Would kind of like to be there for this.
I like professor Shelly Kagan and some of the other student broadcasts on Yale TV. Interested to see they talk if the post it.
Bonus round 1 of bar trivia last night had an interesting trivia question about Godfather I.
“Among the many memorable performances in The Godfather part 1, two of them featured a Jewish man playing an Italian character, and an Italian man playing a Jewish character. One bonus point each for the names of the actors and the characters.”
I happened to know the answer because I’ve heard it several times on Gilbert Gottfried’s podcast. (He likes to point out Jewish actors nobody knew were Jewish.) Anyone else know without looking it up?
I knew the Jewish actor playing the Italian. I had to cheat on the other way, but I was thinking that guy was in Godfather II.
Yeah it felt like 2 because he appears toward the end of 1. Most people got the Jewish character if anything, no one knew the name of the actor, the other guy was a bit mind blowing as I had no clue he was Jewish and apparently nobody else did either
Stereotyping. No one wants to think the tough guys are Jewish - see Issur Danielovitch.
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The Italian playing the Jew is
Alex Rocco (Moe Greene)
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Correct. His character is the one most people got I guess because ldo most of the others are Italian. No one knew the actor’s name though even though he was all over TV in the 70s. It’s a younger crowd.
Abe Vigoda must be the answer just because that would be cool.
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Also correct but that’s not the one he was looking for. Good thing for him that no one guessed it.
I cheated in hindsight it’s obvious avoid toll booths
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Duvall for Jew playing Italian?
Edit: damn was going to guess Vigoda but then I decided with that name he must not be Jewish.
Moe Green for Italian playing Jew but I can’t remember that actor’s name w/o looking it up.
Watch out, boys! Matthew is pissed!
Here’s a little additional background on the type of guy ML is. A little after the time he became the Today show host, I worked on a re-packaging of an old show he was a co-host on in the late 1980s.
There was, um, an Easter Egg hidden in the b-roll that whoever originally cut the segment wanted to keep in. It was intended to play under voiceover, and was just him sitting with the subject gabbing it up. The online editor came to me and said, ‘you gotta hear this’. So, I went in and he played it for me. The segment was him interviewing some New York debutante (maybe 19 or 20 years old). They’re doing the little gab back and forth for dialog under purposes, and all of a sudden he says to her in a relatively even toned voice, ‘Don’t lie to me, bitch.’
That moment right there made it the least surprising thing ever that he ended up where his in relation to this. I can literally not think of him without remembering that. We’re talking that we uncovered this maybe 3 or 4 months after he became the host of the Today show. People probably knew about him, but never did anything about it.
Was he trying to neg her?
I’m gonna try that at Starbucks next time I’m chatting up some woman as we wait for our lattes.
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Possible hot take: the impractical jokers suck and neither they nor what they do is funny or clever or watchable
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I don’t think negging existed in 1987 or whenever the interview was. It certainly wasn’t called that then.
Considering Matt was fired within 24 hours of the investigation starting, I think he and Don can both look forward to the facts completely and totally exonerating them.
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