Films To Be Buried With with Brett GoldsteinChelsea Peretti • Films To Be Buried With with Brett Goldstein #280
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Join your host Brett Goldstein as he talks life, death, love and the universe with the fantastic comic, writer, director, producer, actor, podcaster (and more) CHELSEA PERETTI!
Lovely one right here as Chelsea and Brett connect on film, comedy and the whole existential sphere inside of which all things evolve, and the resulting episode is pure fun and good times. So much ground covered as you would hope, including Chelsea's varied and brilliant career highlights such as her comedy history and starring in hit comedy series Brooklyn Nine-Nine, shots n' plots, flying blind through initial directing stages, greater universal trauma through the cinema lens, and her complex relationship with horror. Look out for her film 'First Time Female Director'!
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Look how it's only films to be buried with. In the words of Peter Wenkman and Ghostbusters too, Happy New Year, Hello, and welcome to films to be buried with. My name is Brett Goldstein. I'm a comedian and actor, a writer, a director of menu, and I love films. As the great Paolo Quelo once said, none of us knows what might happen, even the next minute. Yet still we go forward because we trust, because we have faith. We have faith that Nish and Brett will manage to pull off their films of twenty twenty three episode before August this coming year. Yeah, good luck with that, Paolo Quelo. Every week I invite a special guest. Ever I turn them they've died, You're gonna get them to discuss their life through the films that meant the most of them. Previous guests include Barry Jenkins, Sharon Stone, Jamila Jamil and even Flech Flamms. But this week it is the brilliant writer, actor, comedian, director, producer podcaster. It's Chelsea Paretti. Head over to the Patreon at patreon dot com forward slash Brett Goldstein, where you're getting next to fifteen twenty minutes of chat with Chelsea. You get her telling a secret, you get to hear her favorite beginnings and endings of film. You get the whole episode uncut and ad free, and does a video. All that and more at patreon dot com Forward slash Brett Goldstein. So, Chelsea Paretti is a comedy legend. You know her from Brooklyn ninety nine and a million other TV shows. You know her as an amazing stand up you can see her special one of the Greats. You know her from seeing her live, and you know her from her podcast called Chelsea Paretti, which is back now. You can listen to it. Listen to it. It's hilarious. She's just made her first film as a writer's director in Star called First Time Female Director, which hopefully we will all get to see this year. I met Chelsea at a gig. I saw her do stand up, which she hadn't done for a while. It was incredible. She's so funny. If you get a Chelse to see her, you must go see her. She's brilliant. We recorded this on Zoom a few weeks ago, and I really think you're going to like this one. So that is it for now. I very much hope you enjoy episode two hundred and eighty of Films to be Buried With. Hello, and welcome to Films to be Buried With. It is me Brett Goldstein, and I am joined today by an actor, a writer, a producer, a podcaster, a director, a comedian, a big mouth, a Brooklyn nine niner, a crank yanker, a hero, a legend, a superstar, and a human being in her own right. Please will you welcome to the show. I can't believe she's here, can you? Well? She is. It's only Chelsea Paret.
Yeah, thank you? What an instro? My god, Hi Chelsea, you can see the stand up background.
Lovely to see you. Thanks for doing this for those of you who can't see. There is a dog in this particular episode. It's a very nice dog. It's a new dog.
Yeah, he's from the streets.
No, we can't talk about the dog.
Yeah we can. I just don't usually, you know, share his name. But he's a dog from the streets. He's very barky and growley, so I'm just trying to keep him under control.
Now, Chelsea, you've done lots of things. You were beloved. I had a gig with you at Lago and you hadn't done stand up in a long time, and you were like, oh, I don't know, I fucking know, I don't know. And then you went on and was so insanely amazing and so funny, and then you came off and that was shit.
That but that's amazing, that's so nice of you. And I really I think this is why I don't do a lot of stand up anymore. It's like I realized, like I just don't feel good about it. Most of the time. I feel good about it like one out of ten times, you know.
Like as in can you see I mean I totally get it, by the way, but as in objectively those ten times you do it. In the nine times where you don't enjoy it, are you thinking it's going badly or is it going well and you're still not enjoying it?
I mean, I think once you get to a certain experience level, you're not going to be like fully bombing, but it's not going to be exhilarating, like you know, the feeling when you feel like you have the audience in the palm of your hand. And for me, I just feel like, yeah, where we can go off on tangents and we're laughing together and stuff. That's the funnest time for stand up. But so much of the time I feel like a substitute teacher, you know, and I'm like trying to prove to the class that I'm a teacher or something, and it's just like thisses me out. Also, I'm moody, and I feel like moodiness doesn't go that well with stand up, Like you know, you got to put on the mask and dance. And sometimes I just feel like we're all moros certainly right like the times and they're like, no, we want to just be laughing and you're ruining our night out, you know.
So I mean I have to I have to disagree because I think people love it. But if you don't enjoy it, that's interesting because you're very Vegas.
Yeah, because I think like the people that I see that get up every night, it's like they feel great after. And if I felt great after, I could see where I mean, listen, I have an addictive personality, Like if I felt amazing after doing stand up, I would want to do it all the time too. So I don't know.
