Alan Kirschenbaum Movies
- 2005
Larry (Larry David) meets Cheryl (Cheryl Hines) and Yoshi (Greg Watanabe), an art dealer, at a Japanese restaurant for lunch. The staff of the restaurant call Larry "Chicken Teriyaki Boy" due to his penchant for ordering the same meal every time. At lunch, Larry is surprised to learn that Yoshi's father (Ken Takamoto), who lives in the same nursing home as Nat (Shelley Berman), was a kamikaze pilot during WWII. "Shouldn't he be dead?" Larry asks Yoshi, who is forced to explain, "He grazed the ship." The meal ends disastrously, with Yoshi believing that the oblivious Larry is calling him a chicken. Later, Larry is at a poker game when the host, Kevin (Kevin Nealon) is called away because Yoshi, who happens to be his brother-in-law, has attempted suicide. The guests decide to keep playing cards. Also, Larry catches Nat watching an inappropriate video at an even more inappropriate volume, debates the merits of a doctor's prescription vs. a pharmacist's recommendation, and demands an investigation into the legitimacy of the bingo game at Nat's nursing home. ~ Josh Ralske, Rovi
"A family walks into a talent agent's office..." So begins "The Aristocrats," a joke kept mostly secret by stand-up comedians for decades. An intentionally "bad" joke, the laughs in The Aristocrats aren't in the punch-line (one of the only elements that's the same every time), but in the set-up, made unique by each comedian who tells it in an attempt to fashion the world's dirtiest joke. The cat was finally let out of the bag by Penn Jillette and Paul Provenza, the seasoned funnymen who gathered together a hundred people to tell a hundred different renditions of the bit. Among those presenting their personal take on The Aristocrats in this film of the same name are Jason Alexander, Robin Williams, Gilbert Gottfried, Jon Stewart, Emo Philips, and Chris Rock. The Aristocrats premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi
- 1996
Ray eagerly looks forward to a "defining moment in the great circle of life"--joing his father Frank (Peter Boyle) and Frank's buddies in their weekly poker game. But rebellious Ray resents his dad's "helpful" advice in the course of the game, and begins making a great show of ignoring Frank. The results: Ray loses every penny to his name, whereupon wife Debra (Patricia Heaton) tries to convince her headstrong hubby to swallow his pride and beg for his money back. ~ Rovi
- 1996
Robert Culp and Katherine Helmond make their first joint series appearance as Warren and Lois Whalen, the wealthy, globetrotting in-laws of Ray Barone (Ray Romano). When the Whalens drop in for a visit, Ray admonishes his blue-collar parents to make them feel welcome. Relationships between the two sets of parents are strained, but the evening bids fair to go off without a hitch. That's when Ray blows the works by suggesting that the Barones and the Whalens all go out for dinner at a fancy restaurant. ~ Rovi
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