Matt Bellany
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297 appearances
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3 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 20 Feb
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My name's Matt Bellany.
I'm founding partner at Puck and the writer of the What I'm Hearing newsletter.
And with my show, The Town, I bring you the inside conversation about money and power in Hollywood.
Every week, we've got three short episodes featuring real Hollywood insiders to tell you what people in town are actually talking about.
We'll cover everything from why your favorite show was canceled overnight, which streamer is on the brink of collapse, and which executive is on the hot seat.
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Really, really special movie to me. Saw it when I was 13 years old. Perfect age, perfect theater. First movie I ever went to with a girl. I put my arm around her for the whole movie. Laughed my ass off. And it's just a very special, very happy movie in which... Two fastball throwers just were throwing heat for 90 straight minutes and just giving you everything they got.
And on the rewatch, Bill, I probably haven't watched Wayne's World in total in like maybe 10 years. I find myself laughing through every scene. It's every scene brings something and it just makes me happy.
Yeah.
If I remember it right – and it was really special because I think 12 and 13 is the time when you kind of really start to think SNL is cool, especially in the 90s. And Carvey was amazing and Hartman in that era. And I was like in seventh grade. And we would come to school the next day and quote like Lothar of the Hill People or Unfrozen Caveman. We just thought it was so cool. If I have it right –
They ran a trailer for Wayne's World, and it was an Addams Family spoof that I think ran in the theater before the Addams Family, which was a huge deal. And it was Wayne and Garth singing the Addams Family theme and kind of forgetting the lyrics. And they were making a Wayne's World movie. And I had never, listen, Blues Brothers was before my time as a kid at that point.
So the idea that something I watched on Saturday Night Live would be in a movie theater was electrifying, especially since Wayne and Garth were just so funny. And I love the music with it.
like that's like a stealth snl sketch but that was the kind of shit they had all the time unfrozen caveman lawyer all this like really really crazy weird stuff and they were just delivering every time and it's also early 90s were pre even rudimentary internet so to see the stuff on set like try to imagine being about 14 years old and watching snl on nbc and they you see the schmidt's gay commercial for a gay beer you couldn't fucking believe
what you were watching and there was no way to see that on the internet you would talk to your friends the next day at lunch be like that was like a gay beer commercial and then the guys came out on their bikinis you could not fucking believe it and it was farley and sandler it was just like two all-timers it's a it's a it's a wonderful wonderful time and one of the best things that kicked out was wayne's world which is the best snl movie and by far the most successful snl movie
Well, MTV, massive, very important to have music videos. I look at the year before this movie came out, Metallica does the Black Album with Enter Sandman and Nothing Else Matters and took shit. Why are you doing a ballad? Why are you making these videos? And that was looked at as a sellout.
And there's that line that when they finally finished the highly produced open of the TV show and Wayne goes, party on, Garth. And Garth goes, I guess. And that was like, that's a reaction to someone who just sold out. You're like, nothing else matters. They're great song. And some people want to be like, I guess like that's the whole in, in one line, that's the idea of reacting to selling out.
You're right.
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