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LOOK OUT! It’s only Films To Be Buried With!

Join your host Brett Goldstein as he talks life, death, love and the universe with comic, actor, writer and poet TIM KEY! This is the second and final part...

As well as being a unique individual in his own right, Tim is also one of those 'six degrees' people who you can get to and from just about anyone involved in comedy and screen. It speaks well how much Tim is adored in the wider world but also Tim is just awesome in all roles. Whether you met him through one of the various Alan Partridge projects, or through Taskmaster / Alex Horne-iverse, or through appearances in all manner of manifestations, you'll get a ton from this episode (and the subsequent one!) as it's just good times and good vibes from the beginning. In this second part you'll hear more from the glorious mind of Tim and get that necessary closure from the first part, resulting a feeling of overall contentment and fulfillment. Enjoy!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Look out. It's only films to be buried with. Hello,
and welcome to Films to be buried with. My name
is Brett Golstein. I'm a comedian, an actor, a writer
and director of Sitting Duck, and I love films. As

(00:22):
Melissa Broder once said, Desire is a beautiful disaster, which
is why The Towering Inferno is also a good date movie.
Apparently every week I'm invite a special guest iver. I
tell them they've died, then I get them to discuss
their life through the films that men the most of them.
Previous guests include Barry Jenkins, Kevin Smith, Sharon Stone, and
even Dead Bambles. But this week we have Part two
with mister Tim Key. Head over to the patron at

(00:44):
patreon dot com forwards slash Brett Goldsting, where you get
an extra twenty minutes of chat with Tim, We talk secrets,
you get the beginnings and endings, his favorites, You get
the whole episode, uncut, adfree, and does a video all
that Patreon dot com forwards slash Brett Goldstein. So hopefully
you heard part one. If you haven't, go back and
listen to it because you'll need it for all the
stuff we talk about in part two, you're really going

(01:05):
to like this one. So that is it for now.
I very much hope you enjoy episode three hundred and
forty five of Films to be Buried with? What about crying? Then,
what's the film that made you cry the most? If

(01:26):
not The Flying Man Need Tea?

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Okay, I'm straight in here with full monthy Great?

Speaker 1 (01:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:33):
Really twice maybe three times. There's a bit where his
son I think, goes to emptier savings account to give
to his dad. I mean, that's that's insane, the sun
I'm giving his father money. Wow, I'm off. I'm done.
And then there's another bit with insight, but no, I
don't need it. I'm happy to just lean into it.

(01:54):
And there's another one I don't know his name is
an amazing actor. They all are in that they are class.
There's one guy who's like a little overweight. His character
is overweight and he wants to lose weight. And I
think he does stuff like wrap himself and cling film
and stuff like that. But he does some very very
good acting with his wife on screen, and it's just

(02:16):
he's fantastic. Cried then probably cried at the end, you know,
when it all sort of works out.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yeah, very good movie. Great.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
I would say a quick shout out to Robert Carlisle,
thank you. Yeah, not at all. I think he's one
of the greats. That's my opinion.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
He absolutely is one of the greats. Amazing to do
Begbie horrible, scary, terrifying, and also be such a sympathetic,
empathetic screen presence in his other stuff that you're like,
I love this guy, just love him.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
In four months you just love him. That's my opinion
as well. Yeah, I think it's like a magic trick.
I think they are for me. Those two parts are
the two parts of movies where my brain won't let
me believe that's the same actor.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Pretty, they're two good and you're right, they're doing something
totally different. One is like probably just I'm guessing, just
using his own accent, his own vibe, just playing that guy,
being incredibly likable, sympathetic, it's amazing his performance and full monty,
and the other one is like just completely inhabiting a
mad monster. It's crazy that he can do both of

(03:22):
those things, really good stuff. It's ten points to Robbie Carlisle.
Isn't it.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
I'm making it.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yeah, pop gifts Pop ten down for Robbie.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
It's the first time in the podcast someone else that's
got points, is it really? It puts you at minus ten,
it's the problem.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
I don't care. I'll happily give away points to him,
by the way we'll at it. I'll give I'll give
a few points away to g Horn.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
Ge Horn. Goldie's getting how much? What's twenty points?

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yeah? I think twenty eight. She entertained me royally in
the nineteen eighties and nineties.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Right, so you're in minus thirty, so a lot to
catch up. But that's okay.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
I don't care because there are two of my absolute
flaves about Carlisle and Goldiehorn.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Why haven't they done a Buddy Coup film?

