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#552 - Battle for the Dinosaur Hour (Patreon)

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Whenever we need a pick-me-up, we return to one of our favourite topics: THE DINOSAUR HOUR, John Cleese's baffling chat show for Britain's right-wing GB News network. In the two episodes we watched today, Cleese opines on creativity, then welcomes his good friend Rob Schneider (!) for an agonizing hourlong chat. PLUS: What happens to the Republican Party after Trump? And checking in on Aaron Sorkin.

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Alex
>>147060830

Got to it before I did haha, his career trajectory post politics is basically becoming a broadcaster your nan likes

Iain

Don't mind me, just here for Will's John Cleese impression.

Ralph

Not proud to admit I attended the world premiere of a little film called "Southside with You" at Sundance 2016, which not only dramatizes the Obamas' first date but even includes some clips from "Do the Right Thing." As I'm sure you already know, this is unfortunately a film you must tackle at some point.

Chris M.

Can we get a more comprehensive Donkeylips update??

Jeremy Hawkins

It is funny that this show exists because even though an explicitly left wing perspective on this would be better in every way, we are arguably living in an interesting moment for "wokeness" worthy of discussion. The problem is that like "cancelling" it can be such a wide lable that it just can be applied to anything you don't like as an 85 year old guy, but if you were to narrow the description to me more around identity politics, Kamala Harris taking the nomination and more specifically J.D Vance's extremely weird racist attacks on her, specifically for being a mixed race south asian like his kids has brought these conversations back to the forefront in a way they haven't been for years. I'm definitely interested in seeing how things have changed since the height of this in 2016 with the Hillary is my abuela thing, ect.

Ciaran Colley

Andrew Doyle actually writes/wrote for the Jonathan Pie character (as opposed to being the character, which I think Luke was implying?), although the whole concept does still chime with simultaneous claims to Corbyn support and dislike of political correctness, which I too find extremely suspicious. Also, sort of surprised at the lack of mention of Rob Schneider's absolutely dreadful attempt at a Curb Your Enthusiasm-style show, which incorporates unsubtle attempts to hawk energy drinks midway through each episode (I discovered this in a YouTube video contrasting this with a Tim Heidecker special where he essentially - and beautifully - mimics conservative comedy for 50 minutes). Finally, I was taken aback to find out that the President of Colombia had been forced to resign - Michael and Us is the only news source I'll trust from now on!

Blank

A spectre is haunting M&U, and that spectre is steele

anarchcommuecosocotaku

If you reviewed every episode of “The Dinosaur Hour,” I’d pay to listen to all those episodes.

Myles Bartoli

Hi. Being from Essex, I concur that Hedingham castle is exactly as Luke describes. Also, to visit: Overpriced and under delivers.

Christian Michael

If you’re looking for some pure unbounded Sorkin, check out season 4 of the West Wing. It was Sorkin’s last year with the show, and a year before S60. It is wild.

Oliver Elliott

I’ve been toying around with the idea that political liberalism needs the belief that everyone is, at heart, a liberal. “Unreasonable” conservatives are inconsistent with that idea and cause liberals a lot of internal grief because of it. What I’d like to see is a take on Sorkin’s not-obviously-political work and how it does or doesn’t fit in with WW, etc. So, Sports Night, A Few Good Men, Social Network, etc.

Tom

I love that Luke describes the massively successful EGOT-winning Tim Rice as “some kind of musical theatre guy”

Buzzkill Squad
>>147204037

The ephemerality of all human endeavour for you. Sooner or later everyone becomes just "some kind of musical theatre guy"

George Olken

New York Times reported: "In a letter to the Columbia community, [Shafik] said she would join the administration of the new British prime minister, Keir Starmer, to lead a review of the government’s approach to international development for the foreign secretary." You can't make this shit up.

Michael and Us
>>147204037

I realize he's a big deal. But, as you may be able to discern, musical theatre is very much not my thing! - L

Nick Playfair
>>147060830

I begrudgingly respect his decision to become a trains guy instead of a consultant for the Peter Thiel institute of race science or whatever

Nick Playfair

The failure of GB News is quite fascinating to me. You would think there is a huge audience for that kind of channel because there is so much culture war bullshit in the print media and the ranks of the "facebook conspiracy boomers" seem to grow with each passing day but it never really got much traction. I'm sure someone smarter than me has written about it, but my theory is that the British right don't actually like anyone, even right wing personalities, they are just furious at a vaguely defined concept of political correctness/"wokeness" so there's no equivalent of Hannity or Carlson here for them to build it around. Farage has nowhere near the popularity of Trump for example, even though he says everything they want to hear and got them the Brexit they've wanted for years and Trump never delivered on the border wall.

Ambrose Honeysuckle

As the boys debate their next Sorkin project, I think the answer is an obvious one – 'Sports Night'! The great man's first TV show, it would provide a most fascinating study in where his ideologies were when his august career began. It is, however, a two-season, 45-episode commitment, so it would still be an undertaking.

Devon Hansen

The way Cleese sings “tee hee hee” in Eric the Half a Bee makes me lose it every time

David Brown

Regarding Walz and the Obamas first date...my wife and I had a first date to see Prometheus. Very excited to bust that out for people to find deeper meaning as I'm running for high office