Get ready to carve out some laughs this Thanksgiving with Carrey'd Away! In this episode, we dive into the hilariously cringe-worthy TV special, 'The Sex and Violence Family Hour.' Brace yourself for a parade of unimaginative and uninspiring acts, punctuated by gratuitous female nudity... Read More
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Get ready to carve out some laughs this Thanksgiving with Carrey'd Away! In this episode, we dive into the hilariously cringe-worthy TV special, 'The Sex and Violence Family Hour.' Brace yourself for a parade of unimaginative and uninspiring acts, punctuated by gratuitous female nudity. From the eyebrow-raising 'Big Salami' to the questionable 'Brady Bang' and the downright peculiar 'Leather And Chains,' this special is a far cry from the comedic finesse of SNL. Gather the family around the podcast listen box as we dissect and dish out the comedic breakdown this nonsensical spectacle truly deserves. It's a Thanksgiving treat that will leave you Carrey'd Away with laughter!
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[0:16] Jesse McAnally: Hello, I'm Jesse McAnally.
[0:18] Alan Seales: And I'm Alan Seales.
[0:19] Liz Eston: And I'm Liz Eston.
[0:21] Jesse McAnally: And welcome to Carrey'd Away, a podcast where we explore the films and television shows starring the one and only James Eugene Carrey.
[0:28] Alan Seales: How are you two doing today?
[0:31] Liz Eston: I'm cold.
[0:32] Alan Seales: It's chilly here in New York while we're recording this.
[0:35] Jesse McAnally: Well, let's get things heated up in here with some sex, violence, and our family.
[0:42] Liz Eston: Oh boy.
[0:43] Alan Seales: Thanksgiving just passed.
[0:45] Liz Eston: Yeah.
[0:46] Jesse McAnally: Um, when you're listening to this, it's probably June or something, but right now we're recording it around Thanksgiving.
[0:51] Jesse McAnally: But today we are talking about the lesser-known Jim Carrey fare.
[0:55] Alan Seales: We're starting out early.
[0:57] Jesse McAnally: And we're talking about what is a very painful watch.
[1:01] Jesse McAnally: The Sex and Violence Family Hour.
[1:08] Alan Seales: And Violence.
[1:20] Jesse McAnally: And special guest star Jim Carrey.
[1:20] Alan Seales: And then a trailer will play here.
[1:27] Liz Eston: If there does exist.
[1:28] Alan Seales: There isn't a show.
[1:30] Liz Eston: There was like a little theme song they had.
[1:32] Alan Seales: Yeah, there is like a theme song.
[1:33] Jesse McAnally: What if we make it up?
[1:34] Alan Seales: Uh, I can edit a trailer for the second side.
[1:38] Liz Eston: Happy Yarr or Sex and Violence.
[1:40] Alan Seales: Yeah, we're the worst thing I've ever seen.
[1:42] Alan Seales: But the Sex and Violence Family Hour was released in 1983 and was written by Chris Beard, who is the head writer, Suzette Couture, Debbie Donamey, Kate Ford, Chas Lawtur, James Shavik, and Jim Carrey for additional material.
[1:57] Alan Seales: Um, it was directed by Harvey Frost, and the plot of which is a jumble of sexual skits, such as the big salami, the Brady Bang, Leather and Chains.
[2:09] Liz Eston: Wowza Welza.
[2:11] Alan Seales: Um, Canadians, am I right?
[2:13] Jesse McAnally: You are right.
[2:15] Alan Seales: Uh, when they're when they try to go off script, um, it doesn't quite go so well.
[2:20] Alan Seales: Um, this was rough, and it's shorter than All in Good Taste.
[2:20] Jesse McAnally: All in Good Taste was trying to be something in a weird way.
[2:28] Jesse McAnally: I like almost respect that one a little bit more than this.
[2:33] Jesse McAnally: Um, it felt like strangely a passion project that got like hit on the side with porn.
[2:39] Alan Seales: This feels like I don't understand what this the point of this was.
[2:45] Alan Seales: It feels too inappropriate to actually air on TV, but I feel like it had to have, right?
[2:50] Liz Eston: Uh, I guess so.
[2:52] Alan Seales: And we watched it on YouTube.
[2:55] Liz Eston: It's with full nudity and everything.
[2:58] Alan Seales: Bizonga's there on YouTube.
[3:01] Jesse McAnally: Which doesn't make it a porn?
[3:05] Alan Seales: I can't quite figure that out.
[3:08] Jesse McAnally: But I'm I want to know what the pitch session was like for this.
[3:12] Jesse McAnally: Like, who comes into who and says, this guy this up and cover, Jim Carrey.
[3:17] Jesse McAnally: He's gonna he's totally he's totally this guy who he just screams sex appeal.
[3:21] Jesse McAnally: Alright, so we're gonna throw him in here, and we're gonna make the Monty Python of sex.
[3:27] Alan Seales: Alright, cool.
[3:28] Alan Seales: Go.
[3:30] Jesse McAnally: Um, yeah, but it's not sexy.
[3:33] Jesse McAnally: And it's not like not that it's trying to be in a weird way, but not nothing hits, nothing's a joke.
[3:41] Alan Seales: There is okay.
[3:43] Jesse McAnally: I don't want to go too far in, but I am gonna hedge this.
[3:46] Jesse McAnally: There is what she said.
[3:47] Alan Seales: Yeah, that's better than any joke in this film.
[3:50] Jesse McAnally: Um, but there is one diamond in the rough, one like skit that I'm like, this could be a TV show, it would probably do well, and I'd watch it.
[4:01] Jesse McAnally: Which is and I'm gonna let you guys keep that up in the air, and then I'll come to that later.
[4:07] Alan Seales: But Alan, please describe what this overall is.
[4:10] Alan Seales: Like, what how would you describe this to someone that hasn't watched it?
[4:13] Alan Seales: And we're assuring you this is good replacement value to watching this, because this is horrendous.
