Best in Show Reunion: Cast Reveals Set Secrets and Favorite Scenes (Exclusive)

ET’s Nischelle Turner reunited the cast of ‘Best in Show’ for the beloved comedy’s 20th anniversary. Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, Christopher Guest, Jane Lynch, Michael McKean and John Michael Higgins discuss behind-the-scenes secrets and trying not to laugh during the movie’s funniest moments. Everyone reflects on the late Fred Willard. The cast reveals where they think their characters would be today, and if there’s potential for a ‘Best in Show’ sequel!
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[@VHSarah]

“You stupid hotel manager!” “We are so lucky.. so lucky to have been raised on catalogues” all the Parker Posey quotes kill me

[@jessiekaylee6496]

Made a pee pee in the bedroom then a poo poo in your shoe 😂

[@daflotsam]

Working on my Mac…

[@Castro-sl5qw]

This? THIS!? This is a fish, THIS IS A FISH! You know what? Just shut up..... The pet store scene is my favorite parker posey scene. Actually all her scenes were funny but the pet store really got me. 😊😊

[@dandy_griffith]

DON’T SPIT AT ME!

[@eileenkenney]

I don’t know how they didn’t have the busy bee scene in there! I die every time I think of that. I’m a veterinarian and have seen these types of extreme pet owner characters throughout my career.

[@rawpower12xu]

Fred Willard was incredibly funny in this movie. Rest In Peace Mr. Willard

[@esterdrass4964]

Did you catch that moment when he said about Cookie, that handler looks familiar to me...omg...I pissed myself

[@CoastPropertyBuyers]

Incredibly talented comedic actor.

[@kyleanderson2949]

And to think, in some countries, these dogs are eaten

[@pumpkinpuna4087]

Favorite scene where the gay couple are checking in and Ed Bagley says " we have you down for non smoking with a queen and dude turns around and says " and just what are you implying ?" OMG THAT SCENE NEVER GETS OLD. THE " PLUMBER BUTT" scene is also funny. Great movie and better improv. BRAVO 👍❤️🌹👑💯💕🥰😇💎🤣😂

[@comoyoko]

That interviewer is the very type of person they satirize in their films. 😅

[@AlmostReady504]

Not really there has never been a black person in a Christopher Guest movie

[@sabrinashelton1997]

@@AlmostReady504 One of the many things that makes them good...

[@naysayer1238]

@@AlmostReady504 Well, yeah: heavy metal, small town theater, dog shows, folk music...

[@danarzechula3769]

I loved her😂❤

[@rietakahashi3820]

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this movie absolutely brilliant movie

[@milhouse14]

Hilarious film. One of the best mockumentaries of all time.

[@betsybauer7340]

Christopher Guest didn’t like the term mockumentaries for his films because he said that they weren’t mocking anything, but he would call them fake documentaries

[@franknavin2463]

These actors are complete professionals. They worked so hard on this movie. A movie that will make people laugh for years and years to come. Bravo!

[@lahaza6515]

Christopher Guest is like "I'm not playing your dopey "Entertainment Tonight" routine. No one older on set informed the girl that Eugene & Catherine had been working together a lot longer than 20 years ago.

[@IlaughedIcried]

Her questions are horrendous and insulting.

[@paulaandviv1739]

Exactly! They did Waiting for Guffman years for before this

[@watervillegangmember]

@@paulaandviv1739 and the groundbreaking, much loved and respected SCTV 1976-1981.

[@jonnytheboy7338]

@@watervillegangmember I can't even begin to say how much I loved SCTV

[@TheLinda7921]

One of the movies that I can watch over and over

[@merylgoodwin1165]

One of my all time favorite films.

[@livetechsupport909]

The two Michaels played up the "Annoying Manhattan Married Gay Couple" to an OSCAR worthy level - and it was improvised!

[@freddylubin]

"A Mighty Wind" is underrated.

