Doug Loves Movies - Cinefamily III

Episode Date: November 8, 2012

This ep features the opening portion of The Benson Movie Interruption at Cinefamily in L.A. where Doug chats with guests Graham Elwood and Matt Besser, plus one of the stars of Smokey and the Bandit! (Hint: Paul Williams)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Doug hates candy wrappers screaming baby sticky seeds with 50 azepop or kirtle. Hey everybody, my name is Doug and I love movies. This is Doug Loves Movies, mini boner episode coming to you from the airport in Columbus, Ohio on November 9th to Oceans 12. Since last I spoke, you listened. I got drunk and saw Argo. I know, I know, Argo fucked myself. I'll watch it some other time before sharing my opinion. Last night I did a Benson movie interruption at Cinefamily in Los Angeles. My guests Graham Elwood and Matt Besser helped me to interrupt Smokey and the Bandit, and one of the stars of the film stopped by to say hello. I'll share the shitty audio from the pre-movie part of the show at the end of this ep.

I flew to Columbus, Ohio today to do a couple of sets in the Death Squad shows here tomorrow night. And on the plane, I watched The Social Network. That movie gets better every time I see it. Michael Cera is great in it. JK, Jesse Eisenberg. Thursday, November 13th at UCB in LA, my guest of honor will be Carl Jenkins, who won the fake trailer contest and gets to be a guest on the show, and he got to request who would be on with him, and I'm happy to report several of his favorites and yours and mine have agreed to appear.

So come to that if you're in L.A. And I'll be taping a Doug Loves Movies at Comedy Mix in Vancouver on Saturday, November 17th at 4.20. Only a few tickets left for that one, so get on it. And all of my tour dates can be found at DougLovesMovies.com. at douglovesmovies.com As always, my shitty audio recordings of bonus episodes

is a shithead. Thank you, Hedrian. Hey, everybody. How you doing? Thank you so much for coming. I know it's raining in Los Angeles, so people are just like, fuck it.

I realize we live in a land of cat people who as soon as it starts raining, they're like, I'm not going out there. I can't risk having some rain on me. That would be terrible if that happened to me. So especially when there's potentially having to

stand in line out in front of the theater. You guys braved it. You guys braved the non-rain. It's also stopped raining. That doesn't change people. It might start up again. I'm going to stay inside until May.

So, but I shouldn't complain about the people not showing up to the people who did show up. I appreciate you being here, and I think you're in for a good time. I'm getting all stuck in the tape as I try to remove it from the seats in the front row, and I say, bless you to whoever is apparently somebody who's allergic to either Smokies or Bandits. Are you guys excited to see

Smoky and the Bandit on the big screen? That's something I haven't done since probably around when it came out. What year did it come out, you guys? 77! 77! So,

really kind of like around the same time as Star Wars, right? Was this movie where they just race around in cars and there's no special effects other than the awesomeness of, you know, racing around in cars. Let me bring out my co-interrupters. One of the co-interrupters canceled at the last minute, and she sent me a picture of herself. She looks pretty sick,

so I hope that she gets better, and we're welcome to come out here right now. My friends, Graham Elwood and Matt Besser, ladies and gentlemen. Nice job. Oh, my goodness. I'm going to sit across from it. I'm right there. Where do you want to go, Matt?

You want to come down here? You want to sit right there, buddy? Everybody. to go, Matt. You want to come down here? You have to sit right there, buddy. Hey, everybody. That's Matt Besser for the listeners to the podcast. I record this part of the show in case I

decide people might want to hear it. Hang on to your ass, Fred. That, of course, is we've invited the ghost of Jerry Reed to come down. Is he dead? I think he's still alive. Is Jerry Reed still alive? Yeah.

Oh, he's dead. Now look at our peers. No, seriously, he's no longer with us. That's what your grandpa would everybody. Such a fan of the movie. Not even aware of who's living or dead. Let me go through real quick. Just guess on each one. Sally Field.

Dead. Correct. Bert Reynolds. Partially alive. Also correct. Papa Cormac. Yeah, he's dead. Yes. Jackie Gleason. Still alive.

Has a show in Vegas, in the Riviera. Really good show, you have to check it out. He dresses up like Cher. He does all kinds of wrong. Paul Williams. He's dead. Paul Williams. He's dead.

Still alive. And that's what we were discussing just a few minutes ago. That's a documentary on him. Yeah, I know. Yeah, I know. I know. I was joking around. This is good.