[4:20] Alan Seales: I was trying to figure out if it is the m like trying to be dirty Monty Python, but it's not quite there because it's like Monty Python meets SNL meets Mad TV, uh in terms of it's all sketches and but everything, the common theme, instead of just being funny different sketches, is that they all have some sort of uh sexual undertone or overtone, not even an undertone, it's just here's some sex and here's some naked people for you to think it's funny.
[4:58] Jesse McAnally: And it nothing lands.
[5:01] Jesse McAnally: Nothing lands, and there's no point, there's no punchline, just things happen.
[5:05] Alan Seales: Um, and there are some forms where that is the case.
[5:09] Alan Seales: Like, have either of you watched Mr. Show at all with um like that is a sketch comedy show which kind of prides itself on not having an ending that each sketch kind of moves into the next sketch fluidly, which is impressive.
[5:24] Alan Seales: And this isn't like that.
[5:25] Alan Seales: Um when we say it's not doesn't have a punchline.
[5:28] Alan Seales: What we're saying is things will happen, then we'll just cut to the next thing.
[5:31] Alan Seales: It's just random jump cuts that aren't that aren't related.
[5:35] Alan Seales: And it's just like and and there's someone crawling out from under a desk, and oh, there's another blatant.
[5:42] Jesse McAnally: And they're naked!
[5:43] Alan Seales: And they're naked, more racism.
[5:45] Alan Seales: Let's cut to another scene and do it again.
[5:47] Alan Seales: And then they have the gall to think they're clever by pointing out the bad jokes.
[5:53] Jesse McAnally: They're in my Barley Hills snobs.
[5:58] Alan Seales: Uh like, okay, let's see if we can list some of these sketches.
[6:02] Alan Seales: Like, what did we open with?
[6:04] Alan Seales: We open with a whole list of the cast where it's like the Sex and Violence Family Hour and featuring Jim Carrey.
[6:11] Alan Seales: And I guess we've talked a lot about this, but we haven't talked about Jim Carrey's participation in this very much.
[6:19] Liz Eston: What does he do in this, Liz?
[6:21] Liz Eston: Uh, like he's basically at the top, he's like the crypt keeper, and he's like, hey, welcome to Sex and Violence Family Hour.
[6:28] Liz Eston: Uh, it's gonna be sexy and fun.
[6:30] Liz Eston: Um, I'm gonna sit in the chain.
[6:36] Liz Eston: Actually, actually beyond your wildest imagination.
[6:42] Liz Eston: And so, my friends, if you don't want to see women covered with strawberry jam being attacked by uninhibited supermarket box boys, if you can stand seeing valet girls in chains, if you're offended by ball and licentious behavior, jokes about sex, drugs, and rock and roll.
[7:04] Liz Eston: And this isn't the show.
[7:07] Alan Seales: And then later he plays uh Ronald Reagan.
[7:11] Jesse McAnally: Um, period.
[7:13] Alan Seales: I want to put a pen in that because Jim Carrey would go on to play Ronald Reagan and a lot of other things.
[7:19] Jesse McAnally: Who told him he has a good Ronald Reagan?
[7:21] Alan Seales: I have never he's done it so many times, and I've never thought it was good.
[7:28] Jesse McAnally: On behalf of all Italian Americans, I'd like to say sorry.
[7:36] Alan Seales: It's not I like his Biden.
[7:39] Alan Seales: His Biden's fine.
[7:41] Alan Seales: Like that's not that's probably a better interpretation, but his Reagan was always bad, and they keep having him come back and do Reagan.
[7:48] Jesse McAnally: I thought that he was asked to do this as like a special feature at first, and then reading the credits, I was like, oh, he's one of the writers.
[7:58] Alan Seales: So I don't know how he became part of this project, but I thought he was of a big enough notoriety.
[8:02] Alan Seales: They're like, okay, how can we make this this really weird thing uh even better?
[8:08] Alan Seales: And okay, we need a guy just to sit in a chair and make lots of faces.
[8:12] Alan Seales: That'll do it.
[8:14] Alan Seales: And then they're like, who can make faces?
[8:16] Alan Seales: Oh, that dude from Rubberface.
[8:17] Jesse McAnally: Sure.
[8:18] Alan Seales: Let's go get him.
[8:21] Jesse McAnally: I'm just thinking of someone watching Rubber Face.
[8:23] Jesse McAnally: I'm sorry, and thinking, oh, him.
[8:26] Jesse McAnally: Oh, yeah.
[8:28] Alan Seales: Wonderful TV movie I watched, Rubber Face.
[8:33] Jesse McAnally: I just don't understand how they found him or why.
[8:37] Alan Seales: There are some writers on this that would go on, like they come from the Gong Show.
[8:42] Alan Seales: Like, do you remember that show?
[8:43] Alan Seales: A lot of folks from that and would go on to do things like FTV and Sherman Oaks and all like they would go on to be head writers on other things as well.
[8:53] Liz Eston: And Terry Austin would go on to be the mom in Baywatch.
[8:57] Alan Seales: Um, just an episode of Baywatch.
[9:01] Liz Eston: One episode.
[9:02] Alan Seales: Some actors in this, like uh guy um George Booza, who is involved in this, would be in the X-Men movie as Trucker.
[9:14] Liz Eston: You got some deep cuts going on.
[9:16] Alan Seales: Wow, I love comics.
[9:17] Jesse McAnally: Jim Carrey was probably still the most notoriety person in there.
[9:22] Jesse McAnally: I think just because he was stand-up, and I don't know if at this point he was like headlining for Rodney Dangerfield quite yet.
[9:31] Alan Seales: I feel like he might he might have just been known on the stand-up scene and came in and improvised a few things at this point.
[9:39] Alan Seales: Like I think that's probably the reason why he's credited as a writer is because when he came in, he just said whatever he wanted.
[9:44] Jesse McAnally: Which feels about right.
[9:47] Alan Seales: That's that probably makes more sense.
[9:49] Jesse McAnally: I mean, it does make more sense.
[9:51] Alan Seales: Not probably.
[9:51] Alan Seales: I'll give you a yes on that one.
