Patton Oswalt & Conan React To A Wild ‘70s Movie Stunt | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

Patton Oswalt shows Conan, Sona, and Gourley an unreal stunt from the 1975 film “Framed.”
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[@DangerousDac]

I love how Patton turned this into an episode of Best of the Worst.

[@dipperdandy]

Oh my gaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwd

[@aznthy]

Well, he won't go back to RLM since the last time, he watched the worst.

[@dipperdandy]

@@aznthy Well I don't imagine he happens to be in Wisconsin all that often.

[@Hoganply]

@@dipperdandy True, but I'd love to see him do a Re:View.

[@batoutofmel4959]

Watching this, I was thinking about the one they did where a truck runs over a stuntman's head.

[@damonversaggi]

Conan's take on editing and timing is so spot on...

[@Charles_Bro-son]

Sometimes atmosphere lacks a bit of breathing room with the tight editing nowadays.

[@Mokkari77]

The show that changed the pacing of TV forever was ER in 1994.

[@MandleRoss]

Yeah, they somethings even cut off the ends of sente...

[@ravenn22]

and yet, almost every serial TV show these days drags 1.5 hrs worth of plot into 10 episodes...

[@Mokkari77]

@@ravenn22 In the old days it was stretching a half hour worth of plot to an hour. Now it's stretching the plot of a two hour movie into 8-10 hour long episodes.

[@richardyasushiii3848]

Patton Oswalt is so knowledgeable about film, including foreign films and auteurs, that he should really inherit the mantle of Roger Ebert. His appreciation of B-movies to A-class art films, is impressive.

[@cleverusername9369]

I could listen to Patton speak knowledgeably and eruditely about movies for untold lengths of time.

[@davetheunicorn6720]

Damn, you were faster than me 😂 I feel the same way.

[@ctrainbeats]

i love the word erudite, idk why

[@emu_warrior]

It's a shame he's the zodiac killer and killed his wife :(

[@erinrising2799]

100% agree he's like the nerdy older brother I never had

[@shutupandcolor]

I could see Patton and Matt hanging out now.

[@MehrdadParthian]

its such a joy when conan and patton oswalt get to talk to each other, because its almost like they're sitting at conan's porch and just talking like they normally would behind the camera. there are very few people that conan has this chemistry with, such as kevin nealon or bill burr, etc. and its so amusing to watch :)

[@kstepko]

We need more Patton Oswald giving us the behind-the-scenes story of old movie clips!

[@SuperlunarNim]

The stunt performer is a guy named Buddy Joe Hooker, he also notably jumped a landing helicopter on a motorcycle. Still alive today at 81.

[@willmartin1837]

Umm Patton is a freak pedio…

[@Marijuanifornia]

There's a WWII video called *Hemp for Victory* on how to grow weed to make equipment for the military. At 13:03 in the film, there is an old naval battle to showcase the USS Constitution and how hemp made the ropes and sails on the ship. You see a man fall from the top mast, snag on a rope and cartwheel like 10 stories the rest of the way down and slapping the water full force. That was in 1942, well before CGI. I don't know if the person survived, but it's in the video. Also, because this needs to be emphasized, there's a WWII government video that tells everyone how to grow weed to defend our country.

[@hoytoy100]

Patton is the best film reviewer. Could listen to him for hours going on about movies. His knowledge and recall is amazing.

[@joshuaporterfield6774]

He’s more interesting than a lot of the movies themselves.

[@mattwales2734]

The chase scene in the French Connection was a crime caught on film. LOL.

[@ODUBlue]

Love this 😂🎯

[@magicknight13]

I need a Conan and Patton watch movies and commentary podcast!

[@decibelfilm]

Gourley always with the perfectly timed quips and chime-ins.

[@chancestockman]

He took some cues from Andy Richter!

[@user-qj1we9iy2u]

@@chancestockman waaaaay funnier than andy

[@chancestockman]

@@user-qj1we9iy2u noooope!

