The Ridiculousness of 'Staying Alive'

SHOW: 'The Anthony Cumia Show'
AIR DATE: December 11 , 2019
Anthony & Dave, along with comedian David Juskow, discuss the absurdity and suggestive overtones in 'Staying Alive', the sequel to 'Saturday Night Fever'.
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[@nietherniether7508]

"you guessed it, frank stallone." -norm mcdonald

[@chrisw6164]

Robert Reed being ticked off about The Godfather filming next door while he’s stuck filming “Greg Gets Caught Smoking” is gold.

[@etherdetroit1977]

This movie needed the hit song from the 80's "DARA".

[@stevenlane3957]

Haha 😂 Nice call-back

[@etherdetroit1977]

@Mourning Star "Send your love my way, I'm sure we'd have a fine romance."

[@etherdetroit1977]

@Forrest Trump and "endless days turn into sleepless nights"

[@TL2354]

Hahahaha yes

[@daviddegraff5137]

Ling-long

[@TheLastRoman0000]

I forgot that Saturday Night Fever had a sequel. Now I have to go and get drunk.

[@completesentences2125]

These are my favorite eps of TACS…just listening to Ant talk about old tv shows/movies and commercials.

[@meedily]

Lol. Ant's Travolta impression is hilarious.

[@barzy9725]

I watched Mannix this morning on MeTV. Love it. He gets knocked out every episode.

[@yankees29]

Just watched it a few weeks ago. It’s a great show.

[@michaelmitchell4992]

I love the pilot episode cause the chick that "kidnapped" herself is so fuckable

[@TonyMichaels166]

I love the old TV shows. Dragnet is my personal favorite.

[@klompsauce]

Love MeTV watch Cannon all the time

[@XXthekingofyouXX]

"That homo slow-mo" Ok, never heard that one before. 😂

[@Count_Orlock]

This movie should have been called Staying Awake. Cause that's what I was trying to do when I watched it

[@jessdckey7712]

SlayKnotV1 wait. Read his comment again.

[@fatteusstevens9543]

Woah...

[@danzigmcnaniel5226]

FAWK YEAH tss

[@scottm4969]

I remember reading an article as a kid in Dynamite magazine about “Stayin Alive”. They had a interview with Travolta about getting in shape for the movie and had a before and after pic showing how pudgy Travolta was before he started working out. I’ll never forget Travolta’s quote about how he got pudgy: “Cookies are very important to me”.

[@IronDiva]

Scott M Dynamite Magazine...man....

[@chrisw6164]

Was Tiger Beat not available?

[@WaldoBagelTopper]

I dont know why this comment is so funny to me. Its crazy the weird little things that we retain from childhood without trying.

[@CraigRattleHead]

That was absolutely class commentary impressions on staying alive. Crying laughing at that.

[@itstherevolution]

Ant's impression is spot on!

[@carvinblack]

After 16 minutes ranking on how gay the movie was. Dave: "I like Broadway Shows." 🤣

[@Talisman09]

Anthony has clearly watched that (hilarious) "Rocky III gayer than brokeback" youtube video and forgotten about it haha

[@kingyeti6336]

I been using that bisexual joke for years! It gets a laugh every time

[@DabNaggit]

No it doesn't.

[@ottototo8]

In all honesty, i find Frank Stallone tunes to be super pump ups.

[@julesfalcone]

"I am down but I am far from over."

[@HolyGhostofBobbyLupo]

You guessed it.....FRANK STALLONE

[@davidperez5089]

The mans got pipes!

[@shuroom57]

This is like hanging out, speaking normally with other guys, talking shit, being funny, gloves off. I sure miss that. Oh well....back to Woketardia.

[@wes11bravo]

Eff that - never surrender, my friend.

