Last Week Tonight, Jon Pessah, Best Late Night Talk Show Hosts

Cinephile with Adnan Virk

Adnan Virk, Le Batard & Friends

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Film Interviews

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Despite social distancing, John Oliver continues to deliver new episodes of "Last Week Tonight" on HBO! Adnan reviews season 7 and discusses Oliver's coverage of the Coronavirus pandemic, along with reviews the 2012 film "The Iceman" and the 1971 film "The Hospital." Adnan also welcomes Jon Pessah, author of the new book "Yogi: A Life Behind the Mask," which details the life of famed Yankee's catcher, Yogi Berra. For this week's Mount Rushmore the guys pick the greatest Late Night Hosts of all time and afterwards on Total Recall re-pick the 2002 Oscars! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Shannin gets his characters pent up torment as well as his efficient disconnect.
0:27.1	And as two worlds start to converge on his daughter, sweet 16th birthday, no less, you feel for it.
0:32.1	That's Lisa Kennedy of Denver Post talking about the Ice Man.
0:35.1	One of the movies we're reviewing this week is about a mob hitman.
0:38.1	Natorious Constra-Killer Richard Koclinsky, the movie came out 2013, but I've never seen it.
0:43.1	So I want to review it for all of you.
0:44.1	Michael Shannin's The Star, Winona Ryder, Chris Evans, Ray Leota, David Schwimmer, how about that cast?
0:49.1	John Ben Tamelia, James Franco, Stephen Dorf.
0:52.1	That's right. We're talking about the Ice Man Plus.
0:54.1	With what we're dealing with right now, I want to look at a couple of films looking at health care.
0:59.1	The hospital from 1971 starring George C. Scott and also Awakening's, a great film of course, starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams.
1:07.1	Those are our reviews. We've got entertainment news involving another very expensive Martin Scorsese movie and Jerry Seinfeld with a comedy special plus sports casters making us all laugh, speaking in sports.
1:18.1	John Pess is a terrific writer. He's got a new book called Yogi, Life Behind the Mask, 507 pages of goodness.
1:24.1	He's going to tell us all about Yogi and the movies and our Mount Rushmore of Late Night TV hosts plus total recall the 2002 Oscars.
1:32.1	That's right. With a beautiful mind, one best picture.
1:35.1	Hopefully everybody is staying safe. Thank you so much for checking this out.
1:38.1	I can't tell you how much it means to me. It's been such a respite for me right now being able to do this podcast along with the GM Shuffle.
1:45.1	Thanks to Kate and 13th. Thanks to my man Joe for doing this because at least this is a break for all of us and able to talk about movies.
1:52.1	As always, please do give us some love and apple podcast. You can subscribe there, rate and review. That's how we keep things going.
1:59.1	So if you like the pod, please do do so there. We're going to start by talking about a TV show because of course there's no new movies coming out.
2:05.1	So we're going to start with last week tonight with John Auler, which is one of my favorite shows on TV. Hopefully you're watching it.
2:11.1	I'm going to talk to season seven right now. The synopsis of you haven't heard of it. Breaking news on a weekly basis.
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