[@EuanH91]

The best is the scene in Tora! Tora! Tora! when the plane accidentally veers off and crashes into a bunch of other parked planes in a huge fireball, and you can clearly see all the stuntmen/actors literally running for their lives.

[@salsal435]

YES!!!

[@michaelhenehan1809]

I could listen to that guy talk about sci-fi, story, or just about anything for hours

[@darkmoonlady2002]

Hooper has amazing stunts and funny as hell too.

[@ColinFilm]

I know it was a video bit on an audio podcast but I enjoyed listening to their reaction and now watching the clip itself. Would be on board for more reactions like this every now and then. 😁

[@troubleondemand7703]

For anyone who loves old school stunts, you have to watch the movie Hooper with Burt Reynolds. Absolute classic.

[@charlie-obrien]

It is a classic and it proves one thing... That the stuntman in that scene took his $100 pay and bought all of his stunt buddies beers after the shoot.

[@jesperjee]

Yes! Dar Robinson was great!

[@PatrickAirman]

I love how Conan just exclaims "OOOOOOOHHHHHH!" hilarious

[@timgreenwald1043]

I just want to hear Patton Oswalt talk about movies all the time

[@williamgregory1848]

Patton Oswalt being a cinephile is warming my heart 😊

[@calibby85]

Id love to hear Patton and Hader nerd out on films

[@jimmyguitar2933]

I absolutely LOVE witnessing Patton and Matt totally geek out over B movies!

[@Ishai1]

It's funny that so many people think there was no CGI in Top Gun Maverick, that movie is loaded with it. Yes, they went up in the jets for real, so their reactions feel real, but almost everything outside the jet was VFX

[@kamuelalee]

Truth, but it was more real than the first TG

[@Ishai1]

​@@kamuelaleeYea, like I said, they were in real jets so the g-force and movements are more realistic. I think in the original movie Tom got himself a flight in the back set of an F-14, just to experience it, but the actual movie was shot like all other flight scenes in other movies, with a mock cockpit on hydraulics.

[@kev3d]

They said the same about Mad Max Fury Road. "It's all practical!" Sure, if you exclude the green screens, artificial extras, wire and stunt rig removal, CGI backgrounds and storm effects, and most of the environments...sure, it was practical.

[@Fucisko]

Haven't seen TG but it was same thing in Mission Impossible Fallout. They did the HALO jump for real but added this bullshit looking storm so basically just Tom Cruise falling is real but everything around is CGI.

[@zoeherriot]

@@Ishai1they weren’t in real fighter jets though. All of the jet exteriors are CGI. And a ton of those in cockpit shots are CGI too.

[@Monticello19]

Mitchell! heart's poundin' Mitchell! vein's cloggin'

[@hamiljohn]

If Patton could be on every week, it'd be so, so awesome. This Joe Don Baker film seems like I need to see it!

[@EatinPaste]

It's nice to see that Patton's RLM appearance didn't kill his love for movies 😆

[@dipperdandy]

man, yeah that was an unfortunate day on the wheel.

[@Wabajak13]

being around Mike just makes everyone hate everything. It's hard to escape his cynical aura.

[@nighttray1489]

One more guest spot outta do it

[@HOTD108_]

Does Patton unironically hate RLM or was he just playing up the bit? Logically I wanna say it was a bit, but emotionally the hatred felt real.

[@gustafsone]

@@HOTD108_ I think it was more of a bit, because once they sat down at the table to actually start talking about the movies, he opened up a lot more and was excited to talk about things and seemed like he genuinely enjoyed watching the shitty movies with the other guys. I don't know that he will ever do that show again, but I don't think he actually hated being there. With some of their other special guests, they will have them bring in one or two of their own suggested bad movies to put on the wheel, and I have a feeling that when Patton agreed to do the show, he told them to not hold back and pick the shitty movies that they would normally pick to put on the wheel (or was it the plinketto board? not that it matters).