[@WaldoBagelTopper]

Funny I found this comment. I was just thinking about this today. These guys get paid to just sit around and talk like guys. Like in the old O&A days. I would not mind doing that for a living. But then again, I dont have many friends I can still talk to like this. I have a friend who got all weird and shit during the pandemic. And now he's one of those weird effeminate "put my woman up on a pedestal" kind of guy. He cant even have honest objective conversation about being a man and women and dating etc. Shit that you should be able to talk about even if you're in a relationship. But this guy is like a hardcore Beyonce fan because his girl is. And he's constantly posting on social media about how "something is wrong with men if they don't worship their woman". My fucking blood runs cold from the cringe every time he posts something about "family" or "living to make your girl happy" etc.

[@petebondurant58]

Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) was watching MANNIX in his trailer after he fed his dog, in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.

[@michaelmitchell4992]

In the last episode of Mannix John Ritter was in it and they didnt even try to hide the "Brady Bunch" living room set

[@meadster308]

Studios reuse sets all the time in those days. The Chicago gangster episode of Star Trek was shot on the Mayberry set.

[@justinroark88]

According to Jim and Boy Meets World have the same set

[@Fluoride_Jones]

I love hearing insider information from people that work in Hollywood. It's so fascinating to me.

[@timothyh6670]

I Love TMZ

[@bernardoconnor1502]

Mannix! I loved those 70's cop shows, Quinn Martin and all.

[@bullfranthrow]

Patrice would have been incredible here

[@negativeindustrial]

He had so many layers. You’d never guess he’s even seen some of the movies he could quote line for line.

[@chonconnor6144]

@@negativeindustrial yeah he watched a lot of TV and films and had an intelligent regular guy view on things with a certain sideways take that made you think or sometimes change your mind. Ant is similar in many ways and that's why the 2 of them discussing films are among the most watched O&A clips.

[@kenwen5619]

He doesn’t talk to Anthony anymore

[@huntersearles7753]

@@kenwen5619 He doesn't talk to anyone, being dead and all

[@davidperez5089]

@@huntersearles7753 patrice Will never die!!! RIP-po

[@RonAlbaneseEntertainment]

MANERO! Totally cannot focus on ANY work while listening to this! I am bizarrely fascinated by Staying Alive! They totally changed the Tony Manero character, took out all the fun, and left in headbands, etc.

[@ojpistorius6369]

Do you know who did the soundtrack You guessed it Frank Stallone

[@rmfree6967]

This is awesome and hilarious.

[@38Achilles]

This video is Golden, all these guys are great.

[@philouze1815]

I've never watched Staying Alive. Or Saturday Night Fever, for that matter. The only thing I know about Staying Alive is that Richie Sambora plays in it.

[@onionhat745]

Ant is doing a show with the plague, I'm filled with respect and pity.

[@Cpt_Guirk]

Frank Stallone did the soundtrack.

[@uppercutgrandma4425]

Lolol yup, he got like 13 songs in it. And by pretty wild circumstances, Travolta somehow pissed off the BeeGees and Frank was shopping songs

[@jppennypincher9051]

I should’ve guessed it.... Frank Stallone.

[@jarnold3415]

@@jppennypincher9051 But we know one thing, GERMANS LOVE DAVID HASSELHOFF!

[@michaelfrazia4569]

sly really rode his coattails...

[@silverpairaducks]

Frank Stallone tells the story of the soundtrack on "norms rare guitar channel"

[@Roux_504]

Frank is the highight of Norm's

[@silverpairaducks]

@Thomas Henesey norms rare guitars is where everyone buys guitars....

[@silverpairaducks]

@Thomas Henesey if you played guitar you would watch norms channel everyday

[@silverpairaducks]

@Thomas Henesey watch guitar of the day

[@Danowarthemanowar]

Thomas Henesey Michael Lemmo (who does guitar of the day) is one of the most inspiring musicians I’ve ever heard. It’s all around great content.

[@gbitdot]

This commnentary is gold ...lol

[@pleaserewind295]

This is great. lol

[@brandonobaza8610]

Please, for the love of GOD! The TOAST!