[@viviannichols3582]

One of my favorite movies of all time

[@jkeister]

I love these people and every movie they’ve made together. I re-watched BEST IN SHOW on Christmas (during COVID ... sad and alone) but something happened that gave my spirits a huge lift. My dog Sammie heard the sound of a dog from the TV and joined me in the den. For over an hour she stood on her hind legs with her front paws perched on the TV counsel and watched every scene where a dog appeared. At one point she walked around to the back of the TV to see if she could find dogs. You know a movie is universally beloved when your dog can’t take her eyes off of it.

[@jonnytheboy7338]

Let's not forget their earlier stage and television work. Fernwood tonight, SCTV etc, just brilliant

[@julietteyork6293]

Love this

[@leonardovera5398]

Jane running with her poodle was fantastic

[@skeptigal2785]

McKeon is the star of every Guest mockumentary, and he barely said a word. Ugh, that interviewer! They should send up ET.

[@esterdrass4964]

Brilliant. I saw this movie when it first came out in dvd and had really no idea what it was about. I was looking for a comedy and I found it and loved it and still do. I appreciate all the actors. It's a movie that reminds me of the classic a Mad Mad world. Get a bunch of actors to work in two's who each have their own story to tell and somehow, they all end up together. Even up to the very end of the movie, it was an ending that tied in with the opening of the movie and very clever. Fun to watch again and again. Honestly, I would have loved to have been in that audience for that movie...all day...unpaid.

[@kellyj.azania4371]

That was a really great interview!😂🤣 I do believe "Best In Show" is my favorite. "A Mighty Wind" is a very close second.

[@LB-gz3ke]

I agree completely. AMW is a bit sad at the end where BIS ends with everyone in a happy place. I think that's why it is number 1 for me.

[@spat7982]

That host probably never even saw the movie

[@daa589]

Getting lines in the ear piece from a producer who is a fan

[@90sNickfan91]

It’s time for Christopher Guest to direct another mockumentary. My idea for the next mockumentary are former washed up childhood stars that have been reduced to Comic Cons. They should tribute it to Fred Willard if they make it. Send me your ideas.

[@daveb4194]

"Dickie Roberts" is the exact thing.

[@johnnypal716]

CLASSIC. My sense of humor is about 50% Best In Show. Among my group of old friends some phrases/words say so much: “hundreds”; “this is a fish”; “it’s Debbie!”; and most importantly: “and also reward”. Love these folks so much!

[@coler8437]

Hahah I also say “ ..and also reward” a lot and got my college roommate saying it too back in 2002

[@canuckdjs]

Why is the interviewer shouting her comments? Good god girl, take it down a notch.

[@samanthathompson9812]

Yeah really grating voice

[@chrisdalton5646]

@@samanthathompson9812 Since this type of entertainment interviewer often behaves like this, I'm guessing they're instructed to be that way; to keep the energy up, smile, be emphatic to hold the viewers' attention, be likable to focus groups, something like that. You see it sooo much that I suspect it's not this individual interviewer's fault really. It's like being a cheerleader or something, you're required to do it a certain way, you can't be a chill, soft-spoken cheerleader.

[@kiitzer]

I'm a dog show person and this is one of my favorites of all times

[@claricesmith8459]

My very favorite movies. I Have the DVD. I never tire of watching this great movie.

[@omnivorous65]

Striking the misconception on part of the interviewer to believe these guys would be all funny and loose when they were without exception dead serious professionals. Comedy is hard work it seems.

[@catgiles3268]

One of my all time favorite movies!

[@chrisdalton5646]

Oh my god, a civil war re-enactors movie with the Christopher Guest gang, perfect! Jane Lynch nailed it right at the buzzer!

[@bebaaliciacreations]

Real magic all together 👏👍♥️

[@michaelpaoneproductions]

Let me ask you, how much do you think I could bench press?

[@adriantiley6660]

"It's a trade secret, they all jump"

[@jonikilly8365]

😂

[@grantgilbert2822]

“Lemme ask you something, how much do you think I could bench press”. RIP Fred Willard

[@Sawlon]

This and A Mighty Wind so cracked me up!

[@ritashpilt8891]

the best film ever, we watch it as a family at least once a year

[@pat557]

"Rhapsody has two mommies..."

[@LemurMaster]

I love all these actors, but I hate this interview.

