He is, I know. It just stood out as strange that he doesn’t name them as artists, but rather their famous characters.
Kareem Badr
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Should I be offended at him equating Ali with 3 fictional characters?
If you’re ever in LA, or this hits a comedy festival near you, go see this show:
I swear, if this is some kind of elaborate PR stunt for a sequel or re-release of the documentary, I am going to grow my hair into a mullet and start wearing American flag print button down shirts.
Some of the worst veneers in show business.
Am I the only person who gets mild anxiety or panic attacks listening to these guys? To my ears, it’s like hearing someone interrupting themselves constantly. I can’t even evaluate if they’re funny or not because hearing more than 10 seconds creates a ball of tension in my chest.
(well built building!)
(that caught fire)
(the best sprinkler systems)
And manages to use outdated unacceptable racial terms even in character descriptions!
I can’t believe that low-to-the-ground shot of the 3 dwarves lumbering towards the camera made it into the final film. There’s a shot of that in the documentary shot 20 years ago.
There’s a difference between dropping a cultural reference into a comedy, and making your entire film a tangled quilt of disparate cultural references.
Do yourself a favor and hunt down the documentary Lost in La Mancha. It’s insane.
Oh man, that goddamn Kabuki sketch...
Contrast this with The Ben Stiller Show, which I had fond memories of and tried to re-watch when I first got a Netflix subscription. It’s awful. Sketches full of pop culture shit that doesn’t age well at all. It made me terrified to re-watch The State when it was finally released on DVD.
That The State could be described as “overlooked” is baffling to me. It was a seminal part of my high school years. And if you look at the cast, they each went on to be pretty influential writers and performers in the indie comedy world.
I don’t know if this counts, but the opening sequence (and perhaps the entire film?) of Dr. No takes place in Jamaica, and every car crash or fist fight ends with someone smashing through a tall stack of Red Stripe crates. I was always amused by that.
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Yep, restrained exasperated rage spit out through clenched teeth. I always got the impression that he was supposed to be “the lead” of the show, but Ian McShane quickly outshined him.