Speaker 2 (04:03):
Would have been good, I mean, could still be good.
I don't know exactly what Goldie Horn is doing at
the moment with you know, I don't know what Goldie's
most recent project was.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
I'd like to see them in the car together. Yeah,
of course, you see crying in the full month. You
do crying in the human world, just only in films.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yeah, it's pretty good. I did cry actually a month ago.
But I don't really want to talk about it.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
Thank you for answering.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Real, real, real waterworks.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah, this is better than we've ever been and I
appreciate you.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Well, well we'll go back to Luton and we'll talk
about it.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
What is the film that you love? People don't like
it certainly the critics stain, you don't give a shit,
you love it unconditioningly.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yeah, this is bad. I mean we've watched this a lot.
This film is. You might not know this film, but this,
in fact, I think this. I think we got a
little obsessed with it and then googled some stuff about it.
I think it like it didn't. I think it might
be like in some record books. Actually, the film's called

(05:09):
P two, P two, P two Why is it?

Speaker 1 (05:12):
Tell me?

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Here's the plot? Christmas party.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
I think a guy fancies the girl It works in
the car park, and I think he maybe she is
not interested in his advances. Anyway, long story short, he
kidnaps her and takes the hostage. In P two, P.
Two is the level car park is? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (05:35):
Parking level two.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah, the whole thing takes place in one level of
a multi story car park. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
How long ago is this film?

Speaker 2 (05:44):
By the looks of things. I'd say maybe twenty years.
I actually don't think, hand on heart, you definitely could
make this film now. Yeah, I mean it's pretty crazy.
It's not on the stuff. This guy's doing an American film.
This film American film. But I mean there's been so

(06:04):
many American films, so there's some great examples examples of
American films over the years.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
There have been a few, for sure, but P two
stands up to you as one of the I.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
Tell you what happened was I don't know how this happened.
Oh I think I think this is what happened. Me
and my friend were on holiday and it was hotel
room shared, hotel room time, Telly on and maybe thirty
minutes into this film, and we're just watching this film,
and you just gradually become aware that there's this mad
film happening. And then obviously it's come back from holiday

(06:36):
and buying the film, and then obviously it's New Year's Eve.
Watched the film before we go out, and then obviously
you're in too deep there where the following New Year's Eve,
it's you know, drinks, and suddenly someone puts Peter on
and so petero has sort of been floating around for
a while.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
P two.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
You googled Oh, now we're talking.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
It's two thousand and seven. The log line is business
business Woman. A business woman is pursued by a psychopath
after being locked in a parking garage on Christmas Eve.
It's a Christmas movie.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
I guess it really is. And people love that, don't
they when they say, yeah, this could be the new Diehard.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
P two is your Christmas movie?

Speaker 2 (07:17):
Actually, it's not my Christmas movie because I've got a
Christmas movie down. And answer to your next question, I think, weirdly.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
What is the film that you used to love but
you've watched it recently and you don't like it anymore?

Speaker 2 (07:30):
Because yeah, point break, point break?

Speaker 1 (07:32):
Ah, what's wrong with point break?

Speaker 2 (07:35):
Nothing wrong with it. Sometimes you need to understand when
you're doing your podcast that there are some answers where
people will think, ah, that's the film for that one,
and there's others where you just think, I'll tell you
what I'll put point break.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
What's a shame, though, is if you play like that,
that's minus ten. I've got to give ten to point
break because because it still holds out.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
So yeah, I think, well, do you know what, I
just remember loving the It's the ex Presidents, isn't it.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
Yeah, And I just remember I think in my.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
Mind that was bigger than it was a bigger element
of the film than when I rewatched it. Also, you
have to please try and remember the circumstances under which
I rewatched it, And that would be your friend of mine. Lockdown, Yeah,
twenty twenty. And you know when you're sort of you
make a arrangement, you're just finding your way through lockow.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
Were you alone in Lockdown leaving alone in your house?
Were you? Yes?

Speaker 2 (08:33):
I was Yeah? Were you?

Speaker 1 (08:34):
I was not alone? Luckily, I think I'd have gone
completely absolutely insane? Did you?

Speaker 2 (08:38):
I went completely absolutely insane? That was the final twist.
This was one of the you know oases where you're
just like you hit upon a plan where you're going
to all watch a movie, you know, and you're all
going to hit play at the same time. Yes, right,
so there's like probably three other cup palls and.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
Me, right, okay, it's already bleak.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
Let's hit play.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
Are you all on the phone or you just.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, well yeah, we're gonna be on WhatsApp.
You know, We're not We're not like zooming and we're watching.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
You're not an audio WhatsApp. You're just like going to
text each other. You haven't I got a group cool
game exactly. It's just it's just a visual what'sapp? Three
two one message from me? One second. I'm just literally
serving up my food.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
Zero play. They hit playing. I'm like, hang on one second,
one second, I'm like charging back into my lund space,
pouring down my track suits, off lunch for the receiver,
after remote control, press play, and now I'm like thirty

(09:56):
five seconds for the whole movie. Absolute chaos. Everyone saying, wow,
interesting fork not at the fork.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
Bit, stop spoiling for.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
It was absolutely carmage. I'm saying, I don't know where
Bristol was in it.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
I'm not. I'm not in the bar yet. Do you
know what I'm going to give you? The ten points back? Good?

