Is Phoebe Waller-Bridge Getting Paid by Amazon to Do NOTHING?

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[00:00:00]And we're back with the meanest part of the episode. It's keep it. Guy, what are you saying keep it to this week? I know you're rankled. Louis, that woman who reposts Miriam Malnek Azagui's TikToks on Facebook but under a different name, she can keep it.

[00:00:16]>> Okay.

[00:00:17]>> Am I referring to Orthodox Jewish labor and delivery nurse Miriam Miriam Malnek Azagui? Yes.

[00:00:26]Do I worship her and her five daughters and the TikToks that she does teaching us about her life as an Orthodox Jewish woman? Yes. Are her children the greatest comedy performers that we have right now?

[00:00:38]Louis, if you could see Masuti get dragged across the ground by her sister, like you would understand what real comedy is. But then there's this other lady who reposts her TikToks and so that she can make money from them, but it's not her. And then I'll just be in a run of like five different, you know, here's all the kosher food that my toddler ate in a day and then realize that I'm paying money to someone else who is stealing from Miriam. That is not okay.

[00:01:04]>> Oh, sure. Like this is a woman who has done so much to popularize baby wrapping and wearing in America and and you know, promoting and exploring Orthodox Jewish life for a broader audience. It's so much fun. Like so many people I know, Lindy West, also a huge fan. That baby has so much hair. But lady who is trying to steal from Miriam, you can keep it. I don't need like your detestable ways of stealing by reposting are offensive to me and I will try harder to pay attention to what account I am looking at when I am watching those girls in their poor and costumes.

[00:01:43]>> That is a bit of a chore to have to like is this her or the doppelganger? Like who's actually posting this? I am a big constant critic of people who are monetizing things online they should not be. I cannot stand for example when somebody posts screenshots of a television show and then just posts the quotes from the television show and then they put it on their account and then that gets the likes. Yeah. That should be actionable against the law. Well, there are there are like so many complexities about people posting their children and I understand people having like many emotions about that and I understand and respect when people don't feel comfortable doing that. But I also have such a feeling of warmth and adoration towards all five of Miriam's daughters and like it I have never heard of this person. You're talking to me like we all hang out with Miriam.

[00:02:30]>> No, but the thing is is like this is these are the weird niches that we have where like this is a person who has millions of followers and most people don't know who she is but then you find out this other person. It's just like I mean the fascinating thing of going on Instagram and following a hot guy and then seeing which of your friends follow the hot guy because >> Oh, yeah. Okay. This is their taste in hot guy. Well, this is my taste like I don't want to watch a woman who is My children have run out of Oreos. So, I'm going to make them Oreos from Emmer wheat. I like >> [laughter] >> I will watch that woman but that doesn't give me joy. Miriam going to a Passover program where she and her family are going to have all of their Passover needs taken care of them uh for them by catering over the course of a week with a water park. Yes, I want to watch that.

[00:03:15]>> Okay. I was just thinking are there anybody like that? I actually I do there's an interior decorator influencer named Caroline Winkler I really really like cuz I I'm so envious of interior decorators. How do they know what's going to fit in this space? Why do they like measuring things so much? I don't have that instinct.

[00:03:29]>> at that stuff?

[00:03:30]>> No, I I really admire it. It's it's honestly like having a fashion sense, you know.

[00:03:34]>> yes, but then you you generally have a good fashion sense but I would also say that you play a minimalist game and so >> Yes, I'm what I call a gray man. I I like to dress presentably but you know, I'm not I'm not here to like make a statement.

[00:03:45]>> Let's be honest, so much of your fashion work is just shoulders and arms they say. [laughter] Yes, and excuse me a Which used to be a funny comedy word, but now we have clavicular, so it's all over.

[00:03:56]>> know. It's very >> Sternum. I'll I'll change it. Sternum will be my comedy word now.

[00:03:59]>> but the clavicle is magical.

[00:04:01]>> Yes. He doesn't He doesn't get to own it.

[00:04:03]>> Thank you for that Suzical-like observation.

[00:04:05]>> Thank you.

[00:04:06]>> Yes. Um my keep it this week, uh I saw a tweet that I just thought was um uh provocative. I'll read it here. It is I think Dua Lipa has a Moonstruck 1987 in her, but the writer, director, stars would have to align in inconceivable ways. People really are just underestimating what Cher can do.

[00:04:23]>> Yeah.

[00:04:24]Uh that is a complete pop culture one-time thing that Cher, who was, you know, a beloved uh singer, variety star, icon, then waited into acting in a dominant alpha way, and we all bent towards her.

[00:04:40]Um of course, she was in the movie Chastity in the '60s, but then in the '80s, we got her in Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, one of my favorite um all-female dramas.

[00:04:48]She was then in Silkwood with Meryl Streep, and then a few years later, after the Mask snub, she was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar for Moonstruck and won it. Couldn't have been anybody but Cher. I can't picture anybody in that role. But do you know what this tweet made me think of that um upsets me in terms of a pop star uh not turning into an actor.

[00:05:10]How are we not getting the [ __ ] Adele rom-com? Adele to me is the prime example of somebody who should also be acting because whenever she gives an interview, talks, the patter between songs at her Las Vegas residency, this woman is always funny.

[00:05:26]>> Have we not had this conversation? One of my great regrets in life is that Adele's career will never be bad enough that she has to host a game show.

[00:05:34]>> Yes.

