Bananas

[Songbird]

Just saw Woody Allen's flick "Bananas" on TCM. Haven't giggled like that in a while. It's silly and funny, a pre-Airplane Airplane of sorts. Made in 1971, foul year of the lord, according to HST, and a young Sylvester Stallone is in it for a brief role. Howard Cosell bookends the movie.

Right now they're going to show Allen on the old **** Cavett Show. They showed it earlier tonight. It's not so bad. I've never seen this side of Woody. I'd encourage a viewing to see the guy during his early years. There's a really foreboding line late in the show that's funny, sort of, when he talks about junior high girls.

Anyway, Bananas is pretty funny. Anyone else seen it?

 

[zimbabwe]

I got bitten by a snake!

 

[Chi City 81]

I thought this thread would be about that Gwen Stefani song.

 

[Songbird]

I got bitten by a snake!

Funny.

 

[Buck]

'Bananas' is a classic.
Check out 'Take the Money and Run,' which I enjoy even more.
Of course, I'm a big Allen fan.
That doesn't mean I approve of his personal life. I just like his work.

 

[Songbird]

Watch TCM for the next hour, Buck.

 

[zimbabwe]

Xan --

I loved Bananas when I saw it. I think. It was at least 15 years ago. My dad has all the oldies, I'll give it a look.

Isn't that the one where he pulls the pin on the grenade and throws the pin?

See, THAT was the kind of thing that made me laugh the last time I saw it. Which, come to think of it, is exactly what makes me laugh now.

 

[Songbird]

do they show movies based on time zones? or are all movies played at the same time nationally. because here they're showing woody allen on the **** cavett show.

 

[Buck]

Watch TCM for the next hour, Buck.

I'm in the office right now waiting for copy from a baseball game, football game, boxing match and a volleyball match.
No Allen tonight for me, but thanks for the headsup.

 

[Songbird]

Well, Buck, if TCM time zones its lineup, the show is on at 11 p.m.

 

[Cape_Fear]

No replay of Bananas following the **** Cavett show. Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex at 12:15 EST with Annie Hall after that.

 

[Oz]

[let me hear you say]this **** is bananas
b-a-n-a-n-a-s
this **** is bananas
B-A-N-A-N-A-S
[again]this **** is bananas
b-a-n-a-n-a-s
this **** is bananas
B-A-N-A-N-A-S

 

[Bubbler]

Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex at 12:15 EST with Annie Hall after that.

Now THAT movie kicks ass. Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex is ****-in-your-pants funny. So is Sleeper. Of course, Annie Hall ain't bad either.

 

[dooley_womack1]

All those you mentioned are awesome, Bubbler. Too bad he got so deep as the years went on and forgot how to have madcap fun.

 

[Evil Bastard (aka Chris_L)]

In Bananas - Woody Allen makes a couple pedophile and dad sleeping with his daughter jokes. I find that disturbing given what happened to him and his adopted daughter.

Many of Allen's jokes were about him being a pervert but I find them less funny when you start to think he wasn't joking.

 

[Dyno]

I thought it was interesting that in the Cavett interview he talks about how he was always interested in girls, even as a baby and that he never had a "latency period." Years later, this became part of a scene in Annie Hall - a flashback to his childhood, where he kisses a girl in his classroom when he was about 7.

I love his movies, but man, Woody is a twisted guy.

 

[Freelance Hack]

Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex at 12:15 EST with Annie Hall after that.

Now THAT movie kicks ass. Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex is ****-in-your-pants funny. So is Sleeper. Of course, Annie Hall ain't bad either.

There's tons of hilarious stuff in that movie. Burt Reynolds and Tony Randall. Gene Wilder and the sheep. The giant breast. Thankfully, I Tivo'ed it last night.

Top three Woddy Allen films

1. Annie Hall
2. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex
3. Love and Death

 

[Webster]

There's tons of hilarious stuff in that movie. Burt Reynolds and Tony Randall. Gene Wilder and the sheep. The giant breast. Thankfully, I Tivo'ed it last night.

Top three Woddy Allen films

1. Annie Hall
2. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex
3. Love and Death

I gotta go with:

1. Crimes and Misdemeanors (in my top five movies of all time)
2. Annie Hall
3. Hannah and her Sisters

It's incredible that he could make a great comedy like Bananas and then make the three movies I mentioned above.

As an aside, Woody is the most famous graduate of my high school.

 

[21]

I thought this thread was going to be about Woody Allen, and then I'd click on it and it would be about bananas or boots or something.

Fielding Mellish would be one of the great all-time SJ screen names.

If you can watch Sleeper and Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, and not laugh out loud, then we probably cannot be friends. The gigantic lactating breast on the attack....Gene Wilder in bed with the sheep....priceless.

That said, I did college thesis on Woody Allen (way pre-scandal era), and ended up completely depressed. Hard to believe someone so dark could be so funny.

 

[Bob Cook]

I thought this thread was going to be about Woody Allen, and then I'd click on it and it would be about bananas or boots or something.

Fielding Mellish would be one of the great all-time SJ screen names.

If you can watch Sleeper and Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, and not laugh out loud, then we probably cannot be friends. The gigantic lactating breast on the attack....Gene Wilder in bed with the sheep....priceless.

That said, I did college thesis on Woody Allen (way pre-scandal era), and ended up completely depressed. Hard to believe someone so dark could be so funny.

Actually, he's funny BECAUSE he's that dark. Most of your great humor types are seriously disturbed people. Or even your not-so-great humor types, like my former stand-up comic roommates.