Doug Loves Movies - Jon Hamm, Paul F. Tompkins, and Tom Scharpling Guest

Episode Date: April 10, 2010

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Doug hates candy wrappers, squeaky babies, skimpy seeds With 50-edged hopper kernels in his teeth There's still not more that he won't see Because Doug loves movies Hey everybody It's Tuesday, April 16th 2010 It is April 6th, you're right audience

Somebody quickly corrected me Why did I say 16th? Oh you know why? Because the L at the end of April Looks like a 1 at the beginning of 16 April 16th April 6th, 2010 Oh, you know why? Because the L at the end of April looks like a 1 at the beginning of 16. April 16th. April 6th, 2010, and I love movies.

That's right. I'm trying to work that in better at the beginning of the show. We're at the UCB Theater right before Comedy Death Ray, and I have everything written down on a tiny napkin tonight because the bigger piece of paper that I normally write all my notes on is sitting in my living room wherever I left it because at the last minute I was like

I'm going to write something else down and I was like oh the VapoBag is full I better go hit that I better go grab it before it explodes oh I'm done hitting this VapoBag I better get hit that I better go grab it before it explodes Oh I'm done hitting this VapoBag I better get out of here My limousine is waiting outside And uh

So yeah So I left my notes in my living room But I made new ones on this napkin While eating next door And I think this is going to work out great Now the people that are here Viewing this in person And I think this is going to work out great. Now, the people that are here viewing this in person have noticed that I have three microphones to the next of me. And so that means three exciting guests.

I booked them all. Well, I booked two. Well, you know, I booked them all. Well, you know, I booked them. But when it all came together, I couldn't think of a theme other than awesomeness. Yeah, there was a line extra early tonight. I don't know why, because I did not leak this at all. But my guests tonight, please welcome Paul F. Tompkins, Jon Hamm, and Tom Sharpling, everybody.

Here they come. A lot of Jon Hamm, a lot of people yell, yeah, Jon Hamm. It's kind of, sort of a gay crowd tonight. This looks like a really weird panel that's about to take place. Like, we're all about to take questions about our sexual promiscuity. Tiger Woods, y'all.

So, um... Wait a minute. How come I'm the only one that gets this boring microphone stand? Tag of woods, y'all. Wait a minute. How come I'm the only one that gets this boring microphone stand? You guys got exciting... We all have little Pixar characters. You guys are in the future. I'm stuck in the past. I think I'm going to sit up a little higher. A lot easier this way.

Yeah, you could totally move it around. If you have good or shitty posture, that microphone stand is for you. Yeah, see? There you go. I'm calling it split the difference time. That's the D. Welcome, gentlemen. That was Paul F. Tompkins' voice. You recognize him from previous episodes.

I go like this. That's what he sounds like. I try to differentiate the voices early on like they would in radio, but they do it in a much more boring way in radio. Like they don't say things like, and Jon Hamm is wearing a hat. I'm going for sort of a Marlon Brando in The Wild Ones meets a Newsy. I think I kind of crushed it. That Newsy would be dead if he met him.

And Tom Sharpling is here for the very first time in the history of my show. Now, you're the host of a podcast called The Best Damn Sports Show in Podcasting. Yeah, me, Tom Arnold, and John Sally. I thought Tom Arnold got kicked out of that shit. I got him back in. Oh, good. Get him back. What's it actually called? The Best? It's called The Best Show on WFMU.

WFMU? There you go. Fans, these people, they didn't even know who the guests were going to be tonight, so you're reaching a lot of people with that. It's very powerful. And how do people listen to it? On the radio, usually. Or on podcasts, also.

But it's syndicated? Yeah, it's syndicated. It's Citadel. And it's part of the King Biscuit Flower Hour. No, it's on WFMU. But you can get it as a podcast also. Okay, so that's the best way to go for most of my listeners.

Paul keeps threatening to have a podcast. When's it going to happen? Soon. I can't wait. For what I want to do, it's a lot of work because I want to do a produced thing. It's not just a conversational thing, so it's more involved. I thought it would be great to have a more involved thing,

but then I realized there's things involved. It's a lot of work. Yeah, it's a lot of work. Yeah, that's the thing. People are like, thank you for doing your podcast. I'm like, you're welcome for me not preparing whatsoever and talking about movies for a while like I do with my friends in a bar.

