Blackjack with the David. Oh, do you have something to say? No, go ahead. Is this podcast on?
He wanted to, he killed our great interests, so we could do that. Yeah, at first, oh wait, this podcast works. That's why he killed it. He just my impression of what happens every time David goes, can we start the podcast?
I go, okay, let me find a quote. And then you go, oh yes. Yes. As if you have not been hosting Blank Check with Griffin David for 11 years.
11, Ben. This is the first episode of our 11th year. And sometimes you seem so confused that you're irritated by the mere existence of this show. Confused is not the word, but you nailed the second one.
What it is, I don't know what you want to meet. A bribe on time. And possibly. Have a quote ready.
And when Ben says we're rolling, do the quote. Do you think this is why Laura Dern and Will Arnett separated? No, they separated because he couldn't see her as anything but a volleyball player? I think that's what it was.
I'm just saying what happened just now was I started the quote and you sighed. No, I sighed because we had a funny intro, and you nixed it and then said you did this. The funny intro was Ben eating a sandwich. Listen, vote if you think that's how you wanted this episode.
I welcome the poll. And let me be clear. Inlou wave incoming, I'm blue. The crunchiest sandwich.
Sure was. He did toast it to get a crunch. Again, this is a movie about Santa comedy, but I don't know how you guys feel. It's not a laugh riot.
I found it dramatically unfunny. Griffin wasn't a huge fan, but he made my skin crawl. But even quality wise, aside, just not that funny a movie. A few moments.
I recently came here in here. I found it dramatically unfunny. Marie funny. Bradley Cooper's funny.
Sure, sure. Ben off mic, but my guess is you thought it was mildly funny. Your best? Yeah, I'm not even very funny.
Every single time Bradley Cooper's character, who is named Balls. He sure is. He sure is. He sure is.
He's a big fan. Every single time Balls is on screen, I was laughing. And the screening I was at, the entire audience was laughing. Yes.
Every time he was on screen. And the rest of the movie was pin drop sign. Yeah, it was a lot of, but anyway, so this is not that funny. Now, we talk for half an hour.
We're doing some meeting stuff, guys. Debating businesses. Debating businesses. Celebratives we should invite on.
Who's on our shit? We're kind of deciding to make a sandwich. No, no, no, no. So we're all scheduling.
Oh, who should we email? We were burning time and it's still like, OK, we got to start the episode. Ben's like, OK, produces, I would say, a lead to piece of time. What did you listen to?
What did I listen to? I'm using a piece of this, which is I'm eating a wrap. Yeah, you're eating it. I'm rolling.
I go hold on. Let me just finish this. You take a bite. Right.
I digest the bite. I'm ready to start. And I look over. And Ben has magically produced.
It's so big. The largest. It's fresh out of the microwave. Steam lines coming off of it.
It was fresh out of the toast. I have a toast. I have a toast. I have a toast.
I have a toast. I have a toast. I have a toast. I have a toast.
I have a toast. I have a toast. I have a toast. I have a toast.
It was all here later, memory is taken a picture. I got it from kapuda's. You're filming us in that. Great Italian specialty food store in Cobbl of Hill.
I love Kapuda's bakery at a classical, old-school Italian joint at the neighborhood. One of our great Italian-American filmmakers. Can I finish that phone? Bradley Cooper, one of the great Italian-American filmmakers.
And why do you say that? His mother's Irish, Italian? His mother's Irish? He of course makes a cheesed ate cheese.
He has a crochety sandwich. He has a crochety sandwich. But it's available to anyone? When they opened, he was making them himself.
Or at least when they were in the food truck he Probably he definitely was. When they opened the physical space, he was in there. And when it was like, they're open one day, or you can gotta check the schedule. I'm online.
It was because it was fucking Bradley's there. He was like, I got two hours and you make- I'm having a good morning. Forgive him, you guys. The choppy things.
Not inviting me. When you went. It was just Bobby Wagner and I. I went with my friend Eric, Bobby Slag.
