WFMU: Three Thumbs Up with Jim the Poet: Playlist from January 14, 2025

Listener comments!
	4:58pm Jim the Poet: Call 201 209 9368 QUESTION OF THE WEEK: What is the funniest movie ever?
	5:59pm Jim the Poet: Question #2: Streaming v movie theaters! What streaming provider do you subscribe to and why? How many streaming providers do you have?
	👍 6:03pm Sean T-Rex: Hello Jim!
	6:04pm Matthew: "The Wrong Trousers" Theatre.
	6:04pm money&pain: The Lady Eve. The second pink panther movie. Theater - laugh with others!
	6:05pm βrian: Wait. I thought this show only lasted one minute. A new experience for me. (I could do without the bananas, for sure.)
	6:05pm money&pain: Changed my answer - Lost in America.
	👍 6:05pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ βrian @6:05 Add more bananas!
	👍 6:06pm Sean T-Rex: Young Frankenstein
	6:07pm Andres: 1. It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. 2. In the theatre is superior but I’ve gotten out of the habit.
	6:07pm βrian: Ah, NOT Jim the Price! Got it.
	6:08pm swivs: Duck Soup (1933) I was Groucho for Halloween last year, I went to a party 2 miles away from Hollywood and NO ONE correcty guessed who I was. Best I could do was explain this emoji to them 🥸
	6:08pm Matthew: "And Now For Something Completely Different"? "Fatal Instinct"?
	👍 6:08pm Folsom: ↳ Andres @6:07 Under the big W! I also like The Great Race and Dr. Strangelove.
	6:10pm Tom from Stirling: Good choice. Marx Bros. rule.
	6:10pm Tom from Stirling: Some Like it Hot. Very funny
	6:11pm Jeff_from_Harrison: 1. Superbad, just because I saw it in the theaters with friends at the same age group as the actors were portraying. 2. Streaming for sure, just for the ease of it. I'd prefer to watch everything in a theater but I don't have the time nor the finances.
	6:11pm Paul Szepesvary: "Eating Raoul"
	6:11pm KGinOK: Weird for weird’s sake is Buckaroo Banzai. Surprised it got made. Must have been coke. Was the 80’s. But yeah, funniest? Young Frankenstein.
	6:11pm Matthew: "The Big Lebowski"? Too many to name.
	👍 6:12pm Sean T-Rex: Is Jim star struck?
	6:12pm Paul Szepesvary: ↳ money&pain @6:04 Good choices! I 👍
	6:13pm Paul Szepesvary: ↳ Andres @6:07 👏
	6:14pm Jim the Poet: Call 201 209 9368 QUESTION OF THE WEEK: What is the funniest movie ever? Question #2: Streaming v movie theaters! What streaming provider do you subscribe to and why? How many streaming providers do you have?
	6:14pm money&pain: ↳ Paul Szepesvary @6:12 Thanks. Eating Raoul takes me back.
	👍 6:14pm Sean T-Rex: It's more than beating on each other.
	6:15pm Paul Szepesvary: ↳ Folsom @6:08 Dr Strangelove 👏
	6:16pm Paul Szepesvary: "The Bank Dick"
	6:16pm tom tom the pipers son: sounds like jim is confusing the marx brothers and three stooges
	6:16pm Paul Szepesvary: ↳ Tom from Stirling @6:10 👍
	👍 6:17pm Folsom: ↳ Paul Szepesvary @6:15 Some Like It Hot also good.
	👍 6:17pm Sean T-Rex: Idk if I could trust Zach with this. lol
	6:18pm Tom from Stirling: next caller......
	6:18pm tom tom the pipers son: "kiss me stupid"
	6:19pm Mennlinn Rebarts: ↳ Song: "'Eraserhead'" by "Jim the Poet discusses" Really great David Lynch podcast here. Learned a lot about the making of Eraser head: podcasts.apple.com...
	👍 6:19pm Sean T-Rex: lol, Franco
	6:19pm Mennlinn Rebarts: Airplane is the funniest movie.
	6:20pm Jim the Poet: ↳ Mennlinn Rebarts @6:19 correct
	6:20pm ?: Pour one out for LA, and hence my pick for today is 'Repo Man'
	6:20pm Ken From Hyde Park: I must nominate some Jerry Lewis movie. Maybe "The Disorderly Orderly."
	6:20pm wenzo: Oh that’s a good one Franco! I went to an organ concert recently here in detroit and they played that!
	6:20pm ?: doesnt sound funny
	👍 6:21pm zachary: ↳ Mennlinn Rebarts @6:19 Classic!
