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Good One

Paul Feig's Spy Knife Fight

Good One

Vox Media Podcast Network

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In this live episode of Good One from Vulture Festival LA, Jesse speaks with Paul Feig about a fight scene from his movie Spy, why he works best with women and the trials of editing a film.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, this is Good One, a podcast about jokes. I am your host, Volta Senior Editor, Jesse David Fox.

0:12.0

If this is your first time Editor, Jesse David Fox.

0:13.0

If this is your first time listening, hi, hey, how's it going?

0:16.6

Good, glad to hear.

0:18.3

Each episode I have a comedian on or a writer or director to play and talk about one of their jokes.

0:24.0

And this week's guest is Creator, Freaks, and

0:26.2

Director of Bridesmaids, The Heat,

0:28.2

Spy, Ghostbusters, Paul Feeg.

0:31.8

I know, very exciting, very cool, and it's good. It's a good episode. So here's the thing. The scene

0:39.2

Paul chose to focus on is really visual. It's the knife fight scene from Spy and it's very cool and very funny, but there isn't much talking, it just kind of like slicing and frying pan clongs. And you know, we're going to play the audio for context and I think the

0:54.6

conversation will make sense regardless but if you do have a second you know

0:58.0

Google around and try to watch it online I should note that Paul picked up slightly longer version of the scene from the

1:04.7

unrated cut of the film, you know, but it's essentially the same. There's just a few

1:08.1

more jokes thrown in. To set this stage just a little bit the fight is between

1:11.8

Melissa McCarthy who plays the

1:13.0

titular spy, and Nargis Vacary who plays, you know, a bad guy in the movie.

1:17.9

It's not that important.

1:19.8

So I should also note, we're going to spoil Spy like throughout the entire interview so just be prepared for that

1:26.4

You're not going to be able to skip around to miss the spoilers. There's just going to be spoilers

1:30.5

Just be forewarned like the scene we're playing, there's this big spoiler at the end

1:35.0

that I'm going to tell you like right now, which is

1:38.0

Jude Law, who used to be Melissa McCarthy's partner in the movie

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