[9:53] Jesse McAnally: Yeah, and I think that it's amazing because what he does in this is right in line with everything else he does for the rest of his career.
[10:02] Jesse McAnally: It's not like, oh wow, he was so no, he does everything he does here, and that's what gets him famous to today when he's in the Sonic movie.
[10:10] Alan Seales: I guess, yeah, he's faces, he's over the top.
[10:13] Alan Seales: Um, it's physical.
[10:15] Jesse McAnally: He's physical.
[10:16] Alan Seales: Um, I go back to uh an outtake from uh Liar Liar, I think, where uh in the courtroom scene the woman says, Over actor, and everyone dies laughing because it's true, but no one wanted to say it.
[10:30] Alan Seales: Um, but his reaction to that was actually pretty good.
[10:33] Alan Seales: He laughs and he says, Oh no, they're on to me.
[10:38] Jesse McAnally: Like, you know what?
[10:39] Jesse McAnally: Uh, I wish you weren't charming, so charming and good to um, yeah.
[10:44] Jesse McAnally: This is a rough watch.
[10:46] Alan Seales: Um, was there any good sketch in your opinion?
[10:49] Alan Seales: Like, or even what was the worst sketch?
[10:52] Jesse McAnally: Let's start let's start with a negative and work our way up.
[10:55] Liz Eston: I feel like the uh any time uh uh the black gentleman played the Arab guy, that was really bad.
[11:02] Liz Eston: Pretty not pretty, really, really bad.
[11:04] Jesse McAnally: So I'm gonna go with all of those.
[11:08] Liz Eston: Foot, Rikimin, and any Polek.
[11:11] Jesse McAnally: By them too!
[11:13] Liz Eston: I'm the person that wrote that sketch and was recently purchased by Sheik Abdul Balair.
[11:18] Jesse McAnally: I would like to make a comment on that.
[11:23] Liz Eston: That wasn't fair.
[11:24] Alan Seales: Um, Liz was getting a massage.
[11:27] Liz Eston: Um yeah, uh all the I think his last name was Belair.
[11:31] Alan Seales: Um Bel Air.
[11:33] Liz Eston: Expensive.
[11:34] Alan Seales: Yeah, I wish.
[11:35] Liz Eston: Uh Will Smith is not in this movie.
[11:37] Alan Seales: Uh he'd slap someone in this.
[11:39] Liz Eston: Someone should be slapped for being in this.
[11:42] Alan Seales: Honestly, I hate to say it.
[11:44] Alan Seales: I hate to say it.
[11:46] Alan Seales: I have to maybe go with the big salami just for being a whole pile of nothing.
[11:52] Liz Eston: Uh you know the best part of the big salami, though?
[11:56] Alan Seales: Is it the shortcut?
[11:58] Liz Eston: Yeah, when the Nikki lady starts telling jokes directly to camera, and she she acts like she's reading it phonetically in a language she doesn't understand.
[12:07] Liz Eston: You must be delorious.
[12:09] Liz Eston: You must be horny.
[12:12] Liz Eston: And you must be Italian.
[12:14] Alan Seales: Alright!
[12:15] Liz Eston: And you are very sort of a short, right?
[12:18] Alan Seales: I was going to say Godfrey attractive.
[12:20] Liz Eston: Hey, thanks.
[12:21] Alan Seales: Hey, that's for you.
[12:23] Liz Eston: Short kind of way.
[12:24] Alan Seales: Ouch.
[12:25] Liz Eston: And the Italian dude is just like trying to like comically have a boner while she's talking, and it's the most painful thing you've ever witnessed.
[12:33] Alan Seales: Yeah.
[12:33] Liz Eston: But then, weirdly enough, they'll just cut to a stand-up routine in the middle of it.
[12:38] Liz Eston: Like, now's some stand-up time, and sometimes he has a bag over his head.
[12:43] Jesse McAnally: And that guy who was playing at the bar, but the piano guy never played when he was singing the actual song and only when he wasn't playing, and that was the only joke.
[12:52] Alan Seales: There was one other joke where he's like, "We've been together for five years, isn't that right, Tim?"
[12:56] Jesse McAnally: My name's Brian Bryan.
[12:58] Alan Seales: I'm like, that's almost a joke.
[13:00] Jesse McAnally: That like it's not a good joke.
[13:01] Alan Seales: It's a crazy thing.
[13:02] Jesse McAnally: You're really scraping the barrel of jokes here, people.
[13:05] Alan Seales: That's right, um, I really didn't enjoy the soap opera parody um at all.
[13:13] Jesse McAnally: I think that's gotta be my worst one, to be honest.
[13:21] Alan Seales: You know.
[13:21] Jesse McAnally: So now we've probably gotten all those rejected scripts.
[13:24] Alan Seales: If I know anything about those slime ball Beverly Hills writers.
[13:29] Jesse McAnally: So why are you wearing a stormtrooper outfit?
[13:32] Alan Seales: I just screwed the Polish cavalry.
[13:34] Jesse McAnally: Well It's interesting, because Liz, we were talking about this beforehand.
[13:39] Alan Seales: You said don't look away or you might get confused, and I didn't look away, and I'm still confused.
[13:44] Jesse McAnally: So like I can't remember one storyline for the next.
[13:48] Alan Seales: Is it just it was just like pop, pow, pow, pop.
[13:51] Jesse McAnally: I never had enough time to let anything sit in.
[13:52] Alan Seales: And I keep going back to I guess it's i i what's that psychological effect where you remember only the first and the last thing.
[13:58] Jesse McAnally: The very first sketch was like the two dudes going to pitch something to the woman who had his her secretary under the desk, and every time they try to do something, he just like kept popping up from under the desk.
[14:09] Alan Seales: I'm like, This makes no sense, and it's not funny.
[14:12] Jesse McAnally: Were the were they laughing in the moment?
[14:14] Alan Seales: Do you think they were like, well, what are you talking about?
[14:16] Jesse McAnally: The studio audience is losing their shit over the street.
