We take a fresh look at a classic movie, long-running TV show, or legendary performer through the eyes of someone discovering it for the very first time. Each episode, a different guest describes their first encounter with one of these classics. Does it hold up? Should it still have "classic" status? What took you so long?
Rollins Eason is a big fan of Steven Universe (the TV series), Steven Universe: The Movie, and Steven Universe Future. He gives us an explanation from the perspective of an 8-year-old fan.
Actor/Improviser Tara Copeland (and longtime friend) finally sees Taxi Driver. Both Jess and I and Tara's husband Andrew know it very well. Tara finally gets caught up and offers a sometime contrarian opinion. Jessica Eason on Instagram @Jessica_Elaina_EasonJames Eason on Instagram @James_Eason_MusicFollow the podcast: Instagram: @LastOneToThePartyPodcastTwitter: LastOneToThePa1email: LastOneToThePartyPodcast@gmail.com
The tables are turned! Jessica Eason (Babysitter's Club, The Big Show Show, Night Court) hosts and interviews me about legendary performer Patti Lupone!We dish on the Tony Awards, jazz black holes, and Broadway in general.Jessica Eason on Instagram @Jessica_Elaina_EasonJames Eason on Instagram @James_Eason_MusicFollow the podcast: Instagram: @LastOneToThePartyPodcastTwitter: LastOneToThePa1email: LastOneToThePartyPodcast@gmail.com
Actor/writer Von Montegut III joins us to talk about watching The Godfather Trilogy for the very first time. He shares his ranking of the three films and his overall opinion of the much-debated Godfather III.Jessica Eason on Instagram @Jessica_Elaina_EasonJames Eason on Instagram @James_Eason_MusicFollow the podcast: Instagram: @LastOneToThePartyPodcastTwitter: LastOneToThePa1email: LastOneToThePartyPodcast@gmail.com
Jessica Eason (Babysitter's Club, The Big Show Show, Night Court) sees Peter Bogdanovic's What's Up Doc? for the first time. It evokes conversation about Caddyshack, stalking (hilarious and otherwise), and Streisand!Jessica Eason on Instagram @Jessica_Elaina_EasonJames Eason on Instagram @James_Eason_MusicFollow the podcast: Instagram: @LastOneToThePartyPodcastTwitter: LastOneToThePa1email: LastOneToThePartyPodcast@gmail.com
Jessica Eason (Babysitter's Club, Big Show Show, Night Court) is a Scorsese/DeNiro devotee but she'd never seen Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. She sees it for the first time and comparisons to Boyhood and a detour through Hannah and Her Sisters.Jessica Eason on Instagram @Jessica_Elaina_EasonJames Eason on Instagram @James_Eason_MusicFollow the podcast: Instagram: @LastOneToThePartyPodcastTwitter: LastOneToThePa1email: LastOneToThePartyPodcast@gmail.com
Jessica Eason (Babysitter's Club, Night Court) had never seen Beverly Hills Cop. We talk about some of the surprising movies she did see (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, et al). We revel in the magic that is Eddie Murphy!Jessica Eason on Instagram @Jessica_Elaina_EasonJames Eason on Instagram @James_Eason_MusicFollow the podcast: Instagram: @LastOneToThePartyPodcastTwitter: LastOneToThePa1email: LastOneToThePartyPodcast@gmail.com
Another podcast-within-a-podcast! This one features the talented and hilarious Bayne Gibby. Bayne is an actor/writer/director who most recently appeared in the Oscar nominated film Lady Bird. She portrayed Connie on HBO's Enlightened and was Gigi on the HBO's The Comeback. Just a few of her other television credits include Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (CW), Shameless (Showtime), The Guest Book (tbs), Hot in Cleveland (TVLand), Fresh Off the Boat (abc), et al. Her first children's book, You Mean the World to Me (Scholastic) has sold over 90K copies.
The Russian nesting dolls of podcasts. Worst of the Best is a demo of a pitch of a podcast. While we fine tune it, I present the first draft here for you. Improviser/writer/actor/magician New Jersey native and Bruce Springsteen devotee Matt Donnelly calls out the worst album Bruce Springsteen has ever put out. Is it the one you would've picked?
Mel Brooks is promoting History of the World, Part 1 on KGO Radio on a show hosted by my dad! Bonus info: I was there in studio and also escorted Mr. Brooks to the TV side to do AM San Francisco. Bonus Bonus info: He was utterly great and even told me a joke -- just to me! A private joke from Mel Brooks to me! Lastly, that network news anchor at the very end, Bob Schmidt? Ten years after this was recorded, I was working with him the the ABC Radio Network Newsroom in NYC. Bonus Bonus Bonus info: our collective memory is that a very young Tom Hanks was also on that same show promoting Bosom Buddies. I can't verify it but my dad and I both remember it that way so it must be true. (iTunes is weird sometimes and I'll find things mysteriously deleted. I recovered the full interview on a backup drive and reposted it with the additional content.)