	6:21pm Paul Szepesvary: The guy's right! "Big Business IS hilarious! 🤣
	6:21pm Tom from Stirling: ok.... next caller .....
	👍 6:21pm zachary: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:17 Ha! Trust with setting Alan's kidney stone in some jewelry?
	👍 6:21pm zachary: ↳ Tom from Stirling @6:18 Sorry, Tom. I'm off. I'm off.
	6:22pm Tom from Stirling: Cat Ballou is very funny
	6:22pm money&pain: Election
	6:22pm Andres: Guy on the air knows what he’s talking about!!
	👍 6:22pm zachary: ↳ swivs @6:08 Ha! So sad that they didn't know Groucho.
	6:23pm Ken From Hyde Park: The big W in the sky!
	👍 6:23pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ zachary @6:21 I'm just saying, that is Bucci's department. Can't be spreading it around.
	6:23pm tom tom the pipers son: borat has not aged well...but at the time....
	👍 6:24pm zachary: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:23 Hahahaha! We should have a kidney stone setting competition?
	6:24pm Harry Corvair: Going to the movies alone is a all-time favorite way to spend my time. More than once I've been the only one in the theater. Duck Soup, Mr Hulot's Holiday, Young Frankenstein
	6:24pm wenzo: Yep… I couldn’t choose but airplane, young Frankenstein, holy grail, life of Brian, and Dr. Strangelove would all be on my short list
	👍 6:24pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:23 lol. Borat is still funny. I think so
	6:25pm ms boo: Evil Dead. I saw it at an outdoor, Halloween screening in 1988 and I had no idea it was a comedy. I was expecting a straight up scary movie. I nearly died laughing.
	👍 6:25pm Folsom: Blazing Saddles!
	6:25pm Mennlinn Rebarts: ↳ Jim the Poet @6:20 Airplane is like the pyramids; we don't know how to make that kind of stuff anymore. A true wonder of film.
	6:26pm Mennlinn Rebarts: "Puttin on the Ritz!"
	6:26pm wenzo: “Actually it’s pronounced Fraahnkenstine
	6:26pm Andres: Movies are funnier in the theatre. Fact. Biggest laughs I heard in the theatre were (in no order) Something About Mary, South Park, The Hangover.
	👍 6:26pm Sean T-Rex: Jim, you don't like knockers?!?
	6:26pm C: South Park- bigger longer & uncut 1999 The only movie I saw 2 days in a row, hilarious!
	6:26pm wenzo: Lloyd Bridges! Jeff’s dad!
	6:26pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:24 yeah, i have not seen it recently....but don't have any eagerness to
	6:27pm money&pain: Something About Mary - definitely the hardest I laughed with an audience.
	6:27pm Tom from Stirling: The Russians are Coming The Russians are Coming. Now that's funny
	6:27pm tom tom the pipers son: teri garr just past away recently
	6:27pm Andres: Young Doctors In Love!! VHS classic.
	👍 6:27pm zachary: So many great comedies. Also depends on what type of comedy I need at the time. I can't really choose a particular one, as I said. Ghostbusters Dr. Strangelove All Marx Brothers Films An Ache in Every Stake (Stooges) Blazing Saddles Annie Hall Being There Christopher Guest Movies And the list goes on.
	👍 6:28pm Sean T-Rex: I think the problem with 'funny movies' is that comedy is in some other types of movies. Like, Home Alone. It's not just a funny movie but have more layers to it.
	👍 6:28pm Folsom: ↳ Tom from Stirling @6:27 Alan Arkin was great along with Carl Reiner.
	6:29pm Nick: Re: Question #2- If you are at home it’s called “watching TV” if you’re in a theatre it’s “watching a movie.”
	6:29pm Andres: Albert Brooks said Terms of Endearment is a funny movie and it played that way in the theatre. It became a drama on cable and video.
	👍 6:29pm zachary: Agreed. That's what I was trying to say with that comedy is a result. You can laugh at any movie, really. MST3K proves that point.
	6:30pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ Folsom @6:28 Yeah, funny stuff.
	👍 6:30pm zachary: That's Duck Soup.
	6:30pm wenzo: Counter point: needing to pee takes away from the movie experience more (for me)
	6:30pm tom tom the pipers son: when i saw talledega nights in a theater, the audience was howling in laughter
	👍 6:31pm Sean T-Rex: As a kid I remember: Tommy Boy Coneheads Kingpin Saving Silverman
	6:31pm Andres: ↳ money&pain @6:27 Guy beside me was dying with laughter. His friend beside him was translating bits causing him to laugh harder!
	👍 6:32pm zachary: Buster Keaton's movies are pretty great, too. One Week is funny: en.wikipedia.org...
