This or That, Day 17
4As we crossed the half-way point (already??!!), I think we have learned a few things.
- Wonder Woman is better connected than Kevin Bacon
- You are more enamored of WWW, WCW and WTF
- Some of you can’t tell the difference between Andre the Giant and Andrea the Giant
- King Kong would make a really big bundt cake
- Looney Tunes is better than all of them
- The classics are always the best
I know some of you are finding these to be a lot of things you either don’t know or don’t care about, so I’m trying to bring in a variety of things to catch as many different tastes. You see, I’m listening!
So in that vein, we have another choice between he classic and the modern, hopefully one of which will strike a chord. Today is all about Chris Elliott and two of his characters:
Glenn
or Guy Under the Seats
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@therealjrn Sure, why not?
@therealjrn Yes, Dogbert speaks to me at many levels.
Wha… huh?
This one is proving challenging for WW. I have not given up, but I may sleep on it…
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Aren’t you a puzzler! I have no idea, sorry again, @ybmuG.
/giphy apology wonder woman
Ssooooo the “guy under the stairs” was a David Letterman skit …so in that vein
@tinamarie1974 Well done! I hadn’t seen that one. I did find a few other connections. Well see if any others make their way into the thread.
@ybmuG you made me work for this one!
@tinamarie1974 @ybmuG
TWSS
I’m sure there is a cabin boy on this Wonder Woman cruise ship.
And to fairly answer your survey:
I am obsessed with Schitt’s Creek! I am fairly certain that Alexis has channeled a cat. Her mannerisms are very cat like!
@tinamarie1974 well that was nice - first real answer in just under an hour.
@ybmuG I mean you deserve to have real answers!
Chris Elliot always disturbed me in some way, couldn’t quite figure out why - the guy under the seats was the only thing that seemed to work for him and me, so I go for that.
I liked him in The Abyss and Groundhog Day, but I never watched much Letterman.
I had forgotten he was doing this as Marlon Brando, but this is one of those things I still quote 30+ (
) years later.
Letterman in the late '80s was the best and Chris Elliott’s unpredictable appearances were one of the reasons why.
I got sucked into the Youtube rabbit hole looking for that vid - lots of great clips. It seems 1987 was peak Late Night.
Oh - anyway, I hope this answers your question.
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Yeah, no. Cannot get behind Chris Elliot. He was marginally ok in Groundhog Day, but that is it.
#3 was a Typo! I can tell the difference between the two!
The picture labeled Glenn is actually Roland Schitt from Schitt’s Creek. Glenn was from Last Man on Earth.
That being said, my vote would be for any character in Schitt’s Creek. Anxiously awaiting the final season
@j2 Dang! I had one of Glenn and one of Roland and picked the wrong one. Must be the tumor
@j2 @ybmuG
/giphy Schwarzenegger it’s not a tumor
@j2 @tinamarie1974 that was a surprisingly funny movie.
ROLAND SCHITT! Yea, something I know and love
@Gypsigirl213 see, I’m all about inclusivity!
Letterman is better, man!
@f00l Here’s one of the gems I came across while down the YT rabbit hole of clips of Elliott on Letterman.
I don’t remember this one at all, but it’s pretty great:
I don’t think Paul Shaffer liked him at all, based on the looks on his face in some of the other vids I watched. If that’s true, I’m sure it gave Elliott that much more pleasure to “do” him.
I think of Chris Elliott as a failed comic impersonating other failed comics performing their best unfunny routines that explain why they didn’t make it as a failed homage to failed irony.
He’s just not funny. Not anywhere close to Dave’s mastery of the ordinary lifted to the hilarity of the mundane. Chris Elliott’s stuff just wallows in its own mundanity, never rising above it, never offering insight into the human condition.
Hence, my vote for the Wonder Woman cruise ship that only shares a cabin boy in common with Mr. Elliot.
@mike808 so what you’re saying is that he should have stayed under the seats?
@ybmuG What I’m saying is what I said.