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Blank Check with Griffin & David

Intolerable Cruelty with Katey Rich

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

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

4.66.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2025

⏱️ 138 minutes

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Summary

We’ve been exposed. You’ve nailed our asses. Of course we’re going to defend this movie! 2004’s Intolerable Cruelty features George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones at the height of their powers, yet failed to connect with contemporary audiences. Guest Katey Rich joins us as we attempt to understand why. Too mean? Too talky? A lack of period trappings? Maybe they were just blinded by George Clooney’s incredible teeth. We’re talking Clooney’s directorial efforts (bad), Richard Jenkins’ 2008 (immaculate), and the name “Rex Rexroth” (difficult to pronounce) in this week’s episode, so sign your Massey pre-nup and join us!  Read David’s Interview with George Clooney Play Cinematrix Check out the Prestige Junkie After Party Sign up for Check Book, the Blank Check newsletter featuring even more “real nerdy shit” to feed your  pop culture obsession. Dossier excerpts, film biz AND burger reports, and even more exclusive content you won’t want to miss out on. Join our Patreon for franchise commentaries and bonus episodes. Follow us @blankcheckpod on Twitter, Instagram, Threads and Facebook!  Buy some real nerdy merch Connect with other Blankies on our Reddit or Discord For anything else, check out BlankCheckPod.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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your husband and david blankjack with griffin and david

0:05.0

blankjack with griffin and david don't know what to say or to expect

0:12.0

all you need to know is that the name of the show was blank check

0:25.7

your husband had told me you were the most beautiful podcast he'd ever met.

0:28.9

I didn't expect the most beautiful podcast I'd ever met.

0:30.0

It's a great line.

0:30.4

It is.

0:31.3

I don't have a good clinic.

0:32.9

Few do.

0:39.3

He's one of the least impersonated movie stars of that size, I would say's got a thing i've seen someone could figure it out people do it and you're like this is let's let's get right

0:44.8

into the deep end here i believe you kind of can't be a great movie star without being someone that

0:50.2

someone can impersonate you need to be distinctive enough that there is an ability to impersonate you in a specific way. Someone could definitely do clearly. I've seen people do it, but very few. You need to have like a hook that someone can hang on to. You fascinate me, but I can't, I can't, you know, how. You could do the head tilt. It's a quality of the voice. Well, he's very grovely in this.

1:11.5

Yeah.

1:12.3

Yeah.

1:13.5

The down. But then in this, he's doing the Cohen's, the Cohen's get him work in his neck unlike anyone else. And the teeth, obviously. I mean, that's a whole separate thing. Yeah. I think this is, yeah. I mean, I guess what's your favorite Clooney Cohen's performance?

1:28.6

Oh.

1:28.8

He's done four.

1:29.8

Yeah.

1:30.2

Okay.

1:31.3

Perfect. All four? Uh, oh, brother. This one, burn after reading. I skipped one. Hell Caesar. Oh, thank you. His idiot trilogy, which is now four films. Right. Mm-hmm. My default answer is burn after reading, which I think he's unreal good in. When I'm watching this, I go, how could it be anything but this? He's unbelievable in this. And this is so much on his shoulders. Yes. Even more than O'Brother where it's like the three. He's amazing in O'Brother, but right. Well, a brother has going on. Like, I didn't rewatch that one before this, but I did rewatch Burn After Reading.

2:02.2

And Burn After Reading is, like, it's an ensemble way more than this is.

2:05.0

Like, this is just, like, really a two-hander, but really kind of a one-hander.

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