	👍 6:32pm zachary: We actually run a Comedy Studies on going course with our kids.
	6:32pm Ken From Hyde Park: No votes for Hot Tub Time Machine?
	6:33pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ zachary @6:32 oh yes ...keaton... timeless ...funny
	👍 6:33pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ zachary @6:32 He did all his own stunts I think. Some very crazy
	6:33pm Layet J: Anyone seen "Flow" yet? The animated cat movie?
	6:34pm ?: that Wandafish movie was funny
	👍 6:34pm zachary: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:33 I believe you are correct. He was a wild man! If you haven't seen One Week, check it out. It's on Archive.org and that Wikipedia page, too.
	6:34pm Jim the Poet: ↳ Layet J @6:33 Flow is great
	6:34pm dale: just checked in....i like high-brow comedy like my man godfrey and low-brow stuff like kingpin alike. i don't have a no brow pick though.
	6:34pm Deano de los Muertos: I’d love to talk about Lost…..but how do you do that without spoilers?
	👍 6:34pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Layet J @6:33 Is it funny?
	6:35pm Deano de los Muertos: I just rewatched the whole thing. Liked the end a lot more the second time.
	👍 6:35pm zachary: ↳ dale @6:34 Ha! Maybe Funky Forest works as a no brow movie? en.wikipedia.org...
	👍 6:36pm Sean T-Rex: I mean, I love a charming movie with comedy. They usually the best.
	6:36pm tom tom the pipers son: "the exterminating angel"
	👍 6:36pm Folsom: ↳ Layet J @6:33 I liked Flow.
	6:36pm Psyduck: Funniest movie ever hmmm that's a tough one. First thing that comes to mind is SPINAL TAP
	👍 6:37pm zachary: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:36 I love The Exterminating Angel. Classic. Luis Buñuel is an amazing filmmaker.
	6:37pm tom tom the pipers son: "psycho"
	6:37pm dale: ↳ zachary @6:35 never heard of that....will see if it's streaming some where.
	👍 6:37pm Sean T-Rex: Animal House. That's a classic imo
	6:37pm Layet J: I haven't seen it yet! Wanting to watch with friends to split the rental cost...
	6:38pm Psyduck: oh i missed an Eraserhead discussion? Also weirdly funny in its way
	👍 6:38pm zachary: ↳ dale @6:37 It's a crazy movie. A friend of mine showed it to me one time.
	6:38pm Steve from Maywood: Funniest movie I can recall has to be It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World. The stellar cast including Sid Caesar, Milton Berle, Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney, Ethel Merman, Phil Silvers, Dick Shawn, Jonathan Winters, etc with a lead-in by Jimmy Durante, and spots including Buster Keaton, Phil Silvers, and many other classic comics... this one warrants attention. 1963
	6:39pm Psyduck: they're the darndest things. And they're new!
	6:39pm Layet J: Dang Steve from Maywood, I'm writing that one down.
	6:40pm tom tom the pipers son: "carmen comes home" is the first color movie shot in japan after ww2 is very funny...about a stripper living in tokyo who returns to her village and puts on a show
	👍 6:40pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Psyduck @6:38 PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT!!!! USE THE LIBRARY!!!! Great message
	6:40pm Rocky Mountain Harry: Cannibal The Musical Funniest and best movie ever... youtu.be...
	👍 6:41pm Sean T-Rex: Jim, half of WFMU is vinyl collectors. lol I think most of the listeners probably have hard copies of something
	👍 6:42pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Song: "'Better Man'" by "Jim the Poet discusses" Yea, I heard about this movie. It's crazy idea
	👍 6:42pm zachary: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:40 Yes. Libraries are the best. Free to use, but not to own. Join your local Friends of the Library group or donate to the Library Foundation.
	👍 6:43pm zachary: Hahaha! Interesting that many of the references were for movies from decades, if not nearly a century, ago.
	6:43pm Marie in Chicago: I saw a preview of the monkey movie and I thought--"why?" And that was amidst all the scary, loud violent film previews...
	👍 6:44pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ zachary @6:42 Use the Libby app
	👍 6:44pm Folsom: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:44 My library also has Kanopy but might be expensive for libraries.
	6:44pm Layet J: What about Tampopo for funniest movie?
	6:45pm Tom from Stirling: Nosferatu was a funny movie. Willem Defoe was hilarious.
	6:45pm Mennlinn Rebarts: I could barely last a couple minutes with the Land of the Lost tv show. Those lizard people creeped me out!
	6:46pm full_english_breakfast: i like monty python and the holy grail for funniest movie but another good choice just popped into my head: wet hot american summer
	6:46pm dale: nimoy played an indian in a lot of tv westerns in the late 50s and early 60s.
