Ep. 105 Larry Dorf, Netflix, The Woman in The House Across The Street From The Girl In The Window, Norm MacDonald, This Podcast IS A NEWS Source

INTRO - Welcome to another episode of the Modern Moron.  I’m pretty excited about my guest for a number of reasons, number one being that I find Larry Dorf to be an extremely entertaining person that I’ve known more than 20 years.  Did you hear that Larry?  That’s a long time.  He’s a funny guy and I’m not completely sure that most of the time he’s not really trying to be funny.

A second reason, probably the main reason, is that Larry is one of the creators, writers and producers of the Netflix hit, “The Woman in The House Across The Street From The Girl In The Window”.  I feel pretty sure you’ve at least heard of it and I’m going to insist that you watch it.  It’s a great title and a really, really bad hashtag.

“The Woman in The House Across The Street From The Girl In The Window” is a parody… a satire of the suspense thriller novel genre like, “The Woman in The Window”, “The Woman in Cabin 10”, “The Other Woman” and on and on.

We talk about the fine line of walking between making fun of the genre and dropping in jokes and still honor the genre of a suspense thriller.  For example, this series is not like the movie Airplane with gag after gag.  In an interesting way, a suspense thriller or even a horror movie is not unlike comedy.  You have to have a setup where you get the audience to think you’re going in one direction and then the surprising reveal is the punchline of a joke or the scare of a thriller.  How do you honor both?

I found it to be a very interesting conversation and I hope you do too.  

Finally, Larry was on this podcast once before, our most listened to episode by the way… and I tell him this fact.  It was when he and his partners were writing and producing “Mike Tyson Mysteries” for Adult Swim’s Cartoon Network.  

On that episode Larry claimed to “break the news” that the show was not being picked up after it’s 4th season.  We recorded that episode at the end of May, 2020 and that information came out in January, so this wasn’t exactly a cutting edge news exclusive, at least we didn’t think so.  However, apparently it had not been officially announced and somehow, there were a few nerdy news websites that actually sited this podcast, yes, THIS podcast to announce it’s cancellation, thereby explaining the mystery of why that episode had more downloads than any of our other episodes.

I don’t believe him at first, so Larry proves this to me by sending me a link from his phone to a site called screenrant.com that sites The Modern Moron as it’s news source.  How ridiculous is that?  This podcast is a news source? Please… I’m just a journalist trying to be true to my craft.

But the reason I bring this up is because of how pee in my pants giddy I become over this when I actually read it in disbelief.  You can almost hear my ego expanding… 

So, yes we were sited in the publication screenrant.com but it also appeared in The U.S. Sun. Their about page states: “The Sun.com is a US online edition of The Sun, Britain’s largest newspaper.”  We also appeared in a website called comicbook.com 

How about this…. A little publication called “NEWSWEEK”!!! EVER HEARD OF IT?  It has the same quote from larry and sites “The Modern Moron Podcast”  however Newsweek did not create a hyperlink where the name is, so hey, Newsweek?  Lawsuit is forthcoming.  You’re gonna want to put your best people on this case.

By the way, Mike Tyson Mysteries, which you can still catch streaming on Hulu, has a 97% positigve fan rating on rottentomatoes.com.   Can we please not gloss over that?  That is a huge rating, from fans.

Also, One of the voices of Mike Tyson Mysteries, was that of comedian Norm MacDonald who passed away in September of last year.  I ask Larry about working with Norm and he talks about how the producers of that show valued Norm’s opinion on what was funny and how much they wanted Norm to have been able to see their Netflix hit.  From all the appearances and interviews of Norm after he passed, it seemed like across the board, not only did people love him for how genuine he was but how they valued his unique perspective on comedy and how hearing his laugh was the best compliment of all. 

So, please enjoy this part 1 episode where I get a little too excited about being mentioned in a website.  It’s THE Larry Dorf from the Netflix hit, and terrible hashtag, “The Woman in The House Across The Street From The Girl In The Window” and thank you for listening.

Close - You know how movies many times have product placement in them and the production company can make a little money?  Well, this production had to have Corning Ware as a major donor because there was shitload of casserole dishes in this production.  

Also, you’re the first to hear the bombshell that  “The Woman in The House Across The Street From The Girl In The Window” is done.  It was a limited series with no season two.  I wonder if part of the allure they were going for included calling it season ONE?  Hmmm mysterious.

How cool was the Amy Schumer story?  I wonder if she would do this podcast just to talk about Larry’s show?  I mean this podcast is a news source now so she bound to listen to it.

In part 2 we talk about what the promotions process was like in terms of doing interviews before the show was released.  They actually had to be coached on how to handle certain questions like a politician.  What it was like shooting a production on location during the Covid Pandemic.

We talk about one of the executive producers for the series which was Will Farrell and there’s an interesting story there.  So many reasons to tune in to part 2 with Larry Dorf and  “The Woman in The House Across The Street From The Girl In The Window” and thank you for listening.  

The Woman in The House Across The Street From The Girl In The Window - Netflix 

Mike Tyson Mysteries Cancelled After Four Seasons | Screen Rant - The Modern Moron sited as an actual news source!!! 

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