What you do is important, Doug. Yeah. I'm lucky that I used to play poker with John Hamm over here. He owes me so much money that no matter how successful he gets, I can still get him to come in

and do my podcast. Wow. It's sad but true. I've seen that Don Draper, when he gets mad at his wife, I've seen that at a card table. He makes me feel like such a bitch. I just want what's best for the kids, Don. I lost a hand to Doug once

and then violently fingered him. He just, you know. Thank God it was violent. If it was gentle fingering, I would have been creeped out. Well, you wouldn't have gotten the message. Yeah. But speaking of scary Jon Hamm,

can I just say... Oh, here we go. No, it's not that good. It's just very kiss-assy. Eh, here we don't go. Here we don't go. Your second stint as host on SNL, I'm sure, will be one of many more. Hamm and Bubbly is my favorite thing that ever happened on television.

I watched that sketch over and over again, and there's not even any ladies in it. It was just so funny. How did that come about? Whose idea was Ham and Bubbly? The musical guest is Michael Bublé. Yes. Yeah. Seth Meyers originally wrote the first sketch, John Hamm's John Hamm.

Seth is a big fan of puns. Also responsible for Peter Sarsgaard's Sarsgaard. Yep. And so when they were pitching sketches, he came up to me and said, you know, we should probably revisit that. And I was sort of like, wow, really? Wait, wait, wait. There's more to... Probably.

There's more to puns on my name. John Hamm. John Hamm. And he wrote it up, and it was very funny at the table, and it was surprisingly funny. What if the musical guest had been Lady Gaga? I would have ruined it. But it was Hamm and Bubbly. Yeah, because it would have been written the exact same way.

Yeah. Why doesn't this work? But Bubbly even used his buble, even used his song that now is kind of a hit. Like, I think that helped put it out there, that sketch. He was very game. I mean, he hadn't seen it really up until, because the musical guest doesn't get to it until Thursday. He hadn't seen it really up until, because the musical guest doesn't get to it until Thursday.

And so he hadn't really seen it until we were sort of pretty far down the line. Already using his song without even running it by him. That's sweet. But he's really great in that sketch, too. I mean, that's part of what makes it work. He seems genuinely terrified of you. And he's a good singer, and that's a catchy song. There you have it. I love it.

Let's go back to you for a second. Tom Sarpling, you're not out of the hot seat. I'm coming back to you. This is like flying coach. It's like a weird four seat coach. It's like coach minus. We have a new version of coach. It's a little

worse. Coach minus. There are two middle Coach. It's a little worse. Coach Minus. There are two middle seats. There is a song at takeoff and landing on this show. Coach Minus. Do you get your tiny bag of peanuts? Paul Tompkins, lots of votes for you. I don't know if you know what's going on, but John Lithgow is going to supposedly appear on this show sometime

in the year 2010. That sounds fine! He's already here! Doug, I love movies. John Lithgow just showed up. Are you sure that isn't Brody Stevens? This guy gets it.

A lot of votes for me. Lithgow! So, I think Ham has some votes too. Tom, you gotta get in this race. Basically, I put it out there. Who do you want the other guests? I'll have another guest or two with John Lithgow.

And I want it to be in the spirit of the show. I'd like to keep it, you know, comedians or friends of mine. And so people are voting on a special thing.com on the I Love Movies thread. They're just weighing in, and you're getting a lot of votes, Paul F. Tompkins. Well, that makes sense to me.

Would you, just to try to maybe get more votes, what's something you might ask John Lithgow if given the opportunity? Oh, I would, first of all, don't murder me in a bathtub is what I'm going to say. I would hold this guy's feet to the fire about a lot of things. Oh, wait a second.

We don't want somebody to come in and confront him. About not giving hugs. I think he gives a lot of hugs. He did a children's album. He was very friendly. When he yelled at Harry and Harry and the Andersons, it was for his own good. People forget.

He wanted Harry to go back out into the wild where he'd be safer. He was employing some psychiatry there. What would I ask John Lithgow? I'm not trying to put you on the spot or anything. I would say, like, Buckaroo Banzai. Do you like it? Did you understand

what you were doing? That seemed kind of strange in a not captivating way. I like that movie though actually. Did you really? Yeah, yeah. I did. But I'd say my favorite Lithgow performance might be I mean he kind of did that again in Dexter

and in some ways did it better, but I loved him as the villain in that De Palma movie, Blowout. Yes, yes, yes. Yeah, I thought he was fantastic in that. There's a film in Philadelphia where I'm from. Oh, Philadelphia where AIDS was invented. I believe it's where AIDS was perfected. That's what I was gonna say

Perfected I'm sorry God damn it You guys are fun We really are So yeah Vote for me To appear with

John Lithgow On the I Love Movies podcast Because I'm great Tom what would you say To John Lithgow I'm sorry We Tom, what would you say to John Lithgow? I'm sorry we are out of time. Can anybody call that?