Yeah, so is that why you've not been doing it? Much because you just don't enjoy it.
Well, it started off like Brooklyn nine to nine. My call times were like six thirty in the morning, and I had, I think before that, had done my hour special. My only one that I've done, and I was like kind of on a roll was stand Up at the time. And then being on Brooklyn, I was had six thirty call times pretty much every day for twenty three episodes, you know, a year for five years. It felt like it kind of took the win out of my sales for stand Up in a certain momentum way. Although if I had been touring then it would have been really smart and great. But I didn't do that, probably because I had a small child and I was exhausted. And but yeah, I don't know. I know, don't wind dog, I just call him dog.
Don't do it. You said you wouldn't say his name.
I know his name is dog, and now it's out. Don't do it, please, you can't come here. It's a nightmare. I really don't actually know what to do because if I put him in a back room, I think he would just bark the whole time.
Yeah, I kind of hear him say, oh great, all right, So maybe.
Just shut up, all right, I will, but anyway, so yeah, then I kind of fell off. And then it's like you kind of feel behind because the peers that you came up with have progressed and you're like, oh, they've done ten specials and I've done one. And now it's like, literally, I feel like everyone is doing stadiums, like every community there, you know, he does stadiums. Now, I'm like, what, Like when I was coming up, it was like two people that could play venues of the massive size like that. I don't know, but I still do like I did have fun doing the tour that I did leading up to my hour special, and that is a bit of a different feeling because it is like your.
People, and yeah, I don't know.
Maybe I feel like maybe I'll do it again when my son is a little older.
I think the world needs you and it's important.
God, this is the best podcast I've ever done.
Now tell me this in other news, you've only made a bloody film, I know. Do you write and directed and you're in it? I did.
Yeah. Actually, in preparing for your podcast, aside put from from like putting on tons of perfume, we.
Could tell we can tell and we appreciate it. You smell it, mate, Thank you.
I was literally driving from my workout to get ready for this podcast, looking at your list of questions and thinking, I'm really not a movie snob. Like know in my movie went to Tribeca, which I'm very thankful for, but it really was like a wake up call for me. Like I think, I don't know what is up with me, but like I just I was like, oh, yeah, like Tribeca or like festivals, like people are movie snobs like, but people like are so obsessive about films in a way that I really actually am not. I have my own way of obsessing about films, but it's usually about a line that's stuck with me, a character that's stuck with me. I think I'm more about parts and pieces, whereas I think a lot of people are about shots and are about plots.
Shots and plots.
You're a Yiddish podcast, shots and plots, But I'm about like moments, lines, characters, And so I think that helped me also understand like my movie's not going to be for everyone, but then for people like me, it will hopefully be for them. This is great promo for my movie. It's not good. No, I'm just kidding.
If you like shots and plug it's not for you.
Not for you.
No.
I like simple stories, and like even being in a writer's room, like the pressure for stories to be super complex, and you know, I myself actually enjoy very simple stories.
What is your what is your film? And what was the What was it like being a first time director, dealing with crew and actors and everything? Were you Was it a nightmare? Was it a pleasure? You know what?
I really, I honestly really did love it, which you know, like how I'm very upfront, like stand up A lot of times I don't love it, but I really really loved it. It's like summer camp or something. Compared especially to television in which, you know, especially a show, a network show that's twenty three episodes. I mean that is like a major, major grind. Yeah, and as you know, I guess how many it's a ted last.
I was, no, it was only ten, ten to twelve.
Well that's that's perfect because then you can pursue your other projects.
You can still stand up.
By the way, I got a part in a Marble movie.
Hey, congrats Marble.
Marble it's a competitor to marble. That's one of my new jokes.
Anyway, this is why we need this is why you don't.
That's exactly why you don't.
Wait.
Oh so yeah, so I loved it. I mean I really did. It's funny like I went into making a movie like finally everyone will listen to me, and then you realize, no, there's all these experts and department heads and people who have vastly more experienced than me, and they have our two stick opinions, and they're good to listen to and they're helpful to have, so making it better. And now he starts barking.
I mean, listen, I want you to be comfortable.
But can you hear him barking?
No?
If he's picking up, it's like I'm going mad.
Yeah. What's funny about it is if I don't know what's being recorded, but from what I can hear, if people are listening to this just as an insane person who has an imaginary dog, that.
Makes like, did you know she doesn't even have a dog.
There was no dog. People are looking at scouring the video. I don't think that was a.
Dog scrubbing through. Look there when she carries him off quote unquote there's nothing in her hand.
She also just kept calling him dog dog. The name was dog, it was never a dog.
Yeah, he's actually absolutely mental. So where were we were talking about?
You were saying about department heads.
