Name: How "Eddington" Captures the Chaotic Vibe of 2020
Uploaded: 2025-07-18T18:47:19.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'How "Eddington" Captures the Chaotic Vibe of 2020' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-07-18. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'How "Eddington" Captures the Chaotic Vibe of 2020' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-07-18. Transcript available.

well let's talk about eddington first because um it was awesome and it was just
like the stakes
kept rising like um because you have like this it's kind of like a time capsule
moment this is
what i felt like to me it felt like this time capsule moment from very recently
um where you
have the covid mandates you have the blm movement going on you have uh a change
in um the overlords
of media so now like information is coming out of everywhere right so there's a
lot of like new
but also errant information in the world you have all of these things happening
at the same time
then you have this sheriff joe cross who's kind of like an authority figure
right you know that's
who you look to when there's something going on but also at the same time
everyone's challenging
authority so it's just and then he starts to lose authority over himself so
there's like
there's so much going on my question i'm going to get to it too when there's so
much going on like
that the interesting thing about joe cross who the character that you played is
that there were moments
i'm like am i cheering for this guy like i just felt i was like how do i feel
because he's who you're
you're kind of going through the the the film with through eddington with i'm
like how do like do i feel
for him do i feel against him the whole time i just like i just knew i just
felt he made me feel right
are you thinking about that as we're going as you're going through it like how
you're trying to
make us feel or that's not something that an actor is doing so something that
are and i talked about
something that was very important to me from the beginning was that uh that joe
challenges like the
audience's preconceived idea of what like a conservative small town sheriff is
um and
uh i didn't know how you know i don't really know how or what that really meant
what that what that
really looked like um and i think at some point i just um i just wanted to care
about him like i just
wanted to i just wanted to like take politics or philosophy or anything like
that out of the picture
and just go like what's the what's the man and i think that i really i think
that we found that through
uh his relationship with his his wife yeah because i think that's really where
um
he's like most uh like his his power authority is like threatened or non-existent
um and so that it
becomes like the catalyst for his kind of desire for um more authority and
power it's one of the things
as you said there's there's several things kind of happening yeah i just felt
like he was the cause of
his own possibility and his own pain constantly and it just it made me think so
much about life
but it was so real to see him that way um could you relate to that in your own
life like or yeah of
course yeah just normal huh yeah i mean yeah i think all the all the characters
um and this i i felt
when i read the script i was like oh i kind of like i recognize myself and all
of these characters
actually um and sometimes it's like you know it's a an embarrassing admission
um and then um
um you know there's just there's definitely dude particularly that that time um
and i think in
some ways yeah maybe we're always
we're always maybe we're always responsible for how we respond to what happens
in the world right so
we're not like so much of like just what happens in life you don't have any
control over um but how we
respond to that we have control over and um i know i constantly fail in in my
response or at least
don't respond in the best way um in the moment right i respond like emotionally
and so i definitely i
definitely uh identified with with that and that's that's joe i mean he kind of
like just keeps
making mistakes and um he's so like he's um he's so desperate to like have some
control
like just like let's just he just wants he's just like you know that feeling
when you're like i just
i need things to just stop for a second so i can breathe and then like your
desire to like make
things stop just make things ramp up more and more and then you just like trip
and you fall down the
stairs it's just like it's like that um yeah that escalation oh i kept
imagining the whole time i'm
like oh my god this guy is just like he has put too much cheese on his burger
dude this guy is just
and then i kept imagining the whole time he has to take a pee and he can't even
get to that he's just
dealing with like activists and people throwing things through wind and then he
gets home and he
sleeps in his glasses like he literally gets up and just has to like bow and he's
like suddenly it's
all in focus again and his brain has barely had time to rest and i'm like god
somebody
fucking shoot just put a sniper shoot a xanax into this dude or something just
somebody if i can give
him a damn percocet suppository or something this guy needs some relief you
know yeah and then it also
was like god especially during that time like a lot of mania came along with a
lot of those different
like things that were happening in the world right and there's still a lot of
mania remnants from that
and i was like god everybody needed some relief you know it feels like that as
a society sometimes
we need some relief sometimes but we have everything we need it feels like so
it's kind of a weird
juxtaposition to be in yeah so what's the plan yeah what is the plan i don't
know i don't know it
just feels like we're just doing the opposite of a hug right now that's that's