	6:46pm michael e: The Producers
	6:46pm Layet J: The original Nosferatu was pretty funny. How he carried around the casket the whole time.
	👍 6:47pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Mennlinn Rebarts @6:45 I only remember the 90s version.
	6:47pm Listener Robert: ↳ Song: "'Lost'" by "Jim the Poet discusses" Homework as background for "Lost": "Hamlet" "Watchmen" (graphic novel) "Department S" (Brit detective TV series) "The Manchurian Candidate" (novel) real-world work of Michael Persinger "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" The Spanish Prisoner (swindle) other classic real-world scams "The Lost Special" (A.C. Doyle) other Doyle short stories "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" real-world Propaganda Due lots of other stuff I could name
	6:48pm dale: trump started to watch hundreds of beavers' and threatened to sue netflix for false advertising.
	6:48pm Listener Robert: Oh, and classic magic tricks.
	👍 6:48pm Sean T-Rex: Kinda sounds like 'Meet the Feebles'
	6:49pm wenzo: Hundreds of Beavers is free with ads on YouTube and has a 7.7 rating on IMDB… I’m in!!
	👍 6:53pm Sean T-Rex: Everything is fading away. :(
	👍 6:53pm Sean T-Rex: Right on Micah! Theme music
	6:54pm wenzo: You should just clip Micah doing that just now and play that every week
	6:56pm ultradamno: auto-da-fé? what's an auto-da-fé? it's what you oughtn't to do but you do anyway
	6:56pm diskoleaf: praying someone mentioned caddyshack
	👍 6:56pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Song: "'The Holy Office'" by "Jim the Poet and Micah dis... Sounds like a Micah movie alright.
	6:57pm Schnipp: Withnail & I Always and forever and eminently quotable
	6:57pm Marie in Chicago: no thanks, man
	6:58pm Layet J: Good call, Diskoleaf
	6:58pm Steve Del Sol: Yep. Gotta give up that magic guys.
	6:58pm ?: I did not like the beaver moovie
	👍 6:59pm Sean T-Rex: Thanks Jim! You great!
	6:59pm Douglas R: Death of Stalin
	👍 6:59pm zachary: Thanks, Jim! Thanks, Sean, ?, Steve, Layet, Marie, Schnipp, diskoleaf, ultradammo, wenzo, and everyone above the scroll!
	👍 7:00pm zachary: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:44 Libby is great. So is Kanopy. And Hoopla.
	7:05pm Listener Robert: ↳ Douglas R @6:59 Yes, highly recommended.
	7:37pm diskoleaf: praying someone mentioned caddyshack

Three Thumbs Up with Jim the Poet: Playlist from January 14, 2025

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January 14, 2025: 'Armand', 'Eraserhead', 'Eat the Night', 'The Last Showgirl', 'Better Man', 'Hard Truths', 'The Brutalist', 'Den of Thieves 2: Pantera', Micah's Pick ''The Holy Office'

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Artist	Track	Comments	Approx. start time
Steely Dan	Everyone's Gone to the Movies
Miss World	Put Me In A Movie "Put Me In A Movie" by "Miss World"		0:01:26 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jim the Poet re-discusses	'Armand'	Directed by Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel Written by Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel Produced by Andrea Berentsen Ottmar Starring Renate Reinsve Ellen Dorrit Petersen Endre Hellestveit Thea Lambrechts Vaulen Øystein Røger Vera Veljovic	0:06:29 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jim the Poet discusses	'Eraserhead'	Directed by David Lynch Written by David Lynch Produced by David Lynch Starring Jack Nance Charlotte Stewart Allen Joseph Jeanne Bates Judith Roberts	0:09:03 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jim the Poet discusses	'Lost' "'Lost'" by "Jim the Poet discusses"	Genre Adventure Hybrid[1] Mystery Science fiction Serial drama Supernatural Survival Thriller Created by Jeffrey Lieber J. J. Abrams Damon Lindelof Showrunners Damon Lindelof Carlton Cuse Starring Naveen Andrews Emilie de Ravin Matthew Fox Jorge Garcia Maggie Grace Josh Holloway Malcolm David Kelley Daniel Dae Kim Yunjin Kim Evangeline Lilly Dominic Monaghan Terry O'Quinn Harold Perrineau Ian Somerhalder Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Michelle Rodriguez Cynthia Watros Henry Ian Cusick Michael Emerson Elizabeth Mitchell Kiele Sanchez Rodrigo Santoro Jeremy Davies Ken Leung Rebecca Mader Néstor Carbonell