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Chewin' It with Kevin ad Steve

Tom McArdle, Oscar Nominated Editor for Spotlight

Chewin' It with Kevin ad Steve

Kevin Heffernan and Steve Lemme

Improv, Comedy

4.9749 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2016

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Tom McArdle (Spotlight, Win Win, The Visitor, The Station Agent) is up for an Academy Award for Best Editing of the film Spotlight. Tom joins Kevin & Steve as they talk Spotlight, how someone becomes an editor, what goes into the editing of a feature film, McArdle's shout out in Super Troopers, where an editor gets his award show tux, working w/ writer-director Tom McCarthy, farting policy in the edit room, giving Heff/Lemme a shout out at the Oscars and more! ENJOY THE CHEW!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody. This is Kevin Heffernan. Welcome to another episode of Chewing It on behalf of Steve Lemmy. Thanks for joining us.

0:05.8

Great episode this week. We are joined by Academy Award nominee, Tom McCartle. Tom's an editor, and he edited the film Spotlight, and he is nominated for an Academy Award.

0:19.4

Tom's an old friend of ours.

0:24.9

He's edited a lot of films, and it was fun to get him to come on.

0:30.6

We talked about the process of editing a film and editing spotlight itself, which is such an amazing movie.

0:32.0

If you haven't seen it, go see it.

0:35.4

But it's great to have him.

0:36.7

He's a little bit shy. We had to twist his arm to get to come on, but we had a great to have him. He's a little bit shy.

0:38.0

We had to twist his arm to get a come on,

0:40.2

but we had a great talk with him.

0:42.2

So enjoy.

0:44.0

Before we get going, a little bit of business.

0:47.7

Lemmy and I are lining up some road dates,

0:50.7

and Broken Lizard is lining up some road dates.

0:52.6

Let me go through them real quick.

0:55.4

Lemmy and Heffernan, we will be in Pasadena at the Ice House, the Ice House Comedy Club.

1:02.0

Always wanted to go there.

1:03.6

We will be there one night only, February 13th.

1:07.3

February 13th, that's a Saturday at the Ice House in Pasadena.

1:12.7

You can go to the Icehouse Comedy.com for tickets.

1:16.9

After that, we'll get a couple of Broken Lizard shows.

1:19.8

Broken Lizards are going to Houston.

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