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Unintentional Comedy Award

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After initially finding no candidate, the panel settles on the repeated houseboats and the swaggering book-mogul family as unintentionally absurd.

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  • The movie's deliberate humor initially leaves the panel unable to identify unintentional comedy, even in Greg Kinnear's performance.
  • The father's wife leaving him for the nanny is praised as an intentional joke and explicitly excluded from the award.
  • The inexplicable recurrence of houseboats in a Tom Hanks–Nora Ephron movie becomes the clearest unintentional-comedy choice.
  • Three book executives behaving like supervillain moguls with matching boats are also treated as ridiculous.
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The Dion Waiters Award for Best Heat Check Performance

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Parker Posey and Steve Zahn receive the two final picks from a deep supporting cast.

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  • Dave Chappelle is the first supporting-role candidate.
  • Parker Posey is presented as a supporting-role candidate.
  • Greg Kinnear is presented as a supporting-role candidate.
  • Heather Burns is presented as a supporting-role candidate.
  • Steve Zon is presented as a supporting-role candidate.
  • Dabney Coleman is praised as a supporting-role candidate.
  • Jean Stapleton is presented as a supporting-role candidate.
  • Heather Burns is praised in her first film role as an early version of the durable rom-com best-friend performer.
  • Jean Stapleton's cybersex busy-signal joke is identified as an improvised line.
  • Parker Posey receives one final pick for making a large impact in limited time and embodying the glamorous 1990s book-editor fantasy.
  • Posey's sleeping-pill advice at the publishing party is singled out as a perfectly timed supporting moment.
  • Steve Zon receives the other final pick for his sad, unlucky-in-love bookstore employee and the contrast with his role in That Thing You Do.
  • The panel speculates that Hanks and Ephron's working relationship may have helped connect Steve Zon to the earlier Hanks-directed film, but does not establish the casting chain as fact.
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You've Got Mail

1998

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You've Got Mail

1998 film

Juliet Litman · Amanda Dobbins

Aired August 31, 2017

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