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Blank Check with Griffin & David

Ali with Jamelle Bouie

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Comedy, Film Reviews

4.66.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2019

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Summary

This week, Jamelle Bouie (The New York Times) joins to discuss 2001’s unorthodox biopic, Ali. Together they examine the relationship between Ali and sports broadcaster Howard Cosell, the Peter Newman interview, Will Smith and the rest of the excellent cast's performances and so much more. Plus, Jamelle tries the Spies in Disguise challenge!

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:21.0

Float like a pod, sting like a cast, his hands can't hear what his eyes can't see!

0:25.7

Okay, I don't know.

0:27.2

That's fine. This isn't an inherently quotable movie, apart from that it's about the most

0:32.0

quotable man who ever lived. Right, and I don't want to pull a Billy Crystal and try to do some

0:36.0

extended impression. Don King bit. Uh, well, he, I mean, he does them all. Yeah. Yeah.

0:42.1

Billy Crystal's greatest characters, Muhammad Ali, Don King, Sammy Davis Jr. Jazzman.

0:49.4

Jazzman, that's right. Yes. Isn't Jazzman just Sammy Davis Jr., or is he, is he's the

0:53.8

jazzman? Jazzman is a separate character. Oh, no, no, no, no. Jazzman is a separate character.

0:57.4

All right. All right. Let's get off this. Right. Have you never seen the comic relief routine

1:00.8

of Paul Turek and Katrina? Yes. No, I have. Yeah. So you're familiar with Jazzman. You've met

1:05.9

the Jazzman. You've met the Jazzman. Um, and also, uh, of course, Billy Crystal's most terrifying

1:10.9

character, uh, uh, uncanny valley Tenton. Sure. Right. From the Oscars when he played that. Have you

1:16.5

seen this? I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I've not seen this. Okay. Talking on Mike before we introduce

1:20.1

you. It's what I like. Perfect. And we're gonna pull up the image from you. This was the last

1:23.8

time that Billy Crystal ever hosted the Oscars after Eddie Murphy quit. So you just for no

1:28.0

was he in blackface? In when he hosted the Oscars? Yes. Yes. In that intro, he also did Sammy Davis

1:33.4

Jr. Nice. But somehow it was the second most recent character dancing Christ. Right.

1:39.2

Now this is a great example of he starts off the montage. I know it was asking for this. Like,

1:44.6

I'm just not like, you're gonna do Tenton, right? Because the fans they want you to do.

1:49.2

It made 80 domestic and got zero Oscar nominations. Maybe got score. I think you got score.

1:53.3

Right. But this is what's incredible. No, it didn't actually. Warhorse got scored. Maybe.

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