[14:18] Alan Seales: Yeah, the studio audience is like having the time of their life watching this.
[14:23] Jesse McAnally: It was just so weird.
[14:25] Alan Seales: I don't I I have no other words.
[14:27] Jesse McAnally: I need a thesaurus for weird.
[14:30] Alan Seales: I got they got you, Alan.
[14:32] Jesse McAnally: Oof, oof.
[14:34] Alan Seales: I will say when we do the eyewitness nudes, which is their nude say news segment about them being nude.
[14:40] Jesse McAnally: I like the fact that that the the the woman um the the woman wears nothing but a bow tie.
[14:48] Alan Seales: I thought that the bow tie was funny.
[14:50] Jesse McAnally: Yeah.
[14:50] Alan Seales: Um, glasses and a bow tie, and I thought, oh, that's a funny gag.
[14:53] Jesse McAnally: And the guy wears nothing but a uh bow tie, yeah.
[14:57] Alan Seales: Or a tie, a tie tie.
[14:59] Jesse McAnally: Yeah, she had a bow tie.
[15:00] Alan Seales: I don't like uh woman on the news wouldn't wear a bow tie, so I found it funny that she decided, yeah, I'm gonna do that.
[15:06] Jesse McAnally: True.
[15:07] Alan Seales: Yeah.
[15:08] Jesse McAnally: Um I I hedged earlier, I pitched earlier that there is one scene, like one skit, because it there's two bits of it that I think I would have watched more of.
[15:18] Alan Seales: In fact, I would have watched an entire show of, and that is the two stoner girls doing drugs, and the nun that keeps bailing them out and saying something horrendous.
[15:27] Jesse McAnally: I don't know why.
[15:28] Alan Seales: I love that one.
[15:29] Jesse McAnally: Yeah, I like that one.
[15:30] Alan Seales: I like that nun.
[15:32] Jesse McAnally: The nun comes in, tries to get the girls out, and said, "Oh no, they're with me."
[15:36] Alan Seales: Alright, who's got the nose dough?
[15:38] Jesse McAnally: Who's got the powder?
[15:38] Alan Seales: Let's go.
[15:39] Jesse McAnally: Who's got the powder?
[15:40] Alan Seales: All over your nose.
[15:42] Jesse McAnally: Uh there's white powder on my nose because because my nose is jabbed.
[15:48] Alan Seales: And you, nice eyes.
[15:50] Jesse McAnally: How come your pupils are so big?
[15:51] Alan Seales: They're not pupils.
[15:52] Jesse McAnally: They're sunglasses, contact sun lenses.
[15:56] Alan Seales: We'll move.
[15:58] Jesse McAnally: I think so.
[15:59] Alan Seales: It's alright, sister.
[16:00] Jesse McAnally: Good day.
[16:01] Alan Seales: Good day, officer.
[16:03] Jesse McAnally: God be with you.
[16:05] Alan Seales: Okay, where's the snow?
[16:08] Jesse McAnally: And then she comes back again and they're on the bus and they're just like talking about sex, and then the nun's like, "I wouldn't let him fuck me because they'd probably get me an STD."
[16:16] Alan Seales: And I'm like, you know what?
[16:19] Jesse McAnally: Just let this nun say some vulgar shit, and I'm probably gonna enjoy it.
[16:23] Alan Seales: I'm a simple man who had nothing else offered by this.
[16:26] Jesse McAnally: I can get that.
[16:28] Alan Seales: I mean, we're we're isn't famously that the cowbell scene from SNL uh Will Farrell was like, "This isn't working. Let me put on this really small shirt," and that's what made the scene.
[16:40] Jesse McAnally: Yeah.
[16:41] Alan Seales: Right?
[16:41] Jesse McAnally: So maybe they're just like, okay, we've got this dialogue.
[16:44] Alan Seales: Who can say it?
[16:45] Jesse McAnally: So it's really funny.
[16:46] Alan Seales: Oh, a nun.
[16:47] Jesse McAnally: That'll do it.
[16:48] Alan Seales: That'll do it.
[16:49] Jesse McAnally: Okay, let's give it to the person with the least comedic timing, though.
[16:52] Alan Seales: Okay, cool.
[16:53] Jesse McAnally: No, she had fine comedic timing.
[16:55] Alan Seales: She was fine.
[16:56] Jesse McAnally: She was not the problem in those skits.
[16:57] Alan Seales: The girls that are like, ew, sssss, or whatever their little doodad was that they had like some saying where they're like, to but like end the scene like a punchline like ruiner.
[17:09] Jesse McAnally: And I'm like, oh, you ruined it.
[17:11] Alan Seales: They had like some zinger, like zing or whatever the fuck.
[17:14] Jesse McAnally: It was like, I got it up.
[17:15] Alan Seales: Fuck it, I'll pull it up and figure out what they said.
[17:17] Jesse McAnally: Because the movie is the experience of like having five TVs on at once and your eyes are darting between five of them.
[17:24] Alan Seales: Yeah, or like you're watching YouTube on your phone, but you keep accidentally clicking your related videos when you're not realizing it, and you're just watching 15 videos at once, and you don't know it.
[17:35] Jesse McAnally: It would be great to take the finished video and edit together the consecutive storylines and see if any of them are actually any good.
[17:44] Alan Seales: Please don't take that editing project. You you have too much to live for, everyone.
[17:49] Jesse McAnally: No, I want to see it.
[17:51] Alan Seales: Okay, so I the nun the nun scenes.
[17:54] Jesse McAnally: Someone listening, edit together the nun scenes and and send them just to Jesse.
[17:58] Alan Seales: That would be that would be fine.
[18:00] Jesse McAnally: Um there's two of them.
[18:02] Alan Seales: Who actually wants to see them?
[18:04] Jesse McAnally: Um, you'd be like, damn you, I'm getting all these texts down.
[18:09] Alan Seales: What they do at the end of every scene.
[18:11] Jesse McAnally: They literally, in unison, the two girls go b-doom, tssss, and I'm like, I hate you both.