This is good. He has a documentary called Still Alive. Appropriately enough. And he is... I set up this date with CineFamily. I was like, me and my buddy Graham, we want to watch Smoking a Bandit. And we picked November 8th. That sounds good. Everybody's available.

Let's do it. And then I thought it would be fun to try to get Paul Williams to actually show up and participate. And so I reached out to some people that are connected to him, and it turns out that they're having a screening of Still Alive somewhere else here in town tonight. Yeah, right now. And so I was like, oh, that's

some shitty timing. And they were like, but maybe he could come by your movie first and then go do the Q&A after the documentary second. I said, that sounds good. And they said, alright,

we'll be there at 7.35. And now, let's see, what is it according to my 7.55? And a few minutes ago I got a message saying they're on their way. So, that's where we're at. It's like, how long do we

hold the movie? Maybe this year we're not looking down. Ladies and gentlemen, check under your seats. The first person to come up here, if you can find Paul Williams, you get to keep him, and he'll sing you to sleep tonight with the Rainbow Connection. So, here he is. He'll do it, of course, in his own voice. He's sleeping tonight with the Rainbow Connection.

So, he's like... He'll do it, of course, in his own voice. He's not the voice of Kermit. What? I thought he actually played Kermit in his He Wore the Suit. That would have been a great question to ask him if he came in right now. Oh, wow. He just walked in. Ladies and gentlemen.

Yeah. Paul Williams. He just fucking walked in and just went, it's very easy being green. All right. On a skateboard. I don't know why I put him on a skateboard. We could get him to sing Rainy Days and Mondays. I don't know why it's because everyone was getting me down.

I'm like, no, that's a 30s. This is one of those two, one of the two. It's a rainy day in L.A. So, yeah, so I don't know what kind of game they're playing with me. I don't know if this is the worst episode of Punk ever. Doug Benson thought Paul Liam was going to be stopped by. We showed him. That should fly off the handle.

Yeah, that's a good couple. Oh, shit, he's going, all right, let's just roll the movie. Ah, fucking nuts. So, yeah, I think that's all we should do. Hadrian, do you agree? Oh, wait, Hadrian's getting a tap. I think something's happening. That was exciting.

That was giving me the stretch signal. The first time I saw Smoky and the Bandit, I wasn't even old enough to know what an ampersand was. But I did know that that combination of characters would remain in my heart for the rest of my life. Matt Vesser, you say you remember seeing it in the motion picture theater? Not only that, I remember

when Coors beer actually used to be a big deal. Like my family, this is a sincere story, I remember my family going, the family down the block has some Coors beer, we're all going down there. Boys like diamonds.

And Graham, you're a huge fan of this film. It's been a big influence on you and your life, right? Yes, it has influenced my life. I've always wanted to have a son so I could hit him when he becomes an adult. Great story, Brad.

Paul Williams is here, everybody. Paul Williams. Paul Williams. Thank you so much for stopping by on this rainy night. You know, I thought it was really weird to talk about my art films, Smoky Nevada 1, 2, and even worse. 1, 2, and even worse? That's what you call them? That's what George Lucas calls his...

A vacation to make and a job to watch. Yeah, hanging out with Pat and Corker all day must have been a blast. You know, Pat and I were, you know, 22 years sober, but in the days of making Torment of Advent and the sequels, I was invited.

It was about the latter part of about a 20-year chemistry experiment. Pat was going to invite as well. I said, if anything happens to you, I want you to leave me your mustache. Just meet around Pat. The amazing brilliance of his humor and all. He's one of the great odd... We don't remember when we met. We met actually... He used to write the monologue for The Tonight Show.

And one of the great things is that Pat and I don't remember where we met. Our first conscious memory was coming out of a bar across from NBC Chubbys. It was daylight, we'd been in there all night, and he's towering over me, and I'm 5'2", he's 6'7". He went, you know what, little guy? You look like an aerial photograph, a human being. And we had about a million of those. All the time, right? It was never stopped. It gave me a great love affair. I loved him like a brother. He was wonderful.

I joked that I was station-belling during the war. He was the same. Billy Bob Thorne says, in the South, smoking a van is considered a documentary. I thought it was an interesting time to be showing this movie right after, like,

you know, the South went very, you know, red in this election. Yeah. And so it's fun to now sit back and enjoy how stupid they all are. Watching all the police officers get hoodwinked throughout the South. police officers get hoodwinked throughout the South. My day job is, for the last four years, I've been president and chairman of the

Board of ASCAC, the American Society of Controllers and Officers. Fighting to make sure that young songwriters can make a viable living with their songwriting, and so I spend a lot of time in Washington, D.C., on both sides of the aisles. You know, I walk in there, and they don't care that I wrote

We've Only Just Begun. They don't care that I wrote it. They like the love boat theme. That's the reason. They don't care about the... Well, it's exciting and new. What is it? I'm sorry. We gave you a lot of people in the audience.

