Doug Loves Movies - Mark Ellis, Leonard Maltin and Jonah Ray guest

Episode Date: July 24, 2023

Live from the American Comedy Co. in Sweet Home San Diego, Doug welcomes Mark Ellis, Leonard Maltin and Jonah Ray to the show.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Pr...ivacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 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.
Starting point is 00:00:38 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,
Starting point is 00:01:04 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.
Starting point is 00:01:30 I'm happy to be back here at the American Cacomedy! Cacompany! All right. So let's get right to it. It's time for Doug Plugs. Doug Plugs! Doug Plugs! Doug Plugs!
Starting point is 00:01:55 Doug Plugs! Doug Plugs! Doug Loves Movies is back at Dynasty Typewriter in Los Angeles this Sunday, July 23rd at 420. typewriter in Los Angeles this Sunday, July 23rd at 420. And I'm doing stand-up at Levity Live in Oxnard, California on Thursday night, July 27th. For all my dates and deets
Starting point is 00:02:11 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?
Starting point is 00:02:27 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.
Starting point is 00:02:55 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.
Starting point is 00:03:17 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
Starting point is 00:03:49 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
Starting point is 00:04:06 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.
Starting point is 00:04:29 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
Starting point is 00:04:52 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
Starting point is 00:05:10 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
Starting point is 00:05:44 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.
Starting point is 00:06:06 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,
Starting point is 00:06:30 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.
Starting point is 00:06:46 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.
Starting point is 00:07:07 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.
Starting point is 00:07:19 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.
Starting point is 00:07:33 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
Starting point is 00:07:49 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.
Starting point is 00:08:06 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
Starting point is 00:08:23 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
Starting point is 00:08:46 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.
Starting point is 00:09:17 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
Starting point is 00:09:28 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
Starting point is 00:09:39 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.
Starting point is 00:09:58 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
Starting point is 00:10:08 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,
Starting point is 00:10:21 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
Starting point is 00:10:42 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.
Starting point is 00:11:05 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.
Starting point is 00:11:20 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?
Starting point is 00:11:35 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
Starting point is 00:12:01 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.
Starting point is 00:12:24 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.
Starting point is 00:12:49 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.
Starting point is 00:13:13 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.
Starting point is 00:13:33 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.
Starting point is 00:13:45 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.
Starting point is 00:14:11 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.
Starting point is 00:14:28 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
Starting point is 00:14:47 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
Starting point is 00:15:08 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
Starting point is 00:15:14 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
Starting point is 00:15:21 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
Starting point is 00:15:41 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
Starting point is 00:16:00 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.
Starting point is 00:16:22 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
Starting point is 00:16:31 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
Starting point is 00:16:40 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
Starting point is 00:17:08 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
Starting point is 00:17:24 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.
Starting point is 00:17:46 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.
Starting point is 00:18:25 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.
Starting point is 00:18:40 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.
Starting point is 00:18:52 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
Starting point is 00:19:07 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.
Starting point is 00:19:25 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?
Starting point is 00:19:43 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,
Starting point is 00:20:09 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
Starting point is 00:20:44 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.
Starting point is 00:20:57 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.
Starting point is 00:21:10 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,
Starting point is 00:21:23 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.
Starting point is 00:21:37 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
Starting point is 00:21:55 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.
Starting point is 00:22:09 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.
Starting point is 00:22:26 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.
Starting point is 00:22:56 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,
Starting point is 00:23:16 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.
Starting point is 00:24:08 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
Starting point is 00:24:31 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.
Starting point is 00:24:54 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,
Starting point is 00:25:13 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.
Starting point is 00:25:26 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.
Starting point is 00:25:49 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,
Starting point is 00:26:06 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,
Starting point is 00:26:19 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.
Starting point is 00:26:38 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.
Starting point is 00:26:59 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
Starting point is 00:27:15 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?
Starting point is 00:27:32 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,
Starting point is 00:27:53 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
Starting point is 00:28:12 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,
Starting point is 00:28:28 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,
Starting point is 00:28:42 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.
Starting point is 00:29:01 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.
Starting point is 00:29:15 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.
Starting point is 00:29:34 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.
Starting point is 00:29:42 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?
Starting point is 00:30:09 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,
Starting point is 00:30:29 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.
Starting point is 00:30:43 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
Starting point is 00:31:00 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
Starting point is 00:31:38 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,
Starting point is 00:31:57 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
Starting point is 00:32:20 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
Starting point is 00:32:36 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
Starting point is 00:32:52 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
Starting point is 00:33:07 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
Starting point is 00:33:24 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
Starting point is 00:33:40 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.
Starting point is 00:34:06 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
Starting point is 00:34:24 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.
Starting point is 00:34:38 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.
Starting point is 00:34:57 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.
Starting point is 00:35:15 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?
Starting point is 00:35:34 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
Starting point is 00:35:52 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.
Starting point is 00:36:31 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?
Starting point is 00:36:46 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.
Starting point is 00:37:00 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
Starting point is 00:37:28 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
Starting point is 00:37:50 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
Starting point is 00:38:06 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.
Starting point is 00:38:22 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.
Starting point is 00:38:33 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.
Starting point is 00:39:03 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.
Starting point is 00:39:22 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.
Starting point is 00:39:32 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.
Starting point is 00:39:43 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,
Starting point is 00:40:00 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.
Starting point is 00:40:17 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.
Starting point is 00:40:34 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
Starting point is 00:40:50 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.
Starting point is 00:41:07 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.
Starting point is 00:41:30 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.
Starting point is 00:41:50 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.
Starting point is 00:42:12 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.
