On this episode we welcome Non, host of the podcast Joy Sandwich into our green room for an episode on musical performers dealing with the threat of violence while they perform. This theme inspires a double feature of The Rolling Stones documentary GIMME SHELTER and the Elijah Wood starring GRAND PIANO. Those two films face off in a conversation that includes Muppet matchmaking with co-host Shane Conner and our other guest Paula from the Tell Me Stories podcast. But before you find out which piece of Muppet ass that Elijah Wood can crush, let’s talk about one of the best films of 2016: GREEN ROOM.
No contemporary filmmaker has chronicled the messy human experience with the eye and ear of a comedic cultural anthropologist like JUDD APATOW. Hits as varied as those he’s directed, like Knocked Up and The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and those he’s produced, like Superbad and Bridesmaids, are all unified by their honest, unflinching, comic look at how complicated it is to grow up in the modern world. Apatow has also built a history of helping break distinctive new comedy voices into the mainstream, from Seth Rogen to Lena Dunham, among many others. Now, in his fifth feature film as a director, Apatow again brings a portrait of an unforgettable character, and a portrayal by a breakout new comedy star, together in a film written by and starring AMY SCHUMER (TV’s Inside Amy Schumer) as a woman who lives her life without apologies, even when maybe she should apologize. U n d o u b t e d ly, S c h u m e r h a s b e e n s t e a d i ly achieving cultural notoriety of her own. From her bruta
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