You thought, oh, yeah, yeah, But then you know, I do love collaborating, Like I've been in you know, writers rooms, a lot of writers rooms, and I really do love the process of brainstorming with other people that are creative and smart, and you wind up at like something you wouldn't have wound up at on your own. So I do love all that. And I loved the people that worked on the movie, and they were all very like they added everyone added something special, right, and it's just cool that it's one month of like insanity, like I love. The pre production is like all this strategy, which now in hindsight I would do even more so, but but so much strategy and planning, and then there's this explosion of extroverted intense like I mean, directing is insane. It literally is just everyone's just like we're running out time. We're running out of time at every second. But the camaraderie and the socialness and also just laughing so much was so fun. And then The editing is probably the hardest part for me because it's so painstaking and I'm obsessive of like pouring over things, and I still feel like I probably missed a bunch of stuff in the footage, but marking every little moment that I like, and then you know, trying to fix a lot of things because there was a lot of things we didn't get. And you know, but making magic sometimes out of this, and that is also you know, it's it's a special alchemy.
Yeah, do you have, because I do believe that thing of like you make the film three times, You make it preproductions, make it in the shoot, you make it in the edit, the final film that you have. How far away for good or bad? Do you think it is from like how you had it in your head at the beginning, Like when you look at the find and you're like, this is nothing like how I thought it would be, or this is very close.
Well, well, you know, I think that one thing that I really wish I had had was a storyboard. I know. I've talked to people who have different feelings about it, you know, like some comedy people don't like it because they feel it makes it really rigid and stuff. But being that I was in the scenes and directing, like I really I had a very naive idea that I was going to be watching playback all the time, and I was not able to do that so do it. I mean literally, I was just fucking flying blind, like I really was. Like I learned, yeah, half the time, and like then in editing, I'd be like, oh my god, I didn't know this actor was doing this thing every time. Sometimes it was an amazing thing, and sometimes like, oh, someone walked in front of the person saying their line on every take and I didn't know, So it was crazy and I definitely learned a lot. What I think is true to the original vision is the casting, which I really wanted comedy people like through and through, and I think there's so many funny moments. I have my favorite scene that I think has a lot of comedic drama, which is like kind of a tone that I really like and I like how it looks. Yeah, So there's a lot from the original energy that I think came through, and I think a lot of the tone came through that I wanted to. And then there's a lot I learned for what I would like to do for the next one?
Do you have a next one?
It's not on not on the books. No, I mean I certainly have not written one. I was like, oh, the writers strike, great, and then I didn't write anything. So I have I have a number of ideas and one that I like, but I haven't like outlined or scripted it.
So when you I've always wondered this, when you're acting but you're directing, are you in the scene like you're doing your acting but your opposite act to are you like with your eyes like willing to do that fucking in the scene.
I'm sure there was some moments like that. Yeah, it's weird, but uh, I mean no, I think overall I was able to try to conserve that to between takes. But I don't know. I saw this play in New York, but it was an English cast. It's called like the Play Gone Wrong or something like that.
It was something gone Have you seen it?
It was pretty funny. There was lots of moments like that, where like there is one where this actor's like stuck in a doggy dor He's dressed up as a dog, but he can't get through it, and so the actor keeps the other actors saying to him like come here or something like that. He's like looking at him like I clearly can't. Anyway, we brought my kid to it, and honestly we were laughing way more than he was.
I think.
I think just because performance nightmares feel really familiar for us.
Yeah, got many more things to ask you, But there's something I forgot to tell you, and I should have said to you up front. You have. It's not that. It's sort of much.
Thank god.
Well, on the other hand, you're dead. You've died, My god?
What how?
Well, that's the question workout? How did you die? How did you die?
Lifting lifting too much poundage?
What in your arms fell off and your bled you.
Bled out, bled out into the gym?
Fuck? Yeah, pretty cool.
It all just came back to me. It's pretty fucked up.
Did everyone scream it with? It?
Cool that? Like, even in the afterlife, I'm just fucking doing podcasts.
The dream of millions, the.
Dream, so there is something to look forward to.
Yeah, what's it like on the other side, some admin and some podcasts and you have.
To a podcast ghost casts?
Do you worry about death, Chelsea Prey, Oh.
My gosh all the time, don't you talk to me.
Well, yes, I do. That's why I do this podcast. Let's talk about.
It was about you worry about death. Yeah, you seem like you worry about death. And yeah, and let's say, before the pandemic, I was like, when's the other shoe gonna drop? And then the pandemic happened, then the strikes. You know, now everyone's fucking there's just no end. It's it all makes it feel like, wow, all my worst fears could happen at any time, you know.
So, yeah, what do you think happens when you die? Do you think there's enough to life of any kind?
That's a tough one. That's a tough one. I do love the idea of like reincarnation or some sort of energy exchange, Like your energy doesn't just disappear, it goes into like a plant or a tree, you know, or something like that. And you know, when my grandfather died when I was little, I would hold this little lion, ceramic lion that he had and talk to him at night. You know. So, I don't know. I do believe like when people I know have died, I will talk to them a little bit sometimes. Yeah, I bet you weren't expecting this answer. Oh yeah, and then I just do. I feel nature makes everything makes sense. So when someone dies, there's like there's some feeling for me that they still exist in nature or something.
Do you still have the ceramic lion?
I do you want to see it?