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Great, a couple of I'll have a couple of Robbie
Carlos at this point, actually lock him down to if
you ever had the pleasure have you ever met Robbie Carlo?

Speaker 1 (10:40):
I haven't.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
I bet bet he's incredibly normal, don't you think?

Speaker 1 (10:45):
Yeah, I bet he's really nice and sort of I
bet he's really gentle.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
I think he's probably incredibly unaffected, don't you think.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
I imagine some people, particularly around the time of train Spotting.
Here's my imagination of his life. He might be in
a bar at point and someone goes yeah, and that's
something sort of scary to him because they think he's begged,
and he's like quite upset.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
Right he is, I suppose to The real worry would
be we meet him at some point. And I'll tell
you what. It's not one of the questions, but favorite sequel.

(11:27):
I don't mind Trainspotting too, I must say me too.
I think it's great. Yep, really good.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
I really liked it, and he again, he's wonderful in it.
I'll tell you in a similar area if I may,
because I think what I like, what I liked about
Tea Too Trainspotting two is that it didn't it sort
of went Listen, the burden of being the greatest film
of all time, important film, we're putting that aside. Let's
just make a good film about this. And that's what

(11:54):
they did. And there is a film called Doctor Sleep,
which is a sequel to The Shining, which you can,
of course, you can't make a sequel to The Shining
And if you take a side, forget it being the
greatest film ever made. This is just a film. It's
a really good film. Yeah that's good.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
Well, nice to see someone's finally taking the trouble to
adapt on Stephen King's books.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
I know.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
We don't want them just sitting there gathering dust, do it.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
What is the film that means the most to you?
Not necessarily the film itself is any good, but the
experience you had around seeing it will always make it
important to you. Timothy Keys, I had a very interesting
and good experience for the movie very recently. This is
I think we're in nice world here nieces and nephews

(12:47):
in France. No, they still call you about nice world. Look,
I love spending Christmas with my nieces and nephews. How
many you got?

Speaker 2 (13:00):
Four?

Speaker 1 (13:00):
Two of each? Yeah? All from the brother gotta be
just cranking him out, bang bang bang bang.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
It's not the way he phrases it.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
But yeah, what at the age? What are we talking here? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (13:11):
I mean, you know, decent spread. I would say probably
if if we were a betting man eighteen eighteen sixteen
fourteen to well, why not lovely right, wouldn't like work.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yeah, Pops went out, Pops went out, gives it a
year back in?

Speaker 2 (13:32):
Yeah, absolutely, back in. Yeah, I guess.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
So were we talking nephew, niece, nephew, niece or two.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
T yep no, no, no, also no nephew, niece, niece, nephew.

Speaker 1 (13:45):
Right right, yeah, yeah, by nephews the nieces.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
I think so. I think so. I think that was
the thinking nephew, niece, niece, and then then thinking, right,
we'll just close this off with a nephew and we're done.
I don't think there's a there's not a couple in
the world. We'll go nephew, niece, niece, nephew niece. That'd
be crazy, that's insane. Nephew niece, niece, nephew. Yeah, sounds perfect,
And it is. They're all very nice.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
Which one? Which one is your favorite?

Speaker 2 (14:11):
Tim Eliza, So Christmas there's always a choosing the films
to watch, and so I'm like, interesting, try and like
steer it to home alone.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
Yeah, rapped.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
I've absolutely rattled myself by saying that my favorite is
I never I never thought. I never thought it was
this much of a pussy that I go back and
say no, no, I like them all but anyway, but
it is actually.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
Anyway. The point being is that top knees or button,
but but not in my eyes though, yeah.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
Yeah, in fact, he should have had first beat the bracket.
Beats the bracket. So then you're sort of waiting to
we're working out watching movie to watch on Christmas Day
or whatever, and there's always these swirling ideas of like
what to watch home alone? I like try and steer
it towards more the home alone sort of area of things.
Nativity is flowing around. I'm like, I don't want to

(15:13):
watch Nativity. That's like such a babyish waste of my time.
And then but I always like watching these films with
these people. And then this Christmas I'm just like, I'm
watching this discussion go out of control. I'm thinking, if
we're not carefully, we're watching Nativity. There's a lot of
love for Nativity, and eventually I just succumb and we're

(15:33):
watching Nativity. That is a very good film. Ah well,
lovely is have you seen it? No, I've not seen Nativity.
Watch Nativity. But you know, in terms of answering your question,
that would be like, it's nice, isn't it to watch
a film with family, and I really do like these
these kids, you really like, yeah, exactly, wading through the

(15:56):
other three, but yeah, forget to oh god, so yeah
to just sort of, you know, riplet on a Christmas Day,
just be sort of kicking back and watching and watching Nativity.
That was That was a nice moment. It's very good. Honestly,
there's some decent performances in that. Don't worry about that.
That's Watkins, Jason Watkins and Wooton.