[18:16] Alan Seales: Yep, that.
[18:17] Jesse McAnally: There's that.
[18:18] Alan Seales: It ruins the joke, which is the nun.
[18:20] Jesse McAnally: The nun is the only good part of that because they the nun sits like gross.
[18:24] Alan Seales: Like, what would have made that better if there was an actual drummer just off camera that they do a whip pan over to that goes and then honestly?
[18:32] Jesse McAnally: Yeah, fine.
[18:33] Alan Seales: That sounds great, actually.
[18:35] Jesse McAnally: I think I would have I would have liked that because I wouldn't have expected it.
[18:38] Alan Seales: Everything else, I'm like, Well, did you expect anything in this?
[18:42] Jesse McAnally: Uh let's go back.
[18:43] Alan Seales: There's a woman dressed as a Nazi for no reason.
[18:46] Jesse McAnally: Did you expect that one?
[18:48] Alan Seales: That's true.
[18:49] Jesse McAnally: Well, also, no one has a last name.
[18:51] Alan Seales: Their last name is just their first name.
[18:53] Jesse McAnally: Uh, because they're lazy.
[18:57] Alan Seales: Don Dilladon.
[18:59] Jesse McAnally: Christina Christine.
[19:02] Alan Seales: Oh, Amos Amos.
[19:04] Jesse McAnally: We didn't talk, we've talked about the racism.
[19:07] Alan Seales: Um, we talked about the general sexism and the general abuse of women in this.
[19:12] Jesse McAnally: We haven't talked about that, but I agree.
[19:15] Alan Seales: Well, we I mean, we alluded to it.
[19:18] Jesse McAnally: Yeah.
[19:19] Alan Seales: There's a lot of naked women.
[19:21] Jesse McAnally: That's true.
[19:22] Alan Seales: Uh, but at least I was very proud though, with the one of the opening scenes was the the the person in charge who had the secretary.
[19:37] Jesse McAnally: Um it starts with a C and ends with unalingus.
[19:43] Alan Seales: Fun.
[19:44] Jesse McAnally: Fun times.
[19:45] Alan Seales: Comfy funnelingus?
[19:47] Jesse McAnally: Okay.
[19:48] Alan Seales: No, they're cuddling.
[19:49] Jesse McAnally: They're cuddling.
[19:50] Alan Seales: Cuddling.
[19:51] Jesse McAnally: Fernlingus.
[19:54] Alan Seales: Is there any I said what I liked.
[19:56] Jesse McAnally: Was there any part that you guys liked at all?
[20:00] Alan Seales: I I could watch the uh the nudes, the nudes sequence, the daily nudes.
[20:07] Jesse McAnally: No, the yeah, the broadcast nudes.
[20:09] Alan Seales: Broadcast nudes, because they were so n like normal energy that it wasn't so obnoxious at any time.
[20:18] Jesse McAnally: Eyewitness nudes with Dick McDix and Shane McJane.
[20:25] Alan Seales: Good evening.
[20:26] Jesse McAnally: This is what's happening to nudes this week.
[20:29] Alan Seales: The award to the best undressed fashion designer went this week to Andre Bumps for his originally designed ass warmer.
[20:36] Jesse McAnally: Here is a model showing it off.
[20:40] Alan Seales: Yes, but they're also naked, and that makes me feel icky, like the fact that all these women are brought in just to just to be naked.
[20:50] Jesse McAnally: You know what?
[20:51] Alan Seales: All good taste, some of those women had personality.
[20:56] Jesse McAnally: True.
[20:56] Alan Seales: That weather woman had a lot of personality.
[20:59] Jesse McAnally: If you read the text underneath while she was dancing naked that no one inevitably read.
[21:05] Alan Seales: Oh, you're right.
[21:06] Jesse McAnally: Oh, what was I thinking?
[21:07] Alan Seales: Yeah, golf is her passion, apparently.
[21:10] Jesse McAnally: That was literally a text in the movie.
[21:13] Alan Seales: Okay.
[21:14] Jesse McAnally: Under a naked woman dancing.
[21:16] Alan Seales: I I will take your word for it.
[21:19] Jesse McAnally: Um I watched this movie a few times due to delays in recording this.
[21:23] Alan Seales: We should go, yeah, we should you've watched this three or four times because we kept delaying recording this episode, uh Liz, and I apologize for that.
[21:31] Jesse McAnally: That was mostly my fault.
[21:33] Alan Seales: It's fine.
[21:34] Jesse McAnally: Life gets life happens.
[21:37] Alan Seales: And so does the sex and violence family hour.
[21:39] Jesse McAnally: But it doesn't only happen to us.
[21:41] Alan Seales: There are some reviews of this in our critical corner.
[21:44] Jesse McAnally: Why don't we go into that, Liz?
[21:47] Liz Eston: Well, I'm very sad to report once again.
[21:50] Liz Eston: No professional critic has talked about the sex and violence family hour in any review.
[21:55] Alan Seales: Ebert didn't jump on this?
[21:57] Liz Eston: Even the TV guide page had no text in it.
[22:00] Alan Seales: All it said was it aired in 1983, and that's it.
[22:05] Liz Eston: That's basically what the Wikipedia page still says The Wikipedia page is one sentence.
[22:10] Alan Seales: And that's it.
[22:11] Liz Eston: I got that plot summary from letterboxed.
[22:14] Liz Eston: There's a TikTok going around where a lady says, if you want to have an interview with someone famous, bring up their most obscure work, and they'll probably have a more interesting interview.
[22:26] Jesse McAnally: The example they gave was someone screamed out, Nathan Lane, I loved you and Mouse Hunt.
[22:30] Liz Eston: He stopped and said, "Mouse hunt, you'll get an interview."
[22:33] Jesse McAnally: Um I want someone to do this to Jim Carrey and say, "I loved you in the sex and violence family hour."
[22:40] Liz Eston: I mean, we could do that.
[22:43] Jesse McAnally: Hey Jim, you listening?
[22:45] Alan Seales: Jim, come on our podcast, but we can only talk about all in good taste and the sex and violence family hour.