Yeah? I wouldn't see it.
I'd have to go get it.
No, you don't have to get it. But do you still think your granddad's in it?
I don't really think he's in it. I'm not like knock knock. I'm not really three too.
You're way hello. No, I don't now, Chelsea. I'm trying to not.
I don't really still like hold it and talk to my grandfather. That'd be funny if I maintained that for so many decades. I think it helped me, you know, when I was a kid, right after he died. But no, I do like having things from my grandparents in my house and remembering them.
I do. As much as I joke about it. I do also think I totally buy it, as in, you're talking to people. When you talk to the dead, do you visualize like, how do you visualize it that they're they're listening, that they're in the room, that they come visit like or is it not really?
I kind of do. I kind of. It's like I kind of know that they're not necessarily a sentient being or something, but I just kind of think maybe they can feel it or hear it if you talk to them.
Well, I got news for you, Chelsea. They don't know there is a heaven. They're listening, Yeah, they're listening. They're engaged in. Sometimes your granddad is in the line. Sometimes he pops in just to have a chat.
How do you know?
Because I run this I run this place, you run heaven. I'm sort of in charge of admin and whatnot and admissions and anyway.
You're obessed with admin.
You are welcome. It's just it's hard to escape, and you are welcome in Heaven. Welcome, They're delighted to see you. It's filled with your favorite thing. What's your favorite thing?
Carbonara?
It's absolutely wo wool carbonara is it's pretty grass. You're sat in Carbonara? This carbonara as far as I could.
Say, Princess cake and Carbonara, ice cream, Sundays, Hot fudge Sundays, caramel apples with almond, roasted almond?
Is anything else? One more thing do you like eating?
You seem like you probably don't.
It's not. It's not my number one exactly.
I knew it, I tell you I have. I think I'm good at reading people. I knew you think about death, and I knew you're probably not into food that much.
Yeah, there's too many other things to be into. Well, anyway, you're welcome in Heaven. Carbonara, Princess cakes, ice cream Sundays, candy apples. It's quite Oh, it's also got everyone. You're loving it and they're very excited to see you. Everyone's a huge fan. Want to talk about your life through the medium of film, and the first thing they ask you is what is the first film you remember seeing? Chelsea Perree.
Okay, now this is really weird. Okay, I often feel this way. I don't remember my childhood, like I want to say, like the first movies I remember watching probably is like in high school with my high school friends, like Adam Sandler movies, right, water Boy, you know you got your water Boy, got your Happy Gilmore So it's weird, like I hate eighties movies, like all the ones that all these people just like love in general, I don't really love them. Actually, you know what I would say now, that I think about it probably the first movies that I remember seeing. I don't know if it's the first movie. Cocoon had a huge impression on me.
I love Cocoon. Tell me. No one has mentioned Cocoon on this podcast ever. We've done hundreds. Of course, not about time. I mean it was time.
You It was just an inspiring concept. Yeah, you know, so Cocoon I think big, you know, like conceptual as well, and also about aging. Two movies about aging. I mean, I guess as a kid, I was already worried about it. Yeah, you know, yeah, and ultimately I was right to worry.
Okay, your instincts were right, Yeah.
My instincts were right. So Cocoon and okay, Pee Wee's Big Adventure. I don't know what year that came out, but that's another early one that I remember. That's it.
Thank you, thank you for coming. What is the film that scared you the most? Do you like being scared?
I don't. I don't like being scared. Yeah. So what's interesting is recently everyone said Exorcists so scary, and I watched it like a year or two ago, and I was like, not really scared. And I think it's because like, I wasn't raised with Catholic iconography, Like I think that's why it's so scary for people. Twenty eight days later, I really loved and that's I didn't find that scary, which Jordan thinks is weird. But I didn't think it was that scary. It was more like intellectually like stimulating. But let me see, what did I write down? Oh, you know, recently, there's a lot of movies I walked out of, So recently Zach Kraiger's movie what is it called? I always forget he did a horror movie with.
This off film? No, oh, sorry, h fuck, it's code with the Abba. Yeah, and yeah, it's brilliant. Was he fucking good?
Okay? He showed us an early cut of it and I had to leave at a certain point, and I thought it was really good.
Yeah, but I was like, I.
Don't want to be this scared. And also like Airbnb's just feels a little too Like I don't like scary movies where it's like something I could be in, like an Airbnb I could be in, or like someone hunting someone in there. I'm like, I don't want to see those kinds of things. I walked out of Fight Club when that came out because I couldn't take the violence. I also walked out of Heat with it like someone got shot in their head in the very beginning of Heat. So yeah, I don't even I don't think I had a movie that scared me.
Barbarian, Barbarian, Barbarian, thank you.
Yes, I mean I can't believe. I just couldn't remember the name. But it was good. And then once they started going down into that basement, I was like, you know what, I might not be able to do this. I was a good school.
So you don't like seeing people be either, I get that.
No, No, I don't. I don't like people being hunted. I don't like people being hurt.
Yeah, I understand that. May I ask you, you're married to a man who seems to very much love horror.
