PREVIEW - #500 - The 500th Episode

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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We mark an auspicious anniversary in frankly self-indulgent fashion, by revisiting one of our mutual favorite movies: Martin Scorsese's THE KING OF COMEDY (1982). We ask: does the future belong to Rupert Pupkin? And if so, how? PLUS: See, it started as a Michael Moore podcast... PATREON-EXLUSIVE EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/500-500th-98738387

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0:00.0	Well, our movie on this episode is The King of Comedy by Martin Scorsese.
0:03.5	In case you hadn't picked that up already.
0:04.9	We've done it before.
0:06.9	So this is a purely self-indulgent choice.
0:09.7	Why are we doing it now?
0:11.5	Because we like it.
0:12.4	Because we wanted to watch it.
0:13.3	It was five years ago that we did that episode.
0:15.4	Yeah, we've earned it.
0:16.3	I mean, we've come all this way.
0:17.5	Five hundred episodes. So fuck, let's do The King of Comedy. This film belongs to a very elite, kind of shared canon of films.
0:24.5	Gun to our heads, if somebody asked, you know, what is your mutual favorite movie?
0:28.8	I think it would probably be this one.
0:30.4	Probably, yeah.
0:31.0	I have so much fun every time I watch this movie. movie, even though I like strictly, I kind of remember every beat of it.
0:37.5	There's always things that I notice that I don't really remember or that I don't
0:41.5	remember kind of with the same weight.
0:43.3	Like I always forget just how funny this movie is.
0:45.9	I always forget how difficult some scenes are to watch even on like the fifth or sixth
0:51.3	viewing.
0:52.3	They're not getting any easier.
0:53.0	I'll tell you that.
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