Jeff Fahey Zuleikha Robinson Sam Anderson L. Scott Caldwell François Chau Fionnula Flanagan John Terry Sonya Walger	0:27:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jim the Poet discusses	'Better Man'	Directed by Michael Gracey Written by Simon Gleeson Oliver Cole Michael Gracey Produced by Paul Currie Michael Gracey Coco Xiaolu Ma Craig McMahon Jules Daly Starring Robbie Williams Jonno Davies Steve Pemberton Damon Herriman Raechelle Banno Alison Steadman Kate Mulvany	0:40:53 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jim the Poet	'Eat the Night' "'Eat the Night'" by "Jim the Poet"	Directed by Caroline Poggi Jonathan Vinel Written by Caroline Poggi Jonathan Vinel Guillaume Bréaud Produced by Juliette Schrameck Mathieu Verhaeghe Thomas Verhaeghe Olivier Père Starring Lila Gueneau Théo Cholbi Erwan Kepoa Falé	0:49:58 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jim the Poet discusses	'Hard Truths'	Directed by Mike Leigh Written by Mike Leigh Produced by Georgina Lowe Starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste Michele Austin David Webber Tuwaine Barrett Ani Nelson Sophia Brown Jonathan Livingstone	0:50:50 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jim the Poet discusses	'The Last Showgirl'	Directed by Gia Coppola Written by Kate Gersten Based on Body of Work by Kate Gersten Produced by Robert Schwartzman Natalie Farrey Gia Coppola Starring Pamela Anderson Jamie Lee Curtis Billie Lourd Dave Bautista Brenda Song Kiernan Shipka	0:52:22 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jim the Poet and Micah discuss	'The Holy Office'	Directed by Arturo Ripstein Written by Arturo Ripstein José Emilio Pacheco Produced by Angélica Ortiz Starring Jorge Luke [es] Claudio Brook	0:52:54 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse	Piece of Crap		0:58:42 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	4:58pm Jim the Poet: Call 201 209 9368 QUESTION OF THE WEEK: What is the funniest movie ever?
	5:59pm Jim the Poet: Question #2: Streaming v movie theaters! What streaming provider do you subscribe to and why? How many streaming providers do you have?
	👍 6:03pm Sean T-Rex: Hello Jim!
	6:04pm Matthew: "The Wrong Trousers" Theatre.
	6:04pm money&pain: The Lady Eve. The second pink panther movie. Theater - laugh with others!
	6:05pm βrian: Wait. I thought this show only lasted one minute. A new experience for me. (I could do without the bananas, for sure.)
	6:05pm money&pain: Changed my answer - Lost in America.
	👍 6:05pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ βrian @6:05 Add more bananas!
	👍 6:06pm Sean T-Rex: Young Frankenstein
	6:07pm Andres: 1. It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. 2. In the theatre is superior but I’ve gotten out of the habit.
	6:07pm βrian: Ah, NOT Jim the Price! Got it.
	6:08pm swivs: Duck Soup (1933) I was Groucho for Halloween last year, I went to a party 2 miles away from Hollywood and NO ONE correcty guessed who I was. Best I could do was explain this emoji to them 🥸
	6:08pm Matthew: "And Now For Something Completely Different"? "Fatal Instinct"?
	👍 6:08pm Folsom: ↳ Andres @6:07 Under the big W! I also like The Great Race and Dr. Strangelove.
	6:10pm Tom from Stirling: Good choice. Marx Bros. rule.
	6:10pm Tom from Stirling: Some Like it Hot. Very funny
	6:11pm Jeff_from_Harrison: 1. Superbad, just because I saw it in the theaters with friends at the same age group as the actors were portraying. 2. Streaming for sure, just for the ease of it. I'd prefer to watch everything in a theater but I don't have the time nor the finances.
	6:11pm Paul Szepesvary: "Eating Raoul"
	6:11pm KGinOK: Weird for weird’s sake is Buckaroo Banzai. Surprised it got made. Must have been coke. Was the 80’s. But yeah, funniest? Young Frankenstein.
	6:11pm Matthew: "The Big Lebowski"? Too many to name.
	👍 6:12pm Sean T-Rex: Is Jim star struck?
	6:12pm Paul Szepesvary: ↳ money&pain @6:04 Good choices! I 👍
	6:13pm Paul Szepesvary: ↳ Andres @6:07 👏
	6:14pm Jim the Poet: Call 201 209 9368 QUESTION OF THE WEEK: What is the funniest movie ever? Question #2: Streaming v movie theaters! What streaming provider do you subscribe to and why? How many streaming providers do you have?