You still went. Okay, do you wanna hang out with Eric? Do you know him? No, but maybe we'd be friends.
I'm missing. You might get along. We're going. Yeah.
Ben and I will go. It's honestly kind of better now, when he was still doing the limited pop-up hours, Bobby Wagner and I and our respective partners went to see Better Man. Oh yeah. A better film than this.
Sure. Was playing at the villagey cinema in a screen with a sign outside that said, warning. This movie's about a monkey guy. Heading broken.
Oh yeah. And Better Man came out at the August, right? It was a late December release. We were seeing it the nippiest days of January.
We were seeing it the last day of the years. I remember that being the reason why I didn't go to the Bradley Cooper pop-up at the time was like, I'm not going to stand out in the East Village. It was a cold winter. In the freezing cold.
We saw it. It was no good time to release Better Man, but Christmas does not strike me as a great time to release. We saw it second after 12. We saw it second after 12.
Very close to Danny Coops, which I was wrong. It's not Danny Myers. It's not Danny Myers. It's not Danny.
It's another guy. No offense to that man if he listens to this podcast. And we decided we were like, fuck it. It's really cold, but we're here.
Let's see. They advertised. They were going to be open today. And we walked over and a guy was pulling the gate down and he was like, they ran out of bany jumping.
Jumpietro. Any jumpietro. It was like a legit cheese statement. I'm excited.
They'd run out for some, but you and Bobby went back. So then Bobby and I were like, we got to go back. And you know, I had to do that. It was forged in that moment.
There was the impulse decision to try to get a post-better man. And it was forged in that moment. You were not left out of anything consciously. It was just Bobby.
And this is Marie Barty, Salinas who is a Philadelphia native that was speaking. So we're going to have a good time. We're going to have a great time. But I'm not trying to offend you, but I'm not a huge cheese steak person.
Generally. I think you're kind of not that pumped up. I'm like, you know, I don't love cheese whiz. I'm like more of a.
Right. And he, I want like either pro-boner. This place has its proprietary cheese, which is very good. It's a very good cheese that is not cheese whiz, but it doesn't feel like it's some stupid elevated.
No, it's exactly. That sounds really promising. It's a better version of a junkie, super soft cheese. I went with Eric and Eric makes fun of me for usually only eat half of a giant sandwich like that and keep the other half.
No, I don't think he should make fun of me because I think I'm just living my life. Why is that? Why would you be eating? Oh, Ben's going to get the other half of this giant sandwich.
Yeah. I was talking. Taking another bite. And I, I ate half the sandwich and I was sitting and I was digesting and I was like, I'm going to eat the other half.
This isn't making me feel like complete garbage. It's not like a rock in my stomach. I had the exact same experience. And knowing me and my tum-tum.
I know weird poops later. I did not have problems. And you know, I had dinner with Bradley Cooper, which was talking about on this episode. And I should have told him no weird.
Can you just clarify that? I need to clarify it. I attended one of these awards, where it's like 20 people in three celebrities. The funniest occurrences where they'll be like, the cast of this movie invites you to dinner sit at a long communal table with like 15 of your industry colleagues and then they list her at the top of the table.
I told my husband. In a way. I was like, I was like David, Selena, or David Sims talked to Bradley Cooper. They talked about how he goes to every Eagles home game.
And my husband David was like, wait, do you think I got dinner with Brad? I texted him and was like, hey, you want to go to like, get a slice? I was like, what was there too? It was not a real thing.
Do you think the whole notion behind, and by the way, Ben Hausley, Ultimate Professional, eating his sandwich in the corner? He looks great. He's really happy. No crunch on Mike.
We're getting this good sandwich material you want. And this is the first episode of the New Year. Great entry. We have not introduced what the show is.
We'll get to it. We'll get to it. Yeah. But actually I'm lying because Bradley Cooper didn't stay for dinner.
