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ComedianGuy Branumbelieves theres skill in a good name-drop.
Name-dropping builds the world.
(SometimesPete Davidson knows Al Gore.)
These inexplicable connections let one ponder the interconnectedness and mystery of the cosmos.
And that they met on a talk show?
Things that were never connected in my brain are suddenly inextricably linked.
Its likeCrash,but good.
Curtis does my favorite thing a name-dropper can do, which is call someone by their nickname.
Its such a flex, underscoring the intimacy of their relationship while putting the viewer at a distance.
I dont know who Bobby Carradine is.
I know Robert Carradine, after a Google, but Bobby is an entirely new creature.
My favorite is when people say Marty Scorsese.
Such an undignified nickname,Marty.
OnWatch What Happens Livethis week, Jane Curtin brilliantly deployed the celeb nickname-drop when talking about herSaturday Night Livedays.
Bill Murray is Billy, whereas Lorne Michaels is Lauren.
She mispronounces or over-pronounces Lornes name to emphasize the chilliness of that relationship.
(Incidentally, is there a way to make a live-actionLittle Mermaidthat is all Ursula all the time?
Every person whos expressed interest in the role: Fierstein,Lizzo,Gaga,Tituss Burgess.
I want them all to do a heist or something.)
There is such a thing as going too far with name-dropping.
Schreiner is notably, woefully absent fromThe Alec Baldwin Show.Nobody is there to stop him.
Ive watched this clip seven times and still do not understand the purpose of the story.
This is my favorite story, Baldwin says at the top.
But is it even a story?
Stories have beginnings, middles, and ends.
This is mostly just the weirdest Kim Basinger impression Ive ever heard and maybe a critique of Italian-Americans.
The name-dropping is next-level.
We start the story with Betty Bacall; Lauren Bacalls real name being Betty Joan Perske.
But then we get the prop guy, a restaurant name-check, someone named Jimmy, someone named Frank.
The only person not name-checked is Alecs ex-wife, which is a different kind of flex.
The best name-dropping of the week has to go to Busy Philipps.
And for once, its notMichelle Williams.
But what makes this god-tier name-dropping is that she coaxes an Oprah-drop out of Colbert himself.
