On Cinema At The Cinema 6th Annual Oscar special | Live! February 24th 8PM EST
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I got a bit of music stuck in my head today, and upon concentrating on it realized it was the music playing during the trivia slides of this show. Sure heard a lot of it.
oh man this is amazing, Mark Proksch is a genius
shame it never got picked up :/
The power of friendship (axiom and manuel) prevented Tim from jumping the 6th street bridge!
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I find it helps to remember that Tim will be wearing Manuel's butt on his face for the rest of his life. So maybe there's some karmic justice in that.
Those trivia questions sent me down a rabbit hole learning about the weird cult Glenn Close was born into. I definitely learned something!
Holy shit I lost it when Toby started talking about Morgan Freeman's death.
"The murdered actor was 75."
I've still got oscar fever, even days out from the big show! Have they said anything about on cinema season 11?
This was AMAZING, it gets better and better the further it goes. thanks for posting
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Nice find. A truly iconic piece of music.
Nothing yet. The last new episode was May of last year so I'd expect some news soon. So far they've never gone more than about 10 months between seasons. Not that there's any kind of set schedule or anything. On the other hand, It's been a year and a half since the last Decker. I really need my Decker fix.
There's a nice article on Vulture today. No new info but a great overview of the whole thing:
Navigating On Cinema's Giant, Underground Universe
I like this bit. Seems like the real heart of the show.
There have gotta be more comedians doing stuff similar to On Cinema and this. Any suggestions?? I've watched this vid four times and seen every bit of On Cinema, a lot of that multiple times as well.
Maybe I'll just throw on Adult Swim Golf Classic in the meantime which is another fave in a somewhat similar vein
Side note: I completely forgot about how the guys from the Rat Pack Trap segment get into it with Tim and Axel but I completely understand why it happens because Tim goes a little far but it makes for some of the most awkward content ever
Also, who the fuck are the other members of Dekkar in real life? Has Tim ever talked about them in After Hours?
e: I was actually wrong about the Dean Martin guy, who is the guy Tim gets in a real argument with in one of the specials that seems like it's gonna be physical when he asks him to leave??
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You're probably thinking of James Dean. Tim really got confrontational with him at the end of one of the specials. That and the stuff with the Rat Pack guys are some of those moments that make you wonder how much the other people are in on the joke.
Most of the similar types of shows I can think of are from Adult Swim so people are probably already familiar with it. They did a short series called the Greatest Event In Television History that was really funny but doesn't seem to get talked about much. Look Around You is a fantastic show from the BBC you should check out if you haven't already. I think there are one or two episodes on Youtube at least.
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It's not the same since they're two different formats but in terms of tone, Soft Focus with Jena Friedman has a similar deadpan dark satire that On Cinema sometimes produces. Friedman's show is probably even darker since the interviews she scores seem genuine.
It's VERY hard to tell what's fake or real in her show lol
Here's a trailer that gives you a good idea of what the show is.
Some episodes here.
It's VERY hard to tell what's fake or real in her show lol
Here's a trailer that gives you a good idea of what the show is.
Some episodes here.
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Ahhhh yes! James Dean was wild. I also wonder about how aware everyone is of what's happening at these things. I know Tim, Gregg and Mark (and production staff) are the most aware but the others (Joe Estevez, Axiom/Manuel, Dr. San, etc) seem to be on a second layer where they're told how Tim will be but in the guise of this being a legitimate outfit.
I really wish I could have a one-on-one with Tim and really pick his mind about how On Cinema works but I'm sure he's talked about it a lot on After Hours, that's just a lot of content to dig through and call-in shows tend to be boring most of the time imo.
I have a migraine tonight so I'm binging every special, currently on the second. The editing on the first special is piss poor but I was lucky to see the live unedited version before it was made private. They completely skip where Tim throws up on Gregg's tapes and a lot of other moments where they come back to the stream and Tim is yelling, or members of production laughing (like when Tim is giving his "acceptance" speech towards the end of the second special and thanks Harry Truman for being the first to drop nukes and he says "THANK YOUUUU for being so big part of this darnded - eat gumbo, eat the whole Academy Awards" in a thick southern drawl and you can hear someone scream laugh from a whole nother room), or when they break character which they don't edit out in the later specials. I love seeing Tim, Gregg or Mark break and laugh, I don't see how they don't do it even more often.
Anyway I'm obsessed with this show if ya can't tell and I love talking about it because I don't know anyone in real life that would enjoy this.
Edit: just got to Gregg's finale where he knocks over the tapes like dominoes but he spells it "OSCER", classic moment
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I've seen those pop up before but didn't check them out until now, thanks. Reminds me of some of the best Daily Show segments. Jena Friedman is really good.
Yeah, since the Oscar Special I've been rewatching a lot of seasons and listening to the old podcasts. I'm just finishing up the trial now and it's so damn genius. The running gag about Star Trek 2 is one of the best things ever. It started as a minor disagreement way back in 2011, and 6 years later it culminates in the actual director/screenwriter giving testimony in the middle of a murder trial. Amazing!
And this is probably just a coincidence, but I just noticed it was exactly 6 years in between. The original Star Trek 2 podcast was on November 21, 2011 and the episode with his appearance at the trial was on November 21, 2017.
The way they reveal that Tim ripped off Empty Bottle was particularly great.
Thanks for these, I just watched everything I could find of hers, I love it. That McAfee interview is amazing.
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Yep. I think I was laughing through the whole song. Some great payoffs for some long running bits during the trial. It almost felt like a finale for the show. I'm certainly glad it wasn't though.
The behind-the-scenes thing I think I'm most curious about right now is the Marvel movie stuff, inserting On Cinema into these zillion dollar movies. Easy enough to accept real-world Tim or Gregg got a bit part in a movie, but did that then cause the other to go hunting for a counterpart? And then years after Gregg appears in Ant-Man, Tim appearing in the sequel is too perfect.
The director Peyton Reed came onto On Cinema oscar special, so he must be a fan now :p
Fans of this
Tim is co-hosting Jenny Lewis' album release RIGHT NOW:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVjTpv2fwIk&feature=youtu.be
So far so weird lol
Tim is co-hosting Jenny Lewis' album release RIGHT NOW:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVjTpv2fwIk&feature=youtu.be
So far so weird lol
i hope this full stream gets archived because id love to bust it out for rewatches. It was so surreal and awkward but also very comfortable and cozy.
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There's an official OCATC episode guide coming out in June!
It's up for pre-order now: https://www.dragcity.com/products/brandan-kearney-s-on-cinema-at-the-cinema-reader-vol-1-2010-2018
It's up for pre-order now: https://www.dragcity.com/products/brandan-kearney-s-on-cinema-at-the-cinema-reader-vol-1-2010-2018
It looks cool, but realistically I do physical books about as much as I do VHS tapes these days.
Since this thread was bumped, it should be noted that the new book comes with a teaser for the upcoming On Cinema-verse feature film, basically a sequel to The Trial.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TimAndEric...e_with_a/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app
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