Speaker 1 (16:19):
Wood On firing those films out here, brilliant Freeman. I mean, honestly,
it's good. It's really good. That's nice. That's nice. What
is the film that you most relate to? Timothy Keys?

Speaker 2 (16:31):
Yeah, Fargo?

Speaker 1 (16:33):
Which character? Which? Which?

Speaker 2 (16:36):
I mean, I don't even remember the other characters? Oh
bashimi's floating about, isn't it?

Speaker 1 (16:40):
Who are you? McDorman? No?

Speaker 2 (16:45):
No, oh, that's it. William H. Mason again again very good.
He's a very good actor. He's a very I just
like I think that is obviously it's It's in the pantheon,
isn't it. It's a really good film and some decent
mystery and some decent detective work. She is off the scale,

(17:05):
off the charts and her relationship with her husband, and
it's also sweet and beautiful. There's an amazing scene where
she meets which I'm always thinking about, where she meets
an old school friend for lunch in a cafe and
it's crazy anyway. The point being William H. Macy the

(17:27):
descent of his character in that film, where he just
gets in a pickle and he just keeps on digging
and makes it worse and worse and worse, and keeps
lying and covering up and just really hoping for the best.
I just think I find it incredibly relatable that I
feel I could accidentally find myself.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
Like you and a night out in the Brooks b
that's okay.

Speaker 2 (17:50):
Yeah, yeah. I just feel like there's a way that
you could just get in a pickle with your finances
or something, or you know, offend someone or do something
where I just think that film is just about a
man's life just spiraling out of control and after a
bit there's a momentum that you just can't stop. And
he's so kind of I guess you could say, maybe weak,

(18:15):
but in the same way as like people are, people
are where you kind of go. I don't know what
I would have done. I'm not watching that film going, oh,
come on, mate, pull this off together. You can sort
this out. I'm watching it thinking, oh god.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
It's just really it's a great answer.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
It's not a great answer because it's just it means
you should back yourself.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
It is a great answer. It feels very feel, very honest, but.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
You should feel like you should. I think the idea
of watching Fargo should be thinking I've got more about
me than this, than letting this happen to me. But
I think I'm a big fan of the dissent film,
where you're just at the start someone's fine, and eighty
minutes in you're thinking, this person isn't going to turn
this round. There's another good one like that, which is

(19:01):
called Reccoem for a Dream, where it's all fine, then
after a bit it's just there's no way of turning
with that trainspotting. I suppose as well, like you know that,
just I mean, I suppose this kind of descent, yeah, exactly,

(19:23):
a descent into the pit of despair where you just
see as you're watching it, there's one or two moments
where they could have clung onto something and escaped, or
you know, accepted help or latched onto someone who they
could have somehow managed their way through it, and you
realize that all those points have gone now and this person.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
Is done for really good answer. You know what, Tim,
I'm giving you ten points, and you know what, I'm
going to give you twelve points, but I'm going to
take two of you and give them back to Robert
to Monty because I feel better.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
I've been saying, I think pretty consistently throughout this podcast.
I'm a massive fan of Robert color in his work.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
Yeah, so you don't mind giving him the two points back?
Oh god, no, no, okay, Oh, here we go to it.
It's the bit we've all been waiting for. It's the
sexiest film ever made. Tim Keys basic instinct move on.
I mean, like, you know, you rack your brains and stuff.
I couldn't really think correct, it's basic instinct move on.
It's the perfect coming together of you know, age and yeah,

(20:25):
you know, I mean, I'm sure that's not the answer
that someone who was like seventy when it came out,
they'd probably they'd probably picked something from the fifties. But really,
basic instinct comes out when I'm about seventeen, doesn't it.
I respect that, and you're absolutely right. It is the answer.
But then the next question is the sub category traveling

(20:45):
boneer is worrying? Why ones the film? We found a
rousing that you weren't sure you should tip key. Let's
see old traveling boner.

Speaker 2 (20:52):
I couldn't think of.

Speaker 1 (20:53):
One not troubled by any boners all clean, All your
boneers are clean.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
I don't think my answers flit the purpose.