Oh, why? Oh, there's. I was there for the drinks, which is kind of the part where they're the most caddling. So you should have said it.
I got drinks with Bradley Cooper. But he wasn't as famously sober, correct? Yeah, we were both drinking like Yuzu sodas. That's cool.
It wasn't drinking like a Tom Holland beer. Not that I knew. And then we sat down to dinner. We'll earn that in Andrew Day.
We're all so there of people in this movie. Our net also sober. Yes, that's right. I mean, look, I wasn't checking everyone's drinks.
Should have been finger and finger. I taste alcohol. It would have been fun if you showed up with a breath of lice. Now, wait a second.
Andrew Day, however, gluten free. And we discussed that. Interesting. I was like, get this crew done.
I'm like, no, I'm not doing it. You had a silly act test in your back. Oh, wait. Oh, wait.
We sat down to dinner. Bradley Cooper went, anyway, I have to go. I'm so sorry. And he talked to us a little bit more.
And then he was like, I have to pick up my daughter from Russian class. And I was just like, so many questions. Well, this is class. Her mother is super mother's Russian.
There you go. That's the thing I couldn't put together. This is what you need me for. Thank you.
To know Bradley Cooper's dating history and all of the big secrets. So I will report everything I got from Bradley, which included some insights about this movie, mostly insights about Clint Eastwood, which is where I read it. Who is famously gluten free? Yeah.
Very serious. Like post about it. I opened up a bakery in the East Village. Well, you know, my wife has Celiac.
I know. Congrats Humblebrack. And so I am very conscious of gluten. I don't want to get the details of the story wrong, which is why I'm going to proceed to describe what I remember probably inaccurately.
But she had an issue where I believe she was misdiagnosed for many years where she could tell that something was seriously wrong in her body. I think this often happens. Right. Doctors misdiagnosed it and it caused a lot of issues when she was on blue bloods and they dropped her from the counter.
They said she was difficult to work with and it was like a health condition and there was like a year's long lawsuit. No, no, no. If women complain during a job, they are being difficult. If they should be great.
Right. Exactly. And by the way, Marie, is there anything you want to say? I feel like at this point we could add it together.
Like a compilation of all of our work. We dropped that statement. It says about women. I know.
I know. I know. I know. It's like JD says that he wishes he could pull clips from the podcast and make them pull quotes on posters like this looks like a boulevard.
David Simms the Atlantic. I love Jennifer Spazito, who I first discovered on Spin City way back in the day. Yeah. Great show.
Big fan. They had a big spike Lee collaborator from a bunch of Lee's. She's really fucking good. I still haven't seen that one.
I love what I'm saying. I kind of have like an Adrian Brody thing. It is where he really great. It's when he was like, this is like a fascinating thing.
Yeah. You were like, who it was pre- It was pre- Perfect Brody. We're also, I mean, just try to think of a time when like anytime that guy popped up and he wasn't famous, but you would be like, it's that guy again with the face and the nose. Like he's so weird.
Also, Marie, he's playing a Jewish punk. Yes. Who people start to suspect might be the son of Sam. Okay.
Because they're like, his vibe is so weird. Right. Right. It's like perfect casting for him where the whole energy is like the fuck is going on with you, man.
He's great. That movie is very akin to bring out the dead for me. Yeah. I love it.
American master. Sorry, efforts about New York that are very dark and like bomb toward the time and everyone's like the fuck are they doing? And I watch them and I'm like, this is like top tier of the bottom is on screen right now. Yeah.
Very high up favorites for me and both of their homographies written by Michael and Curyola. Yeah. Love him. Because he was supposed to play the legs on the car.
Yeah. And then I think sopranos happened. Oh, well, I'm a violator. Made a couple of phone calls.
That's the other thing. He farted into the phone and Spike Lee said, what am I going to do? What do you want from? He's violated.
Anytime Spike Lee, like he's in the sassy dog. And they'll just cut to him and you'll be like, thank God for asthma. And you're like, Rebecca Miller knows where the audience just needs a little punch in the arm. Here's the best part.