Does it have to be the host? He's tired of talking about GARP. Anyone can move it along. I'm not going to bring up GARP at this point. Because he was like a dude, like a transvestite. He was a transvestite. He was transsexual, I believe, wasn't he? He had his junk removed.

Wasn't he from Transsexual? Transylvania? Am I thinking of the right film? Let me check on Google Maps. What's, what do you, do you, have you had any, Tom, have you had any Tom have you had any involvement in the world of film at all I know Paul and John have been in a few films

I've been humiliated by people who've bought scripts and then hurt a lot by it as they slowly take away any kind of like excitement about creating things you know piece by

piece and then the thing you just don't hear from anyone again. You don't care for a process that moves slowly. It's weird that it's called development. With little gratification. They're not developing anything. They're like the Republicans. What's the opposite of development? Oh.

How dare I? Too soon. Just lost a listener. There's like one guy going, I think he's conservative deep down. I can't find anything to laugh at. Whenever I hear a conservative possible, I'm like, come on. Seriously, give one of those up.

There's really no reason to be both. All right, so let's go back to Jon Hamm with his exciting hiatus from Mad Men. What movie are you doing? It's an exciting hiatus. I assume it's an exciting hiatus. It might not be. You might just be shopping for hats.

Mission accomplished. And now what are you going to do? I'll subscore Stacey Picture. I worked on a few films during my hiatus. A couple different movies? One was a film directed by Ben Affleck

called The Town a heist film I would have gotten Casey to direct that if I were you I don't know about that Gone Baby Gone was that what it was called? was a fantastic movie

underrated I thought this one also takes place in Boston it's a crime heist kind of bank robbery. So you're still doing the accent, right? You haven't been able to let it go. No, I can't let it go. I'm like Jeff Bridges. I just...

It's like Jeff Bridges. Like he just now only makes his movies about guys that are stoned. About super Texas-y guys ever since... Yeah, I'll do Menace, Dirt Goats, and Crazy Heart. Those seem like they're in my range. Yeah, I'll do Men as Dirt Goats and Crazy Heart. Those seem like they're in my range. There's movies about guys that are fucked up all the time.

Yeah. So that sounds awesome. It was super fun, and we shot that in Boston. And then I went and did a movie called Sucker Punch with Zack Snyder. Oh, God, Zack Snyder. 300 and Watchmen. Responsible for Gerard Butler, if you ask me. He made him look pretty awesome in 300.

No one else has that lens. Whatever it is he did. He made him thinner, taller, and more awesome. But what's Sucker Punch about? I've heard a little bit about it. It sounds amazing. It's a very strange movie. It's somewhere between Alice in Wonderland with Samurai Swords and Machine Guns.

So Alice in Wonderland minus Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. Sounds great. There you go. His movie is like, it's not even in Wonderland. It's in Underland. It's like in, oh, let's not even in Wonderland It's in Underland It's like in Oh come Let's hang out in Shitville

Instead of Wonderland Is that what it's called? Yeah The movie doesn't take place In Wonderland It's in Underland They call it Shitville No

No no no no Paul I gotta see this movie Paul no Paul Was that shot in Philadelphia? Shitville was my name That I named it

Yeah Shitville is where AIDS was perfected. Callback. Last week, Anthony Jeselnik and Rob Hubel kept saying callback after every callback. You had to be their callback. So what have you guys seen lately? Tom, have you been to the cinema? I'll go

I'm sorry I don't know No, you go Do you see something on the plane coming out here? You know, I flew out here There was no movie on the plane What kind of plane were you on? It was US Airways

How do they get away with Five and a half hours, right? Yeah, five and a half hours There was no movie and no mention What kind of plane were you on? It was U.S. Airways. How did they get away with just like coast to coast? Yeah, five and a half hours. There was no movie and no mention of why there was no movie. It's just like, we hope you have a magazine. Not even two and a half men they couldn't give you? No.

They can't put a num 3RS in there? It's my favorite plane show. Oh, I love my plane stories. I call them. That is the best math drama on the air right now. It really is. They perfected it. I worked for eight years on a plane show. I never saw Monk on a plane.

