Chris posted this a couple of weeks ago but, since the Bog Saget Comedy Central roast thing finally aired last night and the whole internet is going batshit crazy for Cloris Leachman, I thought I’d post this video again. Also, I just kind of get a kick out of imagining what Peter Bogdanovich thinks of all this. I know he was distracted on the set of The Last Picture Show, what with all that leaving his wife for his 18 year-old ingenue business, but even so, you have to assume he never imagined that his direction of Leachman would lead, almost 40 years later, to a nationally televised anal sex joke. I bet he’s really loosening his ascot over this one.
It was a given that Comedy Central’s Bob Saget Roast would be raunchy. Especially without the Olsen Twins present to make the roasters feel guilty (the night was apparently filled with jokes about Saget having sex with his TV daughters). But who expected Cloris Leachman to steal the dirty show by threatening to use her Oscar as a strap-on in order to fuck John Stamos? Or did she want to fuck Jon Lovitz? Either way, it will make me think differently of her winning performance in The Last Picture Showfrom now on.
Don’t you wish your grandmother was so crass? Only yesterday, while writing my Muppet Roommate clip post, I was thinking fondly about how funny Phyllis Diller is still (she was great in The Aristocrats). Now, I’m happy to know that in her ’80s, Leachman is still hilarious, too. Of course, unlike Diller, who supposedly never does blue comedy, Leachman is foul enough to make reach-around jokes about Jack Benny.
I guess for those who can’t appreciate such octogenarian humor, a clip of some Olsen-fucking jokes can be found after the jump.
At Portfolio, Fred Schruers profiles Austin Chick’s dot com crash period piece August, which the filmmaker and his stars will cheekily promote by ringing the bell at the NY Stock Exchange on Friday. “The film will need all the promotion it can get. In this summer of tent-pole behemoths…even an art-house film that won plaudits at the Sundance Film Festival faces a challenge.” Yup. So imagine how hard it’s going to be for virtually plaudit-less August!
Focus Features sent Variety a ComicCon Survival Kit, complete with a copy of Douglas Wolk’s Reading Comics. Mike Jones recommends leaving it at home. “If the geeks see you reading this there, you’ll get the worst eye-roll ever. Their equivalent of a beat-down.”
There’s a New York in the Movies blogathon happening at 12 Grand in Checking (blog named after a throwaway line on 30 Rock? Very good sign.) and a Self Involvement Blogathon at Culture Snob. I’m going to try to work up something tonight that fits both.
In the meantime, watch a video that has no application to either: above, The Mind of Danny Tanner, a wrangling of sound and image from Full House into the poetic style of Bergman and the soundtrack of Donnie Darko. Via Mark Lisanti.
TheOnion’s A.V. Club says this deserves to “float around the ‘ol blogosphere,” and I agree. Because if we can get enough people to support experimental films based on scenes from TV’s Full House, then one day I’ll be able to watch Candace Cameron and Dave Coullier on a big screen at Anthology Film Archives — oh wait, that’s already happening this very week with Michael Robinson’s Light is Waiting (GreenCine has a review from its NYFF screening). Well, then, I await an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art next. Really, that’s where our high art should be going: backwards, and glancing at the low art of the past. I mean, this is the year in which we see Ben Kingsley make out with Mary-Kate Olsen (in The Wackness), so it’s obviously a time for mixing cultures by blurring the lines between high and low cultural artifacts.
Just to give you what little background on this video is known (or needs to be known): it took artist Paul Slocum three years to make, and all of those actors reenacting the scene were paid. I’d love to find out if some kind of grant funded the project, because the endower surely needs a medal. Or a kick in the pants.
We’ve had a bit of trouble getting this episode to go through the iTunes feed, so we hope this re-post will fix the problem. The original post, with episode description and embedded player, is here.
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