Him saying thank God for asthma and then laughing for 15 seconds. Yeah. Doing a full party laugh. He's like a wyluigi laugh.
He's kind of like crouches and like, yeah. He's kind of a wyluigi. He wears a lot of purple. He wears a lot of purple.
I tell you guys, I was walking around this neighborhood and it was the first time I had seen this is probably a year ago, if not more. The first time I had seen a cyber truck out in the wild. Oh, God fucking damn it's cyber truck. Was he driving it?
No, what's he driving it? I don't want to drive in a cyber truck and prokle who the fuck is this asshole? And I look as the car turns the corner and I am 95% sure a sort of like sinking in his chair, Spike Lee was shotgun. Oh, shotgun?
Okay. He was driving a dinty to his car. So maybe someone was like, hey, I'll come pick you up. But almost as if he was like embarrassed, like I don't want to see that.
I'm going to put something out here and I want to see if you guys agree with me. Okay. I don't think Spike Lee can drive. I don't think so either than that probably explains why I like his homography.
Right. Are you googling Ken Spike Lee drive? I am although I don't know why I thought that would work out for me. I can drive like a big wheel.
I can see him on a big wheel. Bobby's world stuff. Now I'm making Spike Lee into an increasingly sort of no-mish magical figures. He's Bobby from Bobby's World.
And Spike Lee drive. I didn't get an answer and I don't know. I mean, he's a New York City guy so he doesn't have to drive. He did an Escalade commercial.
He'll do commercials about anything. God bless him. His production company was ticketed for doing a legal parking in front of the office. Yeah, sure.
But I'm clear. No, just a close look on this. Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Spazito were married for 15 minutes. And it is one of the most bizarre, unexplained divorce situations ever.
They were dating for many, many years and then they got divorced one week after they got married. I mean, technically, obviously six months or whatever. I think they've said we realized immediately it was not a good idea. I am not saying that Bradley Cooper doesn't have the right to make this movie.
I was interested to bring in his own history with divorce. A guy who's had a lot of high-profile relationships. Today we are talking about his new film because this is going check with Griffin and David. I'm Griffin.
I'm David. And there's a smiling producer sitting across from me. His belly full. The look of satisfaction on his shit.
Chicken Parm. Chicken Parm taken down. Crunch, crunch, and it was already mentioned. Marie Barty.
Salinas, party. Salinas. Filling his own. Phil's own.
Fly Eagles fly, what do they say? Go birds. Also, like, yeah. Wooder ice.
Eagles. Yeah, no. Bradley Cooper told me I'm going to just drop in all of the things that Bradthe Cooper told me, which have remained in my brain, like locked in the vault. Okay, so these stupid dinner invite things.
Only coming in awards season, obviously, just because I'm an awardsy boater. I can invite it to them. If they are- If in April they were like, hey, Marsur is supposed to be free for dinner sometimes with you? Well, I've heard of.
There's a couple of people who do stuff like that. But that's not publicist. who just, right, like to me. Yeah, some of it.
Yeah, they like to sort of mix it up. It's like the character actor dinners or whatever. Yeah, and it's like, you know, that's also, that is kind of the old school thing that like Paul and Kale used to do where, like, you know, they were really mingly back then. The critics and the filmmakers, you know, Kale and Altman and all that.
But, the Ebert and Squarschee. Yeah, and the, you know, Corless, the Pacific guy with Scorsese, Richard Corless. Yeah. Anyway, these dinners come in.
And yes, I rarely go because I don't, I have kids that I can't do it. You would? I do, I do. Okay.
And I was like, I'm actually not going to go home tonight. And this dinner is bizarrely at five o'clock, probably to fit Bradley Cooper's Russian lessons. And so I was like, I think I'm going to take the meal, even though I was next on the movie. I do like Bradley Cooper and Will Arnett.
You know, I've liked him. We've loved so much of his work. Yes. And, and, Hey, she's great, I guess.