It was always numbers. It was always the CBS lineup. Sometimes you get an NBC lineup. Mm-hmm. Slight. So you'd get a mother, a how, meat. Yeah. What is it?

A hymium. A hymium. You get a bang. A hymium. A bang. Big bang. And then two and a half. Mm-hmm.

And then a number. I saw a few monks on the airplanes over the years. Now, monk was written and performed in New York. Everything was done on the East Coast? No, we wrote it on the East Coast. They filmed it out here. Oh, wow. Okay.

Because I knew you were East Coast. Yeah. So that's how we got it. They were talking about TV. Oh, you thought they were sad. There's a TV program called Monk. Yeah. Starring a film actor named Tony Shalhoub.

Yes, exactly. And all your parents like it. Yeah, no, seriously. My father passed away a year or two ago, but before he went, Monk was his thing. Yeah. He fucking could not get enough of Monk. And I'd always be like,

all right, Dad, that's awesome. Why do you like it? Did he have a license plate frame that said I'd rather be watching Monk? Yeah, it was on the end of his bed in the convalescent home. Yeah, see? I think it shows that he still had spunk. Yeah, the guy in the bed next to him, his said brown shoe.

I don't know why. Never got a chance to ask him. Monk was for old people, or like weird little kids whose favorite character in Star Wars is C-3PO. Like Han Solo? No. Luke? No. You like Han Solo? No. Luke? No. You like C-3PO?

Really? The critics love it. And the Emmys loved it. Oh, my God. The Emmys. Tony Shalhoub wins every year. Three-time Emmy winner. Because John Lithgow finally stepped down from that third rock.

Oh! Thank you! They give it... This is too much! That's what I would ask John Lithgow. Don't you want to just recuse yourself when they just give it to you every year? That is a dick move. Those people that win

the Emmy year after year after year, you can't... I think Oprah was the only person who took herself out of it, right? I think Cosby did, too. Oh! I think Cosby is like, I have a PhD! So I don't need another Emmy. Just until he got the doctorate. Then he was like, I'm done with Emmys.

I think Larraket took himself out too. Is that for real? I think so. No, that's just a fake story. Because the show was terrible? Exactly. He finally saw an episode. What is the fuss about? i gotta check this show out that i'm on when you're making movies john do you have time to see movies ever

like uh how do you squeeze that in the last few movies i've seen have been on planes yeah so what was the last one you saw i saw two on the last uh on the last flight I was on. Nine. Ooh. Pretty much sums it up. I saw that with my mom on Christmas Day. How'd that go? I was like, this is the only way I would sit through this thing. It's because I'm with my mom on Christmas Day.

And then I saw one that I found surprisingly entertaining. Paul, it might have been because I was on a plane. Yeah, that helps. It was a movie called, did You Hear About the Morgans? No! You like that? I think it's on United this month, so I think I'm going to see it soon. My co-star Lizzie Moss is in it, and she was very good and very funny.

Hugh Grant, I have never had a problem with that guy. Charming. Never had a problem with him. Charming. Maybe he stuttered a little too much in the early going. Sure. He's conquered that. But when he's about to get eaten by a bear, you can go ahead and stutter.

When you're at a fucking four-way or a funeral, there's no reason for all that stuttering. That's true. They finally ramped it up so that his stuttering matched the action. So that's good. All right. So that's good alright so that's something for me to look forward to I saw the plane coming back from

I'm just in what I was in Boston where everyone but one person was lovely shout out to everyone but that

one person but I came back on the way back I saw now I forget what it's called because I don't know grammar

is it Orson Welles and me or me and Orson Welles? Me and Orson Welles. Nerds. But that's a very high caliber of nerd because that movie, do you know what it's about? Besides Orson Welles? Me. No. I got no guesses.

Zac Efron is you, is the me in the title. He plays me. He plays us. He's the me in the title. He plays me. He plays us. He plays the audience. He plays the everyman that is anyone who saw Citizen Kane. Right, right. In a drama, not much comedy, a drama about Orson Welles putting on a play. Well, I can see where they went with Efron.

By Shakespeare. Yeah. So it's a guy doing a young Orson Welles yelling at everybody about Shakespeare for two hours. So it was the best sleep I've ever gotten on a plane. it's a guy doing a young Orson Welles yelling at everybody about Shakespeare for two hours. It was the best sleep I've ever gotten on a plane. I was out. I woke up two seconds into an Arrested Development episode and I was so happy.

Now this is what they should show on planes. It's an eclectic flight. We're going to show some wonder shows next. What? Forget it, Doug. Let's forget it.