I'm you make well. First of all, his are more in the vein of twenty eight days later for me, where they're more intellectually stimulating, and that helps me with the fear. But when I met him, I mean, it was Key and Peel. He was like on camp Peale, I was on Brooklyn nine to nine, And I'm like cool, Now I'm married to like a horror tour.
It's like a very different I love that you'd be giving him night skin. Make it less scary. It's too scary.
Yeah, that still feels that's still reading scary. Let's trim that up.
Want to leave?
So yeah, yeah, no, but it's hard because I'm like, I literally don't like horror movies, but I do like it.
What about crying? What's the thing that made you cry the nice? Are you a cry? Oh?
Yeah? So okay. The funniest answer to that is short Circuit too. That Okay, I thought the little robot guy was dead and then he busts out of the back of that truck and I was like, oh that made me cry. Oh you know what else? You know what might be one of the earliest movies now that I think about it, probably Et because I cried the net like crazy and also never ending story when that horse or unicorns like sunk into a bog or something that was a nightmare, So those were earlier. Bent. Have you seen this film Bent?
I think it's called The Guys in Prison.
It's a Holocaust movie. It's I think it's called Bent. It's a gay love story. I me and my brother were in New Orleans and happened to go see it, and I honestly felt like it was like being beaten with a crowbar seeing this movie. It was the saddest movie I've ever seen, And it was this kind of movie where we just walked around for hours afterwards, just absolutely melancholic. So that was really one kind of cry. Of Short Circuit, too, was a very different kind of I also cried a Glitter Mariah Carey movie where there was something like her mom was homeless, and also the Notebook. I wept heartily.
Yeah, I like that, You're you're supporting Glitter.
Thank you.
You know that the awful tragedy of Glitter, Well, I'm about to say I'm about to say, well, I realized the way I've set this up is problematic. Is that Glitter came out like a day after nine to eleven, and it became so it became on late night talk shows. The only joke was Glitter because there was nothing else to joke about. So for like, that film was like batter and battered and like because they couldn't make any other jokes. So I always felt sorry for Glitter because good or bad, it was sort of used as well, we got a joke about something and it'll have to be Glitter, you know what I mean.
Well, honestly, it is crazy that how much timing matters for whatever you make, and with movies there's like all this lead time. I mean, just timing for art makes all the difference in the world, and that is crazy. I mean, I bet Mariah Carey was so bummed about that. Also, speaking of nine to eleven, I was also going to say a movie that I saw after nine to eleven was Zoolander, and I saw it in the theaters and I was you know, I had been in New York on nine to eleven and went to go see that movie, and I mean, I thought it was so funny, and I think in part because I needed to laugh so bad. Yeah, nine eleven, we're just talking about. You're like, do you want to come to my podcast? And kind of me on nine to eleven through Zoolander and Glitter, Glitz doesn't seem advisable, But yes.
What is the film that you love? It is not critically acclaimed. Most people do not enjoy this film, but you love it unconditionally.
Well, it's interesting. I feel like there's a better answer, but I did love Walter Middy.
Yeah, I love that film so wide and the right lust. It was great.
Yeah, Like I don't know. I thought it was cool because it inspired you to live life to its fullest, and like how many movies do that? Like I don't know, I just thought it was cool, and I don't know, it was just funny because I walked out of there like you gotta live your life, and then like everyone around me was like not into the movie at all. So it was just like a real like shock to my system because I was walking out all full of joy and optimism and looking around people were like, yeah, yeah, it's it's beautiful.
That film I really didn't get. It was one of them films I saw early, like like the day came out and I was like, this is going to be a hit. Everyone I loved this film, and then that's.
What I felt.
Yeah yeah.
And then another one, my friend John Francis Daily, he directed, Well, we were talking about comedies and he was saying he doesn't do comedies that much anymore because they get so fucking skewered when you you know, critically and stuff. And he did a Vacation remake and he said it was you know, and it got shot on and all this stuff. So then I went to go watch it. Me and Jordan watched it and we were cracking up. It's actually really funny.
You need to tell that guy. I would say a very large amount of times that film has come up on this podcast and people saying it's really film to the funniest film.
People like it's that's so funny.
Wow.
Yeah, I mean I was cracking up. There was a lot of great jokes and really funny performances, so that that's interesting. I didn't know because I haven't had anyone mention it.
To me, But that's interesting that that's come up with we love it. What about the other side that it's a film that you used to love, you loved it, you've watched it recently and you've gone, oh no, I don't like this.
You know, before Sunrise, I loved it, Like I think.
I was prob.
I don't know what year it came out, but I was probably like college y, like just experiencing love, you know, so it's probably right at my alley. Like watching it now, I was like like a jaded older woman. I'm like, this is like some college kid bullshit or something also Bottle Rocket I loved, and then that I didn't feel like held up as well. I just showed my kid to Austin Powers, and I don't know, I remembered it being so hilarious. There's some good bits in it, but I wasn't. I was feeling it was overall more just like you know, big production, lots of you know, but the hardcore bits. But also maybe I'm just so used to those bits that I don't know. My son was cracking up at like the you know, I forget the joke. There was a whole He keeps reminding me what the thing is.