[22:52] Jesse McAnally: None of your other work.
[22:54] Alan Seales: Fuck Eternal Sunshine, fuck Man on the Moon.
[22:57] Jesse McAnally: Either way, what did these reviews that like what what reviews did you find, Liz?
[23:02] Liz Eston: Uh, I went back to the lovely place known as IMDB.
[23:06] Liz Eston: And luckily, one human being has written text about this movie on the public show.
[23:13] Alan Seales: I'm sure they're a human being.
[23:14] Liz Eston: Are we sure the human?
[23:15] Alan Seales: Well, I wanna I want to hear that automatically.
[23:17] Liz Eston: His name is Fam, so um, I actually don't know if they're a human being.
[23:21] Alan Seales: Bam bam.
[23:22] Liz Eston: Well, Alan, while Liz reads this review, I'm gonna make go to AI Playground and have them write a review with AI.
[23:29] Alan Seales: Yes.
[23:29] Liz Eston: Okay, and then I have to guess if it is one star or five stars.
[23:32] Alan Seales: Yes.
[23:33] Liz Eston: Yes, alright.
[23:33] Alan Seales: So you practice.
[23:34] Liz Eston: What's this review?
[23:35] Liz Eston: Okay, so this review is entitled Not Great But Worth a Look.
[23:41] Liz Eston: By Spam 59.
[23:43] Liz Eston: And it was written in October of 2005.
[23:47] Alan Seales: Alright, so one star one star five star.
[23:50] Jesse McAnally: Who's guessing this one?
[23:51] Alan Seales: Okay.
[23:53] Liz Eston: I don't think they have a rating.
[23:55] Alan Seales: Uh this has no rating.
[23:57] Liz Eston: Okay, I'm gonna guess no rating.
[23:59] Alan Seales: Yeah.
[24:01] Liz Eston: Good job, Alan.
[24:02] Alan Seales: Yeah.
[24:02] Liz Eston: So here here's this lovely spam bot, I had to say.
[24:05] Liz Eston: If you're looking for Shakespearean, don't bother.
[24:10] Liz Eston: If you're looking for a movie that is somewhat like Saturday Night Live in the 70s, but with a more adult theme, here you go.
[24:18] Liz Eston: It is also good for big Jim Carrey fans.
[24:21] Liz Eston: You can see him where he was starting.
[24:24] Liz Eston: It is made up segments, most of which unrelated.
[24:28] Liz Eston: Much like Kentucky Fried Movie.
[24:30] Alan Seales: Kentucky is spelled wrong, by the way.
[24:31] Liz Eston: I just wanted to point that up.
[24:33] Alan Seales: Kinterkey.
[24:34] Liz Eston: They forgot the K.
[24:35] Alan Seales: So Kintuki.
[24:37] Liz Eston: Kentucky.
[24:37] Alan Seales: Kentucky Fried Movie.
[24:39] Liz Eston: Or the Groove Tube.
[24:41] Alan Seales: The Groove Tube?
[24:42] Liz Eston: Oh yeah.
[24:43] Alan Seales: Oh wow, this is our first Canadian references show.
[24:48] Liz Eston: Alright, you groove to have.
[24:49] Alan Seales: Alright, there we go.
[24:50] Liz Eston: Most that have seen it will agree.
[24:51] Alan Seales: The best parts of it is the body flash segment after the movie.
[24:55] Liz Eston: Short at three minutes.
[24:57] Alan Seales: That's that's a sentence.
[24:58] Liz Eston: Um it's as they short and sweet.
[25:01] Liz Eston: It contains four women, one of which is beautiful.
[25:03] Liz Eston: Jewel Shepard doing a short strip scene and interview.
[25:07] Liz Eston: That is the whole thing.
[25:08] Alan Seales: That is all this person said.
[25:11] Jesse McAnally: Five stars.
[25:12] Alan Seales: So out of my own curiosity, I went to an AI generator to write a review of this film.
[25:19] Jesse McAnally: Y'all want to hear what they came up with?
[25:20] Alan Seales: Oh, yes.
[25:21] Liz Eston: Absolutely.
[25:23] Jesse McAnally: The Sex and Violence Family Hour is a 1983 comedy film starring Jim Carrey. The movie is a satire that critiques censorship and the power of television. Carrey is hilarious in his role as the show's host and the absurd situations and outrageous humor that keeps the audience entertained throughout. Overall, the Sex and Violence Family Hour is an entertaining and funny movie that is worth a watch. It's a great showcase for Carrey's talents, and it's a great piece of social commentary on the power of television. It's definitely worth checking out if you're a fan of Jim Carrey or satire films.
[25:54] Alan Seales: Wow.
[25:55] Liz Eston: Wow, so nice.
[25:57] Jesse McAnally: I am impressed.
[26:00] Alan Seales: I don't I think they're reading too much into this. Sincerely, Mr. AI bot. I am really impressed with the level of detail Mr. Bot went into or Mrs. or they bot went into. I'm sure we've got some letterboxd reviews to look at too, Liz, don't we?
[26:17] Liz Eston: Oh yeah, we do.
[26:19] Jesse McAnally: Alright, now it's time for the game of one star or five star. Me and Alan going head to head.
[26:25] Alan Seales: Alright.
[26:26] Jesse McAnally: I'm happy to report.
[26:27] Alan Seales: He said.
[26:29] Jesse McAnally: Yes, what he said.
[26:31] Alan Seales: Alright, let's talk Alan. Head to head. I'm happy to report 14 people have been brave enough to write reviews of this movie on Letterboxd. Uh now it's nine uh seventeen, because the our episode exists. Alright. Uh who wants to go first?
[26:44] Liz Eston: I'll let you let you two hash it out.
[26:48] Jesse McAnally: Alright, Rocky's. Alan, your name starts with an A.
[26:50] Alan Seales: No, this is not a visual medium. We can't do this.
[26:54] Jesse McAnally: I'll do I'll do I'll do a Jeff Prop style talking of like the challenge so far.
