TNS Throwback #63- Riffin' on Avalanche (1978)

About this episode

The episode discusses the 1978 disaster film 'Avalanche' starring Rock Hudson, featuring comedic riffs and dark humor.

This week we go ahead and dug up this disaster classic from 1978 starring Rock Hudson, the food buying bit extends farther than ever this week, and does Devin finally go full Monty on the dark joke front this week? listen and find out! Drink/smoke and riff responsibly!

People in this episode

Host: Devin

Topics covered

• disaster movies
• film analysis
• comedy
• dark humor
• riffing

Keywords

• Avalanche
• Rock Hudson
• disaster classic
• dark jokes
• film commentary

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Avalanche

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