21 Comedy: A Serious Business

Maltin on Movies

Leonard Maltin

Comedy, Jessie, Leonard, On, Tv & Film, Maltin, Movies

4.2 • 662 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2015

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Leonard and Baron are back to discuss three films revolving around the world of stand-up comedy: Martin Scorsese’s The King of Comedy, a great comedian’s semi-autobiographical saga that doesn’t quite add up, and a sleeper with a hell of a Punchline.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, this is Leonard Malton, and this is Malton on movies with Baron Vaughn, which means you must be...
0:07.8	Baron Vaughn.
0:09.1	I guess you are.
0:10.0	Indeed.
0:10.8	Hello, Malta Nights.
0:12.0	That seems to be the number one thing that people have put forward on Twitter.
0:17.3	Yeah.
0:17.8	As the names of the fans of this podcast.
0:19.9	Okay.
0:21.5	I can live with that.
0:23.1	You're very enthusiastic about it.
0:25.1	Well, it's okay with me.
0:27.2	Okay.
0:27.7	It's okay with me.
0:28.8	As long as they're there.
0:30.0	I made Leonard laugh before I said, someone said, Maltza balls, which is not true.
0:34.7	But it is a good pun.
0:36.3	But it is a good pun. And it's a seasonal one, too. Yes, exactly. And that's a,
0:40.8	that's a good joke to lead us into our subject matter. That's a good joke. I loved it. I dubbed it
0:45.8	that. Yeah, you had to. Yeah, you had to, because we're going to talk about comedy today.
0:50.7	We were trying to think of what to call this particular group of films.
0:55.9	And my suggestion for our episode title today is comedy, a serious business. What do you think?
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