Waiting for Guffman (1996)

My Dinner with Andre action figures have to be one of the funniest things ever created on film

Midnight at the Oasis with Fred Willard and Catherine O'Hara

Would Corky be a Datalounger?

His outfit is on trend at the moment.

There's no swimmin' in this show!

Parker Posey looking beautiful smoking while standing over a grill with one tiny chicken wing on it gets me every time.

Don't forget Remains of the Day lunchbox.

SHHH! Girl talk!

"Why don't you get one of those vagina enlargements!"

r7 I HAD ONE!!!!!!

R6 - they'll always have a place for me at the dairy queen.

God, I was infatuated with her back then. Still have respect.

My favorite character is Michael Hitchcock playing Corky's number one fan. He plays his barely hidden infatuation with Corky so wonderfully.

One of my absolute favorite movies of all time. So hilarious.

R1 Yes! Someone mentioned them on the Most Boring Movie thread so I hat tipped them for the Guffman reference.

Also, “these are my big heads”.

R12 He’s so funny!

has everything — from judy tenuda t-shirts to alexis arquette's dad to johnny savage getting off at 5...

It IS Waiting for Guffman!

I HATE YOUR ASS FACE!!!

"I don't rightly know, child . . ."

The Red, White, and Blaine "cast" album is the pride and joy of my musicals collection.

Also, this show inspired me to take a Rizzo doll and an Agent J doll and turn them into a Six Degrees Of Separation action figure set.

Here's the Remains of the Day lunchbox. Kids don't like eating at school, but if they have a Remains of the Day lunchbox they're a whole lot happier.

Is it true when Erna heard about Blaine being the Stool Capital of the World that she wanted to visit?

I always thought Fred Willard was gay or had gay sensibilities. He was married but he looked fantastic for his age for soooo long.

He was arrested for having his dick out at the Tiki adult theater in East Hollywood. Have to wonder what that was all about.

What ever could have happened to gorgeous hunky sweet Matt Keeslar to make him leave show biz and become a male nurse in the Midwest?

“What’s it like being with a circumcised man? Ron says the whole Jew thing is off limits.”

“I was fresh off a destroyer with nothing but a dance belt and a tube of Chapstick.”

“I was shopping for my wife, Bonnie. I buy most of her clothes.”

[quote] What ever could have happened to gorgeous hunky sweet Matt Keeslar to make him leave show biz and become a male nurse in the Midwest?

Actually, he's not actually that: he's a physician's assistant (not the same thing as a nurse) and a medical school instructor at Oregon Health Sciences University, the medical school for the University of Oregon, in Portland.

He reportedly left acting when the roles dried up.

We're the Lunts of Blaine

He anticipated Gen z fashion by 30 years. It’s shocking how non binary dimesquare that look is

Love this movie! I've always thought that the slow burning attraction that Steve develops for Corky is one of the most genuine gay storylines depicted on film.

We're goin' ta' Brroad-WAY!!!

Workin' for a tough man, like a Ziegfeld or a Guffman, in a great, big, Broadway show!

I’d like a Diet Coke and an ingenue.

You’re bastard people!

R7- I'm puzzled. What's so funny about that lunchbox?

I don't understand the humor.

I have to give huge props to Bob Balaban for his portrayal of the dedicated music director who knows how out of his mind Corky is but is helpless to do anything but make sure the orchestra is prepared. It's not a flashy part but his silent looks of disbelief and contempt are a perfect contrast to the main insanity. I was a choir kid growing up so I recognize that no-nonsense style of leadership compared to the more loosey-goosey way the drama department was run

[quote]R35 I'm puzzled. What's so funny about that lunchbox?

Lunchboxes feature highly commercial movies and TV shows: Star Wars, Barbie, etc. Things that will be flashy and [italic]au courant [/italic] on the schoolyard.

The Remains of the Day is a somber, period, British drama that no child would have ever seen. So the idea of any child choosing this as a lunchbox is absurd.

What makes it even funnier to me (or sadder), R37, is that I actually saw The Remains of the Day twice in theaters when I was eleven years old.

^^ oh DEAR!

Corky! We love you! We want you to live!

What adds another layer of humour to the lunchbox joke is that they're exactly the sort of things a precocious, feminine gay kid would take to school, if his parents would let him. Us 'dialling the phone with a pencil' types. So you get the sense that Corky is projecting his own childhood dreams here. He would have made his own All That Heaven Allows, Splendor in the Grass or The Winslow Boy lunchboxes and brought them to school... if only society was more accepting.

We have no even began discussing Eugene Levy as the block of wood dentist, Dr. Allan Pearl, who longs to be on the stage.

R36 - agreed. The look he gave corky in the above clip was a rant in a glance.

Divik schtivik, I said more ham.

Love the track suits worn by Fred Willard and Catherine O'Hara

Parker Posey's "teacher's pet" audition made me laugh. Horrible song, horrible singing and horrible dancing.

She had an event funnier audition that didn't make it into the film. Apparently she wrote the whole monologue.

I'm going to do a scene from the movie RAGING BULL.

I love the cut audition that Posey did but it was probably considered too long.

I'm shocked that there's been so little talk of Matt Keeslar here.

R49, I will talk about Matt Keeslar all goddamn day.

Keeslar js great but he’s not in the movie very long. It’s a shame he didn’t go on to do the other Guest movies. He was probably working on Scream 3 while Best In Show was in production. And it’s hard to imagine where he’d fit in since everyone is so perfect in their parts. He could easily have been in A Mighty Wind but by that time he was doing a lot of network TV roles and probably thought his indie days were behind him

"Hock your jewels- spend the money on stools!"

Well, I don’t have any swimmin’ in my show!

I was doing community theater back when this came out and I went to see it three times.

I just have to find time to work with the orchestra on this.......

Matt Keeslar was so cute and so appealing, it's a shame his career died when other no-talents of his generation kept getting work