#168 - Matt Johnson
Stavvy's World
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4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 94 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, everybody to Stavvy's World 9-04-800-staff. |
| 0:06.3 | Call in, we'll solve your problems. |
| 0:09.2 | We have one of the greatest minds of the Great White North on the couch right now. |
| 0:14.4 | Matt Johnson, whose new movie, Nirvana, the band, the show, the movie, has done probably what? |
| 0:22.9 | By this, this is Monday, so it's probably $400 million box office? |
| 0:26.8 | Oh, you know what? |
| 0:27.5 | I think you can drop maybe even three zeros. |
| 0:33.0 | The movie just came out. |
| 0:34.6 | I saw it. |
| 0:35.3 | It's funny as, it's legitimately funny as shit. |
| 0:38.4 | I mean, I'm trying to think, is it the fucking funniest movie of all time? |
| 0:42.5 | Is it? I'm trying to think. Is that what it is? No, no, no, not even close. But it was a very good time at the theaters, folks. |
| 0:52.4 | What's great about it is that it's one of those movies that were you watching at first, |
| 0:55.7 | especially you, are thinking, what a piece of shit. |
| 0:58.8 | Like, I can't believe I'm here. |
| 1:00.7 | I'm sitting in the IFC theater. |
| 1:02.5 | I was doing my buddy a favor just to appear. |
| 1:05.1 | He wanted me to be a laugh track to get the crowd going. |
| 1:08.0 | And then as soon as it does one interesting thing, you go, oh, okay. It's like, I once heard Wayne Knight say on the DVD special features of Seinfeld that one of his secret weapons, who was a really, really fat guy, but he was light on his feet. And so that when he ran, people always got a kick out of it. And I think that Nirvana, the band, the show, the movie has that. That's what you think. A big fat piece of shit movie that can move quickly. Yeah, yeah, it's nimble. Does it have a coherent plot, professional actors, beautiful people to look at? None of that. Jay looks pretty. Jay is cute. Jay is cute. Jay is held up really well. It's unbelievable. |
| 1:46.7 | Jay looks incredible. We're talking about Jay McCarroll. Look him up. He's one of these guys that gets |
| 1:51.2 | more handsome because when he was young, it was a bit of an uncanny valley because it was like, |
| 1:56.2 | uh, like he kind of looked like a man, but he's 14 years old. Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
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