Reel Rap S6 E7: Mike Nichols' 'The Birdcage' (1996)

After an extended stretch through Elaine May's filmography, Reel Rap jumps back to Mike Nichols' films with 1996's The Birdcage. With an Elaine May-written screenplay, the comedy features Robin Williams and Nathan Lane as a gay couple pretending to play straight when Williams' son brings his fiancee's family to meet them. Bennett also talks smoking cigarettes off the ground and ponders if John Travolta is the worst actor in the world. A comedy duo straight out of William Penn’s backyard, Bennett Glace, an adult Disney fan, and Shane Pfender, an ordained minister, have for years lent a critical eye to Hollywood’s most tedious auteurs. They are a comedy duo for film snobs and slobs alike. Exhausted by the current uninspired landscape of film criticism, the two work to find a new language with which to understand and interact with the films they cover on their inimitable podcast, Reel Rap.