Glenn Weldon
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5,867 appearances
59 recordings
10 series
first heard Sep 2022
last heard 3d ago
Glenn Weldon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And, you know, for those who know what that means, that's going to give them an accurate assessment of whether or not they're going to go to the movies, stream it or avoid it like the plague.
Most people, that's not going to mean anything.
So if I can break it down for them, I would say that...
Long ago, back in the elder days, when ichthyosaurs swam the turbid seas in the year 1980, a film you already mentioned, Ayesha, called Airplane came out.
There was a spoof of 70s disaster films, which were then very thick on the ground, and it created this formula.
The endless barrage of very dumb and very sweaty jokes and a lot of very game celebrity cameos.
And all the goofiest jokes were played absolutely straight with the kind of sort of same weighty intensity that the movies that they were parodying had because – and that's why it worked.
Except there was this island in the middle of that film, the character of Johnny, who was played by the late great icon Stephen Stucker.
He was a guy who worked in the control room and he was –
I was going to say he was coded as gay.
There was no code.
You didn't need an enigma machine to decrypt like flamingly gay.
And if you're a queer person in that audience and even as a queer kid, you see him come on screen, you kind of go into a defensive crouch because it is 1980.
Yeah.
And you're just waiting there for a lot of really hateful, lazy jokes at Johnny's expense.
Except not.
Johnny is so charming and funny, and he's such a chaos gremlin that you start to realize that everyone in the audience, including your parents, who never met a lazy, hateful gay joke they didn't love, they're laughing with him, not at him.
He's not the butt of the joke.
He's our friend.
He's bringing us into the movie.
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