Matt Bellany
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297 appearances
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3 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 20 Feb
Matt Bellany’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah. Rage.
Well, it speaks to, I know like we have the Devil Wears Prada award, right? And it's like, did this movie set out what, it's the crazy thing. We watched this sketch for over three years and it's only in a basement and people come down, but you never leave the basement.
And what they set out to achieve with this movie is let's see what their world looks like when they go up the stairs to the basement. They go up this, they start the movie with like the normal sketch. Like I've seen Wayne's World before. And then they go up the stairs and Wayne breaks the fourth wall immediately. And you're like, oh shit, this is cool. Like he's talking to the camera.
And then five minutes into the movie, we're already at Bohemian Rhapsody and the thing's incredible. They do an amazing job of coming up the stairs.
Well, it's Aerosmith. And it's the Madonna truth or dare spoof. Right. Where they're doing this big, heavily produced thing. And Wayne's like, I dare you to make out with me. And then it was like the biggest thing ever. So they did a little bit. But I didn't think this movie could be as good as it is. And I think it's still excellent. You were talking about how much you were laughing.
There's some of the stuff now when you watch that you laugh at because it's genuinely funny. I find myself laughing that we used to laugh at this because it's so stupid. But I promise you at the time we laughed at it and it was cool.
Yeah, listen. All the stuff when he talks about that they're making a movie. This is the Oscar clip. This is the gratuitous sex scene. Obviously, we're going to talk about the sponsorship scene, which is just iconic. You know what I find myself reminding of in a contemporary sense? I find myself thinking about Deadpool and these Ryan Reynolds movies in which
He's constantly talking to camera, breaking fourth wall, talking about the movie itself. And Ryan Reynolds is a guy who grew up in Canada and I would guess probably idolized Mike Myers without knowing that. That's what kids are watching now. And there's a lot of Wayne's World in these massive Deadpool movies. Yeah. It just works, man. He talks to the camera and I get it.
I feel like I'm hanging out with Wayne.
it's they they do a really deeply produced Laverne and Shirley license the music that probably took them two weeks to shoot that thing it was so important and it's like it's so unbelievably dated for someone watching now and I just think that that was one thing that was tough for me is that now that I watch it at 13 there were so many ref I didn't know who Dick Van Patten was I didn't know Ravi Shankar and all that shit like I barely knew Laverne and Shirley Darren's
Sergeant York, all that. I didn't know any of that stuff. It was still funny the way he was saying it, so I would laugh. But you probably got that stuff.
Well, Hartman was the ultimate glue guy in that he would do some solo stuff, but he could tie it together with the cast. Meyer's stuff where he really shined was either him by himself, like Simon, or like Lothar mostly, or Wayne and Garth, but like a sketch comedy prodigy. The backstory for him is everyone tells their audition story. Mike Myers did not audition for SNL.
He was doing a display at the Second City in Toronto. Martin Short saw him and called Lorne Michaels and said, you have to hire this guy. Did not audition, was hired. That's unheard of, no audition. And he came on in the middle of a season, mid-season replacement. And by the end of the season, he was already doing these characters and then became a star really fast.
That's the weirdest niche, dude. That is the guys where you're like, oh, that person. Jay Moore, Downey Jr., Stiller. Those really talented people who just didn't fit or something.
I care now. And it goes back deep. Myers would do Wayne for years before SNL. It would be part of his Second City stuff. You have this character named Wayne. Gets to SNL and he's like, all right, I want to do Wayne. He's this guy who likes heavy metal and is funny. And they're like, no, you got to have a wingman. You got to have somebody else.
He tells the story that he said, all right, I picked Dana Carvey because he was the best person in the cast. But then I also hear he doesn't want him in the movie, even though he's in the sketch. And I've heard you guys talk about the Dr. Evil stuff, which is, Carvey has said it. I mean, I think he was on Howard Stern saying, it's not just the voice.
When I would do Lorne Michaels, I would do the backwards pinky finger too, which is basically how Mike Myers ended up printing money. And in the lens of Dana Carvey going on to not have a huge movie career, it's rough, man. I mean, I don't like hearing about it.
I love it. It bothers me to hear it, but then when I watch the movie, I instantly forget it. And you know how he must have been a really, really strong personality to have to deal with? Wayne's World is his first ever movie. He has never appeared in any movie scene of any kind. He's the lead in this movie, and he's still not happy to be there at all. Not like, wow, great, I get to make a movie.
Still causing that many problems, and that's how strong opinionated he was. Tough.
I have several thoughts on this for one of my flex categories today. Uh, okay.
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