Hate Watching Corky Romano: No Comedic Evidence Anywhere

About this episode

The hosts revisit the 2001 comedy Corky Romano, exploring its script issues and comedic shortcomings.

Send us Fan Mail A movie can be harmless and still drive you nuts, especially when you can see the better version hiding inside it. We go back to 2001 and rewatch Corky Romano, the Chris Kattan comedy that lives in a lot of people’s nostalgia, then we ask the uncomfortable question: why does it feel like the script keeps forgetting to write the joke? We walk through the big story beats and the bigger craft problems, from the “one folder of evidence” FBI premise to the endless string of class...

People in this episode

Hosts: Dan Goodsell, Tony Czech

Topics covered

• comedy film review
• nostalgia
• script analysis
• Corky Romano
• humor critique

Keywords

• Corky Romano
• Chris Kattan
• comedy
• film review
• script problems
• nostalgia
• humor

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Corky Romano

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