[@foxhound13]

I think of Batman The Animated Series where they were on striked guidlines (no realistic guns, swearing, blood, and such). In interviews and commentary tracks you learn how they are told by the censors they can't do that. And they come back with something that looks much more horrifying like the way jokers victims look from the laugh gas or seeing batgirl fall but you get the point of view from inside of the car from Jim Gordon. Patton is right, you can say what you want, you just have to be clever.

[@Estamir]

Batman TAS, and even Batman Beyond were key examples of how you can turn around those absurd mandates into something interesting. And as for whittling down the graphic nature of things, never underestimate what a person's imagination can do when you give them enough to work with. What might be funny or simply odd on paper can become nightmare fuel for many!

[@brianjl7477]

@@Estamir I agree. It seems like these days evrything is spoon-fed, and audiences seem to want that or else they cry "plot hole!" Tapping into the viewer's imagination can be a very powerful storytelling tool.

[@Tonyhouse1168]

Like when Conan did a bit of him interviewing his network censor

[@solvseus]

"You can't even tell jokes anymore" - a famous comedian in an internationally streamed comedy special in front of a huge audience

[@rogueshadowunit4964]

That last part applies to this podcast too. Only uploading the video format in segments and not just the full audio version.

[@nick_hansolo]

The Slip Nutz are a universal constant so their pacing should always feel the same imo

[@charlesselby3559]

Love hearing these guys talk film

[@sumocat666]

The scene in Used Cars is a guy chasing a $20 bill across a street that Kurt Russell’s character has on a fishing line to lure him into his car lot. He’s not playing a drunk, but he was inches away from getting smacked by a car.

[@TriglycerideBeware]

Are we thinking of the same scene? The one I think he's talking about is on KZbin, called "Used Cars red car freakout". What you're describing sounds different

[@sumocat666]

@@TriglycerideBeware My scene is from the beginning, but it could be either one. Hard to say given no one is drunk in either.

[@TriglycerideBeware]

@@sumocat666 sounds like one dangerous movie haha

[@IPlayOneOnT.V.]

Yes, JDB is literally half in the fireball coming out of the car, then immediately afterward in the same scene he's beating a guy into a bloody mess. There it is! I just looked this up.

[@nameisnotrelevant]

The fact that Patron Oswald is commenting on a Joe Don Baker movie, this is like a MST3K haze dream! MITCHELL!!

[@ericg4868]

Conan watching old crappy movies doing MST3K style commentary would be awesome.

[@thedude4672]

I would watch that

[@sidhackney8831]

Have you seen his episode of Red Letter Media's Best of the Worst?

[@themoviedealers]

You know he was a cast member on MST3K, right?

[@fdsfsdfsd1552]

@@sidhackney8831 - Conan?

[@fdsfsdfsd1552]

@@themoviedealers - Conan?

[@TNbear0126]

Sona laughing is adorable. I’m a fan. 😊

[@CDRaff]

What makes this even crazier is that the fireball was made by setting literal trash bags filled with gasoline on fire.

[@ragnarokangaroo]

"These guys both auditioned to be Duke Boys." - Man, Conan needs to be a guest on RiffTrax or MST3K

[@daviddavid5880]

That hypercompression is no joke. It's like everything is aimed at toddlers with zero patience. It feels so spoon-fed.

[@floki-man]

I was about to rant about: where’s the f i n g clips Patton is talking about?! Thank you for adding them. Makes hearing this twice worth it. The train guys roll is slow because he tripped, he was supposed to be running on impact.

