Sweet.

Is he on our team (no not THAT team), or just looking for publicity?

PS - you forgot Snow Day!!

"The narrative leaps back and forth in time, as 1882 police chief Caleb Spencer chases the Thwacker through the streets, and Elliott, convinced the killer is from the 21st century, chases him through time. Elliott's ability to time travel is facilitated by Yoko Ono (don't ask)......."

Heheh

No idea. I assume he's liberal, and I told his publicist we'd avoid politics generally. I'll see if he wants to go there at all.

It should still be a funny twenty minutes.

"I assume he's liberal"

Really? I always got cryptofascist vibes from him. Maybe just wishful thinking ... (it would explain why he never quite hit the big time, though I guess Occam's razor suggests other reasons for that ...)

Did you know that you can watch "Get a Life" episodes on DVD without the laff track?

Well, you can. S'cool.

Well, I'll admit, the first time I saw cabin boy I got about 5 minutes into it and declared it the "worst movie I'd ever seen", however, rollerball has since been re-released - which probably promoted cabin boy to something else. That being said, the same friends who introduced me to "the kentucky fried movie" (among others) loved it, so maybe I'll have to revisit that flick and call in with asinine questions about a 10+ year old b-film. :D

I remember loving paper boy or whatever that show was where he lived in a tree house or some shit and delivered news papers. :)

Cabin Boy may have been a stupid movie, but the scene near the beginning with David Letterman was hilarious. "You sure are a pretty girl, Jennifer."

Ace, I think you should refer to Chris as Jennifer for the duration of the show.

Chris Elliot = Hitler

on second thought, those a$$holes also reco'd "rushmore" which was in close competition with rollerball for that coveted title of "worst movie evAr"

Ace, do you know what your audience size is?

No way, he's not a crypto-fascist. He's got to be a neocon, because everyone is a neocon. Didja see him as the Woogie? He had a family and everything. That proves it! Neocons are all family values and stuff, but they are all really stalking cameron diaz.

Ace, no fucking lie, that is by far the coolest guest you've landed yet. (Please don't tell Jonah I said that).

But, promise me this: you *must* ask him, "Hey, would you like to buy a monkey?"

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

Chris' book is on Amazon. No customer reviews yet, though.

Amazon has an intriguing video of Chris discussing the book, which can be seen here (if I copied the link correctly).

Didn't know "Get A Life" was out on DVD. I've got fond memories of that show; might be worth checking out.

Ace, do you know what your audience size is?

About a 44 Regular.

C'mon, I know it's too obvious to be cool, what about There's Something About Mary? That's probably one of my favorite movies ever with "Mary" in the title.

Oh, there we go. Thanks joeindc44!

Wow, Chris Elliott...I'm actually jealous.

I concur that this is a pretty cool guest. I have become an Ace fan over the last month, listening to the show and reading the blog. I would rather listen to a cryptoneocromnion-o-con like Woogie talk about how George Bush is a murderer for not reintroducing the gold standard than some goof talking about the fairtax.

Celebrities, D-list celebrities from the 80's at that, rock!

Cool guest Ace. Congrats on that and the show's success!

Please stop saying "uh" all the goddam time though will ya? Didn't you take a speach class in school for chrissakes?!

Love you. Mean it.

Uh. Uh..., don't leave outGroundhog Day or "Everybody Loves Raymond". Elliot was genius in that.

It's just strange that you can pick up the phone, call a publicist randomly, and get a "yes" when someone has a book to sell.

Oh, admit it! You offered him Karol.

And I like Rushmore.

"rushmore" which was in close competition with rollerball for that coveted title of "worst movie evAr"

??! I'm not one of those Rushmore fanatics but HUH?

I guess this means you do more than boring politic stuff. Very cool!

I've heard bits of two interviews of authors of interesting books. Their names and the names of the books I never quite caught.

One was a book written by a woman about the history of the Farlon Islands off of S.F. and the sharks around there. The female sharks are 20 ft. long, 8 ft wide, and 6 ft deep. They call them buses.

The second book was by a guy and it was about Timothy Treadwell, the guy who got himself and his girlfriend eaten by bears. He's a lot more sympathetic than the movie Grizzly Man was towards Treadwell. He has schelped across Alaska to some very small towns and addressed crowds of about 200 people on his book, so I'm sure he'll feel right at home at Hoist. ;)

Most bears kill you and then eat you. Poor Mr. Treadwell, was alive and awake for at least 4 minutes while the bear ate him.

Can you tell I have a fear about being eaten by wild animals?

Anyway, I think they would make interesting interviews on Hoist.

You're getting up there Ace, but you should reach for the stars.
Try to get Gary Gygax to see if you're really as big as we think.

Don't leave out the Kinko the Clown character he did for Letterman. He didn't do it long, but it was out there.

"One was a book written by a woman about the history of the Farlon Islands off of S.F. and the sharks around there."

Sometimes they eat the corpses of leapers who float out that far.

The Devil's Teeth

The Devil's Teeth : A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks by Susan Casey [I say kill them all.]

The Grizzly Maze

The Grizzly Maze: Timothy Treadwell's Fatal Obsession with Alaskan Bears by Nick Jans

Anyway, they were both good interviews.

That's damned cool!

"[I say kill them all.]"

Genocide!!!!

"[I say kill them all.]" Genocide!!!!

Lord, I sure hope so! I don't want to be fish food. Nor do I want to be deboned by some big ass bear with dingleberries all over its butt. That's not what I was born to do. Having big chunks of your flesh ripped off --- sounds just like that chimp attack. Oh, no!!

44 Regular? I thought it was 44 DD.

Sometimes they eat the corpses of leapers who float out that far.

At least they are already dead.

I slaughtered the spelling, by the way. It's Farallones Islands.

"Genocide!!!!

Lord, I sure hope so!"

What, it's not enough for you Amerikkkans that you're genociding Iraqis and Afghanis and Palestinians and First Peoples - you're going after marine life now?

DEAL WITH REALITY!!!!!

/heh

DUDE, that is huge. I am a crazy Chris Eliot fan. His guy under the stairs and other old Letterman stuff were perfect, kinda angry, absurdist gems. Lil' Andy Kaufman nuggets (were Andy Kaufman ever funny.)

Lookit, I'm calling in. I'll find something to ask the guy. If I don't get on, get some priority, I'm tearing this site down from the inside. Don't think I won't.

Chris Elliot is the only person who grates on me more than Gilbert Gottfried. I can't really put my finger on a specific reason, either.

His presence would've totally ruined The Abyss for me, if the lame Deus ex Machina ending hadn't ruined it first.

Dude, the Abyss was awesome!!!!
How many times has Michael Biehn played a SEAL?
Nonetheless, I have to see the director's cut to see if the ending was any better.
BTW, saw Corpse Bride. sucked.

The Director's Cut ending was much better than the original, but it still left a lot to be desired - there's a lot they're trying to convey that just wouldn't have worked on film.

Do yourself a big favor if you're a fan, go find a copy of the Orson Scott Card novelization of the screenplay. Unlike your average bullshit novelization, this goes into a lot of detail that never made it to film. About the backgrounds of the main characters, the technology and mindset of the aliens, etc.

Also unlike most novelizations, it's written so well it's a damn good read in its own right, completely apart from the film.