But that's great.
Yeah, so, but those are my don't hold ups. Interestingly, the opposite of truth is true. I don't know if you ever talk about this on here, but I hated planes, trains, and automobiles when I was younger. I think I was too young for it. And then I watch that a few years back and I was like, this is so good. I loved it.
That is an excellent question that I'm gonna have to use one day, So thank you.
Yeah, you're welcome.
What about what is the film that means the most to you? Not necessarily the film itself is any good, but the experience you had seeing it always makes it special.
Well, you set it up a little different than I thought you were going to. But there's two that come to mind. One, when I was I think like about thirteen kids came out and it was rated R I believe, and so me and my friends snuck into it. So that was an exciting experience, you know. And the line that did you like it? I think I did. I mean there was that guy Telly, that character is like almost fuck dowsy O watermelon juice of dripping down the mouth and shit, that's the line that's stuck with me. But I mean, I think it was a that would be an interesting one to read watch, especially as a parent. But yeah, I think it was exciting and it was like I don't know, I think when you're a teenager, you want like things that tell it more like it is instead of trying to sugarcoat it. So I think that was exciting. Also, the Perfect Guy, which is a Michael Eely horror movie where he's the villain. Interesting for someone who's such a heart throb. You know. I went with a huge group of comedians to that movie, and so I mean, people were just being hilarious, so I laughed so hard, Like That's one of my favorite movie memories was going with a huge group to the arc Light now Rip and just cracking jokes loudly throughout the entire movie and crying laughing. It was. It was a great time.
What is the film you must relate to, Jessea Corrett?
Well, I don't know if I would say of all time, but the movies that came to mind with that question were I remember seeing LA's story and going, oh, like Sarah Jisca Parker, like she kind of like I felt like I felt like I was kind of like her or something. No, she was like kind of a valley girl, but like I guess I just kind of felt like she looked like me a little bit. And and there's a lot of funny jokes in that movie. So I think I liked that bean John Smelvich.
That said my top ten La story. I love that film so hard. That holds up.
And also like did he ever do it again?
Like right?
And did he?
He didn't direct it, He didn't direct it, he writes it. He also made a film that I really love called chop Girl that he wrote. Is that really funny. It's not so funny. It's almost like the opposite of La Story.
And now Star is a dead person? Right, Star is a dead person. Didn't she die in a car crash Danes?
She's a right?
Oh? I thought it was Anne Hash in that movie.
Oh, No, she didn't.
She's in some other one with her.
No, he just dated her, I believe. I thought.
I thought they met on a movie maybe. And Okay, being John Malcovich, I related to the Katherine Keener character. I was like, ooh, this is like I think when you When I saw that question movies you most related to, I thought about characters that I related to, so Katherine Keener and being John Malkovich, I think Bridesmaids. I just felt like it was all these funny women. And I honestly I had never seen Melissa McCarthy before that movie, so I was like, who is this person? Because she just like blew my mind in that movie. And I felt like it had such hard laughs and it was all women, which, like you know, as a teenager, I was seeing Adam Sandler movies with all my friends who were largely guys, and seeing movies that were largely guys. So like Bridesmaids was like revelatory for me and then me, you and everyone we know. Miranda July's movie, I did think was like cool in that it was so sort of smart and funny and weird, and I think I really related to her tone. Excellent, Oh my gosh. Also, I forgot to say that bo Is Afraid that was a movie I really related to. I actually haven't finished it because it was so intense that I needed a break and I was like, I'll finish this this other part of it later, and I haven't yet. But I actually was trying to write a stand up special that was very much like that movie Wow at one point, like a kind of an anxiety dream heightened reality anxiety dream where it was it was like a stand up special that never had any stand up in it because it got derailed instantly. But I never do it.
Well as in you you don't get to the venue type thing.
No, I'm on the stage, but then something happens and I have to deal with it, and then it just leads to a million other things happening. But it was very much and very totally felt like how bo Is Afraid.
Well, yeah, in my mind, amazing, that was a fucking film that I was like, this is amazing and where is it? Why didn't everyone kind nuts for it? Well?
It is intense as fuck. It reminded me of Lost. Did you ever watch Lost?
Yeah?
So remember when they were like torturing people with like all these images and sounds in that. I don't know if you remember, but that's kind of how Bo's Afraid felt. I mean it was just like so intense. It felt like like crazy, like getting like five of the botomies at once or something.
Yeah. The next question is the one that everyone really only cares about. What was the sexiest film you've ever seen? Chelsea Pray?
I think Out of Sight, yes, with Jennifer Lopez. Correct, but it was very, very sexy.
Does that come up a lot or not not as much as it should, because that is a very very good answer.
