Name: Hollywood Has an Originality Crisis
Uploaded: 2024-02-26T14:00:13.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Hollywood Has an Originality Crisis' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-02-26. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Hollywood Has an Originality Crisis' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-02-26. Transcript available.

It is, it's interesting, man. What's going on in your world, I guess, dude?
Well, I mean, you know, I'm just trying to, you know, trying to live out the
dream of, you know,
being grateful for being lucky enough to make people happy, hopefully.
Yeah, it almost feels—
There's a lot to that where you gotta kind of always remind yourself that you're
doing a fun thing and a cool thing,
and you don't want to get caught up in any of the bullshit and the nonsense of
it.
Yeah. Yeah, it's kind of hard to—well, it's not hard, but it's like, I can
see how it can happen.
You almost, though, see, like, so many, like, celebrities and, like, Hollywood
is such an example of all of that.
So I think as comedians these days, it seems like you have such a good example
of, like, the avenues not to go down.
Yeah, just try to keep your head about you and get excited about what you're
doing.
A lot of it becomes about, like, how big can it be or how—is there—
your reps will call you, go, there's money here.
Yeah.
There's money, you know, and then you just gotta be like, but am I happy with,
like, the things I'm actually doing?
Yeah.
Am I putting stuff out that's funny?
So that's, like, the hard part.
Yeah, and who do you want—if there is somebody who really wanted to do, like,
a television or film, you'd have to really want to do it.
Yeah.
Because we're lucky enough to be able to go and perform.
You'd have to really love it.
There's something I really want to do.
There's, like, one thing I've always wanted to do, and I don't know how I'll do
it or who I'll do it with, but it's just that one thing.
Like, I don't have ten things.
Yeah.
And if I never get to do it, that's okay, too, because I've been able to do a
lot of other things.
But there's just one idea.
It could be a show.
It could be a movie.
It's just one thing I've always wanted to do, and I just want to do that, and
then I'd be done.
You'd be good with that.
I'd be good with that.
So that might happen or it may not happen, and I'd also be good with it not
happening, because I think at a certain point, you've got to give it to God and
go, if it doesn't happen, it doesn't happen.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think, like, David Spade and I wrote that film that maybe you would be
in if we did.
I love the idea of that.
That was super cool.
So that would be cool.
That'd be amazing.
Getting to do something with Drewski, I think, would be neat.
Amazing.
He's so funny.
But, yeah, outside of that, I don't know if I have much ambition.
Yeah.
It would have to be something you really loved and you wanted to do it.
You've got to really love it because we have the ability to go out and make
people happy that are right in front of us.
I've been so fortunate.
I know.
And a lot of people don't.
Like, a lot of actors, you meet actors, and they're just waiting for people to
call them.
It used to be like actors would, you know, they'd be, like, happy.
Now you talk to them, they're, like, not happy.
Yeah.
They're, like, just kind of waiting around.
Well, everyone in Hollywood is having to bet.
I mean, they're literally having to strike for their fucking, for some earnings.
Right.
That's, like, the people that are, they're trying to take their jobs away with
AI, the writing.
And even the extra work.
Imagine that.
You can't even be a fucking extra.
No, they're just trying.
They want the celebrities we have now to be the last ones.
Yes.
They want Timothee Chalamet, who I like, and he says nice things about my
comedy, apparently.
He's a good man, but this twink can't be the last one.
Is that Lil' Mabu?
It looks slightly like Lil' Mabu.
You know who Mabu is?
Yeah.
Dude, me too.
He's a real rapper.
Yeah.
Bro, he's fucking.
I do some drill.
He's, yeah?
Well, I know.
But I just, I started reading about drill.
I tried to explain to Louis C.K. what drill rap was.
Oh, it'd be hilarious to watch that.
But to Chalamet, he can't be the last dude.
Like, he can't be, he can't play Rosa Parks.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
He can't be the last actor we have.
We need other people.
So I think what Hollywood's doing right now, they're going like, look, Tom Hanks,
give
me a Margot Robbie, give me this, give me a Chalamet.
Yeah, let's get a, let's get, let's get, let's get, let's get, they're, they're
it.
This is it.
We're going to take their likeness.
We're going to put them in everything.
We're going to shut it down.
We're going to shut it down.
I agree.
That's how crazy they're getting.
They're like, give me a Chalamet, give me a Margot Robbie, give me a Michael P.
Jordan, give me this, give me that, give me whoever we got now.
Yeah.
We don't want anyone new, and we're going to take their likeness and use it
again.
So Chalamet will be every, like, you'll be watching a movie, and he'll just
maybe be
two or three of the characters.
Yeah.
He'll be in the, he'll be in a Subway commercial.
He'll be in.
He'll be crazy.
They'll just start putting him in everything.
They'll just start putting him in everything.
He'll be in Rosé Parks.
They'll do Rosé Parks.
You've heard about that?
It's like a drunk woman who, but she wouldn't leave the bus because she was
drunk.
Right.
And then Timothee Chalamet is playing her.
Yeah.
He'll be playing her.
Yeah.
I just think that it is, we've got to stop.
Like, I like him a lot.
Yeah.
I think he's a talented actor.
Oh, unbelievable.
But we can have him in everything.
Right.