Speaker 1 (20:59):
Well, let's hear it. We'll discuss.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
Yeah, maybe you can talk me through this one a bit. Yeah,
I've written down the secret of my success the Michael
Day Fox film. Yeah, what part of it is the
traveling by watched it so long ago, I can't remember.
I think there's a sexy bit in that film. I
think there is. I think because he's like so successful

(21:22):
and he's juggling those two jobs so well, I think
there's like a really powerful like business lady. I think
it might be in the era where it's off come
the glasses and it's shake the hair out. I think
it's like it might be peak that sort of.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
Stuff, peak, like oh my god, I had no idea
she was so fit.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
I think you get a bit of an idea. But
I think even so, let's glasses off, shake the hair out.
It was a different era. I suppose it's directing.

Speaker 1 (21:50):
So you're traveled by that because you're like, hey, she
was beautiful and along. What are we talking about here?
What glasses don't make a woman beautiful?

Speaker 2 (21:58):
I've got to say, I don't think I was. I
don't think it's a troubling boner.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
But what is?

Speaker 2 (22:03):
What are the sort of films where which might can
you give this? I've never thought i'd ask you this,
But can you give me a multiple choice for my
troubling boner?

Speaker 1 (22:09):
Okay, well I can give you. Like, here's the thing.
Some people get scared of this question and give bullshit answers.
A fair answer that's in a really safe territory is like, oh,
I don't know an animated character. Yeah, yeah, of course
that's the sort of way out of it. Is a
good way out of it.

Speaker 2 (22:27):
Yeah. I think if I thought of that, I would
have I would have gone to.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
That Nish who does this, who does End of the
Year with me, has consistently been very, very honest with
his troubling bonus in a way that I cannot tell
you how much I respect a lot. I respect it
a lot. Yeah, yeah, And he picked once in the
film Sorry to Bother You, when Tessa Thompson's on stage
having ship thrown at her. He was like, that was

(22:52):
his troubling bone. That's a good, honest answer. So there
are there's your scales. You can go, oh bell, or
you can go you know, I think I've got down.

Speaker 2 (23:03):
I've gone down the middle slightly with my success.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
You've sort of just gone with attractive women shaken out.
Her hair must nowhere near the middle. Is it?

Speaker 2 (23:12):
It's it's it's it's not far animated.

Speaker 1 (23:21):
No, I mean, like what I what I what I
get about it is like, you know, it's kind of
making you like a righteous like you're a good man
because you're like, hey, she was beautiful, but so what
if she wears glasses? You know's troubling you about it?
You're like, what you're saying, what you're saying to the
listener is hey, women can still wear glasses and be attractive.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
You know what what I'm saying to the listener is,
I'm saying I'll try. I'll give it some more thought
over the weekend, and I'll text you and we can
put it in the show.

Speaker 1 (23:52):
Notes, will you send me a voice note with the yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
I'll send you a voice notes with my troubling bonus.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
Thank you. So, what is objectively projectively the greatest film
of all time? Not your favorite the pinnacle of cinema?

Speaker 2 (24:09):
Well, that's very interesting. You see. The thing is the
film I would like to nominate as my answer to
this question, and it is a classic, and it is iconic,
but it won't necessarily have come up before in your podcast.
Is it a movie called Safety Last?

Speaker 1 (24:25):
Do you know it? The Harold Lloyd film where he
hangs off the cluck he does? That is an excellent answer.
It has not come up because you are a quality guest.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
And what I would say, let me tell you about
this film is that is primarily a poster, you know,
in a student's flat. That's its main sort of m
O these days. It is very iconic. I'd say it's
maybe one of the ten most iconic frames taken from
a film. I suppose, ever, don't know what the other nineer.

(24:57):
We could do that another time, but the when your
next thing is a clip of him doing that. And
when we were little, well certainly when I was they
had like a show where it was like all different
clips of like those silent movie people hosted by Mark Curry.
So you get a bit of Charlie Chaplin, a bit
of Laura and Hardy. Then you'd get a bit of

(25:18):
you know, Buster Keaton or something, and some Harold Lloyd.
And so you've seen I've seen that clip lots of times.
I saw the movie about ten years ago. That movie
is insane. It is fantastic. It's a love story, it's beautiful.
He goes to effectively he's in a village with his
fiance is broke. So he goes to town and works

(25:40):
in John Lewis, their equivalent, and he pretends he gets
a job as like a low down person in John Lewis,
but then pretends that he's the CEO. And so he
lives this double life, and there's plenty, thank God, of
possibilities for physical.