[26:58] Alan Seales: Okay, fine.
[26:58] Jesse McAnally: Rocky Alan and Jess put out their hands. They do rock, paper, scissors.
[27:01] Alan Seales: Rock, paper, scissors.
[27:06] Jesse McAnally: And shoot.
[27:06] Alan Seales: Alan has Oh, they both have scissors. We need to do it again.
[27:11] Jesse McAnally: Okay. We're scissors scissor meets hibrers. We're scissoring. Rock. One, two, three, shoot.
[27:16] Alan Seales: And shoot.
[27:18] Jesse McAnally: Oh dude! They're both rocks!
[27:20] Alan Seales: Okay. Rock, paper, scissors, and shoot!
[27:23] Jesse McAnally: Uh-huh.
[27:24] Alan Seales: I win. Rock beats scissors. So you wanna go first, Alan?
[27:30] Alan Seales: I'll go first. I've just pitched like three hours ago. Alright. Alright, there's a common thread between a lot of these, so I tried to pick the different ones. So uh thought some might be similar. I'm just warning you. So can't believe Jim Carrey is once in a porn movie. His skits are great and funny, but the rest is horse shit. That's a one.
[27:49] Jesse McAnally: Uh, let me this this is oddly classified, so I'm gonna think about it. I'm gonna call that a one.
[27:55] Alan Seales: Alright, Jess, you're ready?
[28:00] Jesse McAnally: I'm always ready.
[28:01] Alan Seales: Alright. Trash! But Jim Carrey had a r has a Ronald Reagan impression.
[28:07] Jesse McAnally: He's a shitty Ronald Reagan impression.
[28:09] Alan Seales: Um, that's a one.
[28:11] Jesse McAnally: No, that's a five.
[28:13] Alan Seales: Ah, dang!
[28:15] Jesse McAnally: Sneap. Someone likes Ronald Reagan and boobies.
[28:18] Alan Seales: I'd say they're a boomer.
[28:20] Jesse McAnally: A bo a boomer, eh?
[28:22] Alan Seales: A boomer. Boomer, eh?
[28:24] Jesse McAnally: Trickle down boobinomics. I love boobs.
[28:28] Alan Seales: Alright on. Okay, I'm ready.
[28:31] Jesse McAnally: Ready.
[28:31] Alan Seales: It's cool to see Jim Carrey before he went full Jim Carrey.
[28:35] Jesse McAnally: I'd say he's pretty full here.
[28:37] Alan Seales: I disagree with that.
[28:39] Jesse McAnally: Um yeah, he's pretty full. I'm gonna give that a not one. That is a five.
[28:44] Alan Seales: Yes!
[28:44] Jesse McAnally: I'm gonna call that a five.
[28:46] Alan Seales: Yes. Is it an actual five?
[28:50] Jesse McAnally: No, it's just a not one.
[28:52] Alan Seales: Okay.
[28:52] Jesse McAnally: Hell no.
[28:53] Alan Seales: Hell no.
[28:53] Jesse McAnally: None of these are fives. No one gave this movie a positive critique. Appealing if you enjoy the feeling of a comedian.
[29:00] Alan Seales: Absoluting.
[29:04] Jesse McAnally: That's a one.
[29:06] Alan Seales: That's a one.
[29:08] Jesse McAnally: I mean, I I that is pretty appealing. Um we've seen rubber face, so.
[29:14] Alan Seales: Yeah.
[29:15] Jesse McAnally: I will say when I went to New York for Broadway con, one night I did just decide to go to stand up every comedian bombed. It was great. It was fantastic.
[29:22] Alan Seales: Wow.
[29:25] Jesse McAnally: And that's how I think about New York is a bunch of comedians bombing.
[29:28] Alan Seales: That's pretty much pretty much New York for you.
[29:30] Jesse McAnally: I will say, we didn't bomb when we did our musicals of cheese live show. We got some good laughs throughout that, so I felt better than them.
[29:37] Alan Seales: You did. And and when you guessed on uh the wrong cat died as well. That was that was funny.
[29:42] Jesse McAnally: Yeah. This one is very simple. Okay. Bad.
[29:49] Alan Seales: That's a five stars.
[29:50] Jesse McAnally: What are you talking about?
[29:51] Alan Seales: That is a one.
[29:54] Jesse McAnally: Yes. That was that was a little bit of an easy one, but this is not a challenging letterbox game. Let me tell you.
[29:59] Alan Seales: It'll get difficult when we get to things like Ace Ventura 2.
[30:05] Jesse McAnally: Yeah, no one said anything nice about this movie, let me tell you. We have two left, and these actually might be difficult. So I'm not sure.
[30:14] Alan Seales: That's the only two good ones.
[30:16] Jesse McAnally: Alright. Don't watch this in your kitchen at 11 p.m.
[30:23] Alan Seales: Why?
[30:24] Jesse McAnally: I don't know. That's all they said. Um, I think someone got the police called on them.
[30:29] Alan Seales: And I'm giving that a one.
[30:32] Jesse McAnally: Yes.
[30:34] Alan Seales: I'm looking back at at YouTube where we watched this. 507,000 views. Nine years ago, it was posted. Well, it was posted nine years ago.
[30:49] Jesse McAnally: And it's all the same guy masturbating to the to the nudes. If you read the comments, it's people actually enjoying it too. It's funny.
[30:59] Alan Seales: Yeah. Read the comments. Can you include the body flash part of it? Let's let's read the comments of YouTube and decide if they're a thumbs up or a thumbs down.
[31:11] Jesse McAnally: 602! Alright! There is nudity in this movie! I'm here for that carry kid, but wow, the whole thing is such a strange time capsule. So bad, it's good.
[31:22] Alan Seales: Alright, we have one more. Alan, you ready?
[31:29] Alan Seales: Yes.
[31:30] Jesse McAnally: I skipped through the majority of this because the sound from earbuds hurt my ears. But it was surreal enough to be okay.
[31:37] Alan Seales: That's not one. That's a more than one.