I'm telling you that for the right side of the aisle, there is nothing that compares with it being Louisville. So I walk in and they go, would you say it? I mean, I've had senators say, go ahead, say it. And I go, okay, I'd like to kick his ass just once. And they go, oh, no. That's all I'll say.

Have you seen the original Smoking the Bandit with an audience lately? No. Sometimes you just get lucky. I don't know why the mics keep feeding back. It was working great for a while. Get rid of that one.

That extra is trouble. Because this is exciting for me because of course, you know, I saw it in a motion picture

theater when it came out and I've loved it ever since. You were but a child. Yeah, I was a kid

and now I'm so excited to watch it with a packed house and the fact that you stopped by before.

I think it's great. It says something about what's happened to this country. If all of a sudden people come out on a rainy night to watch somebody make fun of Smokey and the Bandit, it just gives you hope for the country. I feel bad. That was everybody.

Have fun. Yes, we did! Call the lawyers, everybody. Call the lawyers everybody! He's already nothing this already, he probably really needs everybody. He's not ready to get out of here, he probably really needs. He's got a long way to go, and it's a short time to get there you guys. He has to do what they say can't be done.

I'm not gonna lie to you guys. He has no idea what that's gonna say, can't be done. You can't introduce Spokane to man and then go to your documentary in the same night, Los Angeles. Hang on to your awareness, friend. I think he doesn't want to see that movie with an audience. He's not interested at all. I thought if you'd come for him to watch at least a few minutes of it, because he's just in the first few minutes, and then he disappears again until the end. Spoiler alert.

Spoiler alert! Don't tell them if they get the Coors across state lines. Don't tell them that. We don't want to know. I feel like I haven't even met Paul Williams. That was so surreal. The rain has walked in. let's talk for a while. Okay, goodbye! Goodbye, guy I don't know. Nice sport coat, weirdo. Enjoy my work, audience I don't care about.

You're great. Love and kisses. We've only just begun to live. So, it must have been... He did not, like, slow down his patter for Graham's bit there. That's what he started having for the door as soon as he's like, oh. He was just like, some noise came from over here.

Anyway, it was fucking awesome. You don't need this. Is that Charles Nelson Riley? over here anyway it was awesome i'm the treasurer of ass camp what do you say i'm the supreme leader of ass I believe in charge of ASCAP. I like long form improv. What about it? And what about his voice? Why does he sound like Wilbur Brimley now? That doesn't make sense either.

But before I go, Why are there so many songs about a rainbow? I was gonna say to him before he abruptly left, before he was suddenly gone, The weirdest stuff you've ever seen! He would shake hands with people walking up the aisle, before he was suddenly gone. It's weird to see the hateful shake hands of people walking up the aisle. It's just all business.

But I was going to say to him that it's unfortunate that they chose to put on the marquee the night a person from the film is coming by. Because I don't think... We're not here to attack or make fun of someone.

We're here to enjoy it and maybe say some silly things about it. And the marquee out front says, Doug Benson versus Smokey and the Panthers. So he pulls up and says, okay, I see what I'm up for. As soon as I throw it in the movie, he's like, Okay, fuck off!

I don't need to see this part. So, anyway, that was really cool that that just happened. He's got nothing that's ever... I'm very excited. I just put a photo on Twitter of the two of them talking. Oh, good. And so put in your Netflix queue or video on demand or whatever the documentary about All Home is Still Alive

that the director of it, Steve Kessler, is the one that moved that one microphone. He was just hanging out and he moved the microphone so we stopped taking out that feedback that started happening. So that was, yeah, he doesn't know all that guy. Kessler is a woman. He also directed Vegas Vintage. I'm serious. All right, so, um... Adrian, are we gonna have some trailers? Some horrifying trailers to get through?

Is month of 30 most disgusting things you've ever seen just concluded? Okay. The trailers are always really fun. And I always have a great time here at Cinefamily. And thank you for coming out. And let's all enjoy Smokey and the Band now it's time for Doug to watch another talkie Eyes of Gold is viewing prowess makes him

cocky there's no room in his heart for you cause Doug loves movies