	6:14pm money&pain: ↳ Paul Szepesvary @6:12 Thanks. Eating Raoul takes me back.
	👍 6:14pm Sean T-Rex: It's more than beating on each other.
	6:15pm Paul Szepesvary: ↳ Folsom @6:08 Dr Strangelove 👏
	6:16pm Paul Szepesvary: "The Bank Dick"
	6:16pm tom tom the pipers son: sounds like jim is confusing the marx brothers and three stooges
	6:16pm Paul Szepesvary: ↳ Tom from Stirling @6:10 👍
	👍 6:17pm Folsom: ↳ Paul Szepesvary @6:15 Some Like It Hot also good.
	👍 6:17pm Sean T-Rex: Idk if I could trust Zach with this. lol
	6:18pm Tom from Stirling: next caller......
	6:18pm tom tom the pipers son: "kiss me stupid"
	6:19pm Mennlinn Rebarts: ↳ Song: "'Eraserhead'" by "Jim the Poet discusses" Really great David Lynch podcast here. Learned a lot about the making of Eraser head: podcasts.apple.com...
	👍 6:19pm Sean T-Rex: lol, Franco
	6:19pm Mennlinn Rebarts: Airplane is the funniest movie.
	6:20pm Jim the Poet: ↳ Mennlinn Rebarts @6:19 correct
	6:20pm ?: Pour one out for LA, and hence my pick for today is 'Repo Man'
	6:20pm Ken From Hyde Park: I must nominate some Jerry Lewis movie. Maybe "The Disorderly Orderly."
	6:20pm wenzo: Oh that’s a good one Franco! I went to an organ concert recently here in detroit and they played that!
	6:20pm ?: doesnt sound funny
	👍 6:21pm zachary: ↳ Mennlinn Rebarts @6:19 Classic!
	6:21pm Paul Szepesvary: The guy's right! "Big Business IS hilarious! 🤣
	6:21pm Tom from Stirling: ok.... next caller .....
	👍 6:21pm zachary: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:17 Ha! Trust with setting Alan's kidney stone in some jewelry?
	👍 6:21pm zachary: ↳ Tom from Stirling @6:18 Sorry, Tom. I'm off. I'm off.
	6:22pm Tom from Stirling: Cat Ballou is very funny
	6:22pm money&pain: Election
	6:22pm Andres: Guy on the air knows what he’s talking about!!
	👍 6:22pm zachary: ↳ swivs @6:08 Ha! So sad that they didn't know Groucho.
	6:23pm Ken From Hyde Park: The big W in the sky!
	👍 6:23pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ zachary @6:21 I'm just saying, that is Bucci's department. Can't be spreading it around.
	6:23pm tom tom the pipers son: borat has not aged well...but at the time....
	👍 6:24pm zachary: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:23 Hahahaha! We should have a kidney stone setting competition?
	6:24pm Harry Corvair: Going to the movies alone is a all-time favorite way to spend my time. More than once I've been the only one in the theater. Duck Soup, Mr Hulot's Holiday, Young Frankenstein
	6:24pm wenzo: Yep… I couldn’t choose but airplane, young Frankenstein, holy grail, life of Brian, and Dr. Strangelove would all be on my short list
	👍 6:24pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:23 lol. Borat is still funny. I think so
	6:25pm ms boo: Evil Dead. I saw it at an outdoor, Halloween screening in 1988 and I had no idea it was a comedy. I was expecting a straight up scary movie. I nearly died laughing.
	👍 6:25pm Folsom: Blazing Saddles!
	6:25pm Mennlinn Rebarts: ↳ Jim the Poet @6:20 Airplane is like the pyramids; we don't know how to make that kind of stuff anymore. A true wonder of film.
	6:26pm Mennlinn Rebarts: "Puttin on the Ritz!"
	6:26pm wenzo: “Actually it’s pronounced Fraahnkenstine
	6:26pm Andres: Movies are funnier in the theatre. Fact. Biggest laughs I heard in the theatre were (in no order) Something About Mary, South Park, The Hangover.
	👍 6:26pm Sean T-Rex: Jim, you don't like knockers?!?
	6:26pm C: South Park- bigger longer & uncut 1999 The only movie I saw 2 days in a row, hilarious!
	6:26pm wenzo: Lloyd Bridges! Jeff’s dad!
	6:26pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:24 yeah, i have not seen it recently....but don't have any eagerness to
	6:27pm money&pain: Something About Mary - definitely the hardest I laughed with an audience.
	6:27pm Tom from Stirling: The Russians are Coming The Russians are Coming. Now that's funny
	6:27pm tom tom the pipers son: teri garr just past away recently
	6:27pm Andres: Young Doctors In Love!! VHS classic.