[@OlafProt]

A quite impossibly brilliant film. The actors are allowed to fully utilize their talents, to great effect.

[@beachstreet101]

Didn’t really ask Jane Lynch anything. Should’ve asked her about her pairing with Jennifer Coolidge in the film.

[@tommarck4296]

If I am in bad mood I watch this.hilarious!!!

[@ignoremychannel5361]

If a pregnant Woman go swimming she is basically a human submarine

[@MegaVthompson]

THE BEST MOVIE EVER‼️💞 #ageless

[@Zooba57]

Levy's son Dan might be good in a Guest film. Be fun to see him play a straight character. Would be interesting.

[@tracyw1200]

Yikes, that interviewer... so cringe-y.

[@moxxichannel5950]

Was not looking forward to seeing this way back when. We weren’t dog people (or pet people) due to allergies. But I loved Waiting For Guffman (and Spinal Tap, SCTV, Fernwood 2nite etc). Instant classic. It is the rare movie where every scene is comedy gold. We had to stop quoting this movie at home because it became a table read. We are now dog people 20 years later, love our Yorkie puppy & just rewatched it again on DVD. One of the best comedy’s of all time.

[@nunomoniz3788]

I thought 2 left feet would walk to the right in circles.

[@claireelkins523]

I would do anything for another Movie

[@pumpkinpuna4087]

Michael McKean is Lenny from Laverne and Shirley !!!!

[@txcuti1673]

They could make a movie about a cat show 😊

[@mountainstream8351]

Back when movies were actually funny....this is one of the funniest.

[@otting03]

Dear lord the interviewer

[@Paulafan5]

I know, right? That's the worst zoom host I've seen on any of these zoom/youtube reunion pieces. I've seen dozens and she is by far the worst.

[@LB-gz3ke]

I would watch this troupe in a nursing home movie or a Civil War reenactment movie. Let's get moving on that!

[@tbonehunter]

11:55 For those who’ve seen “A Mighty Wind”, Eugene is talking to us from Mitch’s room in the sanatarium.

[@Richard-hv5hh]

I thought the interviewer was delightful. She has such warmth and enthusiasm. She also had done her research and was able to keep the interview nicely paced. She was as much a pleasure to watch as the wonderful cast.

[@annamelanie5151]

Awful interviewer. Ugh

[@韓国J]

RIP to all the dogs

[@Local_yokels_monsters_myths]

I love Christopher’s stab at PC. Flat people!! Willard should have asked why Levy’s character keeps from walking in circles???

[@Paulafan5]

Love the reunion, hated the host. I wish they got a good host to do this. The questions were a little clumsy and stiff.

[@ownpetard8379]

Fully disagree. She was well prepared and enthusiastic. Best support for this is that Chris Guest wasn't an ass with her - although being well prepared and enthusiastic is no guarantee that Chris won't be an ass with an interviewer - say hello to David Alan Grier. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iaK8Znt9i694rKs

[@kyleanderson2949]

@@ownpetard8379I’d be willing to bet the interviewer has never seen the whole movie

[@primemover1416]

These movies are hilarious. Almost as funny, if you watch the DVDs, are the commentary tracks with Christopher and Eugene.

[@susanstorm7910]

WHERE IS JENNIFER COOLIDGE 😭😭😭😅😅😅😩😩😩

[@AlmostReady504]

Fred Willard was created for Christopher Guest movies. God bless him He is so missed

[@Pww642]

Christopher Guest, one of the funniest men alive, has never actually laughed at anything.

[@johnspooner1403]

The Pacific Coliseum. 16,000 seat hockey arena. Yeah, big.

[@rosemanos5123]

One of my favorite movies!

[@bethminer7966]

One of my all time favorite movies!

[@howstunningly]

Wow, such a great opportunity to interview some of the greatest artists ~ why on earth is this child doing it??? 😒

[@otisroseboro5613]

One Of My All Time Favorite Movie's, Love It Classic

[@marklevy2092]

the greatest comedy of all time

[@Ono_Rourke]

unfortunately this host is not prepared for this interview

[@shac9131]

One of my favorite movies. This movie is also in the guinness book of world records

[@canadiantraveller281]

Lovely cast, but this interviewer is super annoying.

