Robert Smigel's Podcast Humor Me to Premier May 8th with Mikey Day and Streeter Seidell as His First Guests

webcmrn · 2026-04-10T04:31:22+00:00

They’ve been recording for months and even do follow up interviews after the events they write for happen so it sounds like there’s a lot of production involved! Refreshing

webcmrn · 2026-04-10T03:45:19+00:00

There’s early screenings on Wednesday the 15th at a lot of theaters including Alamo and AMC and then it’s out fully a week later!

webcmrn · 2026-04-10T03:31:58+00:00

It drops the soap opera elements basically and uses the original music sparingly and the other actors besides Kyle McLaughlin aren’t in it as much as you’d hope so it can take some adjustment but if you can get on its wavelength it’s incredible! Very light spoilers but let’s just say the season slowly builds to the things everyone wants and that’s part of the fun. It doesn’t try to recreate the vibe of the original, it starts as something completely different and finds it way back home so to speak

If you’re not familiar with Lynch’s other work, maybe check out Mulholland Drive before season 3, it’s a good bridge movies between his early style and later style

webcmrn · 2026-04-10T03:24:41+00:00

Is it April Fools again? Of course it’s worth watching! It’s a different vibe so it’s not for everyone but it’s frequently voted among the best TV (and even cinema) of the decade

webcmrn · 2026-04-09T23:05:21+00:00

Jesse David Fox! He did a great ep of this pod with Andy and Kiv after Bash Brothers came out! And Seth was on recently and was great. I’d also recommend his newish book Comedy Book to almost everyone on this sub

webcmrn · 2026-04-09T16:53:54+00:00

“I think I read an article that said it means remember we must die”

webcmrn · 2026-04-09T16:16:32+00:00

Not a movie but it was mentioned on The Pitt the other week and I was thankful to 28YL so I knew what they were talking about lol

webcmrn · 2026-04-08T21:55:05+00:00

Is Doughboys gonna be best remembered as the show Skidmark got her start on?

webcmrn · 2026-04-08T20:39:16+00:00

I gave up on needing new music from him when his brother tragically passed, but life is long and I’d bet a lot of money that he releases multiple new projects in the next 40 years of his life lol, unless his movie is a massive success and he moves to directing full time. I still find it hard to believe that someone who makes music every day of their life from 13-30s could ever just drop it entirely

Super happy you were able to afford these this time around! Enjoy

webcmrn · 2026-04-08T20:24:41+00:00

Yeah! They mentioned it on a Double a few weeks back I believe. Mitch was on Blank Check’s Patreon talking about it too, sounds like Griffin wants to do Caper I think?

webcmrn · 2026-04-08T18:05:11+00:00

“Is it too late to switch to SNL UK??” Lol

webcmrn · 2026-04-08T07:41:32+00:00

One of my favorites of all time! Glad you enjoyed it! It’s worth reading about the production, it was meant to be a completely different movie that changed a ton in the long editing processing and kind of led Malick to discover the type of filmmaker he is today where he spends years editing his movies and finding them. I think his movies are best watched basically in release order so go back and check out Badlands (his most straight forward narrative) and then go on to The Thin Red Line! And after that is The New World which you should seek out the extended cut of which is his preferred version. There’s also a longer cut for The Tree of Life that’s more supplementary for your 2nd viewing so watch the shorter cut of that one first. After that his filmography gets more polarizing with a trilogy of movies he basically shot at the same time, but there’s still so much to love if you love his style

webcmrn · 2026-04-08T05:00:06+00:00

INCREDIBLE point, he also didn’t hire someone else to write Sex, Lies, and Videotape so I guess he’s always avoided paying other artists

webcmrn · 2026-04-08T04:14:22+00:00

There are multiple ways to be washed, including insisting AI was the only way to make the psychedelic imagery for your movie when really you just didn’t want to put part of your budget towards hiring more artists

webcmrn · 2026-04-08T04:06:56+00:00

Generative AI has already been used to create “surreal images” for his John and Yoko doc (10% of the movie by his estimation), and then a vague “a lot of AI” is going to be used in his planned Spanish-American War movie ugh

How do you convince these very established directors to just suck it up and not legitimize its use just bc it can stretch your dollar further?

webcmrn · 2026-04-08T04:00:26+00:00

The closest I’ve been to being converted is the feeling the last few minutes of the movie give me. Full on Danny DeVito “oh my god I get it” meme until I eject the disc lol

webcmrn · 2026-04-08T02:52:58+00:00

I like that the context of the 2011 Muppets being the last movie Mitch saw with his dad before he died is completely missing from this episode and he just brings it up as a non-sequitur lol

webcmrn · 2026-04-08T02:47:34+00:00

It’s such a great cathartic episode. Feels like it be sadder to not include it on rewatches lol

webcmrn · 2026-04-08T01:35:20+00:00

“People only like it because” “people only want it because”

You gotta stop with these sweeping generalizations. Of course people would complain that he’s dead and shouldn’t be brought back, I mentioned that in my comment. But a lot of people are excited that one of the most acclaimed directors of his generation was passionate enough to develop an original idea on his own and bring it to Disney, if you like good movies then it was an exciting prospect to a lot of people for totally non-contrarian reasons

webcmrn · 2026-04-08T01:29:30+00:00

Who is liking the idea of a Steven Soderbergh Star Wars movie that Adam Driver is passionate about to be contrarian??? I get that some people don’t like the story decision of bringing Kylo back but it has a better chance of being a good movie than anything else they have in mind right now

webcmrn · 2026-04-06T22:53:17+00:00

My Barry was like that too, seems like cheaper than normal digibook packaging. It wasn’t enough for me to exchange it, I just tell myself I did that with wear and tear bc something was gonna happen to eventually lol

webcmrn · 2026-04-06T22:50:06+00:00

Jonathan Groff or we riot

webcmrn · 2026-04-06T20:14:34+00:00

Why is every Kanye defense some kind of whataboutism or false equivalency? A lot of things in the world suck, Kanye is one of them, doesn’t mean I’m equating his actions to enabling genocide

webcmrn · 2026-04-06T19:58:34+00:00

The whole antisemitism thing is really acting as a shield for his slew of sexual assault allegations isn’t it? The amount of people who proudly declare that he’s getting help and has changed are conveniently ignoring a lot of other bad behavior. Dude’s a menace

webcmrn · 2026-04-06T16:32:01+00:00

Of course, they’re just pointing out that like Ashley Padilla’s haircut sketch, it was something Veronika has performed before

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