Speaker 3 (25:57):
Comedy, amazing bits where people are like coming into his
office and he has to show people around the whole
department store where they think he's the CEO and actually
he just works there in the haberdashery or whatever.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
Meanwhile, him and his friend, I think he's called the Spider,
noticed that there's a as a competition, a climbing competition
to climb that tower, and he thinks he needs he
needs to win that to impress his lady, and so
he's sending notes back saying how amazing his job is
as the CEO, and she eventually, I think, finds out

(26:33):
that he's not, and then she comes down. But that's
the final sequence, is him climbing to the top of
that tower, and the movie is, yeah, it's beautiful. I
mean a lot of those silent movies, I think I've
got the wrong end of the stick. I think I'm
just watching those little clips. Yeah, and it's not until
he watched that I thought I actually thought that Charlie

(26:54):
Chaplin was a pretty creepy little fellow. And then you
watch a whole Charlie Chaplin movie and you're like, oh, right, okay,
this is guy. This guy is one of the main
geniuses of you know the last Yeah, well probably ever
I suppose pretty good and yeah, so these feature films
really do stand up if you actually watch a silent movie.

(27:14):
And I think that's my favorite of the lot of safety. Last.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
I'm giving you twenty points for that answer, which gets
you back to your You're on minus ten and that's
just the ten you go to Goldie.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
You know what I'd have settled for that coming into
this podcast, Minus ten is good. That sounds good.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
Monthy's and his own back, so he's faining. Monthy's still
in the lead lead with twenty. But Goldie on minus ten,
you are minus t You're currently he's on ten.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
Let's see if I can get up to zero. I
think I'd be happy to leave this podcast on zero.

Speaker 1 (27:46):
Okay, what is the film you could or have watched
the most over and over again in May? Interesting?

Speaker 2 (27:54):
Mm hm, I don't know why. I just I love
that film. I also think there's something about I mean,
I like a lot of those, a lot of.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
His films Mike Lee. For the listener who may not
know that, sim we're talking about Mike Lee films, Mike
Lee a lot. I love a lot of those films,
and this one, I don't know. It's just so simple.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
I think there's something about it as well, which I
didn't really realize watching it the first time, but I
think maybe I did think this when we made our film.
It's kind of inspirational, and that it's so small and
it kind of feels like it's possible to shoot it.
You kind of think that hasn't cost millions and millions.
That is just a really interesting, compelling relationship, a very

(28:36):
simple tale, and amazing, amazing writing and acting. And you
just think if you watch Star Wars, you're not thinking, oh,
I wonder how I can make Star Wars one day,
but with and there's other films like it where like
I remember watching with Naan I and thinking like rewatching

(28:59):
it and thinking, yeah, that's not like Beyond the witter Man.
That's like I mean, I mean, I think I'm thinking
in terms of money, and in terms of technicality and
st and in terms of like not it's not gandhy.
You know, you don't really need three hundred thousand extras
to make with you just got these two three characters

(29:19):
who you just can't take your eyes off. It's really
interesting and some locations and you know, some time. I
don't know how much time, but probably I'm guessing those
things didn't take months to shoot. I'm guessing they were
like you could shoot them in two or three weeks. Probably.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
Have you seen his new film Hard Truths? No, I
have not, have you I love it and I've had
if I'm honest sort of mixed feelings about his stuff.
I don't love all of his stuff, but I really
loved How Truths. I liked it so much. And I
think it's really funny and really sad, but genuinely funny.
And I don't know it really Sometimes there's things in

(29:58):
his film that I don't know. I guess it's just taste,
isn't it. Sometimes I'm not into not into his all
this stuff. But H's really felt like a proper banger. Wow,
I think.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
Yeah, I think I probably like some more than others,
but I pretty much like most of them, I think.
I mean, I really like Secrets in Lives. Yes, that
was really good, and I did like mister Turner.

Speaker 1 (30:20):
Do you know what? I like all this stuff? Who
am I kidding? I think, yeah, he's so Who am
I kidding? I think I like Abi Girls Party. Yeah,
I think you do too.

Speaker 2 (30:28):
Yeah, I think I must do. I think I think
that could have been my answer to this one as well. Yeah,
it is funny those those films where you like, you
just turn the telly on and they're like forty minutes
in and you're like, okay, away we go. Guess I'm
watching Abba Girl's Party for now. I'm not minding it.

Speaker 1 (30:44):
What's the worst fit You've ever seen? Timothy Keys and Rouge?

Speaker 2 (30:49):
But you know it's just a taste thing, isn't it.
A lot of people like that movie.

Speaker 1 (30:52):
Yeah? God, I'm so sorry, Tim that's actually got you
minus thirty. Fine you're back, absolutely fine. You only seen
it once? Yeah, see it again? Come back to me.
I cannot wait. I hated it?

