Interview · moment 11 of 17
Movie Stars Are Just a Bet at a Health Club
from It Ends Bad (with Yannis Pappas) · #67
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4 minGuest
They joke that most 'actors' like Ice Cube or Mark Wahlberg are manufactured via industry connections rather than craft, contrasted with real actors like Daniel Day-Lewis, and riff on Marilyn Monroe's tragic end and Giannis's underappreciated Mr. Panos character.
- 29:54Mark Wahlberg is one of America's biggest actors and started as a rapper saying 'come on, come on, feel it.'
- 30:19Two guys at a health club make a bet to turn someone into a star, like how Cesar Millan got famous training dogs.
- 30:47It must be amazing to exist in Hollywood with no conscience or soul, just playing cards with people's lives.
- 31:10The whole business is squeezing as much as possible out of young female comedians before they wash up by 45.
- 31:50Marilyn Monroe was given pills down her throat and couldn't sleep or quiet the memories without modern distractions like cable TV.
- 32:22Tim did character work in clubs, which was hugely popular but people now don't know about it.
- 32:44At Gotham Comedy Club, Tim performs stand-up as himself and crushes, but the audience's friends hang back on their phones completely checked out.
- 33:08The ability some people have to not even be in the room while something great is happening is amazing.
Gotham Comedy ClubMark WahlbergIce CubeJason BatemanDaniel Day-LewisMarilyn MonroeCesar Millan