A bit that has really stayed with me was when Gabe Delahaye used to describe celebrities saying dumb shit as (say) Evangeline Lilly "breaking their legendary silence" on some issue or other.
the rest of that bit is also good, I enjoy the casualness of the reference to the time a man and 2 children were decapitated by a helicopter AND that Welles considers negligent homicide maybe the 3rd most odious thing about Landis and Folsey
One of his photogags in a Lost recap still stays with me: it’s a screengrab of Matthew Fox (Jack) staring wistfully at the ocean, and he had put a thought bubble that read “[Nickelback lyrics].” I must have made a variation of that joke a hundred times.
Haldeman: John says Barro is not ready. But probably soon.
President: He...uh, what the hell does he need? You know, what is the biggest question?
Haldeman: Well, I guess, who-
Nixon: Before he's going to call?
Haldeman: -who replaces, first.
Nixon: We ought (unintelligible) goddamned podcast.
When you were talking about Evangeline Lilly on the podcast, my brain immediately crossed its wires and I thought you were talking about Lily Gladstone. I was worried; "Wait, I like her. What happened?" then happy to realize I was mistaken and Lily Gladstone still seems pretty cool.