Yeah, you know what's funny. Also, Skyfall was pretty not necessarily sexy, but I just remember watching that movie and I'm like this, everything looks so cool, this is so cool. And then I think you said, like, what's the one you shouldn't have thought was sexy? And I actually we recently, I recently had a meeting and we were talking about a history of violence, and I was like, doesn't that have like a stairwell scene. I couldn't remember anything, but there was a scene on a stairwell, and he was like, yes, that's a controversial scene. But I feel like I think, I think that scene stuck in my head and perhaps a sexy way. I can't remember the scene, so I don't want to stand by it fully.
Well. I think if I remember, he has sex with his wife on the stairs, but it's possibly nonconsensual, non consensual or bodyline, big.
Rt me let me retract that. Then let me retract it.
But I do.
Feel like I can't remember. I have to see it again. I'll take it back, okay, but definitely out of sight.
But what is your worrying? Why don't I mean that was a perfect worrying.
Why don't Well, I guess I just don't remember the scene at all. So it's like feeling like you have amnesia and referencing something that might be like hotly controversial.
But yeah, okay, Chelsea PERETTI was the Yes, objectively the greatest film of all time, might not be your favorite, Okay.
So this for me, this is the hardest one for me because I really don't believe in bests like best ever, you know, Like my joke answer would be The Godfather, because I feel like men are so into bests and they're so into the Godfather, So that would be my joke answer.
Is this why you named your special that? Yeah?
One of the greats? Yeah, like that energy of like believing you're the best and believing things are the best in the category and blah blah blah. So I think the most honest answer that I could say is Holy Grail because it's had staying power for me. It's the jokes have held up for me. I think it's such a hard thing to pull off, you know. I read about it a little bit more recently, and like it sounded like they had a super low budget. It rained every day while they were trying to shoot. Like it just seems like to me, like a perfect timing of this group at like their peak against all odds, making something that's so silly and has so many memorable performances and jokes in it. But again, movies are so different. How do you compare Short Circuit Too to Holy Grail?
Yeah, I mean hard to say which is which is great? But yeah, but I think that's a very thoughtful answer.
Is your best movie?
Me? What do I think?
Do you have the same one every episode?
But it annoys me? You're right, A lots of people say The Godfather and it always annoys me. So I'm delighted that you haven't said that.
But what's yours?
Objectively? The great? It is not my favorite, but the great it's a guy like this is the best. The best of cinema I think is Don't Look now. It's a scary film with Julie Christi and Donald Sevelyn.
Okay, I've never seen that, so when when was that made?
Seventies? Late seventies?
It's maybe I would like that, I think you would.
It's more I would be lying if I said it wasn't a bit scary. It's a bit scary, but it's about stuff, and it's deep, and it's sexy and also out of sight, out of sight it steals from it homage.
Is it really?
The way the sex scene is and the way they're playing with time? Yeah, you might like sexy?
Response? All right, Well I would look at that. I guess I could try it. What is it called again?
Don't look now?
Don't look now? So you say that on every podcast.
No, I don't answer. It's not about me, it's about you, Chlse.
This really is like therapy.
What what is the film that you could or have watched the most over and over again?
I mean, I think ironically it could be groundhog Day. Also Holy Grail. I don't like watching movies over and over. So those are the two that I could probably say I have watched repeatedly.
Now, we don't like to be two negative, so let's not dwell on it. But what's the worst film you've ever seen? So well?
I wrote down Bent because it was the worst in the sense of I don't think I've ever felt so bad after seeing a film, but it was well made.
Yeah, that's great.
Another one is Schenectady. Okay, now this movie I'm sure you did. I could tell that you probably would. Now here's the thing. I went to see it in New York, walked out of it, couldn't handle it. Then later I'm like, you know what, this movie feels like it would be something I would love. Let me try it again, try it again. At first I'm like, I love this, I love it, And then very quickly it turned a corner where I'm like I am not this depressed, and I also don't know what's going on.
That's the closest to Bobie's Afraid of the Things that bib It's like, so it.
Was afraid is a more accessible version. Yeah, that adds a bit more humor to it, I think in the little more. I don't know, but yeah, they're in the same wheelhouse. But also, you know what, this is another controversial one, but like the Lobster was like that for me, Like I was like tonally like at first, I'm like, oh, this is going to be so up my alley, and then as it went along, I was like, no, no, I just remember feeling it feels so unrelentingly dark, and yeah, I don't know, I wanted more comedic relief in it.
You know, speaking of weight, what's the film that made you laugh the most? Might not even be the funniest film, but you laughed, is it okay?
So I mean, yeah, the Perfect Guy. I truly did laugh so much. But it's sort of external why Bride'smaids one hundred percent? Like when I think about what comedies have made me laugh out loud in my life, that is up there. And more recently, I had never seen dirty rotten scoundrels and why that? And yeah, that was that was a lot of giggles, a lot of giggles. There was a lot of I mean, I do like Steve Martin movies. So the jerk is a funny one because my family we watched it, We're like, this is awful when I was younger, you know, and then we were like kept talking about it and kept referencing all the jokes and then we're like, wait, maybe this is really good and funny. And then we watched it again. We loved it, but it was like somehow our first reaction was like we didn't like it.
Yeah, just so you've been an absolute delight. However, when you were training this morning, and you know what, you're like, you're you like, they say, listen, can you lift three hundred pounds? And you said three hundred. I can lift four hundred. Put an hundred.
