The Neverending Top Ten Thread

I've seen him perform three times and have Dirty Work all but completely memorized.

Note to self: Buy ass wart cream for giant wart on my ass.

Lol Gabriel Iglesias? In that murderer's row of comedians?

Credibility lost.

You Neverending should appreciate this more than anyone.

www.funnyordie.com/videos/ed52dd2e8b/gift-basket-from-a-friend

Mike Birbiglia has always been my favorite comedian.

Carlin was my favorite.

Did anyone watch the video NE posted?

Did you laugh once?

I got to go with PG Cooper and Neverending on this. George Carlin is hilarious. I used to watch his HBO specials, late 80's to mid 90's, over and over through the years and would bust a gut every time.

Dennis Leary had some classic stand-up as well in the 90's.

Dennis Leary on Animal Auditions (No Cure For Cancer)

NEW LIST

for PG Cooper


THE 10 BEST MOVIES OF 1976

I learned today that PG Cooper has a list of his favorite movies from 1976. He won't show it to me unless I show him mine - you know how it is - so here's MY list.


#10 - THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES



Before 1992's Unforgiven, which is an Academy Award winner for Best Picture, The Outlaw Josey Wales was highly regarded as Clint Eastwood's most prestigious western. It's about a Missouri farmer whose wife and son are killed during the Civil War and he joins the Confederate army to get revenge. On paper, the plot sounds problematic. Our hero is on the wrong side of the war! But the movie isn't racist. Women and minorities are cast in positive roles. And despite the subject matter, the story focuses more on characters and relationships than gunfights and carnage. It's Eastwood's first foray into serious filmmaking.


#9 - OBSESSION



Carrie is the most popular Brian De Palma movie from 1976, and for good reasons, but I slightly prefer Obsession. Inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, it tells the story of a man who loses his wife and then finds her doppelganger years later. It's a movie that's both hauntingly beautiful and very disturbing.


#8 - MARATHON MAN



Were people scared of the dentist before 1976? In Marathon Man, Dustin Hoffman plays a Ph.D. student who gets caught in the middle of a fight between a U.S. secret agent and a former Nazi. The story is effectively executed and leaves a lasting impression.


#7 - ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN



Back-to-back Dustin Hoffman! All the President's Men is about the two Washington Post reporters who uncovered that U.S. President Richard Nixon was involved in the Watergate scandal. Robert Redford plays the other reporter. And although the movie is politically motivated and tells a real-life story that's widely well-known, the film succeeds because it offers an insight into the world of journalism. We always read and hear important news, but we hardly ever get to explore the steps it took to report that news. All the President's Men is much more than an historical drama and that's why it resonates.


#6 - SILVER STREAK



A decade before the Coen Bros made multi-genre movies their trademark, there was Silver Streak. It's the first pairing of Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor and it's easily their best. Silver Streak is a romantic drama, a wacky comedy and an action film rolled into one. Watch it and be amazed.


#5 - SILENT MOVIE



Forget The Artist! Silent Movie is the definitive modern day silent film. Mel Brooks, fresh from his success with Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein, directs and stars in this meta-comedy about a director who has to assemble an all-star cast in order to finance a silent movie. It's hilarious and one of Brooks' best.


#4 - THE OMEN



Richard Donner's breakthrough movie is about a father who discovers that his adopted son is the spawn of the devil and must be killed for the sake of humanity. The Omen is highly-stylized and a tad over-the-top, but it's also creepy and thought-provoking and it probably gives most people goosebumps.


#3 - NETWORK



Satire is a powerful tool. Director Sidney Lumet and screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky use that art form to tell an outlandish story about an unpopular news anchor who becomes an overnight sensation thanks to a drunken outburst on the air. I use the word outlandish because that's what it was in 1976. In 2015, however, Network is seen as ahead of its time since it predicted what television would turn into. It's not a soapbox for the disenfranchised. It's a platform for corporations to profit from those who feel disenfranchised. Life is comedy. Don't ever forget that.


#2 - TAXI DRIVER



Taxi Driver is PG Cooper's favorite movie. I don't know what that says about PG Cooper, but if I lived in Canada, I would lock my door just to be safe. I kid. I kid. Taxi Driver is widely considered to be Martin Scorsese's masterpiece. I wouldn't go that far. Between Paul Schrader's depression and Scorsese's cocaine addiction, this movie is a bit questionable. But there's no denying that it's masterfully executed.


#1 - ROCKY



Being the child of immigrants and having lived my entire life in the working class, Rocky is a movie that speaks to me. Rocky is not simply an underdog story. It's a movie about finding a purpose in life and achieving more than what's expected of you. When Rocky is in the ring with Apollo Creed, a man so spoiled by success that he doesn't even bother to train properly, he's not fighting another person. He's fighting for his own spiritual survival.

Really good list that brings a few films I haven't seen to my attention.

There is no fucking way Juno is better than No Country for Old Men. I like Juno. It's a fun and clever movie, but No Country is damn near perfect.

Otherwise, most of these films are clearly better than the Oscar winning equivalent for the most part. I haven't seen The Last Emperor so I'll refrain from commenting on 87 (I have seen River's Edge though), and I also think Million Dollar Baby is slightly better than Sideways, but it's close.