[31:41] Jesse McAnally: That is I agree.
[31:43] Alan Seales: Yep. It's more than one. I wanna say that is worth bringing up. I don't know if either of you listened to this with headphones at first, but it only works on one ear.
[31:52] Liz Eston: Oh I didn't listen with headphones, which probably was a mistake.
[31:57] Jesse McAnally: A horrible, horrible experience. So much that I took my headphones off and turned on some speakers.
[32:05] Alan Seales: And your parents were like, Jess, what are you doing?
[32:08] Jesse McAnally: Oh, I'm whacking into this Jim Carrey movie.
[32:12] Alan Seales: I'm whacking it.
[32:14] Jesse McAnally: I'm uh I'm a whackin' it.
[32:16] Alan Seales: What did we think about a sex and violence family hour? And is it a no spank you or an alrighty then?
[32:28] Jesse McAnally: I don't know what I'm thinking about this. I I feel like the Jim Carrey aspects are very in like kind of what he would end up doing. It's so as far as Jim Carrey goes, I feel like he's fine. He is not the problem here. And if I'm just rating those scenes, it's an alrighty then because it's just what he would end up doing. If I'm gonna rate the whole experience, it's a hard no spank you.
[32:52] Alan Seales: Yeah, very hard no spank you indeed.
[32:56] Jesse McAnally: Very hard no spank you.
[32:58] Alan Seales: Very hard, very hard.
[32:59] Jesse McAnally: However, the Jim Carrey scenes alone, they're fine. I wouldn't like say they're his best work. Whoever said he is a good Regan needs to be slapped.
[33:10] Alan Seales: Yeah, I I like you guys saw the funnier die thing where he comes back as Reagan, like, and he still needs to do a good ring.
[33:19] Jesse McAnally: This can't be! You're dead! I saw them lower your coffin under the ground.
[33:25] Alan Seales: Will, I am dead, but I They've come back as a spoon. To help Mr. Reach Across the Isles here. Grow up here.
[33:39] Jesse McAnally: Now listen up, you son of a minnow.
[33:42] Alan Seales: Why do people keep putting him as like his Biden is fine? It's still not Biden, but it's a character.
[33:49] Jesse McAnally: Well, I mean, Fire Marshal Bill is offensive as that is, is even better than his Reagan. Not that he was trying to be anybody specifically. He was just trying to be the let me tell you something, and that's it.
[33:57] Alan Seales: Let me tell you something.
[34:05] Jesse McAnally: See, there you there you go. That wouldn't have been funny if he didn't have the equivalent of a tight shirt on in that scene.
[34:11] Alan Seales: Yes.
[34:12] Jesse McAnally: Um sketch comedy would later become something he'd be very, very aware of after getting rejected by SNL. But first, he has to be in a feature film, which we will be talking about next week. But until then, Alan, why don't you promote your other stuff and where people can find you on social media?
[34:30] Alan Seales: You can find me on social media at the Theatre Podcast with Alan Seales and with my co-host Heather Vickery at was it chance everywhere you listen to podcasts. And if you love the back and forth between me and Ellen, you can listen to the episode with me, Alan, and Heather chatting about bullshit. It's a good time.
[34:54] Alan Seales: Instagram, Twitter, TikTok. Uh I'm all there. Although I'll probably leave Twitter soon. If I haven't already by the time this episode airs.
[35:02] Jesse McAnally: Twitter won't even exist by the time this show launches.
[35:05] Alan Seales: Think about that.
[35:06] Jesse McAnally: That's true. That's true. Man.
[35:08] Alan Seales: Um, yeah, that's something to think about, cause like yeah, yeah.
[35:12] Liz Eston: Um, Liz, how about you?
[35:13] Liz Eston: Uh, you can catch me on Twitter if I'm still there. I'll probably still be there just to witness the dumpster fire that Twitter is becoming uh at Elizabeth Eston. Um I have a letterbox page, uh Elizabeth910. If you want to see my opinions about movies or my weird interests, I watch musicals and weird horror movies around the same time, so my recent watches are very interesting.
[35:38] Jesse McAnally: I'm Jesse McAnally. Follow me on Twitter at Jesse D. McAnally. Everywhere else, Jesse Mackinow. It's built McAnally, it's pretty funny. Um also thank you guys for listening. We're on Twitter at Carried Away Pod, Instagram Carried Away Pod. Email us at carried away podcast at gmail.com. Tell us how wrong we are about all these things. Our title card was created by G Grace Aki, and follow them on Instagram at It's Grace Aki.
[36:00] Alan Seales: Wouldn't it be really funny if we got like the sex and violence channeling hour is the best work Jim Carrey's ever done. It changed my life.
[36:15] Jesse McAnally: You don't understand the the brilliance of Mr. Salami. Don't you understand that big salami is a commentary on the perception of Italian Americans in society, no?
[36:26] Alan Seales: I had a real friend in college named Luigi Luigi. And his friend was Giuseppe Giuseppe. How dare you? And the writer of that sketch would go on to create the Sopranos.
[36:36] Jesse McAnally: Our theme song is I Choose You by the band Thanks. Thank you to the Broadway Podcast Network for having us on the platform and for not kicking us off for creating the new sensation of Cuddle Lingus.
[36:48] Alan Seales: I saw something on his social today that was it's the it's the uh Oh god uh it's not gonna be funny because I can't think of it now. Um it was I think the Gen the Volkswagen in Italy uh social media account on Instagram that just says Volkswagen or something.
[37:09] Jesse McAnally: It's something with G Italia.
[37:11] Alan Seales: So it ends with genitalia.
[37:14] Jesse McAnally: Wow. I I love you can you can cut that.
[37:18] Alan Seales: No, I'm leaving it in. In fact, I'm gonna add C. I'm gonna put crickets underneath it and booing, like quiet booing from the one person in the audience.
[37:30] Jesse McAnally: I'll see you next time on the Carrey'd Away podcast.
[37:34] Alan Seales: But I'm ching.
[37:35] Jesse McAnally: But I'm ching.
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