Wow, this thing has been speeding along. The movie I saw recently. That's what I was going to say. That's one last movie that we've seen lately. I saw in a hotel room. I saw The Men Who Stare at Goats. That I referenced earlier. Yes.

It was terrible. I'll bet. Yeah. And I was terrible. And I was in Canada. I was in Canada, so it was 14 Canadian dollars, which is 50 American dollars. And it was bad. Why did you pay that? You must have had an idea going in.

It was the lesser of 19 evils. Well, there was a bunch of stuff that I had seen, and then some stuff that I was like, not even in a hotel. It was mostly squeak-wills. Mostly. But yeah, because I had read the book,

which I enjoyed greatly. Tom loves the book under the table like a seal. I just like Paul reading. I think he was just cheering books. I'm clapping Paul reading. Hooray for books. It's fundamental. I love books.

And yeah, it was like from the moment it started. Doug hates loud talking, not reading, stupid assholes. Trying to work out the theme song ahead of time for I Love Books. Sounds like you're there. But is there anything worth watching in Ministericals? No, not at all. Sounds like you're there. But is there anything worth watching in Ministericles? No. Not at all.

Because the reviews were so universally bad. I was like, wow, Clooney and Bridges and that other guy. Everybody got it right. But I thought the same thing. I like so many of these people.

Oh, and McGregor is always interesting. Surely there will be. Always. Mostly. That's not the same as always. And this is one of those times. He's a really good singer

in movies, shitty musicals. Yes, he is. That's true. He's really really good singer in shitty musicals. Yes, he is. That's true. He's really good. But yeah, not worth it. Not worth it. Not worth it. All right.

Everybody avoid that goat movie. Like you've already been doing. Proceed as you were to ignoring the many standard goats. Do you guys want to play a little Leonard Maltin game? I know these guys do. And so do I. Alright. Let's get some contestants.

Or not contestants, but people for you guys to play for. Because we've got some fantastic prizes. People for whom to play. And people who sit right over here with a bunch of beers between their legs are usually the ones that get chosen. What is your name, sir? Dan.

Dan. And who would you like to play for you? Tom, John, or Paul F. Tompkins? Mr. F. Tomp. Yeah, see, I had a feeling. When I saw your loose, baggy shorts, I thought, this is a Tompkins man. Classic Tompkins man. So what's your name again? Dan?

Alright, Dan. Paul, could you remember you're playing for Dan? Dan! Nicely done. What's your name? Travis. Travis, and who would you like to play for you, John or Tom? I'd like to ham it. That wasn't one of the choices. I'm gonna ham that shit.

All right. And what's your name stuck with Tom Sharpling? Yes. Juan. Okay, you get Tom. But he's a wild card. We don't know how he plays. We're going to do this.

Who was my guy? Hamming it? Travis. Travis. Travis. Ham. Juan. Tom.

Dan Paul. Here we go. The category. I'm sorry. May I ask very briefly, do people not like that other game, which I enjoy greatly, the Build a Title game? They do. By a round of applause, how many people love that game? Silence.

By a round of applause How many people hate that game? Oh there's one It's not applause Yeah that's right I said hate It's opposite of love Yeah yeah that's the trouble There's too much of a gray area

I get a lot of messages from people I don't care for it when you You know and I'm like as long as you don't hate it, I'm going to keep doing it. There you go. Even when they hate it, I keep doing it. I'm here to do what I want to do.

And what I want to do is play the Lynn Malton game. And we'll throw in a build a title at the end if there's time. So you guys got to play fast. The category. The category. The category is... Most of the guests don't help me along like you do.

That's awesome. It's fun. It's fun to remember things. Dan. I'm going to try it someday. All right, here we go. The topic is, these are Ed Norton's favorite movies. What? According to Ed Norton's favorite movies. What?

According to Ed Norton. He was on, I assume none of you saw it. Recuse yourself if you saw it. He was on the Rotten Tomatoes website and TV show. I know, there's both. He had to name his top five movies, and he did it. Normally I would have seen that. He was able to do it.

he had to name his top five movies and he did it. He was able to do it? He was able to do it. He named five movies but we were only using four in the game because the fifth movie was The Cruise and the only person in The Cruise is that crazy guy that gives the tours.

Timothy Spielevich. You fags owe each other a Coke. You fags owe each other a Coke. Some guy over here trying to start a kiss chant. I know, I know, I know. It's so funny, though, how gay that is. Because it shouldn't be, right? You're just two smart men saying a smart thing at the same time.