Speaker 2 (31:05):
Did you?

Speaker 1 (31:06):
Yeah? Sat again? I thought this is one of the
best ways ever.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
Oh, I might watch it on Tuesday.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
Yeah, watch it on Tuesdays and figure out your traveling boner.
Send me a voice. If you still hate it, I
might give you ten points back.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
I could get the troubling boner in the film.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
I think that would be just a straight up boner.
Depending on if you were turned on by this sort
of consumption, then maybe that would be traveling.

Speaker 2 (31:24):
Yes, I'll let you know of them turned on by
the consumption?

Speaker 1 (31:26):
Okay, thank you? But what but will but but while
you're in your current not Likingry's face? What is it
about it? Musicals? Is it the whole thing? What's the thing?

Speaker 2 (31:36):
I got to tell you? I wasn't in there for
tons of time? I think I was also. I was
there with my friend and we you know, you just
look at each other, don't you, and you go you
give you give each other the we'll give it five
more minutes. Look, and then you give each other the
Let's go home and watch Annie Hall. Look, that's what
we did. Remember as the first time I've seen and

(31:58):
it's beautiful. It was one of the great, you know,
solid quick decisive decisions. Let's get out and let's try
a different thing.

Speaker 1 (32:08):
How long have you made it into mulas? Probably twenty minutes.
It's an intense beginning. It's a lot going on in
that beginning. It's it's it's tough to get into that film.
I'm gonna watch it again. I already said, yeah, I
don't know. It's very good.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
I'll give it another go. What else is That's a
famous director, isn't it? What else has he made?

Speaker 1 (32:27):
Most recently made Elvis, he made Romeo plus Juliet, He
made Australia, Yeah he did. He made Strictly Ballroom. Yeah,
he'll be a busy Tuesday. I think that's all of it. Yeah,
it might be a missing one.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
I think you are. There's one more absolute whacker.

Speaker 1 (32:43):
I think, what's there. Let's see there's one more in
there isn't.

Speaker 2 (32:51):
There there's a whacker. I think it's in the last
ten years.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
The Great Gats. Of course it is the Great Gats.
You're in comedy, you're very funny, you're in fact technically
the purest Edinburgh Comedy Award winner of all time.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
I'll go with you on that.

Speaker 1 (33:06):
What film made you laugh the most?

Speaker 2 (33:09):
Well, I don't know what film made you laugh. How
easy is it?

Speaker 1 (33:13):
It's not easy.

Speaker 2 (33:15):
I've got an answer. I don't worry about that.

Speaker 1 (33:17):
Oh okay.

Speaker 2 (33:18):
I mean the things that made me laugh are things
that are a long time ago.

Speaker 1 (33:22):
Yeah, pre boom, pre thinking about booms.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
Yeah, crazy, But I really really remember laughing at the jerk.

Speaker 1 (33:32):
Yeah, i'd go with two brains, right.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
So I don't know whether those things necessarily would stand
up now, no idea. I think if I'm being like really,
I mean it must be. I would say it must be.
Your most common answer airplane is like, that's like such
a yeah, but you know it's probably films where you're
like the ones where it's not necessarily a flat out comedy.

(33:58):
There's a film called Man Bites Dog. Do you know
that one. I do know that Belgium. Yeah, very distinct. Yeah, yeah,
but it's kind of like very very dark humor. Kind
of mad, isn't it. It's a documentary serial filmmaker. Yeah,

(34:18):
yeah exactly, so you get sort of kind of interesting
scenes with very matter of fact dialogue about just a
guy as if he's like, as if his job is
a normal, mundane job, but he's just chatting about his
job whilst simultaneously weighing down a body with rocks in
a canal.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
I mean, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (34:41):
It was funny, but you know, I don't know how
much how kind of hard wired I am. I think
probably it's more palatable to watch a movie which is
like a really serious movie and then it's funny.

Speaker 1 (34:58):
Yes, well I think that. I think about like The Sopranos,
and you go, Sopranos is drama. It's so funny. It's
fifty percent funny, yeah, if not more. Yeah, Timothy Keys,
what an absolute delight? This has been?

Speaker 2 (35:14):
How great?

Speaker 1 (35:15):
Bra?

Speaker 2 (35:15):
Oh no, what do I have to do?