[@mikereed4594]

One of my favorite old stunts in a crappy movie was this real stinker of a black and white American attempt at a kaiju movie called "The Giant Claw" featuring an enormous prehistoric vulture puppet that is describes as being bigger and more powerful than a battleship. There's a scene where the MC and the love interest are jumping out of an exploding vehicle when it crashes, and you can see them hit the ground, and then a piece of flaming debris nails the lead in the back, and you see him jerk upwards and start to panic, before the camera cuts away and they're fine again in a different shot. That shot where you can see the stunt go a little wrong, and the guy is just like "oh god, am I gonna die? someone is literally hucking flaming trash at me, and it went wrong" is so real and funny to see.

[@Chulaan]

I saw Sword and the sorcerer when I was a kid. Never heard that story before

[@dustinbrummett3774]

“That’s what I signed up for” lol

[@TomWDW1]

You should check a lot of Hong Kong martial arts stuntwork from the 80s and 90s. SO dangerous. But it does look amazing.

[@JACKXK]

These guys could talk for 10 hours and it would all be interesting and thought provoking.

[@eromacque]

Dude! That's Hunter Von Leer! From Halloween 2!

[@SmartVandelay]

5:04 I think they call this the John Landis approach.

[@mitchellhughes5180]

Ha!

[@theylied1776]

Conan is correct on the hyper-compressed editing on television and movies. That was pioneered by MTV.

[@Grovester77]

I know that scene he's talking about from Used Cars. Near the end when Gerrit Graham is having his meltdown when he finds he's been driving a red car during the final.act.

[@bennychristensen4314]

I am sure that Patton Oswald has seen and appreciated some of the Burt Reynolds stunts. In White Lightning Hal Needham almost died in the car on the river barge jump. And Reynolds' "Hooper" is 70's stunt man hero worship that really shows how hard that job and lifestyle was. And many of Reynolds later movies and in fact his life was affected by a bad chair stunt that broke his jaw in the movie he made with Clint Eastwood. Also, watch The Good The Bad and The Ugly, when Eli Wallach almost lost his head in the train cutting the chain scene. Wild!

[@KyleS3m3noff]

And while you're watching The Good, The Bad & The Ugly - when Blondie and Tuco blow the bridge and they're hunkered down behind the sandbags during the explosion... watch that MASSIVE chunk of debris go slamming with full force into the sandbag right next to Clint's head. That thing flew all the way up that ridge, several hundred feet with velocity, and damn near took the lead actor's head off.

[@georgejorden6269]

Did anyone notice in the video that the guy holding the gun in the backseat disappeared when the car stopped on the train tracks.

[@paulgrieger8182]

Great example: The bridge explosion scene in "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly." A huge chunk if flying debris BARELY misses Clint Eastwood and Eli Wallach.

[@stephenleblanc4677]

It's an impressive stunt, but just to be clear, after the cut, the door was wide open the whole time for the stunt man who at least didn't have to time that part. He just needed to jump. I am curious as to whether they prepared for the fire and he was wearing the right protection. Hope so.

[@angelmarcano6747]

They actually went to an amusement park where they have this big big pool with creates waves so they were actually surfing but it was in a park and then they filled in everything else, and Kurt Russell actually had to learn how to surf.

[@Allenmarshall]

Stuntmen are a gift

[@FallacyBites]

I remember in 1993 when Conan started, he was my absolute favorite host---- Specifically BECAUSE he didn't waste time. Letterman and Leno both left a lot of empty space between jokes, and it felt like when my FiL tells a story--- he leaves a lot of empty space cuz the point for him isn't to be entertaining, it's to keep our attention forvas long as possible with minimal effort.

[@daviddavid5880]

Used Cars is an underrated gem.

[@srmcd1]

Man, this guy truly is TV’s Son of TV’s Frank

[@CynicAtheist]

Tarsem Singh’s The Fall is an ode to stuntsmen from the olden days much like Patton describes. It’s a beautiful cult classic movie and I’m suprised @pattonoswalt didn’t mention it

[@elichilton7031]

A most excellent call back. The Fall is brilliant.

[@ctrainbeats]

@@elichilton7031 just checked out the trailer.. i need to watch that asap - the colors!