	👍 6:27pm zachary: So many great comedies. Also depends on what type of comedy I need at the time. I can't really choose a particular one, as I said. Ghostbusters Dr. Strangelove All Marx Brothers Films An Ache in Every Stake (Stooges) Blazing Saddles Annie Hall Being There Christopher Guest Movies And the list goes on.
	👍 6:28pm Sean T-Rex: I think the problem with 'funny movies' is that comedy is in some other types of movies. Like, Home Alone. It's not just a funny movie but have more layers to it.
	👍 6:28pm Folsom: ↳ Tom from Stirling @6:27 Alan Arkin was great along with Carl Reiner.
	6:29pm Nick: Re: Question #2- If you are at home it’s called “watching TV” if you’re in a theatre it’s “watching a movie.”
	6:29pm Andres: Albert Brooks said Terms of Endearment is a funny movie and it played that way in the theatre. It became a drama on cable and video.
	👍 6:29pm zachary: Agreed. That's what I was trying to say with that comedy is a result. You can laugh at any movie, really. MST3K proves that point.
	6:30pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ Folsom @6:28 Yeah, funny stuff.
	👍 6:30pm zachary: That's Duck Soup.
	6:30pm wenzo: Counter point: needing to pee takes away from the movie experience more (for me)
	6:30pm tom tom the pipers son: when i saw talledega nights in a theater, the audience was howling in laughter
	👍 6:31pm Sean T-Rex: As a kid I remember: Tommy Boy Coneheads Kingpin Saving Silverman
	6:31pm Andres: ↳ money&pain @6:27 Guy beside me was dying with laughter. His friend beside him was translating bits causing him to laugh harder!
	👍 6:32pm zachary: Buster Keaton's movies are pretty great, too. One Week is funny: en.wikipedia.org...
	👍 6:32pm zachary: We actually run a Comedy Studies on going course with our kids.
	6:32pm Ken From Hyde Park: No votes for Hot Tub Time Machine?
	6:33pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ zachary @6:32 oh yes ...keaton... timeless ...funny
	👍 6:33pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ zachary @6:32 He did all his own stunts I think. Some very crazy
	6:33pm Layet J: Anyone seen "Flow" yet? The animated cat movie?
	6:34pm ?: that Wandafish movie was funny
	👍 6:34pm zachary: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:33 I believe you are correct. He was a wild man! If you haven't seen One Week, check it out. It's on Archive.org and that Wikipedia page, too.
	6:34pm Jim the Poet: ↳ Layet J @6:33 Flow is great
	6:34pm dale: just checked in....i like high-brow comedy like my man godfrey and low-brow stuff like kingpin alike. i don't have a no brow pick though.
	6:34pm Deano de los Muertos: I’d love to talk about Lost…..but how do you do that without spoilers?
	👍 6:34pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Layet J @6:33 Is it funny?
	6:35pm Deano de los Muertos: I just rewatched the whole thing. Liked the end a lot more the second time.
	👍 6:35pm zachary: ↳ dale @6:34 Ha! Maybe Funky Forest works as a no brow movie? en.wikipedia.org...
	👍 6:36pm Sean T-Rex: I mean, I love a charming movie with comedy. They usually the best.
	6:36pm tom tom the pipers son: "the exterminating angel"
	👍 6:36pm Folsom: ↳ Layet J @6:33 I liked Flow.
	6:36pm Psyduck: Funniest movie ever hmmm that's a tough one. First thing that comes to mind is SPINAL TAP
	👍 6:37pm zachary: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:36 I love The Exterminating Angel. Classic. Luis Buñuel is an amazing filmmaker.
	6:37pm tom tom the pipers son: "psycho"
	6:37pm dale: ↳ zachary @6:35 never heard of that....will see if it's streaming some where.
	👍 6:37pm Sean T-Rex: Animal House. That's a classic imo
	6:37pm Layet J: I haven't seen it yet! Wanting to watch with friends to split the rental cost...
	6:38pm Psyduck: oh i missed an Eraserhead discussion? Also weirdly funny in its way
	👍 6:38pm zachary: ↳ dale @6:37 It's a crazy movie. A friend of mine showed it to me one time.
	6:38pm Steve from Maywood: Funniest movie I can recall has to be It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World. The stellar cast including Sid Caesar, Milton Berle, Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney, Ethel Merman, Phil Silvers, Dick Shawn, Jonathan Winters, etc with a lead-in by Jimmy Durante, and spots including Buster Keaton, Phil Silvers, and many other classic comics... this one warrants attention. 1963
	6:39pm Psyduck: they're the darndest things. And they're new!