right that's right and um
yeah did you feel when you watch that movie like you got to the like you were
like
this will be a reminder this will like help influence people in a better way
this could be
like a seed of like where we've been and where we can grow from or did i don't
know i mean i i don't
know i i don't know like movies are surprising those things that connect with
people and um actually
influence culture um and sometimes they they don't just not yeah i don't really
know what it is that's
crazy but i you know no no no i think it's a fair question i think in some ways
um i think all i can
do is think about like myself versus like the the effect that it has on on me
and you know in some ways
there was um there was like i felt like i had permission to um to laugh at
myself like a way to
like i kind of evaluate some of that like mania as you say like we're like
crazy like the summer of 2020
it was crazy and crazy people were i love that you said it's the opposite of a
hug and it really was
like everyone was so kind of fractured and fragmented and just um all isolated
in our own worlds like
quite literally physically isolated and then everyone was just so online and
kind of fed their own an
algorithm yes that just further kind of propelled them into their own lanes
like even people in the
same houses and their own place and and there was just like this um i remember
everything felt so
aggressive like even there were like there were like signs that were supposed
to be like
like we trust science and we you know we love all people and but somehow even
that felt like
confrontational right like it was like there's it's like it didn't it felt like
no matter what anyone
said everyone was like this is my position and my position is right and you can
go yourself like you
know it's just like people went nuts well we not people not uh we did yeah all
of us you know what
it doesn't seem like you're calling anybody out it feels like we're all
inclusive i agree it's amazing
what a time it was like the most recent time capsule that was the most insane
like usually they're like we
found a can of ham from 1930 you know and we're gonna invite everybody over and
the girls will sing
and then we'll open it you know but this was like jesus christ we just found
the most insane time capsule
and we the mud is still wet yeah yeah yeah but then it's like it was a reminder
have we even recovered
from all of that like what happens to the human being as we go through all that
and then you have all
this pent-up anger and confusion and everything i think we wanted to forget or
like pretending to to
forget um because yeah i was uh it was ugly and and and it was ugly it was ugly
but it's also really
it was also really painful and i think um i think a lot of people were like
scared and but then also
the character of the mother i didn't even think about that of joe cross's
mother because mother-in-law
mother-in-law oh that was his mother-in-law of the mother-in-law because then
you
you're you're like did it just change everything now for you it's not his
mother no it made it a
little bit more crazier i'm like so you're telling me he teamed up with her mom
and now they're the
one it's just like but then that is something a lot of people have in their
life like oh well i
talked to my girlfriend's mom all the and now we're team or the or the you know
oh man that guy was
screwed dude yes jacross was screwed yeah but he did space he screwed himself
yeah he was the he was
the holder of his possibility and his pain at the same time you know it was
pretty crazy yeah so was
there something that inspired you or led you to think because i think what's
interesting also in in
in the career of an actor is you start to realize well i only have so many
times that i get to do
this and times that i can afford to be away from family and friends and just
take on such energy in
my life and so it's i'm sure it starts to become a little bit more poignant
like the choices that you
do make so what was there something about him or his processes that made you
think this is the right
choice or how do you land on a choice like that um now you never know if it's
the right choice or what
it is right you're just going i mean honestly i i just liked him he started
talking and the way that
he talked about the film and the way that he talks about the character i knew
that it was
personal and i could tell that um it meant so much to him that he loved making
movies and it meant so
much to him and that he like i think i just got a sense that he was tireless um
and and like you know
you the director like really has to be obsessed right because they do have to
they have to do so
much which fork am i fucking choosing right do you want them to actually care
about that
shit or else you're going to be watching the thing dunkirk and you're pissed
off plastic silverware
right right in 1812 and i'm sure that wasn't the right year for dunkirk either
so we're all bad
no that's that sounds good um so so i think that that's that that's maybe what
you know right away
i was like okay with this you know he he loves making movies and i i know that
just from talking to him
on the phone um and he's funny i mean i think that's the biggest thing
sometimes you're just like
do i want to hang out with this dude i'm sure that's right um and it's like
because you know you go
through a whole range of emotions to make a movie i mean yeah it's a movie and
you're you're safe but
in the moment your body doesn't know that it's not real you know i mean it's
just some that you're
doing right and um so it can you know things can get like there can be a lot of
emotion or a lot of
energy and um and uh and yeah you're having somebody that you really like it
feels important um and they
paid me so much money oh god no they didn't give me a little um
Thank you.