War of the Worlds w/ Kobi Omenaka

Black Men Can't Jump [In Hollywood]

Tv & Film, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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This week, actor and writer Kobi Omenaka (The Wire Stripped podcast, Flixwatcher) joins Jerah and Jon to cover War of the Worlds, directed by Rich Lee, screenplay by Kenneth A. Golde and Marc Hyman, story by Kenneth A. Golde, starring Ice Cube, Eva Longoria, Clark Gregg, Iman Benson, Henry Hunter Hall, Devon Bostick, Michael O’Neill, and Andrea Savage. Together, they discuss the length of animated shows’ production timelines, the film’s meteoric rise from a 0% Rotten Tomatoes score to a 4% Rotten Tomatoes score, just how reliable streaming numbers are, kind of loving the movie, thumb drives, the power of Amazon Air, and much, much more!

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0:00.0	Kat Williams, Kira Knightley, Shia Labuff, what do all these stars have in common?
0:09.0	You can catch impressions of them Sunday, August 31st, at 7 p.m. Pacific Standard Time.
0:13.6	James III presents Inside the Impression Studio live and live streamed at the UCB Theater in L.A.
0:18.7	If you're in Los Angeles, come join us in person, or you have up to at least a week to watch the live stream.
0:23.3	See LA's top impressions from TikTok, Comedy Central, USA, and more.
0:27.3	It's going to be a wild time, boo-boo.
0:29.1	Sunday, August 31st at 7 p.m.
0:31.1	Inside the Impression Studio live and live stream, go to UCB Comedy.com.
0:43.0	Thank you. stream, go to UCBcomedy.com.com. It's been five years since the pandemic, a little over five years now.
0:49.5	Wow, yeah.
0:50.8	Isn't that crazy?
0:52.9	No.
0:53.5	I don't know crazy? No.
0:59.1	Is that too soon?
0:59.6	Too long?
0:59.8	What?
1:00.4	Well, think about an entire,
1:02.6	a whole college career has had,
1:05.5	like somebody fully got their bachelor's degree and they've been out for a year.
1:10.4	Like that's, that's, well, it doesn't quite feel that long, but it has been. It's like, it's starting to be in the past. And then, you know, obviously what we're about to do today is kind of, it's just, it's very, it's a relic of that. Oh, this was made back then? Yeah. Wait. How could you could you not okay i thought they were just trying to
1:29.3	call save hold on so if you if you thought this is way made now if you thought this is way now how does
1:35.1	that change your perception of the film does not it does and it shouldn't and i tell you right now
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