It’s time to return to the Whale’s Vagina. Who’s Comic-Conning this year?
Chris Hewitt
@chrishewitt.bsky.social
Host of the Empire Film Podcast, wrangler of words for Empire magazine, LFC fan, utterly inept golfer.
www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/pod... Have you got your tickets for our live show on Saturday September 5 at Kings Place in London? No? Now’s your chance!!!
The Empire Film Podcast • Podcast • Kings Place
The podcast arm of the world's biggest movie magazine returns to Kings Place with a fascinating and often very funny discussion of the hottest movies around, plus a cracking surprise special guest. Yo...
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Absolutely gutted by the loss of Sam Neill. What an actor he was, and I was blessed over the years to interview him a bunch, and discover what a lovely guy he was in real life too. First person I ever interviewed for Empire. Happened to be on a Zoom with him a few weeks ago too.
Hello Alan Grant
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You grow up watching FRIENDS, and you wonder which of the gang you most closely resemble. Am I Ross? Perhaps I’m Phoebe. Could I be Chandler? Or maybe even Monica? Then one day, perhaps in your 40s, the realisation hits you like a slap to the face. You’re Ugly Naked Guy.
Joey Tribbiani Peeking in Friends
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And this is why physical media is important.
Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · last mo.PlayStation is deleting over 500 purchased movies from its customers' accounts 🎞️ • Includes films like 'Terminator 2', 'Rambo', 'Apocalypse Now', 'Hot Fuzz', and 'Moonlight' • No mention of refunds • Comes after a licensing deal ended
Recording our Disclosure Day spoiler special later this afternoon. Hit me up with your questions! DMs only, please!
I'M Gonna Show You Disclosure Day
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What a series of Taskmaster that was. Loved them all. I think Joanna Page’s gleeful cackle will live long in the memory.
So, I was on a cruise ship with two of my golf buddies, I think we were going on some kind of a trip. Then I bumped into Scott Aukerman, and we started riffing so well that he invited me on Comedy Bang Bang, but then we all met Sofia Vergara at the buffet restaurant and he asked her on instead…
Wow. Can’t believe Grace Dent and Anna Haugh are the Masterchef finalists, given that they host the damn show. Feels like a pretty disgraceful abuse of power. Surely the BBC should investigate this?!?!?!?!!??!?
youtube.com/watch?v=2T68... With the World Cup just a few days away, here’s the greatest World Cup song ever: Del Amitri’s Don’t Come Home Too Soon, for the Scotland team in 1998, a maudlin masterpiece that basically says, ‘look, we know you’re shit, but try not to be too shit’. It didn’t work.
Del Amitri - Don't Come Home Too Soon (Official Team Scotland Song World Cup '98)
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We’re recording our THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU spoiler special in about three hours. Any questions or comments? Slide into my DMs like Pedro Pascal sliding into Mando’s armour during his many days on set.
The Mandalorian: Din Djarin & Grogu Flying
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LANTERNS looks terrific. Yes please.
Green Lantern Gives Thumbs Up
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I’ve just seen a TV advert for a 10pm showing of Anchorman 2, entirely featuring footage from the first Anchorman.
Anchorman 2: Quit Yanking Our Crotch Hoses
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www.thelondonimprovfestival.com This sounds awesome, and is happening next week, featuring the likes of @connorratliff.bsky.social, Ryan Gaul, Suzi Barrett, and improv troupes from across the Pond. Going to try to get to a couple of shows (I don’t have the courage to try some of the workshops!).
The London Improv Festival
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not unrecognizable but he does look like if Belgium had a dictator
Page Six@pagesix.com · 3mo agoJohn Travolta looks unrecognizable at Cannes Film Festival with wild new look
Tfw you realise it’s Andy Samberg in that Neil Diamond Hellman’s mayonnaise advert.
Brooklyn Nine Nine: Jake Peralta's Shocked 'What?'
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still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them
Watching Taskmaster. Joel Dommett just did a task where he was brave by having three tiny spiders put on his face. He then claimed he had never had a spider on his face. HE WAS RUNNER-UP ON I’M A CELEBRITY HE MUST HAVE HAD A SPIDER ON HIS FACE I DEMAND AN INVESTIGATION
Greg Davies: Okay, Explain Yourself Taskmaster
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Hit me with your DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN s2 finale questions, folks. Slide into my DMs!
Matt Murdock as Daredevil Smiling
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*speaks into tiny recorder* Memo: idea for seafaring prequel to Dude, Where’s My Car?, entitled Moby, Where’s My Dick?
Just read about New Order (and others) being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame today, and it casually mentioned a 1993 Top Of The Pops performance of Regret from the set of Baywatch, featuring The Hoff. And now I’ve seen it, so must you. Regret rien. youtu.be/JfI8pJQbcZQ?...
New Order - Regret [Baywatch Version] [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO]
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Everyone’s laughing at Tilly Norwood being deactivated, but not me. I’ll simply treasure her nuanced and heartbreaking performances in DIE, HUMAN SCUM! and SET THE WORLD ALIGHT, not to mention her delightful comedic turn in YOU CAN’T SPELL STANISLAVSKI WITHOUT ‘AI’. She will be missed.
Well, here’s something lovely to start your day: Christopher Cross performing Arthur’s Theme (certified banger, and one of the few worthy Best Original Song Oscar winners), with actual Arthur, Dudley Moore, on piano. youtube.com/watch?v=BIJh...
Christopher Cross & Dudley Moore • “Arthur’s Theme (The Best That You Can Do)” • 1981 [RITY]
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People who listen to the Empire Podcast: where (and when) are ads showing up in the show for you? Hearing some reports of ads appearing mid-sentence, which should not be the case. Let me know! Cheers, Your Pal, Chris
Reading about the making of John Boorman's Deliverance and you know that scene where Lewis (Burt Reynolds) somersaults into the waterfall...?
