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Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair

Are These The Funniest Movies Ever Made?

Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair

Tv & Film

4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2017

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

A conversation with BBC Culture’s Christian Blauvelt about the list of the 100 greatest film comedies ever made. Plus, interviews with Emmy nominees Ann Dowd (of *The Leftovers* and *The Handmaid’s Tale*) and Lena Waithe (*Master of None*). 

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, the Award Season Podcasts from Vanity Fair and Panaply.

0:11.6

I'm Katie Rich, the deputy editor of Vanity Fair.com and I'm here with a full crew today

0:15.6

we've got in the studio our digital director Mike Hogan.

0:18.2

Hello. Our film critic Richard Lawson.

0:20.3

Hello. And on the phone we have our senior writer Joanna Robinson.

0:23.6

Hi Katie.

0:24.6

And also in studio we've got BBC Cultures Deputy editor Christian Blauveld.

0:28.6

Hey there.

0:29.6

So Christian, we brought you to want to talk about the massive list that you guys have just

0:33.8

released of the hundred greatest film comedies of all time so we'll dive into

0:37.4

that in a bit. Wait I thought we were going to spend the whole episode talking

0:40.0

about Game of Thrones. Okay, I'm going to go.

0:44.0

79 minute episode.

0:47.0

Just keep that zombie polar bear out of the studio please.

0:49.0

Yeah, this episode will also be 79 minutes long so that we can talk about movies and Game

0:54.3

with Rhodes.

0:55.3

And we also this week have a conversation with Anne Dowd, who is an Emmy nominee for the Handmaid's

0:59.4

tale.

1:00.4

But before we get into any of that, there's just kind of like some bits and pieces of Oscar

1:03.6

adjacent news.

1:04.9

We wanted to start with what I don't think is going to be an Oscar movie, but is kind of the

1:08.8

movie, the prestige movie that no one could stop talking about this week.

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