[00:05:35]>> Because the thing is is like Adele could. Like Adele has the level of sincerity required to host a cooking show. Which is the greatest level of sincerity possible. We've discussed this with Valerie Bertinelli. But like Adele Adele hosting a game show would just make me so happy. Like she has that human touch, she has that sincerity.

[00:05:54]Adele crying when Celine Dion is in the audience is just that moment that you know she could really bring to something. And yes, like Adele really could act. You like you need the right director with her to steer her in the right direction. I think one of the hardest things for these big stars is going onto a set and being in a place where they can be guided in the right direction. And I think it was the wonderful thing about Cher on Silkwood being with Mary Louise Streep. Like With Mike Nichols who can direct who is the director of all time, actress director.

[00:06:23]>> like both of these people are people you're going to [ __ ] listen to and you're going to watch. And like she she grew out of that like so amazingly and gave us so much. And it's not something everyone can do. A lot of people have taken stabs at that transition and it hasn't happened. But like first we would need to make a rom-com again. Right.

[00:06:41]>> I'm sorry, I know I'm living in a fantasy world.

[00:06:43]>> but like Adele has that in her and I want that from her and out of her.

[00:06:48]Because like what we get on Graham Norton is so That's what I mean. It's painful. Why are you acting like an awesome actress outside the with other actors who are treating you like an actor basically. Graham Norton certainly does. And I will say by the way, we are getting a movie with her.

[00:07:06]She's going to be in Tom Ford's Cry to Heaven which is based on the Anne Rice book. I don't know how this fits with Adele, why it's going to be Adele. I'm encouraged by that. But like I hope the charm quotient is what I want because I'm so upset with this in a guys in like a we haven't tapped into some pop culture guys or we could be getting.

[00:07:26]>> The thing is is like A Single Man was a great movie. Like I don't know that it's Tom Ford film is the best vehicle for what she's bringing to the table. But I would say what Tom Ford is bringing to the table is somebody who is a big enough identity to be able to tell Adele what she needs to be doing that she may not realize.

[00:07:41]>> She >> trusts him. Yes. Right. No, I I I I I hope we get some I mean like she almost could be a stand-up, you know?

[00:07:49]>> I mean like it like intersong patter is one of the greatest art forms.

[00:07:54]>> Yes. No, and it's like like I I saw Patti LuPone in concert recently and she her patter and of course Patti is marvelously funny. I was still hearing the Bruce Vilanch and by the way he was in the theater so I know he was writing those jokes. Adele, I get the feeling she's kind of penning it herself. Okay, I would like to make a an argument. I think we should nationalize Paul Feig. I think we need to understand that Paul Feig is a resource and like he can't just be going where he wants to. He like like we need >> gaudy little suits.

[00:08:22]>> Right. We need him focused on taking the ladies who we want comedy out of and getting proper comedy out of them.

[00:08:28]>> Yeah. I'm just saying this is a project we could all be working on. I feel like Adele only does things she really really wants to do, only puts on music when she really really wants to and I just think in this atmosphere where we're living right now, we need to be screaming at her.

[00:08:42]>> Or like a Phoebe Waller-Bridge, a Phoebe Waller-Bridge >> No, don't even bring her up. Where is she?

[00:08:47]>> [laughter] >> She's got that [ __ ] husband who I'm sure wants to do whatever with her and she's like I'm going to keep writing for Amazon and they're going to keep not making the show and I'm going to keep getting paid. But like if Phoebe Waller-Bridge decided to do a a big broad comedy with Adele, I mean Ugh.

[00:09:03]Pain.

[00:09:04]I can't believe you'd even say that.

[00:09:05]That's the atmosphere in the room has changed. The idea that this woman would roll along and cut off Julia Louis-Dreyfus's Emmy streak and I'm like exactly right, she deserved it.

[00:09:15]>> Yes. What? And then she's like and now I'm going to disappear. Enjoy the Banshees of Inisherin by my husband.

[00:09:20]>> Can I ask you one other question? It seemingly unrelated but it is is it all right for Richard Curtis to be in repose? I know. Do we need to pull him out in some way? Like honestly, our British Paul Feig.

[00:09:33]>> Yes. Richard Curtis has written like every delightful little comedy. Wait, he's like About a Boy and stuff, right? No, not About a Boy? No, no, no. He Four Weddings and a Funeral, um, Notting Hill, that kind of thing.

[00:09:45]And you know that I think the greatest anybody has ever looked in the 1990s is Kristin Scott Thomas in Four Weddings and a Funeral. Honey, that was a bob.

[00:09:52]And a bob should be dark.

[00:09:55]The what he does with that ensemble in both that and Notting Hill that Kristin Scott Thomas maybe has less than 10 lines, but she is an indelible character in that film. Speaking of shoulders.

[00:10:05]Ugh.

[00:10:06]Ugh. Ugh. God, I [ __ ] love her. At the Emmys 2 years ago, I had a I I had to I wanted to talk to to Jodie Foster and I had to go through Kristin Scott Thomas and Kristin Scott >> is. That's how life is. Kristin Scott Dame Kristin Scott Thomas does not like me. Wow, really?

[00:10:24]>> [laughter] >> Oh my god. I always think about how when Cate Blanchett came along that totally waylaid Kristin Scott Thomas.

[00:10:30]>> did. It is interesting things like that, like, as you know, I love Anne Bancroft too much and Olympia Dukakis really was just like, "No, no, no. These, like, Mediterranean old lady roles are going to go in another direction for the next 10 years, Anne Bancroft." I'm the wrinkled one now.

[00:10:47]>> Yes.