	6:39pm Layet J: Dang Steve from Maywood, I'm writing that one down.
	6:40pm tom tom the pipers son: "carmen comes home" is the first color movie shot in japan after ww2 is very funny...about a stripper living in tokyo who returns to her village and puts on a show
	👍 6:40pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Psyduck @6:38 PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT!!!! USE THE LIBRARY!!!! Great message
	6:40pm Rocky Mountain Harry: Cannibal The Musical Funniest and best movie ever... youtu.be...
	👍 6:41pm Sean T-Rex: Jim, half of WFMU is vinyl collectors. lol I think most of the listeners probably have hard copies of something
	👍 6:42pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Song: "'Better Man'" by "Jim the Poet discusses" Yea, I heard about this movie. It's crazy idea
	👍 6:42pm zachary: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:40 Yes. Libraries are the best. Free to use, but not to own. Join your local Friends of the Library group or donate to the Library Foundation.
	👍 6:43pm zachary: Hahaha! Interesting that many of the references were for movies from decades, if not nearly a century, ago.
	6:43pm Marie in Chicago: I saw a preview of the monkey movie and I thought--"why?" And that was amidst all the scary, loud violent film previews...
	👍 6:44pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ zachary @6:42 Use the Libby app
	👍 6:44pm Folsom: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:44 My library also has Kanopy but might be expensive for libraries.
	6:44pm Layet J: What about Tampopo for funniest movie?
	6:45pm Tom from Stirling: Nosferatu was a funny movie. Willem Defoe was hilarious.
	6:45pm Mennlinn Rebarts: I could barely last a couple minutes with the Land of the Lost tv show. Those lizard people creeped me out!
	6:46pm full_english_breakfast: i like monty python and the holy grail for funniest movie but another good choice just popped into my head: wet hot american summer
	6:46pm dale: nimoy played an indian in a lot of tv westerns in the late 50s and early 60s.
	6:46pm michael e: The Producers
	6:46pm Layet J: The original Nosferatu was pretty funny. How he carried around the casket the whole time.
	👍 6:47pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Mennlinn Rebarts @6:45 I only remember the 90s version.
	6:47pm Listener Robert: ↳ Song: "'Lost'" by "Jim the Poet discusses" Homework as background for "Lost": "Hamlet" "Watchmen" (graphic novel) "Department S" (Brit detective TV series) "The Manchurian Candidate" (novel) real-world work of Michael Persinger "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" The Spanish Prisoner (swindle) other classic real-world scams "The Lost Special" (A.C. Doyle) other Doyle short stories "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" real-world Propaganda Due lots of other stuff I could name
	6:48pm dale: trump started to watch hundreds of beavers' and threatened to sue netflix for false advertising.
	6:48pm Listener Robert: Oh, and classic magic tricks.
	👍 6:48pm Sean T-Rex: Kinda sounds like 'Meet the Feebles'
	6:49pm wenzo: Hundreds of Beavers is free with ads on YouTube and has a 7.7 rating on IMDB… I’m in!!
	👍 6:53pm Sean T-Rex: Everything is fading away. :(
	👍 6:53pm Sean T-Rex: Right on Micah! Theme music
	6:54pm wenzo: You should just clip Micah doing that just now and play that every week
	6:56pm ultradamno: auto-da-fé? what's an auto-da-fé? it's what you oughtn't to do but you do anyway
	6:56pm diskoleaf: praying someone mentioned caddyshack
	👍 6:56pm Sean T-Rex: ↳ Song: "'The Holy Office'" by "Jim the Poet and Micah dis... Sounds like a Micah movie alright.
	6:57pm Schnipp: Withnail & I Always and forever and eminently quotable
	6:57pm Marie in Chicago: no thanks, man
	6:58pm Layet J: Good call, Diskoleaf
	6:58pm Steve Del Sol: Yep. Gotta give up that magic guys.
	6:58pm ?: I did not like the beaver moovie
	👍 6:59pm Sean T-Rex: Thanks Jim! You great!
	6:59pm Douglas R: Death of Stalin
	👍 6:59pm zachary: Thanks, Jim! Thanks, Sean, ?, Steve, Layet, Marie, Schnipp, diskoleaf, ultradammo, wenzo, and everyone above the scroll!
	👍 7:00pm zachary: ↳ Sean T-Rex @6:44 Libby is great. So is Kanopy. And Hoopla.
	7:05pm Listener Robert: ↳ Douglas R @6:59 Yes, highly recommended.
	7:37pm diskoleaf: praying someone mentioned caddyshack

Three Thumbs Up with Jim the Poet: Playlist from January 14, 2025

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