It'll just be, yeah, I mean, Jacob B. Lourdes was in Saltburn, and then he was
also Elvis
Presley.
It's just not going to end.
No, that's a different one.
Huh?
That's a different one.
That's not the same guy?
No, that's Austin Butler.
Austin Butler was Elvis.
Oh, no, but Priscilla, I'm sorry.
Have you seen Priscilla?
No, but he was in that, Lourdes?
Dude, Priscilla's a good movie.
Yeah.
I'm not all the way finished, so it might not be good, but so far it seems good.
The first two-thirds of it's good.
Well, I like Euphoria.
It's a great show.
I haven't seen that yet.
It's a great show.
He was in that?
He's in that.
Oh, I didn't know that.
I got to go down the Lordy rabbit hole.
But it definitely-
But I get it.
He's one of them that's going to be in the-
He made it in.
He made it in.
But it's getting fewer.
It's getting far between.
Or Tate McRae, I'm sure they will get-
Yeah.
But it's getting very few and far between.
I agree that the door is shutting because-
The door is shutting, and they're like, we don't need a lot of people.
We don't need any more.
We'll just take these guys.
Michael B. Jordan.
Yeah, just a few of these guys, and then we'll-
But then they're going to just start putting people in stuff that don't act.
You know?
They'll be like, Travis Kelsey's famous.
Right.
Yeah, he can definitely play-
They throw him in, you know?
Count Dracula or whatever.
They'll throw anybody in.
You know what I mean?
They might be just like, let's put him in.
So I don't know.
I don't know what's coming for this town.
I don't know.
Because some of the good actors have also-
Daniel Day-Lewis just went off, and he said, I'm not doing this.
Right?
I think he lives in Ireland in like a castle or something.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, even some of the great-
Yeah, they're just done.
Mel Gibson's done.
Remember that singer Enya?
Yeah.
She had those songs that were like, that would be her song.
She'd be like, she's done now.
She's done.
She just went to a castle in Ireland.
Look up her house.
Look up Enya House, Ireland.
You want to show you how to do it right?
Wow.
That's how to do it right.
That's Kat Von Denya right there.
You know what I mean?
She just lives in a castle.
She's, fuck it.
She goes, I don't care about Malibu.
But Hollywood, it's definitely gotten-
You know what I think?
I was thinking about this earlier.
They just got no-
Everybody's just keeping their money.
Nobody's even brave enough to take a risk anymore.
It feels like-
Nobody wants to take a risk.
All the movies are like remakes of things that have already happened.
It's like Willy Wonka.
It's like, dude-
Priscilla.
There's nobody that doesn't know that story.
Saltburn was original.
Saltburn was great.
But with Willy Wonka, here's the deal.
It was a freak who liked chocolate.
Everyone gets it.
Yeah.
And he liked also, let's just say it, children.
He was-
There was something wrong in that-
I'll say that.
In that chocolate factor.
And they've told this story now multiple different times.
Right.
And I'm creeped out every time I walk out of the theater.
I go, something's not right.
Well, you want a little chocolate?
Like, what is this shit?
You want a little chocolate?
There's something-
And Grandpa Joe, remember the grandparents-
Yeah, this was good.
The first one was good.
It was good.
The first one was good.
And-
Sidney Poitier should have been in it, though.
I think Sidney Poitier should have also been in it.
But, like, they're going too far.
Well, now it's just crazy.
Remember they had the one with the Indian?
They were trying to be so pro-Indian one year, and they put all the Indians in
it.
That was the one with Johnny Depp.
Johnny Depp.
And they had every Indian with an Oompa Loompa.
And they did 7,000 instead of paying extra Indians.
They just put them in a math equation with the AI.
Like, they 3D printed Indians.
That's all they did.
That's all they did.
With the same little guy.
Can you imagine, like, a meeting in Hollywood, they bring in one Indian guy.
They go, you're going to play 7,000 Oompa Loompas, and we're sorry that we've
kind of demeaned you.
We're only going to pay you for one.
But I do like, I've got to be honest, I do like this guy.
Oh, this guy's amazing.
I met him-
This guy is kind of amazing.
Deep Roy.
I met him in a park once in Santa Monica.
He is, let's be honest, the top one.
Yeah, the best one.
He is the-
Deep Roy, I think, is the best one.
And he should have been Elvis.
How do you fucking-
I agree with you.
How do you not make zoom in on this guy?
Is that his wife?
How is Deep Roy?
Right there is fine.
Yeah.
How is-
That's Elvis Presley.
How is-
That's Elvis Presley.
How is this not Elvis?
That is Elvis Presley.
It just, that's why Hollywood, you're like, you're fucking up, man.
What was he when he was in that little hat?
With Yoda.
What is that?
What was that?
Oh, look at that.
Now this is-
That's kind of beautiful.
This is probably one of the Democrat-
Who's putting this on him?
Probably some-
Right.
Democratic lord.
Can you see-
Can we just scroll down a little?
Is this like the Bohemian Grove?
Can we scroll down?
Oh, sorry.
Can you scroll up a little?
I just want to see who's putting that helmet on him.
That's Nancy Pelosi.
Yeah, probably.
She's putting a Yoda mask on him.
This is if you want to work in Hollywood.
This is-
This is how it happens.
This is the kind of sick shit they're into.
Yeah.
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