[@sidhackney8831]

The Fall is excellent! It'll make you angry stuntmen don't have like ten categories of Oscars.

[@elichilton7031]

@@ctrainbeats If you enjoy Tarsem Singh's work, check out The Cell, he did years before. Also, the costumes of Eiko Ishioka are in both films. Miracles to behold.

[@KingHenryVR4]

The scene Patton is talking about from Used Cars involves Gerrit Graham's character who is just superstitious not drunk, he finds out he is driving a red car which he deems as bad luck so he freaks out and parks the car on the side of the road and starts backing away from it into oncoming traffic barely missing getting hit by a speeding car.

[@MaineZukah]

Jo Dawn Baker Train, just had to watch it, great scene!

[@SanJanitaMartinez]

There's that scene in Carnival of Souls where the main actress is in an alley and has to avoid a van from running over her. while the van is not driving very fast, it still could have hurt her. She just runs into the alley, van comes right at her, and she just ducks into a doorway. if she had mistimed it, boom, she be a goner.

[@Calabrin1]

Damn it, Patton! I was positive you were gonna bring up Order of the Black Eagle where the stunt guy gets his head run over by an ATV!

[@Frequency127]

Silent Night Deadly Night 2. There is a scene where a car crashes and flips, heading directly toward the stunt guy who just casually steps out of the way. Definitely almost died.

[@ms0824]

Nolan goes practical as often as he can.

[@zoeherriot]

He goes practical a lot less than people think. The studios are doing this thing recently where they lie about how much CGI is shot. Even to the point they are manipulating behinds the scenes shots to hide green screens. Nolan does like practical, but it’s more accurate to say he uses a mix of practical and CGI. There’s a ton of breakdowns available that demonstrate he is using a lot of CGI.

[@ms0824]

@@zoeherriot I've watched the same videos and read the same articles that you did recently. It's crazy that they lie about that. But yeah clearly he does use vfx and cgi very well, he just does as much as possible in camera also.

[@zoeherriot]

@@ms0824 I also have a friend that is a vfx supervisor at ILM - I’ve some lengthy conversations with him on this. But yeah Nolan is really good at choosing when to lean on CGI and not. That’s why his films looks so good.

[@ms0824]

@@zoeherriot ok. That's pretty awesome!!! Yeah Nolan is still one of my favorites. I really don't get why the industry is trying to downplay vfx right now when soooooo many artists are used to bring the films to life. Only so much can be shot/done practically and even so, sometimes you just need to enhance shots.

[@scubasteve4020]

"Quick time...HARCH!"

[@bjtgaming]

Nothing beats Jackie Chans Hong Kong 80s films. Everyone broke everything!!!

[@dipperdandy]

SUCH a stark difference from his later american output, where everything is edited to hell.

[@murph190]

I'm kinda surprised neither one of them mentioned 70's classic "Hooper." Great flick about stuntmen and stuntwomen.

[@lachauntiswashington231]

great episode

[@annn.3615]

‘No humans were harmed in the making of this film.’

[@kevinwr7093]

I think Oswalt's shirt looks great but everytime they cut to him i keep thinking he is wearing a Vault-Tec jumpsuit. Lol

[@jayarrington240]

As far as the tempo for editing - and the reference to Late Night - watch an old Carson episode. My god, it seemed like they were barely paying attention to any of it. Very unbelievably relaxed, casual and slow. So slow....like they were waiting for a late train.

[@j.vanderknaap9446]

AI would never have thought of using coconuts to make horse effects in Python's Holy Grail.

[@3VILmonkey]

When Patton Oswalt mentioned Joe Don Baker, I immediately thought "Mitchell!".

[@dipperdandy]

It's always fun trying to determine how sober he is in any given take.

[@sidhackney8831]

My, my, my Mitchell

[@elishmuel1976]

More on Conan's last point please. Did you guys have a discussion about that? Would love to hear the gang's thoughts. Can't get enough.