[@cm1642]

Too bad the whole group wasnt there

[@AEM479]

This movie is HEAVEN ❤❤❤😂😂 🤣

[@otisroseboro5613]

I'm Watching This Movie Right Now

[@Pww642]

Normally the interviewers in these kinds of segments are annoying but you can tell this lady legit loves the movie and is living out her dream to talk with them all.

[@kyleanderson2949]

I’d be surprised if she has even seen the movie.

[@pumpkinpuna4087]

Isn't Christopher Guest married to Jamie Leigh Curtis?

[@cassvanessa5]

The next movie should be about Cild beauty pageants.. or anything at all PLEASE!!!!

[@jonikilly8365]

It should be about child dance competition teams!😂

[@sabrinashelton1997]

This dei interviewer is TERRIBLE.

[@danielosmon]

Natural all natural, white pistachio nut

[@chanceybooth4537]

We need a best in show 2!!!

[@EricAKATheBelgianGuy]

I wish they could have gotten Jim Piddock for this. Fred Willard reportedly said that he was so straitlaced and convincing that some fans thought he wasn't an actor and he was a real dog show analyst.

[@renlessard]

For me Larry Miller's time on screen is just comic gold. He made me howl

[@kambermusic]

all of these stupid interviews are just the actors and/or director explaining how improvising works 😂

[@ariesgray3]

Why do Christopher Guest and Jamie Lee Curtis not appear together? That’s my ultimate dinner party couple!

[@NipItInTheBud100]

One of my favorite movies by far!! The whole cast was great!! I mean they had to be if they made a movie about a dog show great!!

[@MegaVthompson]

Love you peeps ‼️‼️

[@LynnerdSkinnerd97]

One of my favorite movies of all time! Have it on DVD! I almost have it memorized at this point.

[@Dragonlove3]

Amazing

[@Dkazakis84]

Did they do this reunion for Mighty Wind?

[@johnvalenzuela5279]

This movie helped me understand white people. When I see them talking to their dogs like humans and french kissing their Great Danes I refer to these folks and it all makes sense.

[@JiveDadson]

Jane Lynch just had to sit there being ignored. I was embarrassed for her.

[@TheLinda7921]

Hilarious Hilarious

[@robertburke2253]

"Im not wearin' underwear!" -Bulge

[@Zooba57]

The last one I think they all did together was FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION and it wasn't very good. Best for me was GUFFMAN. BEST IN SHOW and MIGHTY WIND were also enjoyable. Guest is always good playing gay. Corky St. Clair, Chip and Antoninus DiMentabella with Martin Short and Billy Crystal.

[@SeverSTL]

It took years for this film to sink in. Now it's a cult film.

[@LA-zy3ht]

Noooo omgggg 😱🤩🤩🤩 I know every line! My favourite all time movie, I’m a dog show person but it isnt about that even if it makes it even more hilarious, I’ve met you all at dogshows 😂😂😂 well look at my username btw 😅 You’re the best, thank you so much for all laughs . Actually last time I re-watched it was three weeks ago. 😆😅 luv ya 🥰🐩🐩🐩

[@rls4072]

Hilariously Brilliant!

[@SavageVoyageur]

Absolutely love this movie, so funny. We bought 3 or 4 bumble bees toys for our Yorkshire terrier and we call them the busy bees.

[@TheLinda7921]

How many days did you film

[@YdnickniL]

Best movie ever

[@pumpkinpuna4087]

This movie is one of those that to do a remake would absolutely kill it's cult like status. You don't remake a solid gold original. There's a rumor that Hollywood wants to remake JAWS, my favorite movie of all time, and when Steven Spielberg caught wind of it he began doing everything in his power to stop that from happening....he isn't giving up. E.T is another movie that needs to be left alone to live in peace and popularity. 👍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🌹🌹🌹👑👑👑💯💯💯💕🥰🥰🥰

[@edp3202]

The interviewer is terrible.

[@chrisdalton5646]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hmnVoXtvrshgiK8

[@johnwolffe8473]

Lousy format