It absolutely has an Oscar. Did you talk to Will Arnett about being like, she really does. What's it like being a famous podcast? Do not talk to Will Arnett really much at all, except sort of like in, well, when I walked in the door, I was one of the first people there.
And Will Arnett and Bradley Cooper were standing there. And I was like, hi, I'm David. And they're like, hi. And I was like, do I, what do I do with my coat?
And Will was like, I'll take your coat. Like, like, it was doing a bit. Like, which I thought was funny. Oh, yeah, I'm doing the coats.
I'm doing the coats. That was funny. I'm hitting the coat and anyone is this thing off. That he should have taken the coat off.
That sounded like a Nicholson. It's tough. He's this thing. You know what I just watched?
Cause I have the, what's it? I mean, like her syndrome sort of fancy brand cinematography or whatever. So the map will go out. There you go.
They're going south. I've never seen that. I know Jack Nicholson and my new cat looking pretty Jack, a retro. I will do one day when I opened the Sims cinema or whatever or Westerns or Westerns.
I don't know, but I'm gonna have to, after watching that I was like, right, Jack was like. Can we make the Western horny, like there's gotta be others, let me just close the loop here. And the rest are about fuck all the Bradley dinner. Can I close a loop before?
Sorry, I just found an article about celebrities who own cybertrucks. A film director Spike Lee took to Instagram in December, 2023 to show off his brand new cyber truck. Quote, I put my reservation in two years ago. Lee wrote in the caption.
So he owns the cyber truck. Well, there still doesn't answer the question if he drives or not, but he does own a Cybertron. It had that vibe. It had that vibe.
This is a podcast about filmography. It's directors who have massive success early on in their careers and are giving series of blank checks to make whatever crazy passion projects they want. And sometimes those checks clear and sometimes they bounce baby. We almost exclusively do mini series on directors.
Some people, especially more recent viewers, might be going, what the fuck is this episode? What is happening here? In the earlier days of the show, we would look for opportunities of new release movies where we'd be like, oh fuck, let's do an episode on that. I think we did Star Wars one.
It was also just the hype around that. Star Wars was so crazy. It was like a watershed moment. Right, and it was this kind of like Insta-blank check.
And we were like, well, let's fucking do a Star Wars. And then he has kind of continued to build out of filmography. But I remember that being the last year where Ben would actually have us look at the calendar and go, is there anything worth building an episode around? And we both were like, this kind of feels like it.
And especially after you had seen it at TIFF, it was like, this is a moment. And if we get it on the ground floor of this, it is going to be interesting to keep tracking what's going on in his career, which I can tell, it's still the case even though I don't like this one at all. So this has been in our sense series on Bradley Cooper happening in real time. Yeah, whenever he makes a movie, we'll be there, including is this thing on?
Is this thing? Wait a second. Man, I'm trying to find it. Did you turn this on?
This is kind of a weird, like a Batman sequel. I know they struggled a lot in development to figure out the hook for the second one, but I feel like they really dropped most of what I liked about the first one. The only thing we did in 2019 that was a standalone was joke. Well, yes, we did a joke.
We had of course done music in movies. You did the line, okay. And cats, right? Yeah, we did the line-taint cats trailer episode.
The other thing we did was we solved some murders. We solved some crimes. Oh, detective Pikachu. We met the detective Pikachu.
Sort of an all format episode. It was, but I would like there to be a sequel to that. I really enjoyed detective Pikachu. John film.
It was fully announced. Do you remember they said John and Cressville was gonna direct the detective to the detective? They did, and I think it's- Yeah, I think it's COVID kind of me-capped it, and now they're just sort of figuring out what to do with Pokemon. There were a lot of sequels like that that were in active development, and then COVID basically adding an extra two years of like, pause made them go like, did we miss the moment?