[@brek5]

Lol...laughing about the Brady girl reading the newspaper in high school, but I used to read the paper in high school. Different era. We didn't have Internet, lol.

[@bb-gc2tx]

staying alive was to movies what rock me tonite was to music videos lol

[@jamesmurray3889]

My son and i thought it would be funny to watch this movie. We couldn't make it past 8 minutes. Worst thing I've ever seen.

[@derekrodriguez6030]

Imma watch it imma watch all Sounds painful but I'm up for the challenge

[@meedily]

I remember that Stallone SNL skit. Norm was a beast.

[@wingchundragon]

Omg his Travolta impression

[@SofaKingWashed]

Just got out of a Kingface loop on youtube. I'd love to see him on the show, but I don't know if he'd agree to the show if he did his homework on the "character" Ant played on O&A, lol.

[@fonz1776]

Kingface was talking yesterday about how white people should be able to say nigga lol I think he'd be ok.

[@timothy790110]

Funny thing, Saturday night fever is based on the Mod culture from England in the 60s. Its an interesting backstory

[@michaelmitchell4992]

I thought it was just a dancing movie cause I saw Short Circuit and Johnny 5 was learning to dance watching it

[@Mangaboy69]

I have watched this movie more than Saturday night fever

[@chrisw6164]

I only know this movie from a Mad Magazine parody.

[@josephedwards8604]

Mannix house and the Brady bunch house are the same! That's probably why they had so much intertwining.

[@kristinnoelle]

I love that song! 🤣

[@kathyflorcruz552]

If you watch enough of the 70s series youll see they used this one neighborhood of houses in several different series. For instance youll see the Beaver Cleaver house used in the Marcus Welby MD series. One episode was quite weird as it guess starred Ward as visiting Dr.Welby's house for dinner, and he went for a nap upstairs afterwards AND DIED in his old Cleaver house!! 🤣

[@robf6105]

Wow. That is bizarre. I didn't know that.

[@frankieboy8414]

Stallone wrote Rocky, he didn't direct it.

[@2r0phy]

Dave juskow looks like the only man a caricature couldnt illustrate humorously

[@allendulles2481]

It's part of the Trinity of cheesy (and extremely gay,) late '70s/early '80s Broadway-focused films: A Chorus Line, All That Jazz & Stayin' Alive! Lol.

[@timthatshim8037]

Dave always seems so lost when something interesting is going on that takes place before 1988 lol

[@rickbrenner6079]

I agree. In fairness to Dave, though, in this particular instance, he did see both Saturday Night Fever and Stayin’ Alive, and some of his jokes in this video, particularly about Stayin’ Alive, are pretty funny and on point.

[@rickbrenner6079]

That’s the only problem with Dave being Ant’s sidekick. Ant has 20 years on Dave and Ant is the king of 60s, 70s, & 80s references and impressions which Dave wasn’t even born yet to know these pop references well enough to be able to “riff” with Ant on, like lil Yimmy was always able to do on O & A.

[@OrangeElixir]

Mike Connors, back in the early days of his career, used to go by the professional name, "Touch Connors".

[@kevinconnor3187]

Linda Evans does look like Caren Kaye in that episode. Both Stunners.

[@tobysgamingworld1550]

I saw that movie several times as a kid cause my mom loved Travolta. He was still a sex symbol to clueless women my moms age. Even now if I told her he was into men she wouldn’t believe me. Anyways it’s her fault “Far from over” is on most of my playlists.

[@mr.brenman2132]

You act as if he came out of the closet or something lol. He had a wife and kids.