Speaker 1 (35:17):
When you were eighty years old and you finally you've
done everything you wanted to do, you'd already done it.
To be fair, you made it, you won the lottery again,
and with that money you made another film and it
was also good. And then you were like, there's one
thing left I want to do in this lifetime, and
that is meet Gehorn. And you find out where she lives,
somewhere in la and You've brought me along as an assassin,

(35:38):
and I say, why am I doing this? And you say,
I just wanted to think that I sort of did
something for her. And I was like, why don't you
just sort of shake her hand? You go, no, I don't.
I just said she gets that from a lot of people,
like I want to sort of stand out. And I said, well,
she might know your work, remember what happened with Cary Mulligan.
She might actually be a fan of yours. And you're like,
I just don't think Gehorn cares enough. And there's only

(35:59):
one way to really sort of get her attention. Okay, okay,
and we stick to a plan. You say, just stick
to a plan. I go, okay, So I take my
gun and hide in the bushes and you walk towards
g Horn and you wait, gee Horn, and she looks
terrified because she's not expecting you. You didn't actually call ahead,
and as you're walking. You think, I don't know if
this was the best plan. Actually this is kind of

(36:20):
worse than me just kind of sending a letter or something.
And you look back at me like I was thinking.
Because she looks scared, Kurt Russell comes out with a
shotgun and you're like, who wha, whoa, whoa whoa, And
you put your hands up and I shoot you bang
in the back of the head. Oh yeah, your head explodes,
splashes all over poor g Horn. She screams. Kurt Russell's

(36:43):
like looking at his gun, like what I didn't think
I pressed it? What the fuck happened? You fall down,
I stand up with a coffin. You know, I'm like,
I guy, sorry, that was actually me. He wanted to
just impress your g Horn. Kurt Russell comes behind me
as I'm trying to explain to you Horn, he shoots
me in the back of I'm dead. Geehorn goes, what
the fuck just happened? And Kurt Russell goes, I don't know.

(37:07):
These English guys are fucking crazy anyway. They put you
in the coffin that I had on me, and they
put you in there. But you're a bigger man at
eighty than I was planning. There's no room in this coffin.
They have to chop you up. They're getting accents, they're outdoorsy,
they're chopping you out, putting you in the coffin. It's
absolutely round. There's only enough room in this coffin for

(37:27):
one of them to slip a DVD into the side
for you to take across to the other side. And
on the other side, it's movie night every night. What
film are you taking to show? The scary Egghead in Heaven?
When it is your movie night, mister Tim Keys the apartment?
Thank you, pleasure, tim Key. Is there anything you'd like
to tell people to look out for or listen to?
When's your film coming out?

Speaker 2 (37:47):
For example, film is coming out on the twenty eighth
of March in the US, film is coming out in May,
I believe in the UK.

Speaker 1 (37:56):
And what's it called for? The listener? Oh, the film
is the Ballad of Wallace Island.

Speaker 2 (38:02):
The Ballad of Wallace Island. Very good, yep, I'm gonna
put it better myself, The Ballad of Wallace Island.

Speaker 1 (38:08):
And you're on you're going on tour? Are you doing so?
Just say so?

Speaker 2 (38:12):
Doing so? Theater in May, Tim Stakes up somewhere and
then we've written a book and Emily Juniper Lovely and
that's coming into the world.

Speaker 1 (38:24):
I think in also May, Big Month.

Speaker 2 (38:28):
Actually not May, I think that would be more June.
What'd youly?

Speaker 1 (38:31):
Okay? Thank you? What's that we're going to like? Oh?
That's gonna be called La Baby Tim k. This has
been a delight, a double episode. Delight. God bless you
for your time. I'm glad that we did this. I'm
gonna book a train to Luton so you can tell
me how are you a great?

Speaker 2 (38:47):
Oh? I would love to do that. Thanks very much
for having me in your intergalactic cinema. Thank you, Love
to you, Love to you, you see, good day to you.

Speaker 1 (38:59):
Good Hi. So that was episode three hundred and forty five.
At the end of part two, head over to the
Patreon at patreon dot com forwards that aspect Gold's team
for the extra twenty minutes of chat, secrets and video
with Tim Key. Go to Apple Podcasts, give us a
five star rating and write about the film that means
the best to you and why it's a lovely thing
to read. It helps numbers and we really appreciate it.
Thank you. So much, Sir Tim for giving me so

(39:21):
much of his time. We did so much together. Oh
it was fun. Thank you to Scroup's pipping the distraction
pieces of Network. Thanks you Buddy Peace for producing it.
Thanks to iHeartMedia and Milfare with big money players Network
posting it. Thanks to Adam Misston for the graphics, Lea's
Laden for photography. Don't forget to go and see the
Ballad of Wallis Island in the cinema. Come and join
me next week for another incredible episode with an amazing

(39:42):
Oscar winner. That is it for now. I hope you're
all well, have a lovely week, and in the meantime,
please now more than ever, be excellent to each other.

(40:10):
Fast back back back as a sick

Speaker 2 (40:13):
Basta by backs, outcasts, back back backs, outcast back back
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