Taxi Driver (w/ Action Boyz)
Newcomers: Sports, with Nicole Byer and Lauren Lapkus
Headgum
4.7 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2024
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Lauren and Nicole are back with season seven of Newcomers! This time, they're getting into the filmography of legendary director Martin Scorsese, beginning with Taxi Driver (1976). Lauren and Nicole are joined by none other than the Action Boyz (Jon Gabrus, Ben Rodgers, and Ryan Stanger) to contextualize Robert De Niro’s portrayal of Travis Bickle, get into the nitty gritty of that mohawk, and pass explicit judgment on Travis’ taste in movies.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a headgum original. |
| 0:06.0 | Yeah, people do anything in front of a taxi driver. |
| 0:09.0 | Yeah, people do anything in front of a taxi driver. |
| 0:12.0 | I mean anything. People too cheap to rent a hotel room. |
| 0:15.0 | Don't drive a hurry up, police. People want to embarrass you. It's like you're not even there. It's like, you know, like a taxi driver doesn't even exist. |
| 0:22.0 | This city here is like an open sewer, you know. You know, like a taxi driver doesn't even exist. |
| 0:22.6 | This city here is like an open sewer, you know? |
| 0:25.2 | It's full of filth and scum. |
| 0:27.0 | I think I know what you mean, Travis. |
| 0:29.1 | But it's not going to be easy. |
| 0:30.4 | Any guys get to be a secret service man? |
| 0:36.0 | What? |
| 0:37.0 | I was just curious because I thought maybe I'd make a good one. |
| 0:40.0 | Hey, what kind of guns you guys carry? |
| 0:45.0 | 38, 45s, 357 magnums, |
| 0:50.0 | something bigger, maybe. Hi, I'd like to volunteer. |
| 0:57.0 | Why? |
| 0:58.0 | Why? |
| 0:59.0 | Why? |
| 1:00.0 | Because I think that you are the most beautiful woman I've ever seen. |
| 1:04.8 | The taxi driver is looking for a target. |
| 1:08.8 | Getting ready, getting organized, preparing himself for the only moment in his life that will ever mean anything. |
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