[@tobysgamingworld1550]

@@mr.brenman2132 dude….please google Travolta massage. He is gay. He was scared to death it would ruin him as a “leading man” so Scientology set him up with his wife through Kirstie Alley. It was an arrangement. In the meantime he’s never been spotted with any other woman even after his wife died BUT he’s been busted with countless men for decades. Long time “companions”. It’s not a secret in Hollywood. Same with Will Smith. Why do you think he has to act overly aggressive when anyone questionins his wife meanwhile she’s outed him on her show as being a cuck and he can’t say boo about it. Google his name and “gay”. You’ll see his ex wife has had a strict contract gag order where she’s not allowed to speak on ANY terms of their short marriage and she still gets money from will even though they didn’t have kids. She knows the truth. Scientology has the goods on these men but the rumors and dudes speaking out with lie detector tests and all that have been going on for ages.

[@amyhoffman7980]

Sorry but strut at the end is everything. That's the only part that's equal to Saturday Night Fever, which I agree is great.

[@chrishall9880]

I’m a kid of the 80s & and love all 80s & 70s movies and even older I’ve seen most I’m also an expert on hard rock & metal & pop culture but I’ve not seen staying alive…

[@theonlyguiltymaninshawshan7909]

Sly's directorial debut was "Staying Alive," right? He didn't direct the original Rocky... it was John Avildsen.

[@theonlyguiltymaninshawshan7909]

@Gary Louis Oh yeah, Paradise Alley. I kind of like that one.

[@zacharystranahan9087]

I guess Anthony had Dave's, Don't talk light on.

[@808kiker]

Soooooo, isn't this great !

[@andrewlaco1776]

Ant is the last noble Carthaginian.

[@michaelmitchell4992]

What got me was seeing a very young and balding Ed Harris in the Rockford Files

[@thack57]

Jay has excellent TV references that's why I'm so surprised he doesn't remember that 'MANNIX' premiered 2 YRS BEFORE 'THE BRADY BUNCH. 'Mannix' dropped in Sept. of 1967 and T.B.B., likewise Sept. only it was 1969. I remember seeing it a few yrs ago in an episode of 'Mission Impossible'. One should remember that 'The Brady Bunch' was NOT ''iconic" in the '60s or '70s. It wasn't till much later that this show rose 'Above its atation'.

[@MrFoxxx47]

Damn, is Ant's voice shot for good or what?

[@timmyOG]

Also brain and liver.

[@fatteusstevens9543]

@@timmyOG well done, sir

[@carvinblack]

Just a little sick. Calm down.

[@coffeegroundsbear9974]

He had a cough and a strained voice that lasted months and months.

[@chonconnor6144]

Age comes for us all in different ways.

[@theflanman420420]

Does Ant have throat cancer ? What’s the deal with Mr Cumia’s voice for the last two months?

[@thepathofpain1442]

I think it was bronchitis

[@javisoprano1010]

If you got gay out of Saturday night fever you may be celebrating pride month .

[@dennisbarger4323]

much love to norm Stallone sketch best ever

[@scotttaylor9339]

One of first few times smokin pot a few of us got high one night and ended up on my buddy's couch scrolling through channels and Saturday Night Fever just started so we decide to watch it, nobody had seen it before (it was around 2002) . I don't think I've ever laughed so hard and for so long in my life. Its sooo over dramatic, its like its the spoof of some other film about the same thing.

[@chonconnor6144]

Yeah I remember watching it on cable circa 1995 with my sister one afternoon when nothing was on. Couldn't believe how cheesy and gay it was and that it was a sequel to SNF.

[@FryingTiger]

Incredible job Travolta did by acting not gay.

[@billistik666]

The norm ep with sly on snl was fkn halarious

[@AlreadyShort]

nic cage

[@rodneycaldwell1310]

Ant looking good.

[@onionhat745]

Ant without a goatee is only half an Ant.

[@bacardibum]

nighthawks is really good and it has music from emerson from emerson,lake and palmer

[@dramares]

REMEMBERING how to FORGET!...

[@coffeeknuckles4802]

Please have the tosst!

[@phaultypmm]

I saw that on WHT

[@scottlibman7870]

I had WHT because we couldn't get cable where I lived in the 70s. I didn't think anyone remembered that.

