“For a teacher to recognize unconventional thinking and to say ‘you’re on to something, keep going’ really that was a game changer for me, because I felt seen.”
-Dan Levy to Iowa Universities, April 2021
Photo: Brad Torchia
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Isn’t that what we all want? To be seen? To have someone recognize what’s special inside of each of us? Can you do that for someone in your life?
image id: the how to talk to short people meme, but the ‘yes’ panel is changed to show lou wilson and erika ishii. lou is doing a split squat in order to place his head level with erika’s. end id.
Glamour hosted a lunch last week for all of Hollywood’s biggest game-changing females. The event drew in a massive crowd of disrupters from musicians, to actors, to models where they all shared their passion projects for bettering the world.
God Brennan is just an order of magnitude more antagonistic to Ally in any competitive setting than to any other cast member and we love to see it. This is up there with the Yes Or No rant where he shouted “You’re telling me Beardsley’s here with a crown on their head and got the answer wrong!” while Zac Oyama was just standing there smiling having done the same exact thing but being somehow not involved in this.
i think about this one so fucking often i had to clip it
video description by @madamesehun: A clip from the game show Game Changer, wherein the participants have to act out a prompt. There are four people on this set. Sam is the host, Brennan plays the lawyer, Zac plays the defendant, and Josh is just watching.
Sam, reading the prompt: A defendant stupidly interrupting his lawyer’s closing remarks.
Brennan takes a breath and then starts his speech, putting emphasis on the most important words: Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. Over the past four days, you have seen the state prosecutor attempt to effectively bamboozle you with a series of hearsay arguments and loose, speculative evidence, placing my client near the scene of the crime, during the time of the murder. This evidence does nothing to indicate motive, or means, in the horrific murder of Roger Bell. Ultimately, it will be your decision to say does this man deserve a lifetime in a federal penitentiary, based on specious, inconclusive evidence. You are tasked to consider the evidence and whether it proves, beyond a reasonable doubt, whether my client is guilty. Is my client a perfect man? No.
Zac, interrupting without missing a beat, plainly: I killed him, yeah.
All four of them burst out laughing.
Brennan raises his head to get Sam’s attention and gets back in character: Your honor, your honor.
Brennan then gets closer to Zac and grabs his face to speak into his ear. They stage whisper and talk over each other.
Zac: Yeah, did I fuck up? Did I fuck up?
Brennan: What the fuck are you doing? Shut up. Shut up. Don’t say anything, okay?
Sam, ending the scene: You know Zac, you really are a master of restraint. Your role there was small, but my god was it funny. I’m going to say two points for each of you.
i think about this one so fucking often i had to clip it
Two types of brilliant improvisers here…one that masterfully improvises a full lawyer’s closing argument that sounds so good and convincing you’d assume he practiced it for a week before the trial…and one that just patiently waits for the right time to say one really dumb comment that brings the house down. Both super important to the scene. The funny line doesn’t work without all the set up, and all the set up doesn’t matter without the funny line.
[Image Description: A picture from Game Changer. It shows the side of the Game Changer set that has Sam’s podium and the screen. Sam is up against the wall, face forward, his hands up, also pressed against the wall. The screen says, “SAY SOMETHING WE’LL HAVE TO BLEEP”. /end ID]