You know, like there's an older timeline in which they filmed that movie in 2020 or 2021, and it comes out in 2021 or 22. And by the time they could have started having that conversation in 21, they were like, well, we're gonna have this comment in 23. It just felt like, yeah. You know what else is coming out in 2026?
What's here by the way? We're gonna cover some new films, obviously from the people who we've covered from- Same Rainy, New San Rainy picture. How fucking hell? We'll cover Sam Rainy's send help.
We're gonna obviously cover Steven Spielberg's- Entirely Alien movie. We're gonna cover the Odyssey. I hear it's called the American Stock. I'm sure that's coming.
I mean, that's one of those, it's just, it's coin flip. Either we'll never see it or tomorrow is coming out. Look, it's memory be a blessing. It lives in my head.
I watch it every night before I fall asleep. Now may I ask if it's only released to streaming? I will do it. We might, we might.
No question. Put it on Patreon. If it comes out in any way, it is going mean for me. I think it has to.
I would agree. Yeah, but I hope we live in a show that some Katari Prince will furnish having cost her with whatever millions he needs to get that accomplished. And I say this without- I love Katari. I love Katari.
I say this without revealing any privileged information, the vibe I keep getting of why this thing is bottlenecked is anytime anyone offers money to buy the film away from Warner Brothers, he's like, can't we put that money into part three? That his priority, anytime money is made available to him, even as a notion is what about three, four, and five? And they're like, Kevin, can we just- Five? Five?
I thought they're on me four. Well, he started being like, I've got some five ideas. This is what's incredible. He absolutely is.
Like right now I'm really excited about this five idea I just had and people are like, get two out. Well, you say people are like, it's a handful of people who are up for that instead. I'm three lawsuits. I know.
But it's just one of those things where it's like, there's no mob storming any Warner Brothers Gates being like, all right. No, the people I'm speaking of are the people who invested into the people who worked on to. I'm not saying the public is demanding it as much as everyone surrounding him directly. So the people who invested in Kevin Costner's two part epic saga about the American West, I say, thank you.
And I salute you. I'm a consumer- I'm a consumer- It was just himself, right? It wasn't just him. He put up a tremendous amount of money, but it was not just him.
He also, Taylor Sheridan, just checked his wallet. It's empty. Costner's running away. We're here to talk about, is this thing on, which is a Bradley Cooper's third film.
As a director. I don't know how many movies he's done as an actor. I could count if you want. Yeah, give a quick count, because I'm going to just quickly since this isn't it.
And this is just how the podcast works where 11 years in. This is technically our final episode in Bradley Cooper miniseries for now. Unless he makes something else which I believe he is. Yeah.
So let me just do a quick ranking of Bradley Cooper films. Number one, Maestro with a bullet. You love me, sir. Number two, a star is born.
Number three, the cheesesteak. Space, space, space, space, space, space. Number four is the movie I really did not. Yeah, so just a- Griffin didn't like this.
A table set for everyone. Oh, please. Oh, I'm excited for this. David is licking his lips.
So David saw this film independent of us. I thought that the New York Film Festival. Yes, David's on before us. And the three of us, Ben Griffin and myself, were supposed to go to a press screening.
And kindly offered to us by the folks at Fox Search Alliance. Yes. And it was packed. People wanted to know on off?
There was a tension. Media. There was a tension in the city. People were getting really ants.
Right. People are, I was like, are you running for so round? I'm like, I don't care. I just want to know what's this thing on.
Has anyone seen the switch? What position was it in? I mean, I haven't been to as many press screenings as you have, David. I have certainly been to a lot of them.
But to me, this was the most upright. This is the first press screening I've ever been to where they didn't have enough seats. I do think what you experienced is a little rare. I also think they should have scheduled more screenings.
They've been to the movie theater. This is a private series in private. It was in private. Which is a small room.
But there's a real dearth of screening rooms in New York City these days. I think, and like, come award season, I am not a publicist. I don't have to deal with this. I think it becomes this nightmare, the jigsaw, of like everywhere's booked.