Yeah, but that thing was Timothy Spietlevich. He's pretty gay. He is? He insisted that he was not in that film. But he's super fruity? I think he might be mistaken. I never saw the film. I never saw it. I'm going to because it's one of Ed Norton's five favorite movies.

It is worth seeing once, but I never understood people that would want to see that more than one time. And I knew people that owned it. That's true in most documentaries, isn't it? Well, yeah. Once is good. Except Paradise Lost. You can watch that over and over again.

I watch that shit all day long. I like, what's it called, American Movie. I like that one. I can watch that one a lot. Oh, God. That one's amazing. There's one, it still hasn't come out yet. There's a documentary called Winnebago Man.

It's about that guy that guy making that infomercial where he got mad. They try to find him and then meet him and talk to him. Spoiler alert. It's called Winnebago Man. A guy gave me a copy of it at South by Southwest because I guess they're still trying

to get a distributor. What? They're still trying to get stuff going. I know. But it's an amazing movie. It's really entertaining. Well, do they need help? Is there anything we can do? We just did it. We just...

1,700 people just heard what I said. No, it's really been fun going out on the road lately because this last weekend we were in Massachusetts, Graham Elwood and I, and we were in Boston Boston and Chicopee,

Mass and Rhode Island and Providence, Rhode Island and every show there were lots of people that listened to the podcast. It's really, so,

you know, for your live shows in the future, Tom Sharpling and John Hamm, you should mention them on podcasts. Paul,

do you do any live shows? Yeah. I like your thing where you get people to vote once there's 300 people in. It's not a vote. Well, whatever. What do they do? They bid?

People join. They join. They join a movement. They join a group of people who are going to show up if you do a show in their town. And when you get to 300, bam, you do a show. Yes. It's like a tea party.

It is like a tea party. It's totally like a tea party. We hate black people. And you want to murder Congress Yes. It's like a tea party. It is like a tea party. It's totally like a tea party. We hate black people. And you want to murder Congress people. That's right. That's right. Now, listen, the tea party is only 81% white. So that means it's 19% even dumber than the 81%.

I'm ethnic and I'm a tea bagger. What of it? All right. Okay, so Ed Norton's favorite movies. Let's let Tom pick a year to start with and start the bidding. Do you want to Ed Norton's favorite movies from 1935? No, no, I don't. 1986 or 1983? No. No, I don't. 1986 or 1983?

86. All right, we're going 86. And this movie is one of Edward Norton's favorites. Len gives it three and a half stars, so Len is a fan. And let's see what Len says about it. Is this out of five or out of four? Oh, this is an original comedy satire. Comedy satire with a hyphen in between the two.

Oh, so it's both. It's one of those. It's a hybrid comedy and satire. Not yet, not yet. And it's about one of everybody's favorite subjects. That's what it's about. Pussy. And it's from 1986.

And it stars, there's four names listed. So you could start the bidding with four names or jump all the way down to zero names. But it's not Winnebago Man. It is not Winnebago Man. How many names would you like to start with? One. You can name it to start with? One. You can name it in one name?

Yes. You're out of your mind. Okay, Jon Hamm, can you name it in less names? I can't. So, were you going to say name that movie? I would say name that movie. All right, Tom Sharpley, name that movie. The one name you get is Koji Yakusho.

Koji Yakusho. Koji Yakusho. Bob Roberts. That is a great guess. Did you think you got into the mind of Ed Norton? Yes, I was trying to picture Ed Norton in 1986. Well, that was a ballsy move on your part, and welcome to the game. Which is not unlike...

Okay. See, I just go for it in life. You know what I mean? I'm just gonna go for it. You did go for it. Let me list the rest of the names and see if anyone in this room even knows what this movie is. I don't think... I'm not sure Ed Norton knows what this movie is. Koji Yakusho.

Nobuko Miyamoto. Tshumo Yamazigi. Is it eat a bowl of tea? No good guess though. And the number one name, Ken Watanabe.

Ringu! It's from 1986 and it's Japanese. It's a funny original comedy about food. I'm pretty sure it's gung-ho. That's right. I heard people yelling it's gung-ho. And it's called Tom Popo. That's right, Tom Popo. I heard people yelling it out, and then I mocked them on the microphone.

Because they had knowledge I did not possess. Tom Popo! How could you ever say... I wouldn't even be able to buy a ticket to Tom Popo. See, I couldn't even say it then, because it's so embarrassing and weird. But it's one of Ed Norton's favorites, so now I'm going to check it out.