[@msamsamsamsamsamsamsamsamsamsa]

Buster Keaton deserves a mention here. 6:41

[@patrickmuhwheeney6518]

Red Letter Media watched 'Silent Night Deadly Night' (1 or 2, can't remember) and they show a scene where a car flips over and misses the stuntman by inches...Other than The Road Warrior's motorcycle rider's end over end flip, that was the most amazing stunt I've ever seen...

[@katfishzomby]

Joe Don Baker.. there's a reason he's on MST3K. 100%

[@jeffkyler5660]

In the shown car stunt dude's hair catches on fire. Hopefully that was a wig or he looked like Deadpool the rest of his life. Talking about Australian films, in the Road Warrior there's a stunt with one of the road gang members coming of a cliff fully extended and flipping end over end. That was a blown stunt and he broke most of the bones in his body but lived.

[@dropoffstergaming]

I love the producers telling Conan to look at the other tv that’s right in front of him lol

[@FreshmanMedia1]

I would watch an MST3K-style podcast with Conan and Patton

[@michaelknight5873]

Gourley is the guy who takes two looks at an actor and knows the Mel Brooks movie he’s in.

[@jimherbert007]

This would have been an amazing time to show Mac and Me

[@SMccrate01]

In the original Jumanji when the car goes through the front of the variety store and patrons jump out of the way, one guy doesn't quite make it and clearly gets clipped.

[@jerzeyguy71]

you guys didnt mention the other two guys in the car were still in it, one take.. LOL

[@Dfturcott]

Hey Air Force one looks good!

[@kingrimjob]

Framed is a great movie!

[@TheCornBanana]

Man on fire stunts are the best

[@SophiaAphrodite]

The most expensive practical effect was the boat into the dock scene in Speed II. It cost $22 million at the time, About $50 million in todays dollars.

I didn´t know Patton Oswalt was such a movie geek. He really knows what he is talking about.

[@thelostone6981]

Fun fact: if you start to type into KZbin’s search “Joe Don….”, “Joe Don Baker Frame” pops up as the top suggestion. You’ve been Pattonized KZbin!

[@nachotube7012]

All the other people in the car disappear as we see the last closeup of him driving onto the tracks.

[@buboyocson1605]

Matt was on point! There was a movie in PH where a stunt actor did die.

[@natelevy1040]

Jurassic Park got the media buzz about the CGI when 99% of the notable effects were actually practical.

[@TheMokeleMbembe]

"I love the image of the CGI guys saying "this is what it's gonna cost"" - this exact moment is in the making-of doc for THE PHANTOM MENACE, called THE BEGINNING. The ILM guys are breaking down for George Lucas (or Rick McCallum?) what it will cost to do the podrace

[@MarcusRonaldi]

The video is exactly as described.

[@Blackshirt123]

Speaking of editing, I'm still distracted by the disappearance from the two guys in the car with Joe Don Baker before the train hits it. The shot of him opening the door to jump out and the guy with the gun pointed at him magically disappeared.

[@masterofallgoons]

Dragonheart looks better than you remember it!

[@MichaelLasotaMusic]

I just moved to the Philippines. What happened in their movies??

[@sentienttrees]

😮 Whoa!!!!!!

[@MonkeyChessify]

The issue is that so many films and stuff throw everything on a green screen and assume everything being CGI will work out. It can...given enough time and money to the VFX ppl which they dont want. The best is always a merging of the two - do what you can practically/in camera, and then supplement/change/whatever in post with effects as needed

[@hyperspeed_心猿]

I've yet to ever see CGI that didn't look like CGI.

[@MonkeyChessify]

@@hyperspeed_心猿 lol yes you have you just didn't notice it most times. if you've seen a movie in the past 10 years you've seen CGI

[@Creamcups]

@@hyperspeed_心猿 This is such a stupid statement. If something doesn't look like CGI you wouldn't think it's CGI.