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We were talking about

white comedians in the 80s that are also actors

and someone gave Rich a list.

Yeah, the choices were,

they said only 80s movies, or 80s only.

Chase, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, Martin Short, Steve Martin, or John Candy.

And I ended up going with Chevy Chase just because Christmas Vacation, Caddyshack, Vacation, and Fletch is a murderer's row of 80s comedies.

And I don't know if that can be topped. And I think that Christmas vacation might be, oh, boy. I think it's better. I love Ghostbusters. It's better than Ghostbusters. So it's better than Murray's best. It's better than planes, trains, and automobiles, which I love. And that's Steve Martin's best. and then I don't think Martin Short actually made many great films in the 80s. He's very funny, but his movies were not very good. The work that I like him the best out of all of them, but it's not because of his movies, honestly. Yeah, yeah. Someone said, we're the Buffalo Room with Bill Murray. That is an awful movie. It's when he was Hunter S. Thompson, right? And it's bad. And I'm a huge Hunter S. Thompson fan. It's bad. I never saw that or the Razor's Edge. I never saw the Razors Edge. That was his serious. That was early, too. That was right in the middle of he was like cranking him out one after another and then decided I'm going to be serious this one time

and it flopped horribly that was a terrible movie well I I know continental divide which I never

saw either because it just looked depressed I actually saw that movie Belushi wasn't horrible in that

so did I was such a comedy nerd when I was like five years old I I was like, can you take me to Continental Divide? Because I love the Blues Brothers so much. Boy, I love the Blues Brothers. I thought that was the greatest thing that ever happened. But there was a wink and a nod toward his comedic talent in that In Continental Divide. No, no. It was a romantic comedy. He was cast as a romantic league. Bill Murray just went straight up dramas. Like, all right, I'm putting the comedy aside.

I'm doing this. And it was awful. I do the same thing. I mean, listen, he tried it. It didn't work. And then he went back to making comedy. So wait, you're saying the Razors' Edge was not good. Yes. From what I remember. Yes. I don't think the reviews are very good of it. No, either. It's not good at all.

All right.

But he was in Rushmore, which was hysterical. It's funny. He's weird in those West Anderson movies. I saw Rushmore with it on a date. And then everyone was laughing. And at the end of the movie, I turned to my date. And I said, am I on another planet? I had the same reaction. I saw Adam Sailer and Punch Drunk Love. I hated that. And I said, but that wasn't a comedy. No, but that's my point. No, no, but Rushmore. Love is a good movie. But Rushmore is a comedy and it was and I turned to my date. Her name was Aaron. and I said, Aaron, am I on another planet? I did not laugh one time during that film. And she said, I thought it was terrible. I thought it was fine. And I don't even hate Wes Anderson. Matter of fact, it took him a few movies to make a good one. Yeah. And the Grand Poutabest Hotel is a really good movie. People really like themselves from Wes Anderson. And Wes Anderson, I think, can just do whatever he wants and people will go, Hazah. There's a couple of them that are legitimately good, but I agree with you at the beginning. He kind of had a slow start. If you sit down and you tell me Rushmore, it was funny, I just say, congratulations, you and I don't share a brain. You, you, you, something tickles you in a way that you're, you're probably far smarter than me.

Because I found that to be.

It's not a smarter thing.

And also, Wes Anderson's first film is the, bottle rocket. It's bottle rocket, which is a great concept in a horribly executed film.

A movie that drags like crazy.

It introduced us to the Wilsonson brothers yeah that might have

been one of their first big things it's got to be their first big thing right i i don't know

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