One of his five favorite movies. Top Five. With the cruise. The cruise and Top Five. So now you're getting kind of an idea, a feel for how useless this is as a category. Yes. The category might as well be called Movies That Were Made.

Alright, so we'll start with Paul on this next one. He can pick the year. I'm Paul. I'm playing for Dan. Would you like to go for 1935, 1983, or 1966? I would like to go for 1935. Oh, good lord.

Old school. Four stars from Mr. Maltin Classic He gets it He calls it a completely winning movie That was remade As the title of the remake Was Fancy Pants

That is a worthless clue! If someone on this panel knew what Fancy Pants was... Oh, that's a remake of the 1935 gem. Fancy Pants was a movie with Bob Hope and Lucille Ball, as a matter of fact. Oh, do you know what it was a remake of? No. Here we go. We got six names.

Let's see if I can pull it, though. I might be able to pull it Try to pull it Start the bidding There's six names I can name that movie In six names Nice

Tom Tell how bidding starts Everybody who's laughing You don't go in Like barter with somebody And say How about you give it to me For free

Yeah Tom says five I'll say four John Hamm says four Five. You don't go in like a barter with somebody and say, how about you give it to me for free? Yeah. Tom says five. I'll say four. John Hamm says four. Paul Tompkins, it's back to you. John Hamm named that film. Oh, you son of a gun.

Four names. Four names. I think you might be able to do it. Four of six. Because I realize the last three names are going to be the people that were in every movie at that time. Okay, 1935. 35. Four stars.

Right in my wheelhouse. Remade as Fancy Pants. Completely winning movie. Lila Hyams was in this movie. Roland Young. I think I knew it. Zazu Pits. Zazu Zazu Pitts

Zazu Pitts and Charles Ruggles is your fourth name Charles Ruggles wasn't everything back then 35 yeah but Charles Ruggles

is do I get a chance to name it that's a really good clue if John if John can't name it but not to steal

we don't do it that way. I would never steal anything. You're going to get this by default. You got nothing? The 1935 precursor to Fancy Pants. I'm pretty sure it was called Pansy Fants. Pansy Fants. How awesome would that be?

They're just like, more people would come if we just switched two letters. You haven't said I'm wrong. You're incorrect. May I ask a question? Yes. Did this movie star Charles Lawton? Yes, it did. And was the name of this movie Ruggles of Red Gap?

Yes, it is. You're in the mind of Edward Norton. You're in Norton's head. I'm on your trail, Norton. Tempopo. And you get the point. You get the point either way. Do I really?

Yeah, because you challenged John and he couldn't do it. So now John has a point. These are the affairs of men. I'm trying to lighten the drama. I don't know what that is. Was that a line from Ruggles of Redgate Red Gap

that's what I meant that's where Gap got the idea for that red campaign alright here we go since Tom is down here sad and lonely

and right next to me let's start with him you want one from 83 or 66 83 some in the audience is very excited that we went 83 instead of 66 they're just in the audience going before i was born please i mean not you know what i mean three and a half stars robbed Robbed! This is a four star movie. If ever there was one. About it, Leonard Maltin says,

the denouement is a wow. I've seen this movie 17 times and I don't know what's so wow about the denouement. Wow. I've seen this movie 17 times and I don't know what's so wow about the denouement. Wow. Denouement. Okay.

And what I say, it was an Ed Norton favorite, three and a half stars, and there are, there's about eight names. Let's go with eight names. Tom, how many can you do it in? Seven.

Seven names. Nice jump. Thank you. It's one less. I'll go six. John says six names. Do I go now? Yeah, you do. Four names.

Four names. Tom Sharpling, can you do less names than four or are you going to say Paul F. Tompkins named that movie I'm going to say Paul F. Tompkins named that movie I think we have a winner And his name is Paul F. Tompkins I don't like to predict what's going to happen Like Alex Trebek does But I think we have a winner

83, right I think you can do it in one name Show me you can do it in one name. 83, Daniel Miles or Wow. Show me you can do it in one name. Okay. Freddy DeCorvido. Oh, yeah. I believe it's the king of comedy. That's right, the king of comedy. I knew you

could do it in one name. Ed Herlihy, Tony Randall, and little old thing. Shelly Hack. I'm Ed Herlihy. This is one of those movies where the bottom makes it easier. It'd be harder if I just said, name a movie that De Niro did in 1983. King of Comedy.

