Name: Woody Allen's Tainted Legacy
Uploaded: 2022-09-07T17:08:20.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Woody Allen's Tainted Legacy' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-09-07. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Woody Allen's Tainted Legacy' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-09-07. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan Experience.
- I mean, I grew up loving Woody Allen,
and that's a tough, as a Jew from New York,
that's a tough one to swallow right there, you know?
- It is now.
- Try re-watching "Manhattan,"
and if you're comfortable watching it,
you're probably a pedophile, you know?
- I don't remember "Manhattan."
- It's incredible, but it's fucking weird.
- What year was that?
- It's in the '70s, it's black and white.
My friend Ronan Hirshberg has a great line
about that movie where he said,
it's basically a romantic comedy for pedophiles,
'cause the end of the movie is not like,
I fucked up, I dated a high school girl,
it's that he's sad that it didn't work out.
- Really? - Yeah.
- I might not have ever seen it.
- Mariel Hemingway.
- Oh, you know what, I definitely didn't see it.
- It's, I mean, it's--
- So she's in high school?
- She's a, get this, she's 18 at Dalton,
which is where Jeffrey Epstein taught,
and this is the '70s, that's when he taught there.
Allen and Epstein are, this is my, I mean,
it's a little weird, right?
- Yeah.
- I mean, here's the fucked up part, though.
The opening is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen
in a movie.
It's just his, like, love letter to New York.
It's gorgeous.
And I grew up, like, worshiping Woody Allen.
He's done some weird shit.
- He definitely has.
- Yeah.
- I mean, there's no doubt about it.
He married a stepdaughter.
- I mean, that enough, that alone is not good.
- Yeah, no. I mean, that's crazy.
- And then there's allegations from the other kids.
- Yeah.
- Were they coached, were they not?
I don't know.
- The one kid, right?
Yeah.
I don't know, but it's enough to go.
- It's enough to be bummed.
- Yeah, yeah.
It really bummed.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
You ever listen to his standup, his old standup?
- It's brilliant.
- It's brilliant.
- He was a great, that's what's where you're like,
oh, you were a great short story writer.
You're a great standup.
You're a great filmmaker.
And then you do some weird jazz thing on the side
that no one, I have friends who are like,
do you want to watch them?
I'm like, do I want to watch the thing
he's fifth best at?
No.
Do you want to watch me play checkers?
No. Fuck that shit.
I don't want to watch Woody Allen at the Carlisle.
I could give a fuck.
I guess if I was like really a hardcore Woody Allen fan,
I'd go watch it just to see him do something that he loves,
you know, maybe.
- The Carlisle where you pay $26 for a Manhattan.
- I would go see like Hunter S. Thompson play drums,
you know, even if he sucked.
Just got such a Hunter fan, you know.
- I loved Woody Allen.
Like that is like, he loved New York in a way,
but we felt cool as New Yorkers to be like,
fuck Woody Allen, it's Woody Allen.
I used to see him on the street all the time.
And he was just, anytime he'd be like, Woody,
he'd just like run.
It was amazing.
He'd just run away from you.
- What year was this?
Post all the accusations?
- I was working at a summer camp in the summer or something.
I was like a counselor and I saw him and I was like,
Woody, and he just ran.
Weird to see him run away from kids.
But, you know, Woody Allen,
Annie Hall is like the, I mean, as comics,
that's like the prototype right there where you're like,
whoa, you made, it's also the perfect rom-com
because they don't end up together.
Like there's so many, it's such an un-Hollywood at that time,
especially rom-com.
- Yeah, yeah.
- And Diane Keaton fucking rules.
- Yeah, Diane Keaton's great.
- What was the film that he made with the,
who was the guy with the fucked up nose?
- Geez, Owen Wilson.
- Owen Wilson.
- Yeah.
- He's too old.
- What a sad way that that's how you're identified.
- He's a handsome guy.
- He is a handsome guy.
- But he's got a fucked up nose.
- It is fucked up.
- It kind of works with him because he's so handsome.
Like having that fucked up nose kind of balances it out where you like him more.
- That's a great movie, Midnight in Paris.
- It is very good.
But it's him.
He's playing Woody Allen.
- Everyone is.
John Cusack and Bullets Over Broadway.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Another great movie.
- Another great movie.
- Woody Allen.
- You're playing Woody.
- They all just feel real bad about working with him now though.
It's so strange.
- Yeah.
- They try to kind of defend him a little bit.
And the only one who's ever defended him, like, I get, I mean, they all kind of
avoid it when they can, but it's one of those things.
It's like, what do you do?
- Yeah.
I mean, it's tough.
He's one of the greatest.
I mean, Polanski's another one, right?
You think of like the greatest movie.
Chinatown's one of the greatest movies ever made.
- Fantastic movie.
- It's impossible to watch that and not, see, I'm not enough of a film guy to
like notice,
you know, great cinematography, but when you watch that movie, you're like,
every frame looks beautiful.
- Yeah.
- It's insane.
- Yeah.
Sometimes creeps are really good at a thing.
- Isn't that?
Creeps are good too.
- That's, the problem is throughout history.
You know, when you're, we were talking about this the other day that like Socrates
and
Plato and a lot of these guys that we associate with some of the most brilliant
things that
anybody ever wrote were pedophiles.
- Yeah.
- Like there was a lot of that going on back then.
- And maybe that's where they got their, their powers or something.
Fucking kids just makes you really good at your art.
I don't know.
- I don't think so.
- No, no, I don't think so either.
- But uh, what's his face?
Uh, uh, fucking Baldwin.
Alec Baldwin, you know, he's the only guy that like, defends him now.
- Yeah.
- You know, pretty openly.
- That guy needs some allies.
- Yeah, he needs somebody on his team.
Did you see Tim Dillon did Alec Baldwin's podcast?
- I thought that was like the most on-brand perfect thing.
I saw that I was like, good.