I'm with you, Darke. Watching Apocalypse Now (the original, not the Redux version) still packs a visceral punch that very few movies have. The Deer Hunter is quite good on its own terms, but in my mind not in the same ballpark as AN.
I'm with you, Darke. Watching Apocalypse Now (the original, not the Redux version) still packs a visceral punch that very few movies have. The Deer Hunter is quite good on its own terms, but in my mind not in the same ballpark as AN.
Can't go wrong with Live at the Regal. I think I give Cook County the slight nod because I like its version of "Worry Worry" a little better and it has "The Thrill is Gone" on it.
Live in Cook County Jail is still my favorite B.B. King record. The man was a master on stage. Best track is "Worry Worry Worry"; 10 minutes of brilliance.
The man was practically born playing live. He played something like 250+ gigs a year for decades. Truly astonishing.
Zapp is not a Hartman impression. Billy West is doing his over- enunciating 50's style radio announcer (which I heard him do as far back as the Stern Show). It was an approach Hartman used a lot as well and would've no doubt used for the character, so in that sense some might consider it a nod to Hartman, but he's not …
It was definitely about money.
When Maggie Roswell left after a contract dispute in 1999 they, rather bluntly, killed off her most prominent character. These are not nice people the cast have to deal with come contract time.
My favorite part of the Pizza Commercial sketch was when Doug's price list got unnecessarily complicated.
He's a likable guy in a drunk-homophobic-friend-at-the-bar kind of way, but I find his stand-up terrible. His routines (if you can call them that) are as hacky as they come. Of course I don't blame him for taking advantage of the headliner status his time on the Stern Show still affords him.
It doesn't seem like he has any great aspirations any more (if he ever had any in his life other than being a stand-up) and is more than content to be an elder statesman of comedy as well as a bit of a dick (which he has played unironically in episodes of Louie.)
I agree. "Go Ahead, Jake My Day" is a better pun, but "Case Closed, Jake Open" is a much better title in a descriptive sense. Put the picture of Jake in front of big pile of money on the cover and you have a sale.
The best from them this season still has to be:
Her using phrases like "b-t-dubs" is hilarious. Even moreso to me because it takes me a minute to realize she's means "BTW" i.e. "by the way." After all these years, I'm still slow to pick up the internet/text message-speak. Sad emoji face.
They got one apiece and they were both good.
Backing up:
"I smell a dead body."
When Holt said, "…watching us at all times" and pointed up and then they panned up to reveal her portrait I almost did a spit take. That was Airplane!-like in its conception and execution.
"Just point at me when you want me to gasp."
Who wants to see a picture of a dead body?
Gina was hysterical.