Ep 10 - Laughter’s The Best Medicine & Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Rufus is a standup comedian who, sadly, isn’t very funny. But every week he’s up on stage cracking jokes for an indifferent audience and hecklers. Then she walks in. A woman so beautiful she stops him cold, mid-act. And the trouble she brings into the comedy club with her entangles Rufus in a sinister criminal enterprise that isn’t any laughing matter.
And for their film talk, Chris and Will discuss the merits of the comedy-noir Kiss Kiss Bang Bang starring Robert Downey Jr., Val Kilmer, and Michelle Monaghan. Director Shane Black’s loving comedic sendup of the private detective genre is a fun examination of hard-boiled conventions.
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Robert Downey Jr. as Harry Lockhart in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang