Once a month a bunch of old-timers from the comedy community get together on Zoom to play trivia. It started during Covid but we’ve been having so much fun we haven’t stopped. I’m the quizmaster so it’s up to me to come up with a topic. The topic last month was movie mash-ups. It was so funny, I felt the need to share some of the best ones.
A movie mash-up is when you take two very different movie titles and blend them together. Here are some examples: Once Upon a Time in the West Side Story, Slap Shot in the Dark, Bourne Free. Then you come up with a brief synopsis of the new movie and have the group guess. We each created five. Whoever got the most right was the winner.
Here are some of the best:
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured guy from being mistreated as a side-show freak, after which he joins a secret spy organization, partnering with a handsome young Russian in…
Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson are repeatedly uninvited guests who show up at the Overlook Hotel in…
Tom Hanks stars as an intellectually challenged fighter pilot in…
Say his name three times and Dustin Hoffman will cross dress to become an otherworldly spirit in…
Some of my other favorites:
When a maniacal sea captain fails to capture a great white whale, he enlists the services of a gumshoe who is trying to avoid sleeping with Madonna in…Moby Dick Tracy
Army surgeons set up a field hospital on the front lines in Tennessee in…MASHville
The home run king for the Yankees has some weird sexual idiosyncrasies in… The Babe Ruth Story of O.
Leonardo DiCaprio is complicit in the systematic murder of con artists Ryan and Tatum O’Neill in…Killers of the Paper Moon
David Byrne performs in a Jane Austen tale in which the Dashwood sisters try to marry their way out of destitution in…Stop Making Sense and Sensibility
In this Neil Simon thriller, George Burns and Walter Matthau revive their old vaudeville act only to notice their audience populated by Gregory Peck and 96 teenage Hitler clones in… The Sunshine Boys From Brazil
In 1919, a bunch of baseball players are banned from the major leagues for purposely losing games. They travel to another continent and become a farm team in Kenya with Meryl Streep as their manager in…Eight Men Out of Africa
Thanks to all my trivia buddies: Paul Giglia, Milt Abel, Tim Bedore, Ray Hanna, Dan Barton, Mark Pitta, Marc Hershon, Ian Williams, David Martin, and Martin Ganapoler.
Always the most fun you can have and keep your pants on...at least I do. It helps that everyone is a professional comic or writer. Thanks for playing!
And it's always incredibly fun! Thanks for hosting, Dan!