[@ElevenDollarCheese]

Holy shit, thought I was the only one that remembered that. Saw the first Mad Max on there too.

[@lisaciconte7409]

I saw Staylng Alive when I was a teenager & it was terrible. What a waste of money!

[@StoneysWorkshop]

Never heard of Mannix

[@josephedwards8604]

The Brady house and mannox house are the same set

[@2414M4ND3R]

Well you can tell...

[@yumpie100]

that guy sounds like Bill maher

[@thomassherman61]

Montage !!!!!!!!!!!

[@LEARSIKCIGAM]

the soundtrack by Frank Stallone makes thst movie unwatchable

[@barzy9725]

Can you dig it i knew that you could.

[@julesfalcone]

This is funny but I like the movie.

[@leoleo2707]

Travolta in the best shape of his life an does the best Manero nothing wrong with this movie especially watching these hot woman dancing. Travolta looks hot too. It's ok to like attractive men guys it's ok hahaha it won't make you gay.

[@ChipsChallenge95]

TheNomdeguerre he’s only half way out of the closet, by half way, I mean he’s bent over with just his bare ass hanging out of the closet

[@JCSAXON]

Mannix is still boss 🏃🏻‍♂️🚁

[@kathyflorcruz552]

12:37 Mannix was filmed at Desilu Studios & I guess they were invested in production as well. Lucy suggested the change from Mannix being a computer nerd tied to a HUGE TECH Agency - and the character be the gum shoe type who did his own investigation & the HARD KNOCKS detective that we can thank her for seeing that poor man get CLOCKED the fuk OUT in every episode in the second incarnation of the show. Regardless if she had an ax to grind with Desi perhaps- it sure BEAT the original premise. And yes, the theme song is excellent as we're so many others of the era!! Mike Connors was a gifted athlete in more than one sport, Armenian & from a tough background in real life & had strong moral standards & did his own stunts whenever possible as well. No slouch & no scandals. Something rather rare the among Hollywood lot I'd say.

[@anaviegas1992]

da baby

[@RossKempOnYourMum01]

The film was called "Saturday Night Fever"

[@Olie986]

"Staying Alive" is the terrible sequel to "Saturday Night Fever" that they are making fun of in most of this clip

[@michaelgallone7409]

Thanx for that

[@commiegobbledygook3138]

This might be the worst sequel of all time

[@commiegobbledygook3138]

@Jade Runner Haha actually I have, I thought it was pretty fun but absolutely nowhere near as artistically impressive as Kubrick's brilliant classic.

[@FortunateJuice]

Dave Landau is not funny, Ant. Nobody would blame you for cutting him loose right now.

[@ShredCo]

I preferred when Ant started out the Compound. It was just him making fun of internet stuff and he could still do impressions then. Stopped subscribing after Gavin left, it wasn't worth it any more.

[@johnLennon255]

I think it's better than ever right now.

[@ShredCo]

@@johnLennon255 What, less Ant more scrubs?

[@84jbones]

Relax comic book guy.Worst show ever

[@ShredCo]

@Jade Runner I cancelled my subscription... You think I should delete a free youtube subscription? Its not that bad but its not worth paying for, even though I still enjoy Ant on his own.

[@amyhoffman7980]

Sorry but strut at the end is everything. That's the only part that's equal to Saturday Night Fever, which I agree is great.

[@amyhoffman7980]

Sorry but strut at the end is everything. That's the only part that's equal to Saturday Night Fever, which I agree is great.

[@amyhoffman7980]

Sorry but strut at the end is everything. That's the only part that's equal to Saturday Night Fever, which I agree is great.

[@amyhoffman7980]

Sorry but strut at the end is everything. That's the only part that's equal to Saturday Night Fever, which I agree is great.

[@amyhoffman7980]

Sorry but strut at the end is everything. That's the only part that's equal to Saturday Night Fever, which I agree is great.