Yeah. Like, all fucking day from October to June or whatever. I was running late and they had a capacity like 10 minutes before the movie started. Yes.
So you basically were like, there's no way you're getting in. And they weren't letting you hold seats. No. So Ben and I didn't sit next to each other.
I like the seller. A little bit like the seller. A little bit like the seller. And really high cover charge.
They made Morica check in tenders. It's a four drink minimum, and Coke's cost $18. How much is like a Diet Coke at the Comedy Store? Oh my god.
But yeah, Griffin didn't miss the movie. I saw it at the same screen you went about 10 weeks. 10 weeks, 10 days, two weeks later. Good bathrooms there, big mirror.
So you really have to keep it at the tavern. I love the bathroom. And in fact, maybe I'll rank the shit I took in that bathroom up off this. OK, but just just just just put it out there.
I'm taking some shit to the apartment part. Yeah, Dave, it's all the movie first. And you're like, yeah, it's all there. But it's fine.
I was sort of like, it's fine. It's fine. It's mixed. Just some moments, which is where I am.
And then we get out of the movie and we're like, it's kind of a nut. We shrugged really good. You know, and I'm like, oh. It seems to be the somewhat general.
I know a couple people love it. Katie Rich, a huge fan of this movie. I hate this. Let me just take a step back here.
They announced this movie. Keep on the mic. OK, take a step back and bring the mic with you. Hello.
And Ben, do you have a second sandwich you want to eat right now? Unfortunately, no. But I do have dessert. Teramisu.
No, I'm drinking. Ben, do you want to? No, that's too soft. You don't need to crunch.
You don't need to crunch. Rice Krispreetree. Kind of bland, but funny. Ben, do you want to tell everyone what you've googled and look at my ears?
From the position of our desk, I have a few bins. You can see what Ben's googled. And sometimes I just see what Ben has silently pulled up on his computer screen. And it makes me happy.
I was just trying to find an answer to your question. What's the menu with the comedy seller? He's got the menu. He's got the full menu PDF on his screen.
But they don't have listed soft drinks. But I'm actually kind of surprised, reasonable-ish pricing. Like, for example, a Bud Light $5. That is pretty reasonable.
Not bad at all. So, you know, and I will say this seller's a totally fun place to go. I'm not trying to dis this out. No.
No. No. None of this. These movies, sins, are not on the Comedy Seller.
I would say it has some insane representation of the Comedy Seller. Well, what do you mean? Griffin, when we were coming up in Comedy, we'd always go to the open mics of the Comedy Seller. Well, it was the only way to avoid having to spend $15 to drink at a bar above the Comedy Seller with no view of the stage.
Of course. That's just what you do. Listen, let me step back. They announced this movie.
This movie, as it probably proclaims in its end credits, is based on a true story. It is, I can speak to this. It's a real Britney runs a marathon shit. A little bit.
But I would say it does not do the Britney runs a marathon thing. It is ostensibly based on the life story of John Bishop, but has Bradley put it to me because I was talking to him about adapting. We were talking about Jeremy Strong, because he had just done a Q&A with Jeremy Strong for a V. Though, at this point in January, well remembered.
Springsteen delivered me from or to nowhere from. Yeah, I did type O twice the same day delivered me from evil. And I told him, oh, I just interviewed Jeremy Strong. We talked about playing real people together.
And I was like, this was interesting. You got the real person. And he's like, oh, no. And I was like, no.
And he was like, I took two things. He'd come to stand up in that way, where he put his name down for fun. And then he gets back together with his wife. No, no, no, no.
Just that his wife was then at a show. He was like, those are the only two things about that. That interested me. But in real life, the guy's name is John Bishop.
I believe, yes. He reunited with his wife. But the marriage in this is not based on the marriage or anything like that. He's just like, there were just two pop points I liked, the initial thing.
Yes. And then the twist of like, and then when he's finally finding his feet at the comedy show, one day his wife is there. Yeah. That was it.
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