but I didn't.
I was like, I got it, coach.
I got it.
All right.
What the fuck?
All right.
Mark's out.
You got one more, Leonard?
You got one more in the tank?
The interpreter.
The interpreter.
Ladies and gentlemen.
What's happening over there?
I'm hosting a show over here.
Leonard Balton is our winner!
Leonard! Leonard! Leonard!
Leonard! Leonard! Leonard!
All right, what happened over there?
So, like, when I was, like was trying to cheat to help him earlier,
I was like, Changeling.
Changeling?
And then he was like, what did you say?
I said, Changeling.
He was like, that's fucking Angelina Jolie.
And I was like, oh, I would have fucked you over.
He whispered it, and I heard Changeling,
and I'm like, I couldn't have heard Changeling
because that's Angelina Jolie.
But I acted like I heard it, and I acknowledged that he was right, and I'm like, I couldn't have heard Changeling because that's Angelina Jolie. But I acted like I heard it and I acknowledged that he was right
and I'm like, that's not right.
It's so wild how like unaware I am
of my Machiavellian tendencies
to just be like, I'm going to help this guy out.
This is crazy.
This is two shows in a row
where someone who's been drinking
tried to help by giving a wrong answer.
Yeah.
But the last time it was an audience member.
I'm getting Changeling from the director.
I'm getting Titanic
from Andrew.
The recycled, you know.
I had no help here,
but I still love everybody.
Yes.
Mark Ellis,
what would you like to plug?
My new special,
Alive and Well,
is now available on YouTube.
Please check it out
and support independent comedy.
I, you know,
we produced it ourselves.
All Things Comedy put it out
and it's a labor of love,
so you guys get to enjoy it.
Thank you guys so much for...
for being here and keeping the art of stand-up comedy alive.
And thriving, I might add.
And our winner today, Leonard Maltin, everybody.
I'm posting my review of Oppenheimer on my website tomorrow
LeonardMalton.com
I'm at Leonard Malton on the other socials
For the listeners who might not have heard it
There was a very humorously placed deep cut.
I mean, the guy said deep cut.
But thank you for being here, Leonard.
Am I wrong, or have you maybe never won before?
No, there was one other occasion.
One other time.
Out of dozens of appearances,
this is his second win.
It's a rare moment.
Yeah, but you killed it tonight.
Holy shit.
Wow.
And yeah, let me see if I got anything
that I could
plug that I don't have to
oh thank you
oh we're gonna do
Benson Movie Interruption is back
in Los Angeles
at Dynasty Typewriter we're gonna do one
on Monday night August
7th and
I'd like to thank American
Cock Comedy,
Cock Company,
Cocker, Cocker,
and
all of my guests, Mark Ellis,
Jonah Ray, and
Leonard Maltin!
Leonard!
Alright. As always, cue that end music. All right.
As always, cue that end music.
I won't let you down again.
Now it's time for Doug to watch another talkie.
Eyes of gold, his viewing prowess makes him cocky.
There's no room in his heart for you.
Cause Doug loves movies.