Replay S01E53: The Worst Scripted Event of All Time
The Worst Idea Of All Time
Tim Batt
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2024
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
Please enjoy this victory lap of Season One episodes as we celebrate 10 years of The Worst Idea of All Time. New episodes posting on our Substack.
WorkJuice Presents: The Worst Scripted Event of All Time
Ben Acker and Ben Blacker, creators of the Thrilling Adventure Hour, teamed up with Tim Batt and Guy Montgomery, the creators/hosts of The Worst Idea of All Time podcast, in which the New Zealand-based comedians watched Grown Ups 2 every week for one year, to bring this one-of-a-kind live show to Los Angeles.
After watching Grown Ups 2 for 50 weeks, Tim and Guy wrote their own version of the movie, with their own brain-addled commentary.
Acker & Blacker produced this live read of that script starring The Thrilling Adventure Hour's WorkJuice Players Busy Philipps (Vice Principals) and Hal Lublin (We Got This), and TAH friends Kate Micucci (Garfunkel & Oates), Baron Vaughn (Grace & Frankie), Arden Myrin (MadTV), Mark McConville (Superego), Michael McMillian (True Blood), Jason Ritter (Parenthood), Humphrey Ker (Dymock Watson: Nazi Smasher), and Melanie Lynskey (Togetherness).
Jordan Katz and the Elements of Style, featuring Eric Kufs, perform the opening and closing music.
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| 0:21.0 | Based on using a 7 kilowatt home charger and EDF's go Britain. Wow, wow, wow. I just listened to what you're about to listen to, which was a stage read, a table read, on steroids in Hollywood in I guess 2015 I'm trying to remember what part of the |
| 0:46.6 | year it happened it doesn't matter this was truly like the Zenith. |
| 0:53.0 | I think apart from doing the YouTube pilot, |
| 0:56.0 | getting that greenlet and made, |
| 0:58.0 | this was the coolest thing that I think has happened in the 10 years of us doing the podcast, an incredible |
| 1:04.7 | cast reading an insane script that we have made from memory of the film. Guy and I, I remember at the time, we were just trying to like kind of keep |
| 1:16.0 | our cool with it because I think it would have been quite an easy situation to wig out in a little bit. |
| 1:22.4 | Like we just started this really stupid idea. easy situation to wig out in a little bit. |
| 1:22.6 | Like we just started this really stupid idea podcast, |
| 1:26.3 | you know, a year ago, and then suddenly we were in Los Angeles |
| 1:30.2 | and had all these like superstar comedians reading our script to a sold out audience. |
| 1:35.1 | It was a good time folks. It was a good fucking time. |
| 1:40.6 | It was so much fun. My one regret that it wasn't videoed somehow, but there was less common back in the day. |
| 1:47.0 | Our phones, they were shitter. They flipped, but not in the way like they do now, a way where it was it was just a telephone made by |
| 1:54.7 | Motorola that had a satisfying snap on it. But yeah this was so cool. No words, just enjoy. No warnings, I don't think it needed. It's a long one. |
| 2:09.3 | Apologies that it's coming out a little bit later than the rest of the season but hey I got a one month old |
| 2:15.2 | sue me enjoy this the Cherry on top of season one. Ladies and gentlemen Michael McMillan |
| 2:37.0 | Busy Phillips |
| 2:39.2 | Busy Phillips Jason Ritter, Baron Boyd, Melanie Linsky, Jane McCoochy, Arden Marin, Humphrey Care. |
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