What happens when you combine a teacher's strike and disgruntled, talented, irreverent, audacious music students? We mark the 35th Anniversary of the Berklee College of Music's teacher's strike with the tiniest phenomenon from that unprecedented time. Not for the faint of heart -- the music thumbs its nose at convention and even taste. IG: LastOneToThePartyPodcast email: LastOneToThePartyPodcast@gmail.com
Theodore Isidore Gottlieb was a one-of-a-kind performer whose career spanned six decades. He was known for stream-of-consciousness monologues which he called "stand-up tragedy". He frequently had himself introduced as "a noted philosopher, metaphysician, and podiatrist”. Theodore occupied a unique space in the entertainment landscape. Give a listen to a sample of his work and how I came to discover it for myself. Instagram: @LastOneToThePartyPodcast LastOneToThePartyPodcast@gmail.com If you enjoy the episode give us a like, a review, and/or a subscribe!
The one and only Johnny "The Whizzer" Wizniewczki! For a brief period in the early 2000's The Whizzer barged into the studio of Jake and Jackie on WFNY and took NYC by storm. Here are the highlights and bonus samples and even a bonus bonus sample.
A brief tangent on the real meaning of the podcast, what's in store after the new year, and where to submit requests for any future episodes.
Rollins travels further into the MCU and onto some of the, um, lesser earlier contributions. Which ones hold up, which ones disappoint, what are some of the auxiliary successes? Also the truth behind our previous episode!
What If WTF's Marc Maron interviewed me? I think it might go something like this...
8-year-old Rollins Eason (my son) has gone all in on the MCU. He's seen the benchmark movies (save for Iron Man and Captain America: Winter Soldier) and tells us all about what's good in them, who's the coolest, which one he wants to be and more!
Caught without a guest, I improvise an episode about improv. Improvise in the sense that upon my late night realization that I had no episode I opened the mic and started talking. Proust has nothing to worry about. This is a loose, one-man, oral history of a small slice of what it felt like to be a part of the theater at its nascent stages. email: LastOneToThePartyPodcast@gmail.com
A special (if brief) episode to tackle some of our voluminous emails from our listeners. All of your questions are finally answered!
Jessica talks to me (James Eason) about the award-winning Fleabag starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge. There are secret confessions, earnest praise, men vs. women, and a pretty great or pretty awful dad joke.
Hyland Harris joins us to talk about two movies that attack race and prejudice through satire. Hyland is a jazz drummer, tai chi instructor (www.chutaichi.com), manager at Louis Armstrong House (https://www.louisarmstronghouse.org), and musicologist. In this episode we get into a deep alternate theory of Watermelon Man (Godfrey Cambridge, Estelle Parsons, dir. Melvin Van Peebles), speculations on the behind-the-scenes of Putney Swope (Arnold Johnson, Antonio Fargas, dir. Robert Downey Sr.), and the evolutionary benefits of a turtleneck. Instagram: @LastOneToThePartyPodcast email: LastOneToThePartyPodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @LastOneToThePa1
Erika Smith, one of the three "Hotties" from Hotties, joins us to gives her take on the kaleidoscopic experience of filming Hotties back in 2004 New York City. We find out how she got paid, romantic consequences, changes in the industry, and life after Hotties as a working actress
BJ Gallagher also got sucked into the Hotties vortex. He shares his experience with that 2005 low point in small independent film making.
A listener gave a shout out to "Hotties" a while back. If you don't know (and nobody should know anything about these movies), Hotties I & II are two flat-out awful movies that I was in back in 2005. It's cheap exploitation and all of us were suckered in by the listing which promised lots of improv. Well, I was 7 years deep into my improv journey and easily lured in. The whole experience and the final product are one collective dumpster fire, but it gave me a friend in Rick Younger. I force him to walk down this rancid memory lane with me just this once. Rick Younger: @RickYounger email: LastOneToTheParty@gmail.com Instagram: @LastOneToThePartyPodcast
Jess had me watch Widows (2018) with Viola Davis, Liam Neeson, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Dibicki, et al. Is Robert Duvall the important "glue" in every movie he's done? Will Widows become a must-see movie within the next five years? Instagram: @LastOneToThePartyPodcast email: LastOneToThePartyPodcast@gmail.com Twitter: LastOneToThePa1
Jessica Eason (The Babysitter's Club, The Big Show Show, Real Housewives of South Boston) talks to James Eason about John Cassavette's A Woman Under The Influence. An all-time favorite of Jess's the conversation gets into gender roles, the movie Housekeeping, and gets deeply emotional. Instagram: @LastOneToThePartyPodcast email: LastOneToThePartyPodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @LastOneToThePa1
Jessica Eason (The Big Show Show, The Babysitter's Club, Real Housewives of South Boston) knew Richard Pryor was a legendary stand up but had only seen him in two movies. She dives into two Richard Pryor concert movies and one very famous album. A lot of tangents into other stand ups, persistent social issues, and more Instagram: @LastOneToThePartyPodcast email: LastOneToThePartyPodcast@gmail.com
John Flynn (actor/writer/director, co-host of Two Old Queens podcast, and longtime member of the UCB Theatre community in NYC and L.A.) heard our recent episode on Patti LuPone and had ISSUES! He wrote us an email and, because he's an old friend, we put him on the podcast immediately. John offers up dissent, rebuttal, addenda, corrections, gossip and gets me to confess to a close call with my high school musical! Follow John on Twitter @JFly99 and on Instagram @John_Flynn99 Follow Jessica Eason on Instagram @Jessica.Eason.Agency Follow James Eason on Instagram @James_Eason_Music Follow the podcast Instagram: @LastOneToThePartyPodcast Twitter: LastOneToThePa1 email: LastOneToThePartyPodcast@gmail.com
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