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Dirty Work
Dirty Work
Old School
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Artie Lange
Also referred to as Artie Lang
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- Episodes featuring their films
- 2
- Movies in this archive
- 2
Rewatchables episodes featuring Artie Lange’s films
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Probably Unanswerable Questions
How did Artie Lange outlive both costars? Did the movie help create Little Nicky?
In the discussion (2)
Approx. transcript time · 01:06:21Read transcript
- The survival of Artie Lange despite a well-documented hard life is treated as statistically astonishing. — Sean Fennessey
- The Satan cameo is proposed as a possible seed for Little Nicky. — Sean Fennessey
What’s Aged the Best?
The note-to-self device, period soundtrack, bloopers, Jack Warden, Jim Downey, Artie Lange, and Chris Farley
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Approx. transcript time · 00:42:08Read transcript
- The note-to-self recorder remains a funny extension of the lead comic persona. — Bill Simmons
- A rapid sequence of three period pop hits fixes the comedy firmly in the late 1990s. — Bill Simmons
- Closing-credit bloopers are praised as a comic tradition associated with the Cannonball Run films. — Bill Simmons
- Jack Warden holding the invented old-men magazine remains a strong visual gag. — Bill Simmons
- Jim Downey's homeless-man routine repeatedly sets up sentimental music and wisdom only to be cut off. — Bill Simmons
- Jack Warden's long supporting career is celebrated through The Replacements, 12 Angry Men, Shampoo, The Verdict, and Heaven Can Wait. — Bill Simmons
- The compact jokes about stopping people and the brothers’ parentage are praised for efficiency. — Bill Simmons
- Artie Lange's casting looks smart because the film helped lead to his later radio career. — Sean Fennessey
- Chris Farley's final film role preserves one of his strongest short comic appearances. — Sean Fennessey
- The catalog of note-to-self lines is praised, with the beer reminder called the most memorable. — Bill Simmons
What’s Aged the Worst?
Luke Wilson's character sleeping with Elisha Cuthbert's high-school character
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Approx. transcript time · 00:32:24Read transcript
- A philosophical question first: does aged worst mean what has become offensive or what seems antiquated, like a 1984 action scene or seventies red-paint gunfights; the answer is simply what has aged poorly, and here it is Elisha Cuthbert's high-school character at the top of the list.
- Kilborn's acting is brutal; Piven's toupee needed another trip to the shop; Artie Lang (as transcribed) and Matt Walsh, two of the funniest people, are misused and told to play it serious, probably a favor and a paycheck around the Howard Stern years after Dirty Work.
- James Carville has aged worst two ways: why is he in it, and sixteen years later younger viewers do not know who he is; when the film turns into a Back to School competition, as Stripes does by going to war and Animal House started, the last fifteen minutes are entertaining but forced, which is why stunts like Carville are needed; Craig knows Carville mainly from Bill Hader on SNL.
- Luke Wilson sleeping with a high-school girl who then greets him on his date with Ellen Pompeo is a tough beat; she might have been 18, which would have aged less badly, though the Terry O'Quinn scene has him say she is seven months from college, so she is 17 or 18 and either way not great.
- Brian Cowan's (as transcribed) agent is added to what aged worst, out of frustration that his career was not bigger.
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