Wow, you are really good at this. You got it in one name. Twice. Alright, so Paulus Tompkins is our winner. That means Dan wins the prizes. Is that right? Yes, I was playing for Dan. Playing for Dan. I was the proxy for Dan Dan is also a group you can donate to

It's Dads Against Nannies And Paul was playing for them tonight Okay, so you win You win a copy of A motion picture starring me and Paul F. Tompkins Called Super High Me You win a copy of that Look starring me and Paul F. Tompkins called Super High Me. You win a copy of that. Look for it at midnight on 420 on G4.

So technically it's on at 421. Boo! That's what I said to them. How dare you! And then you also win a Two Trunk to Dweet t-shirt that are available, as always, at donkeytees.com. And you win a copy of my first album, Professional Humoridian, which you can get at astrecords.com.

And thank you very much, Dan, for playing and winning. Thank you for winning. And the other two, quote-unquote, losers, get to name who I should call a shithead. You gentlemen discuss amongst yourselves. Any plugs? Anything coming up? Any dates you're doing you'd like to talk about?

When does this drop, Doug? This weekend sometime. So around 8, 9, 10, somewhere in there. I'll be in Dallas, Texas at the Lakewood Theater Saturday the 10th. And then I'll be in Madison, Wisconsin Sure May 21st And then Seattle sometime

And then Austin, Texas At a point Where are you? That kind of sounded like somebody Who was that? I don't know But not somebody you want to listen to for very long No, no

It was a good It was just the perfect length. Kind of sounded like the guy that did the old Levi's hats. Yeah, that guy won't be. The beat poet? Nardine. Al Nardine? Ken Nardine.

Ken Nardine, that's right. The Sanka man. Did he do Sanka commercials? Maybe Folgers. I love Sanka. It's a good coffee. Was it Folgers or Sanka? I get it now.

Now that I'm older, I get it. Sanka? Sanka, yeah. You get Sanka? It's a good coffee. Was it Folgers or Sanka? I get it now. Now that I'm older, I get it. Sanka? Sanka, yeah. You get Sanka. It's revealed itself to me. But what about that one where you open up the lid and it goes, Fresh, fresh, fresh! That sounds too young.

I don't know which one it is. Okay, so where are you playing in Madison? I don't remember the name of the place, but it is going to be great. All right. There's a place called Comedy on State Street, Madison, where I'm going to be April 15th. Too descriptive. 15th through the 17th.

I know. Why isn't it called Comedy on State Street? There's a two-doing minimum. But yeah, it's April 15th through 17th, and I'm going to be at the Rave in, whatever that is, in Milwaukee on 418. It's going to be a 420 matinee on that show. Will that be 418, 1999? 418. It's going to be a 420 matinee on that show. Will that be 418-1999?

418? Why John Hamm? It's called The Rave. Oh. No, it's The Rave, not A Rave. Bring a pacifier and get it half-price. Don't bring a pacifier and get it in free.

Alright, so then... It's all right about his fair play. I Love Movies Live. We're going to do another live road version at the Irvine Improv on April 28, 2010. I'll bring a couple of awesome guests down there with me. And, Jon Hamm, do you have any release dates on those movies of yours?

The Town will be coming out this fall. Sucker Punch will be coming out, I think, around Christmas. Award season, I like it. And Mad Men Season 4 will be coming out this summer. And DVDs for Season 3 coming out next month. Nice. So happy I just got you a whole bunch of new viewers. You just doubled our audience.

Yeah, yeah. Oh, I also do love that Breaking Bad. I mean, for a network, they've got the two best shows. What about Rubicon? What's the advanced word on Rubicon? I saw a promo. It looked pretty intriguing. Who's that guy?

Who's that guy? Paul is full of voices that he can't figure out who they are. When does Rubicon come on? I'm going to watch Rubicon. Tom Sharpling, tell us again when we can listen to your best show on WMFU. So close. Thank you. MFU?

Almost. FMU. FMU. FMU. Friendsoftom.com. M-F-U, thank you. M-F-U? Almost. F-M-U. F-M-U. F-M-U. Friendsoftom.com. Just go to friendsoftom.com. Oh, okay. Is that, so it's like for alcoholics?

Yes. Exactly. All right, thank you so much. Let's give a round of applause for my wonderful guests. Oh, my God. My guests, they're mine. Mine. Mine. Oh my god.

My guests. They're mine. Mine. And as always, Michael Phelps is a shithead and Tiger Woods is a shithead. Thank you.