Starting point is 00:42:28 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.
Starting point is 00:42:40 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.
Starting point is 00:42:56 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?
Starting point is 00:43:13 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.
Starting point is 00:43:27 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
Starting point is 00:43:44 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.
Starting point is 00:44:01 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.
Starting point is 00:44:17 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
Starting point is 00:44:34 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...
Starting point is 00:44:58 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.
Starting point is 00:45:13 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?
Starting point is 00:45:27 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,
Starting point is 00:45:36 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.
Starting point is 00:45:55 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.
Starting point is 00:46:10 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.
Starting point is 00:46:25 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.
Starting point is 00:46:57 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
Starting point is 00:47:29 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,
Starting point is 00:47:56 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.
Starting point is 00:48:08 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,
Starting point is 00:48:25 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
Starting point is 00:48:49 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.
Starting point is 00:49:08 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...
Starting point is 00:49:21 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
Starting point is 00:49:40 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,
Starting point is 00:50:06 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,
Starting point is 00:50:21 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
Starting point is 00:50:39 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
Starting point is 00:51:11 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,
Starting point is 00:51:34 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.
Starting point is 00:51:53 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.
Starting point is 00:52:07 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.
Starting point is 00:52:24 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.
Starting point is 00:52:43 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.
Starting point is 00:53:04 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.
Starting point is 00:53:31 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!
Starting point is 00:53:49 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.
Starting point is 00:54:11 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.
Starting point is 00:54:33 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?
Starting point is 00:54:59 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.
Starting point is 00:55:15 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.
Starting point is 00:55:41 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.
Starting point is 00:56:09 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.
Starting point is 00:56:30 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.
Starting point is 00:56:49 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?
Starting point is 00:57:35 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?
Starting point is 00:57:53 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.
Starting point is 00:58:04 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.
Starting point is 00:58:17 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!
Starting point is 00:58:30 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.
Starting point is 00:59:02 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.
Starting point is 00:59:42 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
Starting point is 01:00:02 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.
Starting point is 01:00:18 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.
Starting point is 01:00:41 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
Starting point is 01:01:10 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.
Starting point is 01:01:34 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.
Starting point is 01:02:00 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
Starting point is 01:02:22 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.
Starting point is 01:02:49 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,
Starting point is 01:03:13 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.
Starting point is 01:03:33 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.
Starting point is 01:03:48 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.
Starting point is 01:04:03 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.
Starting point is 01:04:40 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.
Starting point is 01:05:03 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.
Starting point is 01:05:29 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.
Starting point is 01:05:47 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.
Starting point is 01:06:05 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.
Starting point is 01:06:21 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.
Starting point is 01:06:35 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.
Starting point is 01:06:47 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
Starting point is 01:07:07 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
Starting point is 01:07:35 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.
Starting point is 01:07:54 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.
Starting point is 01:08:21 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.
Starting point is 01:08:41 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.
Starting point is 01:08:57 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.
Starting point is 01:09:08 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...
Starting point is 01:09:23 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.
Starting point is 01:10:04 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
Starting point is 01:10:22 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.
Starting point is 01:10:36 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.
Starting point is 01:10:53 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
Starting point is 01:11:08 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.
Starting point is 01:11:20 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.
Starting point is 01:11:45 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.
Starting point is 01:11:56 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.
Starting point is 01:12:15 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.
Starting point is 01:12:32 Batman Forever. Yeah. Dr. Chase Meridian. There you go. Nice. No bonus points for that kind of information. Jonah. I'm starting to get...
Starting point is 01:12:44 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?
Starting point is 01:12:59 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
Starting point is 01:13:12 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?
Starting point is 01:13:34 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,
Starting point is 01:13:47 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
Starting point is 01:14:02 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...
Starting point is 01:14:21 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...
Starting point is 01:14:35 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.
Starting point is 01:14:52 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
Starting point is 01:15:17 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.
Starting point is 01:15:46 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.
Starting point is 01:15:57 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
Starting point is 01:16:13 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.
Starting point is 01:16:31 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.
Starting point is 01:16:56 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.
Starting point is 01:17:20 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,
Starting point is 01:17:35 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.
Starting point is 01:17:52 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
Starting point is 01:18:09 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.
Starting point is 01:18:25 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.
Starting point is 01:18:40 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?
Starting point is 01:18:58 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
Starting point is 01:19:13 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
Starting point is 01:19:28 give me 15 seconds all right while you're thinking Jonah Ray I know we there's it's a minefield
Starting point is 01:19:35 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
Starting point is 01:19:43 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.
Starting point is 01:19:53 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.
Starting point is 01:20:03 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.
Starting point is 01:20:37 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.
Starting point is 01:20:52 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.
Starting point is 01:21:07 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,
Starting point is 01:21:19 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.
Starting point is 01:21:33 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.
Starting point is 01:21:49 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.
Starting point is 01:22:04 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.
Starting point is 01:22:31 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.
Starting point is 01:22:42 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
Starting point is 01:22:55 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,
Starting point is 01:23:11 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
Starting point is 01:23:20 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.
Starting point is 01:23:34 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.
Starting point is 01:24:10 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.
Starting point is 01:24:30 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
Starting point is 01:24:55 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,
Starting point is 01:25:09 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.
Starting point is 01:25:35 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.

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