Waiting for Guffman???????- Page 2

[broadwaystar2b]

Posted: 10/10/05 at 8:49pm

Oh, I've TOTALLY worked with a Corky meets Agador Sparticus director

This movie is essential viewing for all actors for lessons in improv and for some of the best laughs on film

[thesparklingdiamond]

Posted: 10/10/05 at 8:54pm

It is probobaly my favorite movie EVER. and I watch a lot of movies... "corky, we need you to take your magic wand, wave it around and make this town special again" "Lloyd is a music teacher and he shops at wal-mart"

[bta212]

Posted: 10/10/05 at 8:59pm

Which brings me to the number 5.
There are five letters in the word Blaine.
Now, if you mix up the letters in the word Blaine, mix 'em around, eventually, you'll come up with Nebali.

[Mamie]

Posted: 10/10/05 at 9:43pm

"Me? You know, right out of the Navy you know -
fresh off a destroyer with a dance belt and a tube
of chapstick"
- Corky St. Clair

[adamgreer]

Posted: 10/10/05 at 10:13pm

"Why are you whispering?"
"IS THAT BETTER?"
"No now you're yelling. I want you to speak in a normal voice"

***

"This is my show now" (only funny if you know about the character of Lloyd...how many of you have ever worked with a music director like Lloyd before?"

***
"Citizens of Blaine do not be alarmed!"

***

"Everybody dance!"
"He's here, he's here!"
"Well honey, I'm really trying to commit to one side here."

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The songs in that film make me laugh out loud every time I hear them!
"A penny for your thoughts...a dime for your dreams..."
"Nothing ever happens on Mars"
"Stooooooo-ooooools, everyone can see the stooo-ooools"

Seriously, this film is worth owning. I've never laughed so much watching a movie.

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 10/12/05 at 12:25am

"My Dinner with Andre" action figures.
"The Remains of the Day" lunch boxes.

Fred Willard and Catherine O'Hara auditioning with their interpretation of a Noel Coward-Gertrude Lawrence version of "Midnight at the Oasis":
Fred: "Do you have time for a cup of coffee?"
Catherine: "Perhaps. What time is it?"
Fred: "Don't you know? It's (together) midnight at the oAYYYsis."

"When you're an entertainer, you've got to go where the love is. And for me, the love is in Miami."

"I was going to go to New York but my dad got released out of prison early."

My 9-year-old daughter watches this ALL THE TIME! It's very, very funny. (That's ME talking, not one of the characters from the movie!

[Steeler Jim]

Posted: 10/12/05 at 4:38pm

Catherine O'Hara's ever-growing whisp of hair in the middle of her forehead still kills me. Pretty soon a ceiling fan was gonna take that baby off...

"100,000 dollars? Look, you're a nice fellow and we're all glad you're here but, if I may be blunt, what's wrong with you??"

"I'll always have a place at the DQ."

"And in the end, it's sorta becomes a rasslin' match between me and the muse of dance."

(from the outtakes):

"I'll take a coke and one ingénue to go."

Updated On: 10/12/05 at 04:38 PM

[lildogs]

Posted: 10/12/05 at 4:42pm

I have yet to meet an actor who doesn't know "It's the day of the show ya'll"

[best12bars]

Posted: 10/12/05 at 4:42pm

It's required viewing for anyone who posts on BWW.

Get thee to a rental store!!!

(...Or better yet, just buy a copy of it.)

ASIDE: And Steeler Jim, I adore your avatar!

Updated On: 10/12/05 at 04:42 PM

[Steeler Jim]

Posted: 10/12/05 at 4:44pm

God, how could I forget that one?? It's almost required that somebody says "It's the day of the show, y'all" on opening night at the theater I do stuff at. Absolutely a classic line.

[Steeler Jim]

Posted: 10/12/05 at 4:45pm

Thanks Best. It's my own little reminder of how far I like to think I've come since that picture was taken in 1980.

Updated On: 10/12/05 at 04:45 PM

[trpguyy]

Posted: 10/12/05 at 4:47pm

"A penny for your thoughtsssssss"

Ahh, what a great movie. Watch it with a large group of people, it'll be even better.

[peach]

Posted: 10/12/05 at 4:51pm

One of the funniest movies ever....

Christopher Guest is perfect in this one. He's also good in the others (Best in Show, A Mighty Wind).

I picked up the "trilogy" a while back. Three very funny flicks.

But Guffman is indeed a must for BWWers!

[MagicToDo82]

Posted: 10/12/05 at 4:52pm

"California will be a sight for THESE sore eyes."

Catherine O'Hara is a goddess.:)

[Steeler Jim]

Posted: 10/12/05 at 4:57pm

Y'know, I enjoyed Best In Show "Where's THE BUZZY BEE!!???" but didn't really like Mighty Wind, sad to say.

But, of course, Guffman set the bar REALLY high, and it will never be duplicated.

[lildogs]

Posted: 10/12/05 at 5:01pm

I liked Mighty Wind, but it's not really in the same category almost as the others--it's borderline sincere! I cried during "Kiss.." which should have won Best Song and thought Catherine was robbed of an Oscar nom!

[Steeler Jim]

Posted: 10/12/05 at 5:02pm

Sorry, I'm rolling now

Not the funniest line for me, but certainly one of the funniest moments:

Corky's last note in Penny For Your Thoughts (as he goes for what I assume is a high C that he never quite gets to), and they quick cut to Steve, who looks like he's watching Maria Callas finishing an aria. Then it's back to Corky and Libby as they do splits for their final tableau, and Corky can't quite get down there.

Absolutely kills me every time I watch it.

Updated On: 10/12/05 at 05:02 PM

[lildogs]

Posted: 10/12/05 at 5:06pm

And there's only one other person who can do that, and that's Barbra Streisand...God I wish I was in this show!

[beenthere]

Posted: 10/12/05 at 5:09pm

"ello ow are oo"?"

[Steeler Jim]

Posted: 10/12/05 at 5:10pm

I was going to audition, but it was inventory day at the store, and Corky said "that's show biz." And you know, he IS the master, so...

[Steeler Jim]

Posted: 10/12/05 at 5:11pm

I could do this all day. Good thing it's almost time for me to go home from work.

[peach]

Posted: 10/12/05 at 5:13pm

Steeler Jim - you're good...

I am definitely watching this when i get home tonight... What's the bit at the end, in Corky's "store,"

"...Kids don't like eating at school, but if they have a Remains of the Day lunchbox they're a lot happier..."

[Steeler Jim]

Posted: 10/12/05 at 5:28pm

Thanks peach

We can do Carl Spackler from Caddyshack next:

So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald ... striking.

So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a 10,000 foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga ... gunga, gunga galunga.

So we finish the 18th and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me. Which is nice.


And yes, I did that from memory. I use it as an audition monologue. And I try to use the pitchfork whenever possible.

Updated On: 10/12/05 at 05:28 PM

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 10/12/05 at 5:32pm

"He said I should get one of those vagina enlargements."

[best12bars]

Posted: 10/12/05 at 8:49pm

"And if there's a gap, just say a line. That's what I like to do... even if it's from another show."