Spit in my trainer's face.
Yeah, three hundred, he said, get fucked. Put another two. He said, you know what, double it? He said six hundred, double it, and again yeah, and then twelve it was twelve thousand, twelve thousand kilograms, and you and you pounds and you come and you hold it and everyone gathers around, and your train is like, honestly, I have to say, I think this is a bad idea. And you go fuckingly spit this face again. He says, please stop speaking out her face.
Her face fact, So I go, fuck yourself and then I spit in her face.
Yeah, you spin her face again, and then she goes, I don't know if this is we insured for this. I don't know. Anyway, you go shut up everyone and watch me lift and you reach down to your twelve thousand pounds and you pull up hard and your both arms rip out of their sockets and blood gushes out. Everyone screamed. Everyone screams like mcaulay cockin ah and you go ah like you're like you achieved it. You think you've achieved it, and they go no, look and down the phone.
I'm running. I'm doing a victory lap around the room. I think I'm holding one finger in the air. You know, victory sign number one. But I have a phantom RM.
I know all you're doing is spraying blood. Spraying blood I've.
Ever ever saying over all the equipment.
And you just start, you get the circle of victory. You didn't get smaller and smaller and slower and slower as you start to bleed out, and you're going, yeah, like like a sort of machinery, slide down your water the words, and you fall down dead. And I've heard all this commotion. I'm walking around. I've got a coffin on me, you know what I'm like, And I'm like, has anyone seen Chelsea Peretty? And they go, I've seen her. We're all fucking absolutely covered in her blood, right, see her.
I had to put wellies on to get to the treadmill wellies.
She's some English. So I come, oh, help me, guys. So we start getting all the bits of you into the coffin. It's fucking I'm having the great bits of you off the wall or your tendons or your fucking blood everywhere, like guards everything. Anyways, stuff you in the coffin. There's more of you than I was expecting. The coffin is full, and basically there's no to.
Help is get that agent's son who killed his wife and her parents and dumped her in a dumpster in a strip mall.
Who's this?
I forget his name, but I bet he could help.
Okay, I call him up and he helps, and we stuff you in the coffin. There's no room in this coffin. There's only enough room to slip one DVD into the side for you to take across to the other side. And on the other side this movie night, every night? What film are you taking to show the people of Carbonara heaven when it's your movie night? Chelsea THRETTI got the Godfather.
But ironically, you know, I want to leave him on a laugh.
You're watching it like Mystery Sites theater, just shouting stuff out. Shut up. This is the greatest film ever made.
No listen, I'm sure it's a great film, and I just want people to.
Respect me, you know, yeah, yeah, I get it.
What's what's the other really respectable, pretentious best film? Actually? I just did watch one that I really did like. It was like an old French film about a schoolboy.
Four hundred blows.
Yes, I'll do that just for respect.
Okay, really nice, Jesse, thank you for doing this. He'll be wonderful. Is there anything you would like to tell people to look for listen to?
Actually? Can I change it one more time? Can I be buried with spliced together? The beginning of four hundred blows and the ending of short circuit too.
So you've likedvds and yeah, so instead of the classic freeze frame ending of four hundred blows, we instead have number five is a live bursting out the back of a van and ever I love it.
And it's all about time and progress. Took an art piece.
Yeah right, that's beautiful. Is there anything you would like to tell people to look for? When is your film coming?
Oh, listen to my podcast. I've just relaunched my podcast in which I take calls from people. I had British caller the other day told me an absolutely appalling story about a medical disaster for an eighteen month old baby. I was like, what are we doing anyhow? Brits are still welcome and I take calls and we talk about different topics. Food is a big topic, so that will be a noe for you.
I love this.
Also bear attacks, which is a long standing obsession, but a variety of other things. We have a lot of fun. There's a lot of sound effects that get played. Hang up on people to keep the show moving, but not out of hate, and we get into some deep conversations sometimes.
I love it. I love it, and do we know when your film's coming out.
We do, but I don't know if it's announced. So yeah, that's that's about it. Listen to my podcast and watch that movie when it comes out. Hopefully you like it.
You know, it's the opposite of shots some pluck, but what it is is bits and bits and rhymes, bits and bobs. Chelsea, what a pleasure. Thank you for doing this.
Seriously, thank you. This was This is really fun.
Have a wonderful.
Day, exactly.
Know what else was really good?
MacGruber fantastic, fantastic, incredible. That is up there. That's up there. Also, No, I forgot the other one. Two more came to me in a flash. I know I'm gonna wake up throughout the night thinking of movies and gasping into the night air.
People always cold. Four days later, Wait, I didn't say the Godfather is okay?
Someone else It's like, don't worry, it's been covered, all right, Well, thank.
You, all right, thank you, have a good day, Good day to you. Okay, goodbye. So that was episode two hundred and eighty. Head over to the Patreon at patreon dot com. Forward last Brett Goldstein for the extra twenty minutes of Chat Secrets and video with Chelsea Peretti.
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