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Buster Keaton Shorts with Dana Stevens

🕑 Added 2023-05-11 04:00:02 +0000 UTC

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Josh Mclane

Thank you for the Harry Hill shoutout. His old shows and his ep of Off Menu is classic.

KED

Dropping on here to say my fave part of the Keaton mini series is the frequent tie-ins to Babylon, the best to do it (by ‘it’ I mean maximalism, subtly sucks)

Wes

Rolf Harris found dead in a ditch

Rohmer Simpson

It was surprising not to hear any mention of The Simpsons "Hurricane Neddy" in connection with THE ELECTRIC HOUSE and ONE WEEK!

Jon Ryves

was just listening to the bit about Rolf Harris and then half an hour later his death was announced. Rest in piss you piece of shit

Rohmer Simpson

It is I, the one person on the planet who legitimately enjoyed AMSTERDAM.

Wes

Ansel Elgort! His face is completely blank and he dances! I’m always wondering .. what’s he thinking .. what’s going on with him

Kevin McCauley

No present day, there was a time when David Hyde Pierce could have pulled it off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpImet3Xwgw

Tyler Dietz

The audiobook has been a great supplement in-between podcast eps.

Ashley Schoenfeld

Loving the series so far, I’ll definitely be picking up Dana’s book!!

Reed mikkelsen

So I guess fiml was the first time in history that humans could not see something that passed through their eyeline?

Reed mikkelsen

I encourage you watch a couple shkrts on YouTube. I'm truly shocked by how delightful and weird they are. But I guess if you've tried that and weren't into it, then yeah this series will be rough. And that show I felt last week up until today when I finally gave one of his films a chance and I'm so glad I did

Reed mikkelsen

So was spaghetti as exotic to the 1920s as sushi was in the 80s or beyond beef is now?

Reed mikkelsen

Tom Holland could totally pull of Keaton

Reed mikkelsen

I just watched The Cook on YouTube. It's so much werder and more beautiful than I expected. I don't even know how to describe what kind of performance this is.its so bizarre. I love it

Josh Harvey

The man was a next-level director, actor, stuntman and choreographer…these movies make up for lack of sound in jokes/stunts/set pieces alone.

Scott Andrew McArthur

The literal second before Griff said Hader would be a good fit for a Keaton biopic I thought, "he's gonna say Bill Hader isn't he?"

CT

Loved these shorts so much! What a great series! I’ve long wondered why this style of visual slapstick still works so well when most comedy doesn’t hold up at all over even short periods of time. Also, y’all missed discussing one of my favorite little gags in this collection…in Cops, when Buster hides in a trunk only for a cop to lock him inside, only for Buster to roll out the bottom…only for both Buster and the cop to come together for a second to look at the trunk in bemusement over it not having a bottom. THAT’S comedy, folks!

Charles

One Week is sooooo good

Jon Simon

I love this and own Dana's book

Chas

This series is amazing, thank you both so much for showing Buster and silent film some love! And for putting the plebes on display for us all in doing so.

calvin dishes

Yeah! Me and this guy just want more marvel commentaries!!

Jay Kay

This buster keaton thing is ruining both feeds for me this week

Mike Ostrov

My brain skips whenever I hear people say "ACAB" as a word instead of as an initialism "A.C.A.B.," like somehow they didn't learn the term from the 4-skins.