This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and the New Yorker.

This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick.

Paul Sheer is an actor and a comedian and he's been in shows like The League and Black Monday and he was a recurring character on 30 Rock and Vep,

both of Sainted Memory.

Sheer has also just published a memoir

called Joyful Recollections of Trauma.

But Paul sheer may be best known as a film buff.

He may have come across his podcast,

How did this get made?

It's a conversation among three friends.

Paul, his wife June Diane Rayfield, and Jason Mansukas, analyzing and picking apart bad movies.

Only bad movies. These guys are connoisseurs of the lousy.

So when I talk with Paul Shear recently at Brooklyn Brewery, I wanted to get to the heart of things.

It's my last week on this planet.

What are the five most horrible films

that I can watch that I can take to the great beyond.

Okay, so let me just because I want to make sure we're on the even playing field.

There are horrible films like Gary Busey is in this thing like called like the the

ginger kill man or something where he plays it gingerbread right that and that's fine

those are bad movies those to me are not fun bad movies. I want to enjoy myself. I want to be sitting there going like

I need to show this to everyone. It's how our podcast came to be like it's about sitting around talking about a movie. I did that all the time through my youth.

So the Mount Rushmore, if you will, you have to put the room on it.

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